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Hi, my name is Les Shockley I own the world's most powerful truck the 1984 Peterbilt
And it's powered by two Westinghouse state 34 jet engines and it produces 36,000 horsepower
It took nine and a half months to build
It cost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to build it
It's a stock 1984 Peterbilt cab and the front end is special made from fiberglass
So is the sleeper that's on it the chassis is made from
About eight thousand dollars worth of 41 30 chromoly tubing
This thing is almost like a space shuttle it has so many different redundant features as far as
The safety things, you know, it's got
Two or three different ways to shut off the engines and
Two different parachute setups and just a multitude of different safety things to go with it
This truck because of the power and the engines and everything in it
It creates a lot more noise than everything inside the cab
It's like an echo chamber in there
It's actually probably the most exciting part of this whole act is when you're up there at the starting line before you leave
Because of the mass of the vehicle it doesn't run as fast as a lot of the cars that I've driven over the years
So it's not quite as exciting to me going down the track because it does handle so well
I like a car that doesn't handle that good something you have to kind of fight, you know
and then I respect
Your mind's probably going
200 miles an hour and your heart's going 300 miles an hour the adrenaline would be 500 miles an hour
You're pretty hyped up. I still am
Up to this point all
Jet-fired trucks have been powered by one engine
When we built this truck we built it actually with three engines in about six to eight weeks
We'll be running the truck with three engines and we expected to run at speeds of probably 240 or 50 miles an hour and a quarter
Well, most people have single-engine dragsters
Dick Goularty's thought was there was no twin-engine dragsters
He felt that the twin-engine especially using the J 34 dash 48 would produce a tremendous amount of fire and smoke
The car took over two years to build with thousands of hours of preparation and work
My name is Steve Coutinho, driver of the Boton Express twin jet dragster
The car was built and engineered by Dick Goularty of Boston, Mass
The car produces over 25,000 horsepower at 12,000 pounds of thrust
The car will do over 300 miles an hour and a quarter mile
Over 300 miles an hour and a quarter mile through NHRA. We are restricted to 175
So we run all their tracks under 175 miles per hour
Ladies and gentlemen here is the biggest heavier most powerful race car you've ever seen
Out of boston, massachusetts Steve Coutinho's awesome
Bone Town Express 30 feet long weighs a couple pounds
It's powered by not one but two Westinghouse J 34 jet engines
20,000 pounds of thrust
And when you see this thing go down the track you aren't going to believe it
The engines out of Navy's Banshee jet fighters, one of them propels a jet fighter at 600 miles per hour
Imagine what two of them can do on this monster
So Steve Coutinho bringing the Bone Town Express, the only twin-engine jet dragster in the world
To the starting line here, he's got it in smoke
Afterburner gone in, here he goes
Look at him blast this way on down the quarter mile
Both jet engines putting out gobs of horsepower
The Bone Town Express 6.99 seconds
See the twin chutes bringing that big long weaning rush through the hole at the end of the raceway part quarter mile
The experience is probably the same as leaving the top of a roller coaster and riding downhill
Constantly picking up speed until the point where it seems like you can't take it anymore and you shut the car off
It's a totally awesome feeling and it's just unbelievable
His name is Roger Gustin, he's the active living legend of the sport of jet car racing
The Lava Machine is regarded as one of the most spectacular vehicles in drag racing
At 47 years old, Roger is the king of the jet car circuit
He's a driver, mechanic, engineer and spokesman for jet car racing
You guys enjoying the race today?
We're running both Lava Machines all the time
We just finished doing some testing with it and they're just as close as they can be
We won the All American Jet Car Nationals here
And was a runner up with the other cars
Always fish it to the limit
In 1972 he began a one man crusade to convince the National Hot Rod Association to sanction jet cars
And became the first driver ever licensed by the NHRA to drive a jet powered dragster
In 1980 he switched to the jet funny car
This is the Lava Machine, I'm Roger Gustin, I drive it and I'd like to show you a few things about the Lava Machine
You're looking at the very back end of the afterburner of the JT12 Pratt Whitney Jet engine
That came out of a like a corporate jet, produces about 6,000 horsepower
And we've run speeds well over 260 miles an hour
The body is a fiberglass replica of a Z28 Camaro
It's a one piece fiberglass, very lightweight, very sleek, aerodynamic car
This is the front of the jet engine, you can see that we've got a screen
To prevent any foreign object damage from going into the intake
This is something you'd never see on an aircraft
I'm sitting right beside the compressor in this engine, I need all the protection I get
Plus it's part of NHRA's strict safety rules
We're looking at a 4130 Cromallee space chassis that was built by Horton Race Cars
Down in Belton, South Carolina
Over here we're looking at a 30 gallon fuel tank that we burn up about 25 or 26 gallons of jet fuel
Every run that also includes the fire show that the fans love so much
I think we've got probably one of the most state of the art race cars in jet car racing
The Lava Machine has a JT12 Pratt Whitney Jet engine built by Greg Arbonz
And that is the entire drive frame, there is no differential, there's no transmission, no drive shaft
And no U-joints in this car
Just to give you a quick look, this is the main fuel, this is afterburner fuel
This is the main parachute, this is the emergency parachute and emergency fuel shut off
This is the show business handle, this is for the fire show
It adds a lot of fire out there on the starting line
One of the most asked questions I have is what does it feel like to be inside the Lava Machine here
And light that afterburner and get torched off that starting line with 6000 horsepower
I gotta tell you, it's absolutely an incredible sensation
Roger has two jet funny cars, the Lava Machine and the Lava Pump Car
They crisscross the United States in a giant tractor trailer
Thrilling thousands of fans with their daring exhibitions of speed and fire like volcanoes exploding
Here's Roger on Jet Funny Cars
Probably the most exciting sensation that I think that you can have and stay on the ground
Not be an astronaut is driving this Lava Machine
When you're setting everything with the car's stage, you light that afterburner
You've got 5 G's against your body, the very instant that it accelerates off the starting line
When you cross the finish line, you pull the parachute, shut the engine off
And it's an instant reversal of about 4 G's negative and getting the car to stop when the parachute opens
What a wheel stander is, is we travel down a quarter mile at speeds exceeding 130 miles per hour on the rear wheels only
The front wheels are approximately 6 feet in the air
I've held national record 3 or 4 times with my young American car, the Munger Body
And Jim Curtis has set a few with my other car, the Super Bug
These cars are tube chassis types, almost like a rare engine funny car
The reason the engine is in the rear is all the weight transfer is in the back of the car
And what it does is makes a good lifting type effect to the front of the car
Down the quarter mile, front wheels up in the air the whole way down the quarter mile
Madman Mocker is what they call me, my real name is Mark Hildenon, I'm from Boston, Massachusetts
I've been driving race cars for the past 11 years, the past 6 was wheel stand cars for a full time living
Myself and Jim Smokeout Curtis co-drive, I drive this car here called the Young American Chevy Monsa wheel stander
My co-partner Jim Smokeout Curtis drives the Super Bug which is a VW body wheel stander
I'm Jim Smokeout Curtis, I'm a Madman Mocker wheel stander so I drive the Super Bug
Another wheel stander like the Young American, they both run the entire quarter mile in
About 130 miles an hour on two wheels
It's a very different feeling to lift the front wheel six feet in the air and have to control the car with a braking system in the rear wheels
What we actually do when the front wheels lift up is we grab a lever on our right hand side
And you push that lever forward to go left and you pull it back to go right
The reason for this obviously the front wheels are six feet in the air, there's no way of using the steering wheel
All we use the actual steering wheel for is steering the car once it comes down to make the quarter mile run
Otherwise we're up in the air, we're looking out a hole between our feet to see where we're going
We have a small opening, we can see approximately 100 feet in front of us
So we're looking out the floor, we're steering with our right hand with a steering brake
Because the rear wheel is actually braking the car to steer it
And we're shifting with our left hand, we make one shift down the quarter mile and steering with our right
We leave the starting line and hopefully if we make a good run
When we get to the other end we're going over 130 miles per hour with the front wheels up in the air wheel spinners
So
The way that these cars spark, they have what they call titanium plates on the end of the wheelie bars
The wheelie bars are here to come out the back of the car.
Here we have plates of titanium.
And as they're breaking off, these pieces of titanium are very hot.
It's a very, very bright white spark.
And as they're going off into the air, they're burning up, and it's a very bright white spark.
That's the reason we use the type of metal titanium.
It's hard to have a show.
Here we go, ladies and gentlemen, now with the Jet Funny Cars.
Ms. Sue Ransom in the left lane, joining the Repco, sponsored by Datsun 280Z Jet Funny Cars,
against Ken Warby in the right lane, driving the Mustang body car, also sponsored by Repco.
Both of these cars, powered by Westinghouse J85 jet engines, 5,000 pounds of thrust, 10,000 horsepower.
Two of the cars, both of them from Australia, the Thunder from Down Under, they call.
These cars, capable of running both six seconds at a time, at speeds of over 250 miles per hour,
and unlike the Nitro Funny Cars and Alamo Funny Cars that you see here today,
these cars are jet-propelled.
Everything on the starting line that isn't bolted down has been removed.
Get ready, because here we go, when's it starts?
They're off. Ransom runs first, Warby's driving a Panther, but here comes Suzy.
She's flying a big ant, a 618 for the win.
Jet Funny Car fans, get ready.
The track lights have been turned off for the starting line firefight between the Stroh's Jet Funny Cars.
The Stroh's Firebrood Firebird in the right-hand lane, taking on the Stroh's Light Dodge Charger in the other lane.
Both cars injecting raw jet fuel into the afterburner and literally setting the track on fire.
Both cars powered by Westinghouse J-34 jet engines, raising 6,000 pounds of thrust, 12,000 horsepower.
The track lights come on and you can get a better look at the Stroh's Jet Funny Cars
further popping their way to the starting line, injecting raw fuel into the afterburner, hitting the ignition.
That's what it creates, that noise, those flames you see.
They're ready, here's the green and they're off.
Left lane looks like he's going to take it. He does. The left time, 6.27 seconds over 250 miles an hour.
Hello, my name is Elmo Walker, better known as Dr. Wacko.
I'm the leader or coordinator of a group of racers known as the Wild Blanks.
This is my 86 CJ-7 Jeep powered by a small block aluminum Chevrolet motor with an automatic transmission.
The quickest time for my Jeep is an 8.32 at 165 miles an hour.
The Wild Bunch, a group of racers as diversified as a Jeep to a Chevrolet truck to an 86 Datsun, Camaros,
all door slammer type of vehicles and bodies that you can recognize, is a group of racers based in central Maryland.
There are numerous cars in the Wild Bunch. Camp Stanley 75 low pickup truck powered by a big block Chevrolet with a lanko.
It flies down the track sometimes both lanes, but it usually makes the quarter mile in good fashion.
I'm Camp Stanley, owner and driver of the 1975 Chevy Love Pickup. Just loving it.
Powered by a supercharged, fuel injected big block Chevrolet, engine, four speed lanko, and a nine inch Ford rear.
I have to use this wing to hold it down and top in because this is not the most aerodynamic race car in the world.
It's almost like driving a brick down a racetrack.
The 75 Chevy Love Pickup is known for going left, right, straight, round the ring, occasionally nipping the guardrail.
But it's all part of fun and games.
Tommy Howes, the pilot of the 86 300 ZX Datsun, the quickest car to date in the Wild Bunch with speeds approaching 200 mile an hour and ETs in the low sevens.
Dennis Brightwell, probably one of the favorites in the group, a 67 Camaro, all steel bodied, powered by a 427 Chevrolet.
This car probably is the closest to a wheel standard that the whole group has, because when it leaves the line, wheels are in the air.
Bill Hines, the 27T Roadster, powered also by a big block Chevrolet, SBC, around 782 at 178 mile an hour.
These cars in between rounds come back, check the valve lats, check for any parts that are broken and repack the parachute, check the air pressure in the tires and then we're up for the second round.
Hope we do well.
Street type cars with funny car motors, ladies and gentlemen, the Wild Bunch in the left hand lane.
The one and only Dr. Wacko, Elmer Wachter, he's a neurosurgeon, a neurologist, he's a brain transplanting fool, taking on the greasy pigmy they call him,
Cam Stanley in the Wild Loving It truck, a Chevy small box, supercharged, fuel injected on alcohol, powering a Jeep, and a 511, cubic inch, aluminum, Chevrolet, Road X racing engine, powering the Wild pickup.
How do you like to drive these cars on the street wild, I'll tell you. Backing up after their first burnout, the crew members guiding the mat. We're going for a war on wheels here today at New England Dragway.
Ground bounding, earth shaking, road warriors of the quarter mile, the Wild Bunch, the craziest cars you'll ever see go down in drag strip, here we go.
Side by side on the starting line, Cam Stanley's Loving It truck with a big box Chevy leading the way through the lights. He takes the win at 829 to a losing 869.
Who's behind those foster grants, ladies and gentlemen, it's Tommy the Who Howes, and driving the very mysterious RCD Datsun, 540 cubic inch, aluminum Chevy engine, supercharged on fuel injection, the fastest car of the Wild Bunch.
He's run mid seven second time.
What a pair of wild burnouts by these crazy Wild Bunch cars in the left hand lane, the unbelievable bright light Camaro of Denny Brightwell, powered by a 460 cubic inch steel block Chevy racing engine. It's got the stock A-frame, the stock front suspension, but one of the quicker cars in the Wild Bunch circuit. More like a street car than any other car in the Wild Bunch.
Wild wheel standing burnouts by both cars checking out the traction on the starting line.
Two of the wildest cars in all of drag races. These guys are more than drag racers, they're entertainers, taking their quarter mile rocket ships down the drag strip all across the country. The Wild Bunch, the stands are always packed when these guys appear at the local drag strip.
The wildest car in the Wild Bunch, the wildest car in the Wild Bunch.
10 seconds flat, 170 miles per hour for the steel block bright light Camaro.
They call him TV Tommy Ivo. He's one of drag racing's living legends. He's been in the sport since the beginning. He got the name TV from his acting days 25 years ago when he was one of the Walt Disney Mouse kiters. This is his transporter bringing his latest race vehicle out to the track. Tommy's been around for a long, long time.
Well I've been racing now for 30 years. This is the car we're running out here now has a jet engine in it. It's the 33rd car that I've owned in drag racing. I've had single engine cars, two motors, four motors, funny cars, dragsters, just about everything you can think of.
My name's Tommy Ivo or known as TV Tommy Ivo in drag racing. This is my jet powered race car. It's the 33rd race car I've had in 30 years of drag racing. It's got a J34 Westinghouse engine in it. It puts out about 6,000 horsepower. It runs about 250 miles an hour and a quarter of a mile.
I've, well like I say TV Tommy Ivo that came from my other occupation. I worked for 28 years in motion picture and television. I did the Donna Reed show, Mickey Mouse Club, Bachelor, Father, just about all different situation comedies that came about in the early 50s and 60s.
This is TV Tommy Ivo's latest race car, his jet powered dragster. Tommy's raced a lot of vehicles in his career. He talks about this one.
Each car has its own unique thing like these jet cars run very fast at the very top end of the course all of a sudden they take off like a scared rabbit. Of course I grew up with the sport so it was a challenge all the time. We were constantly changing cars, upgrading the thing.
Now it's become a little stagnant because we've come to the state of the art. Where do you go from here? That's the deal. After you've bounced down the track at 260 miles an hour, what do you do for an encore?
I've tried everything else. I've skydived, scuba dived, I've got motorcycles, I ski, water ski, snow ski, but still the thrill of it all is the acceleration going so fast in a quarter of a mile from zero to 260 miles an hour.
You're controlling a car that has about 6,000 horsepower and you don't want to make any mistakes so your mind is pretty much occupied with exactly what's happening with the race car itself.
Here's the green light, a car of smoke in the Wimpy Valley. Here's the green light, a car of smoke in the Wimpy Valley. One more of a pure, wonderful, unbelievable. A red light shining by the Wimpy hands, I go to win the 30 year veteran and the team female winner here in Jet Car Racing accident.
I've been asked by people so much about my four motor car that I owned about 20 years ago because a lot of them haven't had a chance to see it.
And we're restoring it right now to put it in the museum and before I stick it in the museum I think I'm going to take it around the circuit and let the people see it that haven't had a chance to see it.
It was probably the most famous car I ever built because of the unique fact that it was the only car with four engines in it.
He's been racing here at Raceway Park ever since the beginning of 1965.
So TV Tommy Ivo retiring this year after his 30th year of drag racing. He's going to be going off to become a Mitch Maskell Mascotier.
The track owner, Mitch Knapp, presenting television Tom Ivo, one of my real drag racing heroes in the class.
Tommy, we love you. You're the best, baby.
Okay, pulling out on the track to finally up, it's TV Tommy Ivo's legendary four-engine, Buick, funny car.
Ivo, a legend in the sport of drag racing, been doing it for 30 years, out now with his car that's 20 years old.
1,604 cubic inches, four Buick engines, fuel injectors on alcohol, ready to pull off and burn rubber with all four wheels, a four-wheel drive funny car.
Ivo, getting ready to go on the starting line, pulling up carefully, getting ready to drive away.
Burning rubber is a drag racing history.
What makes a woman drive this awesome machine?
I just done it one Sunday and loved it. I've been racing now for 16 years and that was my goal.
The first day I ever seen a funny car was to own and drive one.
What is the competitive edge between men and women? You're probably just one of two women, I think, that are even racing these type of machines.
Well, fortunately, drag racing is one of the few sports that it doesn't make any difference whether you're male or female because it doesn't take any power whatsoever to drive these cars.
It just takes personal stamina, takes no power, you know, you just use your two little pinkies and just drive right on down through there.
This is truly an awesome looking and beautiful machine here.
Can you tell us what it's like to sit behind that steering wheel between those two tires at the starting line in that fire suit?
It's hot as hell under there and 20,000 people are looking at you. What's going through your head?
Absolutely nothing. It's total concentration. You sit there and you think of nothing except what you're going to do.
It is the most fabulous feeling you've ever had in your whole life.
You're aware of the fans and everything around you, but you don't really feel it. It's just the most fabulous feeling.
Now, you have a notorious reputation as the queen of the burnouts. You lay some kind of a burnout down that track.
What is the purpose of this burnout and why do you go so intense in it?
Okay, the purpose of this burnout is to heat up the tires.
The hotter you get those tires, the better it's going to bite when you actually leave the line.
Plus, to me, doing a burnout is three-fourths of the race anyhow. I like that more than any part of it.
A real proud pleaser.
Here we are, ladies and gentlemen, the final round of the IHRA Winter Nationals here in Darlington, South Carolina.
In the right-hand lane, the lady that used to be a Playboy Bunny, Ms. Bunny Burkett, in the brand new Matheson Burkett
There's Gary Saloni driving the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Pontiac Firebird they call the Road Warrior.
This is the first national event final round appearance for either of these cars, and neither wants to lose.
This is going to be a battle. It's man versus women. The battle of the sexes here, right on the starting line of the IHRA Winter Nationals.
Both cars carefully backing up onto the same tracks when they made their burnout. They want to get all the traction they can.
For this, the most important drag race of their career. A brand new car for Bunny there in the right lane.
And she'd like to win this. Look at that pretty car. What a nice looking machine.
It's bound to win a best-appearing car award at some future event.
But here she goes against the man, Gary Saloni, here in the left lane, going to give the Bunny a race for her money.
This is it, the final round, and the winner is going to be decided in just a second.
Bunny burps it up to the line. Saloni is staged very, very carefully, inching into the beams.
Here we go, the biggest drag race of either of these drivers' lives. Right now, right here, it's on the line.
The biggest race of Bunny's career. She's been doing this for 20 years. This is her finest ever yet.
And she'd definitely like to win this, her first national event. Can she do it?
Gary Saloni is going to try and intimidate her, but Bunny's not that type. Here we go.
Saloni all first, but Bunny's starting to make tracks. It looks like she's pulling ahead at the finish line.
She's going to do it, her first national event victory of her career.
A 634, 220 miles per hour. The lady does it. Bunny Burkett wins her first national event.
Ladies and gentlemen, here we go, the most incredible jet-powered vehicle you're ever going to see.
Bob Moose with his J79 powered jet thrust. Look at the fire coming out of the stacks.
He's got the biggest, most powerful, westing out jet engine you can get.
The J79, 15,000 pounds of thrust, 30,000 horsepower, is going to push this Kenworth tractor down the Raceway Park quarter mile.
Look at it, rocking, ladies and gentlemen. The thrust from that engine just making that truck hop around.
Fire out of the stacks, fire out of the tailpipe, lighting up the night sky here tonight.
Look at that, unbelievable. Look at the torque. Make that truck twist and turn as it comes up towards the starting line.
The fire coming out of the stacks, unbelievable. Look at that smoke fire. You pyromaniac. This is going to make you tonight.
Unbelievable. Look at the power that this truck has got.
The biggest jet engine ever built by the government. The big J79, this thing is huge.
It's going to take a whole lot of horsepower. The power most is truck down this quarter. Here we go.
Unbelievable, ladies and gentlemen. Almost 7.65 seconds to 175 miles an hour.
Car to end running, ladies and gentlemen. The world's only gold-plated jet tractor, Jerry Hot Rod Seagull.
He's only 26 years old driving John Petore's car, called Simple Pleasure.
Over $15,000 worth of gold-plated on this vehicle instead of regular chrome-nated gold.
Sponsored by the 14K Company in California. It's powered by the J34 with the jet engine 16,000 horsepower
and singles just about ready to go down the track here in the right-hand lane.
The juice button that holds the body panels of this car were $8 apiece.
Usually it's powered by water, but not from this car. The gold-plated 14K gold everywhere.
One of the most beautiful cars ever to hit down the drag strip.
Single out of California lights the burner and he's making his way towards the starting line.
What a pretty car. His competition in the other lane is Mr. Tom, down Terran Brown at Los Angeles,
California, driving his jet-powered tractor called the California Plane.
Powered by the lighter, less horsepower, lifting up the J85 jet engine.
It's a lighter car, a little bit hoarse-powered, but it's going to give Jerry a run for his money.
So here we go. Single Redland, a simple pleasure, the gold-plated car, and Tom Brown's California Plane on the left side.
We need a fast one out, and the jet propels wide at over 200 miles an hour.
Inching the way into the staging beam very, very carefully.
The jet on full burner right now. In just a moment the green light's going to come on,
the light the afterburner, and away they'll go down the quarter mile.
Get off fire! Coming out of the tariff line!
Look at that, five by five!
The
Dave Rebey, ladies and gentlemen, the master of disaster,
and his troop of traveling stuntmen are here tonight to perform one of the most dangerous stunts you've ever seen.
Tonight you're going to see their attempt to jump a full-size automobile
that looks like the General Lee from the Dukes of Hazzard off a ramp,
200 feet in the air and land on a pile of junk cars.
At 90 miles an hour he hits the ramp!
What an impact! Unbelievable! Almost slipping over!
Dave Ringby stunts the one dude who dies into the front window of that nudge!
The crowd can't believe what they've seen here tonight! Unbelievable!
The driver, is he okay? Yes he is! There he is, ladies and gentlemen!
Dave Ringby congratulating him on an unbelievable jump here tonight!
Look what he's done to that replica! The General Lee reduced it to a pile of junk!
The front end completely destroyed! You see, and a happy young man there!
It's a 69 Dodge Charger, it's worth quite a bit of money and your car collector's out there!
And as you can see it's a pile of junk, windows blown out, front end destroyed.
Here comes what it looked like before!
Take a look at the cars on the drag strip! Four full-size automobiles
with a roost caved in where that Dodge landed on top!
Okay, we're going to clear the track now and get ready for our next stunt here tonight by the Masters of Disaster!
14 spectators out of our grandstands have donated their street cars here tonight,
parked them under the ramp in line with four more junk cars, and the Masters of Disasters are going to take this
1972 Plymouth that you see out here, an ex-New Jersey State Police undercover car,
jump it off the ramp and crash it into the pile of junk cars!
Our safety crew is ready and I'm sure all of you people out there are going to get a kick out of seeing the cop car crash!
Approaching the ramp at 90 miles an hour, he must hit it perfectly or he's in big trouble!
What an impact! He didn't want to land like that when it's back down on the ground, almost slipping over!
We'd be rushing to the car to the aid of his driver, helping him unbuckle the shoulder harness, the seatbelt that holds him in that car!
What a crazy profession, but it's a real crowd pleaser!
Traveling at 80 miles per hour, he was 20 feet in the air, he traveled over 200 feet, landing on a pile of junk cars!
That's why they call him the Master of Disaster!
Ladies and gentlemen, the stage is now being set for the most dangerous auto jump you've ever seen!
The fire trucks you see out there, the fire crews, there's a reason for that!
Because the Masters of Disasters are going to attempt to jump a full-size automobile off this ramp, 200 feet in the air, and land on this pile of junk cars!
It's a little different than the two you've seen previous, because this time the car is going to be on fire!
This stunt has been banned at many events across the country because of the danger involved!
The driver coming down the track now, at 90 miles an hour, ready to hit that ramp on fire!
Exploding into the fireball, landing on top of the cars, look at that, ladies and gentlemen, the entire back of the car engulfed in flames!
Dave Rigby frantically jumping on the car, checking on his driver, the fire crew!
With the extinguishers on the back of the car, they got the fire out!
He's okay, there he comes out through the front windshield!
Let's hear it, ladies and gentlemen, the Masters of Disaster!
Fire!
While we're waiting for the funny car to get ready for the next round, here we go!
Here's a wildest vehicle, ever to go down the track strip, Bob Hall's happy wagon, Chevy Vega, taking on Danny O'Day's wind-up pickup!
They're called wheel standards, designed to travel down the corner of the mile on their back wheels, with their front wheels up in the air, and there you go!
Bob Hall taking a butt out!
Here comes O'Day, as you can see easily, picking up the wheels, the little wind-up motor in the back, really cranking it out to get this pickup truck down the corner of the mile!
Both vehicles with pink-block Chevrolet, supercharged and fuel-injected, stuffed in where the backseat would usually be, turning around out there on the roll track and coming back to the starting line!
These cars with a wide weight in the back, they've got the wheelie bars hanging out, and titanium wheelscans which shoot at shallower sparks as they go on down the raceway for a quarter-mile!
So here they come back towards the starting line, all with a panty wagon, got the flesh and lice, got the sirene, he's making a U-turn, he'll be running the right lane, that big, block Chevy, stuffed in the back, a Danny O'Day pickup truck,
he pulls up the wind-up pickup truck, and it produces about 1,500 horsepower, that big Chevy engine sitting in the pickup bed!
These drivers sitting right in front of those big, supercharged engines look at the scoop, sticking out the roof of the panty wagon over there, and the light lens it brings in towards the line!
These drivers, as soon as they leave the starting line, they look through holes in the floor of their vehicle and steer the car using an independent pair of rear brakes, sort of like the way you steer a bulldozer!
There they go, up in the air, and they got it up! The sport-shooting off the tail-skates by a big, block Chevy engine, pumping them down the track in what a wild pass!
The wind gone in the panty wagon, a good run for him, getting a big, great, warm sign!
Truck racing fans, get ready for the most powerful jet dragster ever built!
The incredible green mama of Doug Rhodes!
Take a look at that fire show, not only does it squirt fire out of the tailpipe, but also out the smoke sack on top of that powerful J-60 jet engine!
Doug Rhodes walked both of his legs in a jet car accident back in the early 70s. He went out of control at over 200 miles per hour in a horrible accident. He now has two wooden legs, and he has made his way back into the driver's seat of the green mama!
The biggest jet engine ever put in a drag racing vehicle, the J-60 Westinghouse! 12,000 pounds of thrust, 24,000 horsepower! It's a lot bigger, it's a lot heavier than the other engines you see in some of the jet cars, but without it, that would be the most powerful!
What a fire show by the Iron Man Doug Rhodes!
Rhodes motioning his crew to get out of the way as he brings the powerful green mama to the starting line! Literally setting the track on fire! The noise, the fire, the smoke!
Look at all the smoke coming out of the tailpipe of the green mama! There's not a mosquito living within 100 miles! Listen to the sound of that 60s that winds up coming to the starting line!
Rhodes blasting on down the track! 6.647, 249.30 miles per hour for the unbelievable green mama!
Next up, ladies and gentlemen, the world's only father and son wheel stand team, Jack and Toby Irvingtrap! They drive a pair of cars that are made to go down the quarter mile on their back wheels, with their front wheels 13 feet in the air!
Here he goes, the old man in the left-hand lane, he pulls the car heavy under glass, big watch Chevrolet in the back seat of that Firebird! His competition, his son Toby, 19 years old, he calls it the Night Raider, a Ford Mustang again with a big watch Chevy in the back!
The king of the wheel stand is Jack Irvingtrap, 20 years in the business, showing his son, second generation wheel stand driver, how it's done here on the quarter mile! 40 years old, the old man defeats the teenager Toby here on the quarter mile!
Larry Flash-Pwikiner in a rocket-powered funny car, he calls natural high, powered by 98% pure hydrogen peroxide, squirted on a silver screen, it creates a violent explosion, thrusting this Vega down the quarter mile at 300 miles an hour!
He's off, taking it on down the quarter mile, 1800 pounds, 10,000 pounds of thrust, he's through the truck, a new track record, Larry Flash-Pwikiner, 4.71 seconds, the quickest time ever, recorded here at Raceway Park, 251 miles an hour, what a pass!
Ladies and gentlemen, here's the world's largest racing vehicle you're ever going to see!
Steve Cattuno's awesome Bone Town Express! It's 30 feet long, it weighs 5 tons, it's powered by not one, but two Westinghouse J34 jet engines, 32,000 horsepower, and he's making his way towards the starting line!
Look at the fire spreading out the back of that car! Unbelievable! Low fuel, being dumped in the afterburner and lit!
Steve Cattuno, out of Beatown, driving the unbelievable Bone Town Express! It's 30 feet long, it's almost as long as a truck to travel, and what you're about to see is the most unbelievable vehicle in all of drag racing go down the quarter mile!
There's no other vehicle like it, nobody can run against it! Here we go, Steve Cattuno's Bone Town Express!
How about that unbelievable! On 6.99 a lap time, 194 miles an hour!
The cool water line is starting to heat up here at New England Dragway, and as fire and smoke come down the back, a Balmose is incredible! Jet pallets inward!
Balmose out of Ohio, the first driver ever to build a jet-powered truck! One of the most powerful landlocked vehicles you'll ever see!
And a carousel of fire show by the jet truck! Balmose really revving it up as it brings it to the starting line!
Look at the fire coming out of the back, look at the torque, whipping that truck side to side!
The wildest vehicle you're ever going to see go down the quarter mile!
Fire, flames, smoke and noise! Look at the truck rock!
Most fire popping his way towards the starting line! The truck cab literally almost catching in fire! Most waiting up at night time still out here at New England Dragway!
You people on that back up here, better take your seat as far as you can see it! Everybody's on their feet! Everybody wants to see Balmose!
Here comes Balmose jet-powered!
Have you ever seen anything like this before? Balmose's incredible jet truck! 7.88 seconds, 201 miles an hour!
The truck is powered by three Westinghouse jet engines. Each one of these engines were developed to use in a Navy fighter. Each one develops about 6,300 pounds of static thrust and about 12,000 horsepower to speed it sound.
In theory, and only theory of course, because the truck couldn't take it or this old driver couldn't handle it, but this truck has enough power to run over 2,000 miles an hour.
Everybody always asks me what it feels like to sit in this truck, the starting line, and what you think about. I really don't know how to answer that because I don't know how to compare it to anything else I've ever done.
I know the feeling going down the racetrack must be something like the clown experiences when he gets shot out of a cannon there at the circus. The only difference is as soon as he leaves the barrel of the cannon, he slows down and we keep on accelerating.
And as far as what it feels like going down there, or what it looks like, I don't know because I'm so scared I can't even my eyes shut.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is it, the most incredible drag racing vehicle you'll ever want to see.
This is the one you came to watch at Colina, Kansas. Mr. Lester Shockley, they call him Shockwave and in just a minute you're going to find out why. He's about ready to drive a Peterbilt racing truck powered by not one, not two, but three Westin-Hatch J-34 jet engines out of Navy Banshee fighter jets.
Unbelievable is the only way to describe it. Each engine producing 8,000 pounds of thrust. Each engine producing 16,000 horsepower. What you are seeing is 48,000 horsepower of jet engines generated from a powered jet truck down in the four-mile.
Ladies and gentlemen, how about that for a fire show. War fuel being dumped into the afterburner. He gets the ignition in and makes fire, fire, and more fire.
Shooting at the afterburner to the jet. Shooting at the chrome stacks on top of the truck. The most powerful vehicle ever built anywhere in the world and made to do one thing.
Traveling a quarter mile as fast as it possibly can. Shockley doing a burner pop. The fire goes. Testing everything, making sure everything is A-OK. But at last he's going to run it on the quarter mile.
War fuel on fire, shooting at that tail light. Shockley bringing that six-ton Peterbilt to the starting line. It's hot, let me tell you, it's hotter than everybody getting out of the way.
Let Shockley lighten up the night sky. Shockley is very carefully parking his truck into the back of the vehicle.
And getting ready for the start. You can see the smoke of 40,000 fuel being dumped into the engine with the afterburner lit. When the green light comes on, he's going to swing on that afterburner and take off down the corner.
Listen to the noise of the fire, unbelievable. Let Shockley on the way to the end. 348,000 horsepower, let Shockley jet-powered Peterbilt.
Sound, it's going to be a jam.
Woo hoo, woo hoo, woo hoo, woo hoo, woo hoo.
Woo hoo, woo hoo, woo hoo, woo hoo, woo hoo.
Let's go.
Music.
Music.