Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Funny Car Summer, documentary movie available from Netflix, follows Jim Dunn through the 1974 funny car races, and gives a good look at 1974


the car he raced was this rear engined Barracuda, one of only 2 rear engined funny cars racing in 1974



his ordinary job for 47 weeks a year was as a firefighter


the movie covers the drag strips in So Cal mostly, but also Oklahoma and Utah


and I've no idea why the races at El Mirage and Bonneville are in the movie, or even if they are from 1974





Carl and Veda Orr!



and no shit, they lit the back tire on fire to race bicycles with small chutes that were pulled in a parking lot race



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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:26 AM

    Well... if this is on Netflix, then that means it must be available on VHS or DVD! Thanx for posting - hafta find a copy. I was at the race in Tulsa, and remember seeing myself in a 'crowd shot' in the pits when the movie came to the theatre.
    And we did the drag chute on the bicycles - an old sheet stuffed in a cigar box hung on the sissy bar - years earlier. No fire burn outs tho... Might hafta rectify that oversight. :)

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  2. worst movie ever. i was 7 or 8 years old. only movie i ever walked out of. my brother and I hated it. we talked about it for years and still laugh about it 40 years later...

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