doing what young guys and fun cars did in the 1950s
the first 2.5 minutes are on mud, and probably bald tires, then switches to spinning on snow and slush, and switches to drag strip racing at the 8 minute mark
And 60's. Wow! what a blast,straight back to my youth,with Chuck,Beach Boys singin' about cars and watching all that fun fun fun(till her daddy). Drifting?....nah,all old school !!
Neat video. I don't usually think of people in the 50s or 60s playing around like that, but why wouldn't they?
The YouTube poster is off by a few years. There's a 1960 Impala and about the same year Falcon playing in the snow, and a 1967 Camaro at the dragstrip. That's a cool gasser Falcon near the end, too.
Wow ! you dont see many videos of folks cutting up in the 50s.
in Dawsonville Georgia, which is obvious from the highway signs in the video.
I feel quite confident that those cars , were being used to haul moonshine to Atlanta . Or that the engines were built by mechanics that built engines for bootleggers cars, and for early Nascar races.
Raymond Parks was a moonshine runner from Dawsonville, and served time in a federal prison for hauling moonshine, was the very first team car owner in NASCAR. using his moonshine running cars and drivers and engine builders. In the mid 90s, lived two houses down from Parks , in Atlanta, where he owned and operated, you guessed it, a liquor store.
a book about him is called "Driving with the Devil", he said in his book he could make more money hauling one carload of moonshine from Dawsonville to Atlanta, than you could earn in 2 months working a normal job at a sawmill or something.
also, and its no coincidence , that Bill Elliott who grew up near Dawsonville, and his son Chase, are successful NASCAR drivers, and that so many early and current nascar drivers were from the south, Junior Johnson, a very successful nascar driver, served prison time for making and hauling moonshine.
I grew up in the North Georgia mountains, and it was a very interesting place, even in the late 70s and early 80s, before the state built several 4 lane highways from Atlanta to the heart of the mountains in the late 80s, its was an isolated area.
my father was a forest ranger there, and we would routinely see moonshine stills on the national forest land, but he just ignored them, he knew who was operating them, but he also knew that in the time before welfare and unemployment and food stamps etc, that these people were just trying to feed their families the only way they knew how. He knew that we were fortunate that he had a good govermnet job , and we were the richest people around, because he had a steady paycheck and we had running water and electricity and a propane furnace.
nearly everyone else who lived near us, had none of that.
And 60's. Wow! what a blast,straight back to my youth,with Chuck,Beach Boys singin' about cars and watching all that fun fun fun(till her daddy). Drifting?....nah,all old school !!
ReplyDeleteNeat video. I don't usually think of people in the 50s or 60s playing around like that, but why wouldn't they?
ReplyDeleteThe YouTube poster is off by a few years. There's a 1960 Impala and about the same year Falcon playing in the snow, and a 1967 Camaro at the dragstrip. That's a cool gasser Falcon near the end, too.
awesome vid from 50 60s! thank you for keeping me coming back everyday for 6 years!! love this site!!
ReplyDeleteThank you! I'm happy to have been able to entertain you for every one of them!
DeleteWow !
ReplyDeleteyou dont see many videos of folks cutting up in the 50s.
in Dawsonville Georgia, which is obvious from the highway signs in the video.
I feel quite confident that those cars , were being used to haul moonshine to Atlanta . Or that the engines were built by mechanics that built engines for bootleggers cars, and for early Nascar races.
Raymond Parks was a moonshine runner from Dawsonville, and served time in a federal prison for hauling moonshine, was the very first team car owner in NASCAR. using his moonshine running cars and drivers and engine builders. In the mid 90s, lived two houses down from Parks , in Atlanta, where he owned and operated, you guessed it, a liquor store.
a book about him is called "Driving with the Devil", he said in his book he could make more money hauling one carload of moonshine from Dawsonville to Atlanta, than you could earn in 2 months working a normal job at a sawmill or something.
also, and its no coincidence , that Bill Elliott who grew up near Dawsonville, and his son Chase, are successful NASCAR drivers, and that so many early and current nascar drivers were from the south, Junior Johnson, a very successful nascar driver, served prison time for making and hauling moonshine.
I grew up in the North Georgia mountains, and it was a very interesting place, even in the late 70s and early 80s, before the state built several 4 lane highways from Atlanta to the heart of the mountains in the late 80s, its was an isolated area.
my father was a forest ranger there, and we would routinely see moonshine stills on the national forest land, but he just ignored them, he knew who was operating them, but he also knew that in the time before welfare and unemployment and food stamps etc, that these people were just trying to feed their families the only way they knew how. He knew that we were fortunate that he had a good govermnet job , and we were the richest people around, because he had a steady paycheck and we had running water and electricity and a propane furnace.
nearly everyone else who lived near us, had none of that.