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LIONS THE GREATEST DRAG STRIP (Part 3/1967-'72) by Don Gillespie: Third and final video documentary on sport's most famous drag strip (Long Beach, Calif.); rare photos, film, interviews with leading pioneers.
 
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LIONS THE GREATEST DRAG STRIP (Part 3/1967-'72) by Don Gillespie: Third and final video documentary on sport's most famous drag strip (Long Beach, Calif.); rare photos, film, interviews with leading pioneers.

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  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001J7H0R4
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Third and final episode (110-minutes) on historic Long Beach, CA drag strip features 40-plus interviews with top pioneers, including; Don Garlits, Ed Iskenderian, Hayden Proffitt, Gas Ronda, Bill Maverick Golden, Robert Balogh, Carl Olson, Sush Matsubara, Tom McEwen, Pat Foster, Tommy Ivo, Dale Pulde, Don Long, C. J. Hart, Larry Sutton, etc. Begins with nitro racings version of a heavyweight bout, as Top Fuel dragsters fight the growing trend of AFX and early Funny Cars. Huge meets ensued. Innovation led to quicker ETs  and speeds. Funny Cars roared into the 7-second zone. Top Fuelers blazed past 220 miles-per-hour. With increased performance came danger. Straining clutches and superchargers resulted in spectacular fires, wheel-stands and crashes, with drivers in extreme peril. One of the more dramatic segments depicts the AHRA Grand American in early 1970, when Top Fuel legend Big Daddy Don Garlits lost part of his right foot in a horrific starting line transmission explosion. Graphic film of the accident surfaced only recently. Garlits recounts the incident, plus his equally stunning return months later with a rear-engine dragster that likewise changed the sport forever. Weekly campaigners included Jr. Fuel and Gas Dragsters, AA/Gas Supercharged, AA/Fuel Altered, Injected Funny Cars, plus wild exhibition vehicles. Manager C.J. Hart departed in 1971, replaced by innovator, Steve Evans, who switched from AHRA to NHRA sanction, and produced events like the giant Grand Premier, which saw the tracks largest number of incidents. When noise complaints spelled the end in December 1972, Lions held the racing equivalent of Woodstock, with The Last Drag Race, a colossal, fitting, yet tear-filled end to one of the sports most historic, and revered tracks.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Part 3 to bad it had to end. See Ron Capps at age 7 at Lions., August 25, 2009
This review is from: LIONS THE GREATEST DRAG STRIP (Part 3/1967-'72) by Don Gillespie: Third and final video documentary on sport's most famous drag strip (Long Beach, Calif.); rare photos, film, interviews with leading pioneers. (DVD)
The end of Lions, and how it came about. The DVD starts out with the voice of
the late great Steve Evans! More and more drivers try to tame these out of
control top fuel rides, untill it nearly takes the life of Big Daddy Don Garlits.
Everybody tried to get the rear engine car to work, and some made it work for a
short time, but Garlits made it work forever. Then the last drag race came on
December 2nd 1972. As they say (And the rest is history) Part 3 is as good as
1 and 2. Trust me when I say, you need all 3. Hats off to Don Gillespie
for the best documentary on the best drag strip of all time (LIONS).
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5.0 out of 5 stars Drags Remembered, May 25, 2010
This review is from: LIONS THE GREATEST DRAG STRIP (Part 3/1967-'72) by Don Gillespie: Third and final video documentary on sport's most famous drag strip (Long Beach, Calif.); rare photos, film, interviews with leading pioneers. (DVD)
.....any old timer would love this DVD, plus shareing it with your kids makes them understand why we loved that time and miss it so much. A great job captureing a time frame never to be seen again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Early days of drag racing, October 16, 2009
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Excellant coverage of the first days of LADS.
Having grown up at that strip it was fun to see it againe and share it with my kids and grandkids!
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