| Bonneville and Nostalgia Drag Racing DVDs |
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Brazeau Video Bonneville and El Mirage DVDs
The official photographer for the Southern California Timing Association, Mark Brazeau has filmed virtually every
land speed record racing event at the Bonneville Salt Flats and at El Mirage since the 1980s.
Mark also looks after the video archives for the SCTA, and has footage going back as far as the 1950s.
DVDs of most of the recent Bonneville and El Mirage events are currently avalable, including these titles:
Bonneville Speedweek 2000
Bonneville Speedweek 2001
Bonneville Speedweek 2002
Bonneville Speedweek 2003
Bonneville Speedweek 2004
Bonneville World Finals 2003
Bonneville World Finals 2004
El Mirage May 2004
El Mirage June 2004
El Mirage July 2004
El Mirage October 2004
The Gear Grinders at Speedweek 2003
The Gear Grinders and So-Cal Speed Shop at Speedweek 2004
Old School Land Speed Racing
The Old School Land Speed Racing DVD is particulary recommended for anyone who wants to see what racing at
Bonneville was really like in the 1960s. This DVD features many of the highlights that veteran SCTA Chief Starter
Bob Higbee filmed in color at Bonneville and El Mirage in the 1960s, and I consider it a must.
Shipping is included in the prices of all of our videos.
To order your DVDs, please print out the
price list and order form.
If for any reason your DVD is incompatible with your DVD player, the DVD will be replaced with a VHS tape of the
same program. We will also credit you or send you a check for $5 for your return shipping.
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Jackson Bros. nostalgia drag racing DVDs
Shown on the right are two long-time drag racers and race fans, Jamie and Janice Jackson. For decades, both of
them raced the '57 shown below them.
The introduction below, and the video descriptions that follow it, were written by Jamie Jackson.
My love and enthusiasm for drag racing was born in 1961, at my first trip to Cotati Raceway. The highlight of the
meet was a dragster match race between Sammy Hale in The Champion Speed Shop Chevy and Sneaky Pete Robinson's Drag
Master Chevy. That race left me awestruck at the speed and noise these cars produced. I was equally excited with
the gassers and altereds, and to this day I still enjoy the color and diversity of the sport.
I brought my older brother Sonny along when I started full-time attendance in 1964. We started taking photos
almost immediately, but quickly resorted to my parents' 8mm Brownie Hawkeye movie camera and Kodak color film. We
filmed all of the races that we attended for sixteen years straight.
After about a four-year break due to burnout, video became popular and affordable, which captured our enthusiasm
for the drags once again, but this time we would have live sound and a lot more coverage of each event. After
producing our first program in 1986, Bad Boy Altereds, and a little notoriety from our contributions to Main Event
and Diamond P videos, we began receiving vintage film and modern video footage from many of our fans throughout
the country. The collection of film and video in our historical archives has reached staggering proportions. More
historically-important and rare film footage is contributed to our archives every year as our popularity expands.
Shipping is included in the prices of all of our videos.
To order your DVDs, please print out the
Price List and Order Form.
If for any reason your DVD is incompatible with your DVD player, the DVD will be replaced with a VHS tape of the
same program. We will also credit you or send you a check for $5 for your return shipping.
High Speed Motorsports
56 minutes
Action Outtakes depicts their two fuelers racing other top-name cars at the Goodguys Vintage Racing Association
events. All the smoke and thunder these cars produce is captured by the Jackson Bros., close-up and intense,
without any narration getting in the way.
There's no lengthy chit-chat, but true spontaneous excitement when Mendy Fry tells you what it's like to go 251
mph just after blasting off a 5.87-second pass in the MasterCam fueler. That run made Mendy the first lady drag
racer to go over 250 mph in a Nostalgia Top Fuel Dragster.
Sean Bellemeur drives the Plaza Hotel fueler and shows great promise as the new young hero of the class. His list
of wins in his first year out are impressive.
If you enjoy the excitement of Nostalgia Top Fuel, you will not be disappointed with this high-speed Action
Outtake smoker.
High Speed Motorsports was filmed at tracks that include Famoso, Las Vegas, and Pomona.
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A/Fuel Action for Tony Waters
58 minutes
A/Fuel Action For Tony Waters highlights the 2004 Goodguys VRA 2004 A/Fuel action at its best, including record
runs and top-end photography of high speed dragsters trying to slow down - something dragsters don't like to do
after a 200-mph pass.
Most of the A/Fuel cars that were competing at the Goodguys VRA races are included. The injected cars run on nitro
and the blown cars run on alcohol.
We give special notice to Tony Waters and his team. Tony is a legend in the sport. He was Top Eliminator runner-up
at the first March Meet at Famoso back in 1959, in his blown roadster. It's great to see the old timers still
giving the youngsters a run for their money.
A top-end altercation takes place where two cars come together at the same turnoff. One of the cars is Tony's.
Like most old timers of the sport, they pick up the pieces and put them back together again for another season.
However most of the youngsters have this same spirit and will come back next season to give the old man
hell.
A/Fuel Action was filmed at tracks that include Famoso, Las Vegas, and Pomona.
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Return of the Bad Boys
84 minutes
Those Awful Awful Altereds are back. Many of the '60s Altereds have been restored to life and they're still as
wild as they were. Featured cars include the Rat Trap and The Marcellus & Borsch restored AA/FAs. Other cars
include Pure Hell, Pure Heaven, Nanook, Toco-Harper-Garten, The Mob, Burkholder Bros., Randy Bradford, Woody
"Pops" Duke, Panic, J&S Speed Shop, Blair's Speed Shop, and many more Bad Boy Altereds of the 2000s. This time,
you get to see them and hear them on DVD as well as VHS.
The color and audio quality is outstanding as the Jackson Bros. are now using industrial digital video cameras to
capture the excitement of Nostalgia Drag Racing.
Return of the Bad Boys was filmed at tracks that include Bakersfield, Sears Point, and Las Vegas.
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A Night of Cackle & Flames
60 minutes
The sound of nitro, the flames of nitro, the excitement of nitro. Here you'll see and hear Top Fuel qualifying and
all of the Cacklefest cars under the lights at the 2003 NHRA Hot Rod Reunion at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield.
Also included is Mike Boyd driving the wild and wooly Marcellus & Borsch AA/FA and the Pick Your Part
wheelstanding pickup.
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Gasser Files 1 & 2
120 minutes
All-color film footage with narration and music, including modern nostalgia live-action video. Gasser Files is the
greatest nostalgia video on Willys, Anglias and Austins ever made.
How about the Stone, Woods & Cook versus Big John Mazmanian rivalry of 1965? You'll see many other famous gasser
teams, too, including Jack "the Bear" Coonrod, K.S. Pittman, Jr. Thompson, the Kohler Brothers, the Ariso
Brothers, the Hill Brothers, the Mallicoat Brothers, Brasher & Cummings, Fred Texiera, Shores & Hess, Mike "the
Hippie" Mitchell, Panella Trucking, the Souza Brothers, Balough-Dubach & Pisano, the Del Rio Bros., Ron Nunes, and
more.
Willys fans will really appreciate the vast numbers of '33 and '41 Willys shown. Numerous blown, injected,
wheelstanding '49-'51 Anglias and Prefects will thrill even the most discerning English Ford fans, and many of our
wildest '48-'51 Austin shots are also included here. There are other popular makes here that include '37 Chevy
coupes, Henry Js, and shoebox Chevys.
Are there Wild Shots on this tape? Of course. A few scary wipeouts are shown, but no serious injuries were ocurred
thanks to good safety equipment.
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Wildshots Oldies & Goodies
90 minutes
This tape contains some of the rarest historical film ever seen on the 1960s Drag Racing machinery. With a unique
collection of front-engine Fuelers, Funny Cars, AFX cars, wheelstanders, oddballs and exhibition cars, this tape
will go down in drag racing history as the greatest collection of colorful nostalgia on one video. Hot rod events
announcer Dan Danner describes all the special historical sequences. This program is full of spectacular
live-action shots of cars losing the battle of the quarter-mile, whether from crashing, burning, wheelstanding or
going every way but straight. Strict safety rules pay off as no driver is seriously hurt in this program. Also
included is a special history workup on the famed Chi Town Hustler Funny Car. We turn loose the high-tech,
hard-charging big boys of the '90s with unrestricted sound in all their four and five-second glory. Sooner or
later, drag racing will take you to the wild side, and so will Wildshots Oldies & Goodies.
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Bad Boy Altereds 2
120 minutes
Modern-day Fuel Altereds are just as wild and squirrely as they were in the '60s. The unrestricted sound of these
and many other altereds found in this program will satisfy your hunger for that screaming, supercharged thunder.
Wild footage includes Richard Langson's Texas Ranger, Impulse, Coors Light, the Outlaw, the Trillo Bros., Law &
Disorder and a special segment on the awesome "Mob" Fuel Altered. Nostalgia and Comp Altereds are also included.
Fuel Altereds forever.
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Bad Boy Altereds 1
60 minutes
All-color film footage dating to 1964. Dedicated to the AA/Fuel Altereds, this video depicts the typical wild and
crazy action these cars displayed. Their unwillingness to go straight will not be a faded memory, or a dusty
photo, or even small talk about the good old days. Fuel Altereds are still charging hard down the 1320 on this
Jackson Bros. video.
Some of the Fuel Altereds you'll see here include the Marcellas and Borsch Winged Express, Rich Guasco's Pure
Hell, Dave Hough's Nanook, Moore-Oates-Bradley's The Mob, the Burkholder Brothers, Fred Sorensen's Warlock I, Leon
Fitzgerald's Pure Heaven, Nick Otto's Warlock II, Rod Hynes' Coors Light, Richard Langson's Texas Ranger, Quality
Auto, Thomas & Pritchard, Higley & Hubbard, the Trillo Brothers, the Scrounger, Savage Jr., the Blue Max,
Mondello's Porting Service, the Instant T and Black Magic, plus many more hard-charging competition Altereds.
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X-Treme Nostalgia
60 minutes
On-the-edge Fuelers and wall-crunching action takes you to the extreme side of nostalgia drag racing. Also
included are the popular blown altereds and super charged gassers. The Goodguys races are the best with the
hottest and fastest covering the quarter mile at Famoso and Sears Point in 2000. You will get the added benefit of
great audio since the live action is not talked over and actual recording levels were not softened. You'll see and
hear drag racing the way it should be seen and heard on your audio/video system. So crank it up, buckle up and
shut up. It's time for some serious nostalgia.
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Front Engine Fueler
90 minutes
You'll get nothing but today's Front Motored Fuel Dragsters along with 45 minutes of rare, never-before-seen film
footage shot from 1959 to 1962 by the Jackson Bros. and their contibutors. Big-name drivers of the '60s like
Garlits, Prudhome, Kallita, Chris Karamasines, James Warren and many more are included along with the big name
drivers of today like Ted Taylor, Paul Romine, Bill Dunlap, Jerry Steiner, Dan Horan, Bob Hallock and many more.
The original film footage is accompanied by music and narration while the modern footage will deliver full
unrestricted sound of nitro-breathing Top Fuel Dragsters.
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Nostalgia Wild
90 minutes
The Jackson Bros. have taken from their vast film and video archives a mix of rare film footage from the '50s,
'60s and early '70s and coupled it with some modern day nostalgia to make a hot rod Drag Racing video like no
other. The theme of this program is based on then and now sequences going from the past all the way to the
present. We use descriptive titling and light rock music behind rare film sequences and the modern footage puts
forth unrestricted live action audio. There are comical moments and there are serious moments just like in real
life. Dave Tedford summed it nicely after crashing in his top fuel nostalgia dragster when he said, "Oh well,
that's drag racing." You will meet Dave in this program and see other drag racers in the same "oh well" situation.
Blown Altereds, Gassers, Dragsters and Smokers are highlighted. You will come to realize and agree with the
Jackson Bros. that nostalgia is wild.
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Raw Drags Adventure
118 minutes
All classes of drag racing machinery from modern to nostalgia have one goal in common and that is to get down the
drag strip in a straight line as quick as possible without blowing up parts or crashing. Let's get real for a
moment. Once upon the quarter-mile, anything can happen. Not only does this tape show an abundance of neat-looking
cars making hard straight passes with unrestricted audio, we also include wildshots.
You will see crashes, fires, wheelstands, smokin' burnouts, into the wall, sideways, squirrelly and just about
anything out of the normal. Beautiful cars doing some ugly things. NHRA strict safety rules pay off as no critical
injury accidents will take place in this video. Most drivers walk away unharmed.
In life, many people have experienced a raw deal, but in Drag Racing, a Raw Drags Adventure is something else.
Featured tracks include Fremont, Sears Point, Bakersfield, and Sacramento. A few East Coast wildshots are
included. Special thanks to Brian Christiansen for his outstanding ground-level video. Thanks also to our East
Coast video contributor and the worldwide customer support of Jackson Brothers Video. Now let's return to those
thrilling rides of yesterday.
This DVD has a revised sleeve with the same program content as before, but improved video and audio quality. The
last three years of various Fremont Raceway action is included in this program. These pressed versions also make
it possible to watch the program in two parts or straight through.
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The Shoebox Dream
82 minutes
It has long been the dream of many a young man to own a really fast car. Whether his pleasure may have been
cruising or racing, a typical teenager from the '50s might have realized his fantasy from behind the wheel of a
1955 Chevy. Those free-thinking racers from the past have given new hope and a new name to the great race cars of
the '50s: Shoeboxes.
Why do present-day fans find shoeboxes so intriguing? Because some of these dinosaurs are running the quarter mile
in around seven seconds at close to 200 mph. World record runs of these fabulous '50s cars can be found in the The
Shoebox Dream. This tape features: Charles Carpenter's '55 Chevy, Thunder Craft with Rob Vandergriff, Dave Riolo's
Temptation-'55 Chevy, Wayne Torkelson & Son's '55 T-Bird, Bob Bunker, Ron Harding, Jr., John Scialpi's Wappado,
Kirk Kuhns, Lamar Walden, Mega Ford and Christine. There is a special appearance by Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen's
fabulous '57 Chevy AA/Fuel Funny Car and three wild upside-down segments of Shoeboxes biting the dust (with minor
driver injury). This tape has live action sound, narration, music and driver interviews.
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Goodguys Go Wild
60 minutes
Here you'll see world record Top Fuel runs, and race cars getting out of shape and hitting the guardrail,
including Tarrii Moorehead (in the '41 Willys shown on the cover), the A/Fuel Dragster driven by Mark Woods, Jr.,
an A/Gas Henry J, Bob Truluck's Fiat, and Russell Jackson's '66 Nova.
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Hot Rod Thunder
60 minutes
Better known as the 5th Annual Jim Davis Memorial Hot Rod Drags. Every category of nostalgia covered with special
old timer interviews. Featured speakers include Jim McLennan, Rich Guasco, Tom Prufer, and Gerry Steiner. Heavy
coverage of all hot classes, include Top Fuelers, Gasser, etc. This is a Goodguys Association event that was held
at Sears Point in May of 1993.
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ANRA Action Outtakes
90 minutes
Covers nostalgia races at The Top Gun Raceway in Fallon, Nevada and at Sacramento Raceway in California in 1996
and 1997. Top Fuel Dragsters, Blown Altereds and Gassers highlight this program, not to mention some of the most
popular makes and models that compete in the various E.T. brackets. We give the names of the drivers through
descriptive titles so as not to hinder the thundering audio that most race fans hope to get and look forward to
hearing on their audio/video systems. No less than eleven Front Engine Fuelers will excite your interest in the
way it used to be and footage shot from the top end of the Gassers, Altereds, Dragsters, and other hot machinery
will definitely get you motivated to attend the next nostalgia drags in your area.
The resurrection of '60s drag racing has already taken place, and has to be the best thing that could ever have
taken place within the sport. Through heavy exposure and promotion along with fan attendance, the nostalgia drags
will flourish, so we need not dwell on just memories about how things used to be. Nostalgia lives.
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