https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9ee47223-2439-462c-89a1-bc641d92806c Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This 1960s Castrol film, produced by Kinocrat Films, looks at a drag racing promotional event in the United Kingdom. It was written and narrated by Kenneth Best. The film features footage of famous drag racers such as Tony Nancy and Chuck Stolze. It also shows many different vehicles up close and when they are racing. It ends with an interview with an American drag racer who explains the objectives and difficulties of the sport. 0:14 overview of different cars, 0:22 different drag racing cars, 0:30 “Dragstrip” A Castrol Film, 0:38 Chuck Stolze’s car, 0:56 footage of different vehicles and their drivers, including Don Garlits' car 1:46 Tony Nancy next to his car, 1:58 cars moving into place to prepare for a race including Ronnie Sox' Mercury Comet Pro, 2:10 race begins, 2:24 two smaller cars racing, 2:40 two miniature vehicles racing, 2:56 motorcycles head down the track 3:12 two Go-karts racing, 3:36 “Moonbeam” vehicle racing, 3:54 Tony Nancy racing in his vehicle, 4:15 several people giving interviews, 4:49 several different vehicles racing including Don Garlits' car and Tony Nancy (5:00). Nancy's vehicle taking off, 5:21 Sydney Allard speaking to the camera and begins interviewing an American drag racer named Tommy 7:00 a vehicle racing and deploying a parachute to stop, 7:15 another vehicle stopping with a parachute, 7:27 a British made vehicle taking over Moonbeam in a race, 8:02 Produced by Kinocrat Films, London, with the co-operation of the British Drag Racing Association, commentated by Kenneth Best. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HdwwGFtOj4 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:29:32 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9ee47223-2439-462c-89a1-bc641d92806c All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.