1981 NHRA Southern Nationals

Travel back in time to the inaugural NHRA Southern Nationals in Commerce, Ga., just outside of Atlanta. This event was the first sanctioned after the facility made the switch from IHRA sanction to NHRA. The quality is a little rough but good enough to appreciate this blast from the past. In addition to the great racing, there's a glimpse of the nighttime qualifying from the original April 1981 event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDswyM3JZLI

1993 NHRA Western Auto Nationals

The inaugural running of the NHRA Western Auto Nationals at Heartland Park in Topeka, Kansas saw some great racing, but also a very scary crash during the Friday qualifying session for top fuel pilot Doug Herbert, who, (as bad as the accident was), still came out of it uninjured.

1990 NHRA Cajun Nationals

More action from the 1990 NHRA drag racing season.  Here's the Cajun Nationals, from State Capitol Dragway in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Ingenuity in Action (1959) NHRA Hot Rod Film

Made for hot rod fans; explains how to prepare and enter a car show; also serves as an ethnographic account of the "nomadic tribe of hotrodders".