Glamis as it was

[DC-88]

This is what I remember as a little kid , it's just missing some overheated dirt bikes -

 

[NicPaus]

Great video. Love the og stacker trailer.

My first trip was in 1992. Dad bought me and my Brother a pair of 85 Honda Odyssey. Guy at T and O. Mentioned Glamis so we made our first trip. Got hooked. From 2004-2010 I was there more weekends than not in the winter.

 

[mash on it]

Flathead Fords and duals for the win! A few SBC and vw powered buggies too.
Cool video.

Dan'l

 

[2FORCEFULL]

I lived those days, we used air plane landing gear tires .... then went to dual harrow bed tires... ROP was zero.....


those were the cool day's before the wallet racers and hey lam's.. you run what cha brung and had fun doing it...

 

[Havaduner]

That is awesome! Those were the days when my dad went out there, I remember the first time I went, (86 or 87) went for Thanksgiving day (had to work friday) when telling my dad about it a few days later, and he started recounting the days when he went out there and it was just like that.
A really cool part of that video, in the first few minutes when the buggies were around camp, and you could see the road in the back, that's the highway, not Gecko road (the first picture at the beginning is Gecko) when I first started going out there, people would be camped on the side of the highway from just at the top of Osborne all the way to vendors row. It was nuts to see the rigs that were pulled up there.

 

[dave29]

God I feel old. WE were out there starting in 1980. VW powered sandrails. My buddy Scott built a mid engine 2180 back then.

 

[Ziggy]

Great video, thanks for posting.
Sad to think how the dads in this epic video are now in the 80yr old range.

 

[Sandlord]

I‘ve been there. a bit

 

[Meaney77]

Bitchen video! Those old cars are super cool but kinda sketchy with the lacking cage and seat belts!!

 

[Riverhound]

such cool memories... Remember being out there in the mid-late '70s with my parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. Every weekend was like a family reunion with our group.

 

[outboard_256]

Nice vid. We were out in the 80's with odyssey's and ATC's. Fun times, nothing like today.

 

[SkyDirtWaterguy]

Back in the good ol days before the woke, pussification of Komifornia took over! Things will never be as good as they were then! Cool vid!

 

[Riverbottom]

Built my first car, a Sand Buggy Supply two seater with an 1835 V.W. in 1976. Lots of water pumper buggys still around. Great times.

 

[lenmann]

Awesome video! The clean-up of the shaky 8mm hand held footage is pretty amazing.

Simpler times back when government and court mandated vehicle safety wasn't really a thing. Consumer Product Safety whaaaaat?

My first trip to Glamis had to be in the late 60's with my parents. We were rocking a 66 Ford F-250 (parents machine shop shop truck) and a 10' Tilton Hilton slide in overhead camper. Well I should say the folks were, me and my little brother were camped outside in a tent. We camped with a group the old man knew from a bar down the street from his shop. They all looked just like the people in the video. Oh and they drank a bit too.

I remember the big noisy front engine buggies and a handful of VW powered cars that were eating up the big V-8's. Dad went out and bought a wrecked Corvair after the trip and was going to build a buggy. Alas, a project that never made its way to completion, other interests surfaced and it sat in the back corner for years until it was sold as scrap.

Good memories though.

 

[Jay Dub]

great video, thanks for sharing. Looks like good ole family fun

 

[74 spectra20 v-drive]

What an awesome video and music selection was perfect. The evolution of sports and life in general really may not be that great of a thing, this left me very melancholily for simpler times. I would have been a year old or so during this video but I get the same feeling watching my family river videos from the same era. love it!

The flat heads were awesome, junk yard parts and a fun time, did see a dual quad Big Block out there, that dude was king shit in the early 70's our there, may have been too heavy though with 700lbs plus sitting on that front axel. My Dads friend had a turbo Corvair powered sand rail, Dad tuned on it and it was so rad to cruise it around the neighborhood to "test" it out, I remember how easy that think pulled wheelies.

 

[EmpirE231]

Such a cool video!

back before it was packed with so many people and so many rangers.

 

[RVRKID]

This is my buddy as a kid with his family from way back, he still has the Bronco Buster and still cruises it every once in awhile.

 

[counterpart7]

That stacker trailer is pretty legit

Cool video for sure!

 

[done]

Great vid !

 

[Joe mama]

That’s when life was a good time.

 

[rivermobster]

Yeah...

That made me smile. Thanks!

 

[stonehenge]

Amazing video, glad to see they remastered it, great audio tunes as well!

Been doing Pismo since 72', don't do it much anymore, kinda small now.

But Glamis I started in 83', and still go out 70-100 days a season, that sand is in my blood. Might do more days once I retire. They have an "old school regatta" every year and it is a blast to see these cars still out there duning. This car belonged to a wonderfully nice dude who I spoke with annually until he passed on recently. His car won the year before he passed away.

Disclaimer, I had more hair when I was in the back of the Manx.