AMERICAN NITRO 1979

THE GREATEST FUNNY CAR MOVIE EVER MADE!

- SIMON MAJOR

THE sensory delight that is Nitro Funny Car and dragster racing will be familiar to many Street Machine readers, and Bill Kimberlin's feature-length 1979 documentary American Nitro attempts to capture that experience on celluloid.

Primarily filmed at the now long-defunct Fremont Dragstrip in California, the doco paints a vivid picture of the sheer intensity and passion that racers and fans alike had for the Funny Car class at this time, underscored by interviews with some of the biggest names and showpeople of the sport, right at the point where many of them were cementing their now-legendary status.