Ingenuity in Action (Part I) (1958)

★★★★★ · Vroomm,vroomm!! · dan b · 2004-01-28

This is an awesome film!! It's got it all. Cool cats, beautiful cars, wonderful scenery and lots of dragstrip action. It even has a guy with a beatnik beard! The roar of those American V8's is a beautiful sound to behold, something we don't seem to hear enough of anymore. Today's performance cars sound like a dying moose with those stupid mufflers they all seem to have. What I really like about this and all the hot rod movies on this site is the message of team work, discipline, adherence of rules and reward for a job well done. The young lad and I say two thumbs up! Thanks again, Rick.

★★★★★ · Fun Movie · Visual16 · 2009-01-28

This is a very well-edited and entertaining look into the early days of drag racing. The legacy of drag racing continues today with events hosted by the NHRA. Having attended several of these finals in Pomona, California, I can state there are very few things more exciting than witnessing an under 5 second run from a funny car or top fuel dragster! Ingenuity in Action is set in September 1959, when drag racing was becoming a nationwide phenomenon We follow the team through an Oklahoma match and then onward to the main race. The manual editing used to create this film must have been a nightmare

★★★ · As exciting as watching a car drive in a straight line · Spuzz · 2003-08-19

A pretty nice looking documentary about the Hot Rod Nationals of 1958 by Sid "Cars are cool, except when they have strangers in them" Davis. We follow a crew that has built a car going to the Nationals in Detroit Michigan. From California, they take the VERY long way and somehow end up in Texas to pick up some other people to form this odd slow moving caravan to Detroit, when we finally get to see the hot rods in action, and what Hot rods they are! Big ones. small ones, colorful ones you name it. Anyways, I was fully expecting the California team to of course, WIN it, but that doesn't happen (