Ingenuity in Action (Part II) (1958)

★★★★★ · 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…

★★★★★ · The Wonderful '50's · Ron Raygun · 2009-11-15

Very good presentation. Back in the good 'ol days when America produced fine automobiles and trucks! Chevrolets, Fords, Buicks, Pontiacs, Chryslers, Studebakers, Packards, Dodges, Plymouths, and DeSotos shown in the film. Only import seen was Fiat. The U.S.A will never be that good again!

★★★★ · Interesting.... · brokennib · 2010-03-15

One of the narrators sounded familiar, performed in a lot of Ed Wood productions, most notably the voice of "Glen or Glenda"

★★★ · 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…