The early days of runway racing were INSANE!

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Published 2024-04-26
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Seth Rose shares his history with cars and the craziness of the early days of airstrip racing in the Everglades.

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All Comments (21)
  • @AgentBBB
    The fact the guy who launched HIMSELF off the runway sued the organizers afterwards for his own negligence, sadly doesn't surprise me.
  • @VINwiki
    Seth shared a lot of great stories while he was here. You'll love them.
  • Fun but useless fact.the building that Manhattan motor cars is located was the remaining factory/warehouse heavy timber building on the block that wasn’t burned down during a fire in the late 1970’s. Everything else on both sides of the block was burned to the ground
  • @EdBolian
    Seth also saw the Spyker value extra early!
  • @mcmillan1963
    I couldn't imagine sitting in that swamped car for an hour. Not for the fact of being gator sushi, but sitting in your own sh*t.
  • @michaelbaka4777
    Seth sounds like a great barstool buddy, hours of interesting tales to tell! Enjoyed this video greatly!!!!! All the pix were the cherry on top!!!
  • @JT-oq9eu
    He sounds a lot like the ticket lawyer
  • @Kirk_Wood
    I am willing to bet many kilos have landed on that runway!
  • @kellyscars
    Happy Friday, folks. Don't race on active runways!
  • @RogerAlan
    I remember Seth from the old Exotics Rally era. Glad to see you’re still out here.
  • @systemsbroken
    I live (and have driven on) Jumbolair...where Travolta lives...the runway is not quite long enough for my AMG to reach 200.....
  • flachbau's are the coolest. sadly i rented a 348 once and thats when i realized after the death on enzo the last ferrari to me was the f40 with 1 exception -pista!!! you had a great bunch of car!s. cheers
  • @PaulNewmansFlow
    Amazing story! When a man blames someone else for crashing his own car, that man is the perfect example of an ultimate failure. No exception, you should have seen it coming. Accept the risk or don't take it.
  • @kari53
    The first airport race I ever heard of was in the 80's in Nassau, Bahamas. I never got to attend until about 1996. There were pieces of crap there but every once and while a few exotics would run. There was so much cash onsite for bets it made me really nervous. No safety, no cops and thousands of poeple. Guys racing hot roads to imports for 50,000k a race. The next time we ever hit a run way gain was in Canada in a 2 bit town in Ontario. Nothing but 200mph cars were there. It was pretty good. I imagine the American events though were on another level and a bit more organized with more safety measures.
  • @nwestfall
    New meaning to being “swamped” at work!