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Capturing the mayhem occurring just outside the frame of American sports, "American Nitro" goes behind those famous "Sunday! Sunday Sunday!" radio ads to explore the explosive world of theatrical drag racing in the late 1970's.
Filled with the war whoops of track side announcers screaming into microphones, "Nitro" documents the whole crazy scene. From Jungle Pam and Funny Cars, to wheel standing exhibition vehicles, "Nitro" is a virtual Who's Who of early drag racing.
Today, it's a nostalgic look at a primitive outlaw sport that was swept aside by corporate sponsors and given the electronic hook by national television.
"It is an exercise in asphalt anthropology, capturing the rowdiness and violence of a Roman spectacle; high speed crack-ups, men afire, semi-nude maidens in attendance, and the legions of racers and their fans who have pledged their lives to timing records and intangibles harder to define."
- FILMEX
"I watched it every night for a year. Just ask my wife." - FLIPTOP
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