00:08 holy crap!! That’s my father standing there smoking. I wasn’t born yet but it’s crazy to see my dad in his early twenties. He’s 77 now and even then I could spot his mannerisms a hundred miles away.
WOw Jimmy Edwards Jr. I lived down the street from his shop in Hope mills. I was about 6-7 but we never missed a race. We ended up following tom Usry to Asphalt at Caraway He was the man...We were Parker fans if I remember correctly so Jimmy wasnt well liked in our house lol..Awesome vid!!
I wish my mother in law’86 Monte Carlo was an aero coupe , I would have kept it when she stopped driving. To my knowledge, not too many of the aero coupe’s were available in Canada . I still have the ‘73 Monte Carlo she had that the ‘86 replaced.
When they were first making the ones the back glass like that. I had a buddy who's dad knew Jr Johnson, we went to his shop and they had a car a couple of feet off the floor on a flat piece of metal. The GM guys were there measuring it every where. My friends dad said something about Daytona not being that far away. Jr said he had a few in the paint building that one was for the GM guys. We were just out of HS and Jr said that the beer was free if we wanted some. We were going around anywhere in the shop checking out everything.
These super speedway cars with the X-pipe are the reason why I'm so hell bent on putting together a top end combination for my Corvette's LS7 that will rev out to 8000 rpm. I just want to re-live my 90's childhood as best I can.
The year I was born 1972. Always have been a Bobby Allison fan. The first race I ever attended was the 1981 World 600. Bobby Allison won driving the Hardee's Buick.
Watched him race as a regular at old Fayetteville speedway off of 301 south in 70s. Always a threat to win on dirt. He was what we called part of that Sanford bunch; JD Mcduffie, Tom Mcduffie, Coy Blue and "the Broadway flash" Tom Ursry".
Tony Glover goes into detail about the exhaust on the Dale Jr download. The guy that designed it at doctor has was trying to offer the system to teams but nobody thought it was worth it, Tony was willing to try anything and went for it. They had a 1 year deal to be the sole team with the system... Then the next year, the IROC series got it and one turned over, and was posted on a magazine cover in the air. The next week everyone was running Dr gas
5:23 - Long story cut short, Dr Gas out of Salt Lake City made some phone calls and informed the Sterling Marlin team he could add 5 hp to the car. They installed the X-pipe exhaust system and dynoed the car. The results were good! I don’t think they ever said how much hp the exhaust added. No one on the team had heard the car at wide open throttle under load at 193 mph until qualifying. Apparently the team was all giggles when on fhe first lap everyone in the pits stopped what they were doing to watch the #4. The sound was unreal! Sterling Marlins team kept the exhaust a secret for awhile, with a lot of people thinking the heads were modified somehow. Here is a great video explaining the whole situation in great detail. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4EtSA1TocZg.html
That car belongs in North Carolina Nascar Hall of Fame.l hate it when something this special is not protected by Nascar and is allowed in the hands of money
This car in 1995, especially the X-pipe used at Daytona, changed the way NASCAR sounded at super speedways for 20 years. Such an amazing sounding car. Too bad they don't sound like that these days.
Dont forget about the tri y headers that even out the exhaust pulses. Just an xpipe and long tube headers will get you this similar sound, but a set of tri y headers AND and an xpipe on a street car and you will get this exact sound. Also please be realistic, these cars are winding almost 10,000rpm.
