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[in a tone of amazement] My Goodness! What a remarkable surviving heritage piece of NASCAR history! And the video quality of this presentation is exceptional for being as old as it is. A bit of background about this telecast: ABC-TV recorded this Sunday race on video tape, condensed the contents of the race, and then aired it on the following Saturday's "ABC Wide World of Sports" at 5 PM local time. Wide World of Sports was a 90 minute anthology TV series of various sporting events; which combined various sports in the 90 minutes telecast; such as in this telecast the Daytona 500 shared airtime with a sled-dog race in New Hampshire. Back in the 1960s, mainstream media [of newspapers, radio, TV news/sports] rarely reported the Sunday race results [the one annual race event that got reported on was the Indy 500]. So, many times the Wide World of Sports telecasts of auto races, even being six days after-the-fact, those races had the suspense of the events being live. ABC-TV recorded the races from Daytona in black & white video until it went to color film, which may have been for the 1969 race. Specialized automotive print publications would report on the races, albeit a month or two later, with the exception of Autoweek.
So many thanks for this fascinating way to compare many yeas of racing history details. Amusement @18:00 Let's go to the sled dog race Feb. '63- continental competition coverage courtesy of ABC & The Daytona Chamber of Commerce
I saw a comment elsewhere, that said after one race where they called him Dick, his mother went up to the broadcast booth and said “his name is Richard, don’t call him Dick again.” And they never called him that again. Thanks Mom 😅
One of the all time great results! Great cars, love real stock car racing! Very cool shots of the track, and amazing to see it in only the fifth running of the 500. Great stuff.
These top-flight NASCAR guys were still gutting out showroom models and converting them over to racing cars at this point. Fast forward 60-plus years and the local weekly racer isn't even doing that anymore.
@@hotrodswoodshed7405 The suspension and unibody construction of today's cars wouldn't be able to handle the stresses of racing. In the 'old days', they kept the stock chassis and suspension arms, but beefed them up with heavy duty springs and shocks. They were old school cast iron muscle cars. Today's cars are plastic imitations of the past. I worked in a suspension shop and can tell you that the control arms and ball joints used today are junk.
This was when Nascar was fun. Love the cars. Not todays cookie cutter club racers. The iron pushrod engine sound is perfection. Todays stuff just sounds weird.
Well said. What I consider offensive are smug race card drivers wasting three letter agency's time for a garage pull and then still being mouthy when it was confirmed to be a garage pull.
NASCAR is trying to have a clean image, I don't blame them when over half the country who paid attention in history class knows the real meaning of the imagery and doesn't believe that lost cause and Southern pride bull shit. So in doing so NASCAR is trying to get with times which it has needed to do for a while.
This is double the content of the original release of ABC footage on RU-vid. It even includes some raw footage with no audio. I've always wondered how much of the broadcast was done with "live " audio recorded as the race was run and how much was voiced over.
I was a porter at a local Pontiac dealer in 62/63 that sponsored a car for this race. Ormsby Motors in Crystal Lake, driver Jack “Buddy” Roger’s. I believe it was car #58. I got to help work on it a bit a few weeks before the race. Great memories
1963 1. CBS Evening News premieres with Walter Cronkite as its first anchor, as the CBS weeknight newscast expands from 15 minutes to 30 minutes. The Huntley-Brinkley Report expanded its weeknight newscast from 15 minutes to 30 minutes on NBC. ABC, CBS, and NBC expanded their weeknight newscasts from 15 minutes to 30 minutes. 2. The Dick Van Dyke Show in its 3rd season during the 1963-1964 season on CBS. General Hospital premieres on ABC as a daytime soap opera. 3. The Beverly Hillbillies in its 2nd season during the 1963-1964 season on CBS. Johnny Cash had two singles on the country charts, "Ring of Fire", and "The Matador". Bobby Bare had a hit on the country charts with "500 Miles Away from Home". 👍
because the Daytona 3 Hours was raced here, it used the infield road course and was home to the World Sportscar Championship round 1. so alot of international drivers and cars
