1964 Darlington Southern 500 

I met Pearson in Chicago standing right next to that HEMI powered monster!

@@SLJ2137694 That’s a memory you wouldn’t forget. I had an uncle that looked like Richard.Petty and my Dad was all Mopar power.

It sure was, a great time in America!!!

It had its ups and downs. We had finished one war and was just getting into another one. But if I could I'd get on board that Back to The Past time traveler

If you were white 😂

You got that right

Men were men and women were women

No play-off, no bump draft = True racing

Theyre alot safer at least. Back then youd get get thrown around like a rag doll.

Bull crap it was so nice in the 70's watching real stock car racing or in person. Freeport raceway in N. Y. L. I. My father used to take me every weekend and demolishing Derby after the racing , AWSOME ... Old school times

Today’s NASCARS are a result of the IROC series.

Richard Petty s car was the best car by far

In this same RU-vid channel with the 1970 Southern 500, when Cale Yarborough's Mercury loses control and rides the rail barrier, no fire danger, all thanks to the safety advancements with fuel cells that were made after the 1964 season.

@@bloqk16 Yes,the fuiel cells were the biggest improvement in racing after that.

Yea. Cotton Owens was the first to put door bars in his stockcars.

I was thinking the same thing. Even the "street" HEMI in '66 was conservatively reated at 425 HP..... and this is the "race" HEMI, banned after this season. 400 HP, right.

@@michaelspraggins5419 You see Buck Baker with the new HEMI as well, tuned by Ray Fox...beat that! Maybe 600HP???

@Alan Wood I'm sure, at least that much. Even the other brands with their horsepower rating on the hoods were not for real. I don't know who NASCAR thought they were fooling.... I guess the general public, because car people knew those HP ratings were a joke. But then there was that "Race on Sunday, sell on Monday" thinking by the auto manufacturers. Maybe those were showroom, stock HP numbers for the average Joe customer.

@@michaelspraggins5419 Yeah, street HEMI 2 years later were 425HP advertised. Street racers knew that they were a lot more than that, with a few tweaks in the driveway, you could get even more. The Elephant was the king of the street. Very cool.

And pleated slacks lol

Shaun Clifton LOL! Still laughing at the perfect retort a day later. Dressed to impress while stinking’ em up with cigarettes. While qualifying. Saw a lot of that in USAC stocks. McCluskey, Nelson were seen qualifying with smoke dangling from mouth at Milwaukee Mile routinely..

donuts, no victory donuts and showing off. "ok, so I won, guess I better go to the ramp and see the Mrs.."

You about covered it brother. NASCAR in it's heyday. Too bad it doesn't learn from it's past. It's all about the money today.

@@gregorygolden1296 These were real driver's back 50 year's ago unlike the sissy's today in their AC jellybeans. Nothing about them are stock car's anymore

I love the open face helmets; and the lack of corporate logos plastered everywhere.

Do you know what Pardue was drinking in the pits at 16:41 ?

WOW 🏁 ⚰🚨

Some used a timing light that made the tire look like it wasn't moving to look at the tread....high tech......

I have a older friend who was there in '57 when Bobby Meyers was killed. They were in the infield right across from where it happened.(Jim) said they could feel the percussion of the impact. He said it was a terrible sight.

These cars were beautiful they could still make them like this and be safe, it's just like NHRA the more round like a egg the better 🤮

Michael Egan yeah, hey, worst I’ve seen. Must have been 15 ads for this clip.

Yeah, ScrewTube puts them on whether it is a monetized channel or not and they are not even car related.

Download ad blocker and you won't have to deal with them

@@purpletang21 Thanks! I didn't know I could do that.

Nah your just xenophobic or racist

They'd probably do good but are those STOCK cars? Built at a factory for consumers? The AC Cobra isn't it. I don't think the 330P is either. Those are hand built race cars. These are stock cars, built at a factory, that have strict rules on the limits of modifications. In any case I think the biggest enemy of the Ferrari and Porsche would be heat and durability down in North Carolina on that track. Foreign drivers were starting to race in NASCAR at this time, I think. But they had to use these cars because America was the only country making cars with big V8s in a large, safe chassis. You weren't going to see VW or Fiat or BMW enter cars in these races.

NASCAR has arrived at the point where safety has turn the race into pussies.

T.J. ............427 hi riser , trying to go against those elephant moters !!!!!

Lmfao incel

Chrysler was building hemi's in the late 40's . In 64 they came out with the Race Hemi .. that literally blew everything off of the track .. so much that Nascar completely outlawed it in 65 .. in 66 the street hemi came out and Chrysler was allowed to race with that engine again ...

Those cars, if they stayed intact at the end of the season, were sold-off to others that used them in the feeder NASCAR series, such as 'Late Model Sportsman,' or ended up as short-track super-modified in regional race circuits. There was no preserving those vehicles for posterity, as the car owners needed the cash for financing the following year's race season. I based the above from reading many years of 'Vintage Motorsport' magazine, which features pictorials of fully restored race cars from the 1960s. Part of the narrative in the pictorials is a backgrounder on the history of the race car after its glory season; which had them being sold, modified, raced, many-time crashed, and left to gather dust in a barn or storage shed for many years afterwards.

It's all about dollars and cents. The execs at both companies weighs the financial investment to enter NASCAR, and wonder if they'll get a return of investment with increased vehicular sales from that investment. Honda was always an upscale manufacturer when it came to motorsports, having been in Formula 1 Grand Prix racing since the mid-1960s.

Dodge did nascar at one point and Honda doesn’t do any redneck shit

I mean, six years after this, he had that bad accident where he hit the inside wall, flipped a couple of times and dislocated his shoulder. It could’ve been so much worse since his arm and head were hanging out the window cause there was no window net.

@@leahryan5560 Very true, he was very lucky in that 1970 Darlington crash, as well as the 82 Pocono crash & certainly in his 88 Daytona 500 crash, but his racing luck at Darlington was for the most part, just awful.

A Beautiful sight indeed.

@@shaunclifton5281 if your a racist of course

@@milkdud0 Piss on you if you don't like it.

Probably because they were using stock steering components that could have been worn; the track was probably oily, as seal gaskets weren't that good to prevent engine oil leaks; and the tires back then were bias-ply, which didn't have the sticking force to the pavement that later generation of radial tires have.

Ever drive a non-power steered car? I do every day. The ratio is a lot slower on them. Almost 2 more revolutions lock to lock. So ya have to work the wheel more.

​@@bloqk16 no power steering.