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Living in the northeast, Wide World of Sports was my only contact with NASCAR. I was hooked. This was the golden age. I'm saddened by what it's become.
I recall the exhausted and disheveled look of the winner of this race on the cover of _Stock Car Racing_ magazine. It captured the brutal essence of what the winning driver endured. The photo could have been award winning material.
Lol Economacki quotes Petty as saying that he thinks they should just take plows to the track. 20 years later his son started saying the same thing every year.
Amazing how narrow turns 3 & 4 used to be before the reconfiguration not too long after this race (now turns 1 & 2 after they moved the start/finish line and pit road to the original backstretch back in the late 1990's). Only one car wide.
Dirt trackin at 140mph WITHOUT backing off n a 3700# stock car. Those were the days my friend. NASCAR can take their present era cookie cutter stuff and shove it.
