1970 Darlington Southern 500 

What race? There's a race? All I see so far are a bunch of parades and beauty contests. Ah okay, finally.

Yeah, with the 2nd place car down a lap. Sure, buddy

I agree Ken!!!

try 1989..last real race at bathurst..boo hoo holdens..

@@ChrisOhMy , it's still a race, and no race is over until it's over, or ball game. As Yogi Berra said.

You're right! I saw 1 Chevy Chevelle in this race. Caught a glimpse of a 65 Ford Galaxie? And a 68-69 Roadrunner.

Gotta admire the Ford Mercury performance running flat out with the Dodge Daytonas and Superbirds. I'm a diehard Mopar fan and was surprised that the high wing was not much of an advantage on this track.

@@drakefallentine8351; You’re right. Most MOPAR teams used the Charger 500 on short tracks.

Ya the good ole days of racing

Does anyone remember how long the wing thing was used, I know they outlawed it after a couple years or so.? This was probably one of the first races with the modern changes that we now see on the cars, they haven't yet lower down the the body within an inch of the road and I don't see the fat tires on them yet.

We weren't scared back then 😊

Had a chuckle too when they showed that.

That's real racing!

03:28 The boy & his dad or brother blocking his ears.👍🏽🫵🏽😆

Me too those were the glory days

which part exactly?

I was born in 82, I miss it too.

Quite a few people miss their country because of America.

I miss, Miss America!!!😁😁

And Real American Values! The fans were Real American Families. Unapologetically Real!

@@timford3599 here here,,from an ausie..with 5 american cars/trucks..our racing finished in 1989..

@@harrywalker5836 - Good for you. Bad for the car racing sport.

Def not the peak

True golden era of Grand National racing/Nascar. When the best cars were on top because they were the baddest and the weaklings got their ass whipped(GM/Chevy).

Not ONE cell phone either! Just watching the race!

Oh yeah when not one car in the top 5 finished on the same lap. How exciting. What amazing racing.

That’s because as soon as Bubba goes a lap down they throw a yellow and he gets his lap back. Sure…”real” racing

@@marcgilbert1497you sho right about bubba. Personally can’t stand him

REAL HOTWHEELS i was 10 years old

it was a special time...the cars are absolute gorgeous beasts

And FOUR MOPAR WINGED Cars in the top 5 !!!

We only got to see some of the race - maybe - on Wide World of Sports

You never have grown up

Anyone got a time machine ? I want to be there.... Although English I love this stuff. I owned a '68 charger some time ago but it was only a 383 magnum. This is real racing.

This so much. Real racing too, as opposed to today's ball sport's scoring system & destruction derby tactics.

@Peekaboo real racing? There's such a thing as fake racing? You enjoy the winner being the only car on the lead lap lol? No one in the top 5 was on the same lap. That's not a race that's a parade. You honestly think that's better? No you don't quit lying.

@@bradsanders407 It sure is better than the destruction derby that passes for modern day Nascar. Not to mention the ball sports scoring system and the many artificial gimmicks to produce make-believe racing for TV. Real racing will always be better than manufactured entertainment, no exception.

You mean trailer trash with big bushes down under, and who looked like 55 when they were 30. Hell no way that i would want to swap todays woman for woman in the 70's.

REAL FLAGS!!!

It's a car race. Southerners didn't invent them.

kids are smart, seems they are telling us about safety ..and the little of it.

Nowadays the only time kids hold their ears is when their parents are asking them to do something... Or when they feel triggered.. 😞

WHAT?

I was there as a young kid i can't describe the feeling but it shaped my life as a car guy my family was david Pearson fans and me too bu later as I got in high school I turned into a Mopar guy ..bought a 70 440 4 speed B5 blue roadrunner and so it began 💙

@Joseph George Your post is worded exactly as mine would be, right down to being a Pearson fan as a 6 year old kid in 1969.

Yes sir, it was a great time to be alive.

THAT was racing ....today's racing sucks.

David Pearson knew how to set up a good handling car.

That's because this was before the food industry absolutely annihilated people with all the processed garbage they're pedaling now. Go to a Nascar race now and the amount of barely walking half dead morbidly obese people is one of the sadder things you'll see

Every woman is pretty when she's young, lol.

@@peekaboo1575 He said grandma dummy, women back then weren't all obese in stretch pants like you see today

Watch some old Lynyrd Skynyrd concerts, 😂 it's a sea

Yes, they where pretty at that time, nice figures and they knew how to dress like a lady, attractive but not inappropriate.

yeah today it's all about commercialism which has taken over all aspects of television whether it's a singer or a sports star it's all about selling something.

yeah, back when one car was on the lead lap and 10th place was 19 laps down, yeah, the good ole days.

Nowadays, you are just rooting for different colored shirts, or cars.

You buffoons keep watching this garbage.

@@danbora8777 And yet, here you are watching and commenting.

Thank you for your service!

Thank you!

Welcome home brother!

These are real stock car's, and at Daytona they were doing 200 in 1970

@@m42037 Well, the Dodge Daytona's were. The dawn of aerodynamics.

@@dbc1dc Wrong! The dawn of real nice aerodynamics was the 40s. These were the last of nice aerodynamics the Daytona's. The 90s on up were very bland, taking automobiles and trying to make them as close to looking like a "chicken egg" is nauseating! 🤮

Yes, when it was REAL Racing in what was street looking cars ... not like this cloned crap these days.

....and each car had its own personality, unlike the clones you see running in today's races.

So very true!!!!!!!!!

Getting ready to start putting mufflers on them now. LOL!!

100%. Amen.

David Pearson asked The Wood Brothers to install A CIGARETTE LIGHTER in their car for him to use during caution periods !!!

And real cars that you could buy off the showroom floor.

Yeah u crash at those speeds in those cars it’s not ganna be pretty

Fact

Healthier mentality? That's SC, I was living there at that time and it was just 5 years after the voting rights act was passed. It takes several generations for bigotry to become a memory.

Oh, people were offended. But a bunch of drunk rednecks dressed in white sheets would burn a cross in your yard if you spoke up about the slave owners flag (stars and bars) waving over the state capitol. OH, my bad. You were only talking about white folk.

learn your history. there was plenty of bs going on in those days, it's just bs that youve already accepted

“They knew and kept their place…”

@@ghostlight69420true. I recall those days - fourth/fifth grade. I didn’t know then I was considered to be a lesser being.

@@ghostlight69420 Learn your punctuation.

I will be right behind you ..

Take me please

They'd call the SWAT team.

after seeing all the gas spilling during the pit.... yeeoow

Love the Stars amd Bars.

Today's Nascar Giants are media made , if that excites you , have at it .

B.J. McLeod is one of the only current owner/drivers in the cup series to this day and is a great guy from what I can tell. He's the humble, down to earth driver that's easy to pull for.

Growing up in Southern California Petty was my favorite! Riverside int'l Raceway was a brutal track

It was '71 when America went away from gold backed currency. Downhill ever since.

It's always been my belief that taking the bible out of school had a lot to do with our downfall.

Zenith? First 5 cars spread over 5 laps, with 2nd a lap down? I admit the cars were cooler looking, but the racing didn't get good, until much later! And America in general? Man, do you have a selective memory. Vietnam, Nixon, Racial strife, $1.30 minimum wage ( it would buy 4+ gallons of gas), 50k people dying in car accidents yearly, with half the population we have now, 16% mortgage rates. Yeah, good times.

@@ramblerdave1339 Everything you listed except the mortgage rates was better back then, and I'd take Tricky Dick over what we have now any day. I was around back then and things in general were happier, more wholesome and more peaceful for most, discounting the usual and unavoidable fringe malcontents. The racial strife you reference is 100X more intense today than back then. We didn't lock doors and kids were safe in the streets and schools. We didn't have mass encampments of homeless lunatics and junkies in every major city. We didn't have schools with cops, metal detectors, kids being gr00med so 20% think they're trans etc. We didn't have anarcho-tyranny where militarized cops are ordered to ignore rampant street crime while finding more ways to fine and arrest decent citizens by a surveillance state moving rapidly toward totalitarian control while deliberately allowing a mass invasion.

@ramblerdave1339 but see it from this side, Baker deserved that win with an all day fast car and steadiness. Donny hit the wall twice, David spun, Cale crashed, the Petties had both problems. So would it be fair to slow down the whole field just to have artificial action? It was about sportsmanship and today is more about show And they raced hard and there was enough action before the last lap came on

@@ramblerdave1339; What the hell are you talking about? You mean JFK/Johnson and Vietnam. 1970, Nixon had brought more than half of U.S. troops home. Racial strife? I saw dozens of black folk enjoying the parade. The only "strife" I saw was @ 4:59. A black man snapping the little black boys neck. Average price for a gallon of gas in 1970 was $0.36 You sound like a typical leftest Chevy owner.

@@goldenltd1970 So, there were 5-6 drivers who were in the race. Today, there are 25 good enough to win at any race, if their skill, strategy, and teamwork, work out for them. You race with the rules you have, and the tighter the rules, the more your skills matter, more than luck. If you don't like to watch, don't, but real fans look to the future, not the past. I do wish, that someone would start a real vintage racing series for circle track stockers, like the road racers have, with classes for different eras. I have been going to Nascar races since Michigan, August,1969, through Atlanta, 1997 (can't afford tickets, anymore, and TV coverage is pretty good) and there is nothing today, that compares to the feeling, a field of big block stock cars, gives you, when they come by the grandstand, at 7000 rpm. (Richter scale). But we have to live in the world we're in, not the one we were in 50 years ago.

That was the Purse to Win! Well over a Million these days, and doing the same stuff. Costs are crazy.

Big money killed NASCAR.

I hope you're just kidding Dave.

@@timford3599 I attended races at Darlington back when Lil Johnny Reb was still a winner circle favorite. So NO battle flags, swim suites and Johnny don't bother me~~~ THX

You said it! Just down to Earth regular folks, proud to be there and giving it their all for the fans

@@drakefallentine8351 And all white, thank God!

@@caribman10 Was ''god'' a racist too?

@@caribman10 Eww, a racist.

@girlsblouse7866 No. But BLM and the NBP are!

Yes things were so grand then compared to now. 74 years and I know right well that the better life on earth has passed. It started degrading before the 80's locked in. At least here in the States of Shock and Awe.

Yes cause your were straight and white

It was remarkable back then as they were using film, which meant they had a finite amount of minutes to running the film camera before changing out film reels [probably cartridges] with the camera.

They paid a lot for this production. Borderline Hollywood budget. But it was a new time for movies and the documentary style was created only a few years prior. Sorry, fun facts

@@bloqk16 film nonetheless. Dailies. Each reel was developed and reviewed "daily"

Soapy Castles often raced a non-competitive camera car at races back in these days to get this footage - he was a Hollywood stunt driver in his day job.

The engine sounds are captured well too. Great documentary.

Yeah back when fascist only overthrew the governments of other countries and boomers didn't write the same goddamn "good old days back when" comments on every fucking video. You snowflakes can go back to trying to cancel Pink Floyd. Remember that every republican accusation is a confession

@@nastycanasta3398 Lenin's willing dupes and useful idiots. Go look in the mirror, Fidel. Now get lost. I have no time for you, or any other Apparatchiks. Dosvedania, Tovarich. If by some chance, you ever have an original thought feel free to try again

@@jpalberthoward9 Ohh look. You "have no time for me" yet you literally took time out to reply. Then proceeded with typical name calling. God conservatives are so goddamn predictable. I guess I took time out from your busy day of trying to cancel Disney because they made a black Ariel or your daily masturbation to the word "woke" Every republican accusation is a confession

Lucky man you are🎉

Still are!

Yes sir, these races back in the day were run with cars that were modified versions of what was available to the public. The Nascar cars of today have almost nothing to do with what comes out of the automaker's factories. It's still a good sport and fun to watch but not sure they should even put manufacturer's names on any of them, unless it's Hendrick Motorsports or Team Penske or Joe Gibbs Racing etc.

@@lyleclark9190 Amen !

@catalyst_99 National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing - NASCAR started in 1948 according to Google. Funny that they categorize the current cars as such.

Funny to think the cars in this film are "stock cars". Nothing stock about them. It it production looking body panels over custom chassis. Much like today. Not sure where people get that idea that these cars are "factory stock".

@@randymarsh-Tegridy420 YEAH THE TERM IS ODD BUT WE ROLL WITH IT

1:00, Absolutely beautiful southern girl.

😢

The Torino Talladega's by just a few races edged out the Chrysler wing cars in total wins.

@@neilpuckett359 lol, you consider 29 wins for the Talladega vs 6 for the Daytona and 8 for the superbird.....just a FEW?????

Ford had the horsepower, Dodge had the wing!

I think the Hemi had the edge

@@axelandersen6025 Mopar had more hp but ford whined to nascar so nascar made mopar put a single four barrel carb and restrictor plate on the intake so the fords could have a chance 😃

Winged cars were bitchy beasts ...left the other manufacturers crying

Fact is the only way to beat a Mopar is pen and paper

They all are

And a really nice guy, too!

They were running those things back then with virtually no spoiler, and I think Cale actually lost the power steering on his in this race. Real drivers back in the day.

2:02, Sliding it.

@0Y0 Or you did'nt have to Rob Roy

@0Y0 To be truthful I never watched Rob Roy the hype about it made me feel there was better things to do.

“…and the engines were large, of cast iron, and *warm!”*

most beautiful car I ever owned was a 1969 Mercury Cyclone spoiler Cale Yarborough Special,wow, wish I still owned that car!

I now own a 1964 GALAXIE 500 2dr fastback,beautiful car!

Most awesome car I ever owned was a beautiful 1969 Cale Yarborough Special Cyclone Spoiler,wow ,wish I still owned it!

Was wondering about that. :)

It will be the quietest race ever. You'll be like..."Shhhh, I want to hear the cars!"

NASCAR has been pure dog shit for a long time. I was a fan for decades but no more, for many reasons.

Probably was in WWll also...