From a replay of the old Car & Track show on SpeedVision, host Bud Lindemann reviews the NASCAR Winston 500 held on May 7th 1972 at the Talladega super speedway.
Thanks for sharing! NASCAR will never be the same as it was in the early 70s, but there is always one constant: Talladega always produces an exciting show for the fans. If only I could go back in time to attend a race in the golden era, with drivers like Richard Petty, David Pearson, Cale Yarborough, and the Allison brothers battling door handle to door handle, lap after lap.
The good ole days........ No earnhardts, No hendrick motorsports, richard childress was the king of the back markers`. Big block v8`s.......no pit road speed...... race back to the flag.........no cautions because a hotdog wrapper crossed the track.........no soft walls.........no closing pit road........open faced helmets w/ bubble googles. the 60`s and 70`s were truly the golden era of NASCAR. Today`s mess is a mere shell of what it once was. They don`t race like this anymore and it`s a shame. The fan`s of today don`t know what they missed`or may not have been born yet but it was really something and is just as appealing now as it was then. This is a perfect example of changing times not necessarily being a good thing.Best of all you could buy a ticket for about $10.00.
@@danielsoutherd David missed a few weeks in 67 when he and Cotton Owens split as a team. So he did not run for the Championship that season. In 68 and 69 he did and was awesome.
Me too although I was only 4 years old at the time. The 72 Charger was the 1st race car I learned about, mostly because I was already a Petty fan. When I got older a 73 Charger was the 1st car I paid for with my own money. I went on to buy a couple of Road Runners which I no longer have, but I've held on to my 70 Superbee for over 35 years.
we have A series like that in australia it has old falcons ,valiants , chargers,torana,s camaro,s ,mustangs etc from the 60,s and 70,s in it,they race usually before the main supercars race,which is like your nascar series
Are you kidding me? I love - LOVE - these huge, wide american cars with their beautiful sheet metals, long bonnets, wide stance. Just beautifully made.
Those were some tough old men to drive those car's that fast. No way you could get a driver from the series now to drive one , let alone in a pack of car's. Seen a few hottie's from back then too 👍
It amazes me the speeds they were hitting nearly 50 years ago in those cars. Talk about risking your life. Not that they are not today, but the safety features are so much better now. Those cars were not very forgiving when they hit the wall.
Ah, Richard has his choice between a Plymouth and a Dodge. Mother Mopar learned her lesson. Petty was with Plymouth when the Dodge Daytona Charger came out. The Superbird had yet to be manufactured. Petty wanted to run the Dodge. Mother Mopar said NO, you must run the Plymouth!! So Petty ran a Ford instead.
@@goldenltd1970 I am not saying you are wrong, but this road & track article states he wanted to run dodge’s winged warrior, or a similar plymouth. Again, you might be right. www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a14454478/that-time-richard-petty-forsook-plymouth-for-ford/
I got real excited when i saw this cause’ i thought i was gonna see James Hylton have his damn day. Right track, rightyear, wrong race. Still AWESOME post, THANK YOU
I love Bud's commentary! Awesome old footage! NASCAR today is a joke with bunch of wanna be celebrities racing cars that have no resemblance to 'stock cars'.
How pathetic does one have to be to watch this wonderful video, then start whining like a little girl who needs her diaper changed that racing has changed in the past FORTY EIGHT (48) years??? These arrogant, egotistical, narcissistic malcontents must be a real pleasure to hang out with!
Yeah, and so were the cars! Just in the equipment around the driver, he's sitting in a seat with a panel on the right bracing him from being pulled to the right. There is no head support, they aren't wearing gloves, they're in open-faced helmets... etc., etc., etc.!! The looks of the new cars can't match these old machines, but the insides keep drivers alive. I like that the old cars looked like (if you squinted a bit) the cars that came right out of the showrooms. If you read some of the old stories about "creative" entries that not only "bruised the rules" but just plain stomped on them on the way out of the pits, they were pretty entertaining. That old saying was too close to the truth... "If you ain't cheatin', you ain't trying!" I spent about ten years as a Safety Marshall for SCCA, covering races for our SCCA races of course, but also for IMSA, CART, and NASCAR. I was amazed frequently at the crashes that drivers walked away from in the 1990s that would have been impossible to survive in one of these cars in these old films. The other thing is watching fans sitting right up next to the old chain-link fencing and then tires or sometimes even whole cars flying up to throw debris at the fans at 170+ mph. Seeing that in the films from that era reminds anyone who has forgotten just how dangerous the business was 50, 60, or 70 years ago.
This is when stock car racing was stock cars , no aero dynamics, just stock bodies and big engines going as fast as you can, with roll bars and seatbelts, and they did 160 mph not scared to death 200+..
@@goldenltd1970 then i guess the announcer was lying when he said that they were running that fast in the draft going into turn 1 I should have been more clear that it was in the draft, these cars were faster than you think, 192 qualifying pole speed, it's not a stretch to be running over 200 in the draft in the race.
What shitty luck for Isaac! But back then you wanted to be running 2nd on the last lap so you could sling-shot past the leader to win. Pearson was probably where he wanted to be
@@hippycow1006 i was wondering, thanks for clearing that up. Those were the days of racing I'll tell ya, man o man, those cars were so raw , loud , and great to watch!!! Marty Robbins boy, he was the man!!!!
426 Wedge was produced until 1978. Hardly anybody used the Hemi after restrictor plates came into play due to it requiring a smaller plate which limited it to 480 or so HP, while the Wedge was getting around 490 with the plate.
Watching this very dangerous race is scaring me. You see, I've grown accustomed to watching the 2019 Daytona & Talladega 500. They are much safer & my blood pressure seldom goes above DAMN NEAR DEAD it's so boring. We need a new sanctioning body that will let real men race real car's. Today's NASCAR has us watching the pony ride & telling us it's racing. I've been a fan since 1959 & my opinion matter's.
your opinion actually does NOT matter...... just because your a boomer doesnt mean you control anything however.... i do agree with you they will never listen to the fans..... its going to take a new sanctioning body and new races to get back to STOCK stock car racing but that is change..... and people dont like change even if the new "FASTCAR" is exactly!!! what you and i want..... simply because it does not say "NASCAR" most people will ignore it also..... i think they can still have safe races "real men racing real cars" = real dead men, and real sad fans if the dale crash happened today..... with the high definition cameras, and rapid sharing of info it would be a LOT worse..... FAR FAR more people would get depressed people dont need to fight, or die.... to make NASCAR view-able and popular again ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the safer barrier is just smart..... doesnt effect the racing, and makes stuff WAY WAY WAY safer the roll cage tech has come a LONG way..... along with the seat belts, HANS device, ETC if you took dale Sr's car he died in..... but added a safer barrier, HANS, and stronger roll cage..... that old dude would probably still be racing today again.... no need for "real men in real cars" take a "real" car..... make it fast as fuck.... make everyone run the same safety equipment..... and you will have fast, interesting racing..... that doesnt result in a death at every race like the late 60s/70s
@Sideshow BOB At the 1972 Winston 500 the pole position speed was 192.498 miles per hour and they did use restrictor plates at this race. Country star and Nascar driver Marty Robbins was busted and disqualified when Nascar found that his team modified his restrictor plate. 2 years earlier Buddy Baker ran 200.447 in an unrestricted Hemi Dodge Charger Daytona at a test session at Talladega. Nascar later started putting restrictor plates on all the big block cars.
@@blainedickson5326 March 24, 1970: Buddy Baker, driving the Chrysler Engineering No. 88 Dodge Charger Daytona, officially became the first driver in NASCAR history to break the 200 mph (320 km/h) barrier by turning a lap of 200.447 mph (322.588 km/h). This was also a world record at the time for any vehicle on a closed course.
@Sideshow BOB you got that right I've been a fan all my life I'm 51 now i quit watching in 2016 the last straw for me is when they took all the HP went from 850 to 550, that is pathetic, oh they give them 650 on short tracks and road courses woopdy fkig doo, and they have just destroyed everything that made NASCAR what it was, was being the key word, i can't even stand to look at those little crybabies hadn't had to work for nothing all given to them, hell up until the 90s you NEVER would see anyone under25 in cup, you had to run the dirt or modified circuit for years and had to have mandatory 3yrs in the Busch series before even being considered for a cup ride. I can't even talk about it chaps my ass so bad... ....
And another one blows. The zero five car driven by Don Sisco dumped oil all over the fourth turn and heads down pit row out of the race. This brings out another caution light. Meanwhile worn rubber and a thirsty gas tank takes the action down pit row.
Let me guess; there’s a handful of loser commentators here that think a stock car off the showroom floor can do 190 miles per hour! These clowns are SO funny!!!
@@badmonkey2222 Let me guess; there’s a handful of loser commentators here that think a stock car off the showroom floor can do 190 miles per hour! These clowns are SO funny!!!
@@sludge4125 says the pussy with the vanilla ice thumb, boy I'll open hand smack you like a red headed step child and if you make one little whimper I'll smack you again.