I attended my first Winston cup event in 1988.prior to that id seen formula 1 sports cars, formula 5,000 .all at my home track at the glen.i am a life long fan of racing.but nascar won me over.i like the golden age of the 60s and 70s.im too old and sick to go to the track anymore.those old films are a treasure.
The 70s were just cool! I was a little kid that always wanted to be five years older than I was, and because that was the case I definitely paid way more attention to what was going on with the older kids. I was born in 1968 and I remember begging my parents to take me with them to Jaws in 75'. In 1976 which was my 1st yr of little league I was going to the movies and staying the night with a buddy on my baseball team and I remember his mom asking us to decide between seeing the Bad News Bears and Midway. I knew nothing about the bears movie, thinking it was about bears but we didn't want to see a boring war movie so we chose the Bears, and on the way home my friends mom turned to me and said "I don't know about your mom, but if I ever hear Jason talking with that kind of mouth it will be washed out with soap". (Referring to Tanner). It's funny because if you played football/bb as a kid in those days you know that aside from the coach giving the kids beers in the dugout that 1976 movie was not too far of a stretch. Kids got yelled at by other ppls parents, there was bad language, etc, but IMO I would rather learn the reality's of life than grow up in the PC wussy way they do it today!
By GOD Thats RED FARMER in the #97. He was a longtime vet THEN, now it’s FIFTY YEARS LATER and he’s STILL GOING at the local Dega dirt track. Makes my head spin
Um , By the way, I watched a complete recorded version of 1979 Daytona 500 race in which then was televised live by CBS on all across U.S. . back then, the track was quite damp , and the race was being put into green and yellow condition ( so the idea was they put the race under caution but the laps were still counts ) for the first 15 laps of the race. When they do that, they think that the track would start to dry up, so they decided to test the track to know whether the track started to dry out. So they decided to send the command to Donnie Allison and DW to run test laps ahead of the pace car and the pack, and eventually Darrell 'DW' Waltrip , who drove for Digard Racing at the time, agreed to take the order to run test laps. When Darrell took the test laps order, Mr Ken Squier , who took the commentary for CBS as a Play by play commentator with british ace endurance racer David Hobbs as the color commentator and analyst , talked about it and compare it with the 1973 race, almost similar condition, at that time the late Buddy Baker ( in 73 he drove the Nord Krauskopf 's #71 K&k Insurance Dodge Charger , in 79 he drove Harry Ranier 's 'Grey Ghost' Olds Cutlass ) was chosen to run some test laps ( as being told by Squier) , and at the end, after dominating the most of the race , with just 8 circuits from home, ' The Gentle Giant ' 's engine was ' crushed down to a paste ' ( blown engine ) and his race is over. But, Unlike Baker, in 1979 Waltrip's car did survived the race. Despite running test laps, enduring engine troubles, he managed to make the race in the end, by finishing second to Richard Petty in the 1979 race. [well some of you might know what happened in the final lap of the 1979 Daytona 500 race . If The two leaders ( you know who ) hadn't been crashed , Richard Petty might be finishing in 3rd place and DW ends up fourth. ]
21:00 Thats so awesome ! 😀 Just found that video my father was the owner of the #50 drive by Denis Giroux Who finished 3rd in that Permatex 300 race 💪... In 1973 it was unheard of for a bunch of guys from Montréal Québec to make in NASCAR unfortunately Giroux had a career ending injury in 1974 AT Stafford Springs, CT. And he died recently... Very fortunate to have found this footage thank you for the upload Merci beaucoup Randall Dubin 👍
@ 2:00 Bobby Allison's #12 Monte Carlo was actually a Chevy Chevelle Malibu. @ 35:45 Cale Yarborough's #11 Monte Carlo is a Chevy Chevelle Malibu. Wish the announcer was a little better informed...
It is disrespectful to these racers of this era to be remotely compared to the modern NASCAR racer. The swagger these men retained is unobtainable by the modern racer.
The drivers of this era probably could not even be able to drive more less compare what the drivers in the 60 70. 80 s had to contend with 😂 it would be nice to see a couple of restoration cars on track and see if the drivers of today drive the cars at that speed ?????????
