This is my first comment on anything NASCAR related. I was driving a Boss 302 Mustang back in 1977 and loved the muscle cars but never got into racing... until now with these replays! This is real hardcore racing! The modern NASCAR racing pales in comparison in my opinion!
The glory days of NASCAR. These 30 minute videos of the glory days catch my eyes much easier than the past 20 years of NASCAR. I love how teams used actual car bodies back then and into the 80s vs today's "look alikes".
They not only used stock bodies, they also used modified factory production engines. Just a few years after ^this race, they were hitting 200mph on super speedways, using factory bodies and modified production engines.
My Dad rented a camper that day in the infield. He parked away from the party crowd. Pretty close to where 90 Dick Brooks crashed. Not as many safety features as now a days. I think this is when drivers were really brave and tough. When the cars on the track actually looked like cars on the street. I raced locally at short tracks in North Carolina. It’s addictive for sure. A fraternity member in racing for life.
NoEZRider EZ I’m with you,so much more exciting! Actual stock cars. I’m truly blessed to be a 50 yr fan I’ve seen a bunch.Personally i wish they would leave the cars alone (my opinion) .
Waltrip's impatience cost both he and Cale a chance at victory.Yarborough outsmarted him,trapping him behind that slower lapped car and Waltrip's inexperience really showed.Cale probably had some colorful language inside the 11car after being crashed while leading!!!
In fact, it was from that very incident that Waltrip got the nickname "Jaws". What happened was that D.K. Ulrich asked Cale Yarborough what happened, and Yarborough told him that "Jaws" (a.k.a. Waltrip) hit him to cause that five-car chain reaction incident that also involved Janet Guthrie and Terry Bivins. Of those involved, only Bivins failed to finish (because of engine failure later, which may not have been related to the crash). Yarborough wound up finishing fifth, Waltrip sixth, Guthrie 16th, and Ulrich, who's car suffered the most damage, wound up 27th, three spots behind Bivins, who finished 24th.
That cameraman on the stand in turn 1 had to be crapping his pants watching Dick Brooks coming straight at him with no brakes. All those crewmen running out to help Ralph Jones with cars zipping by at high speed was insane. One mistake and a car could have killed several of them.
Hey, old man, you can’t enjoy something without whining like a little girl who needs her diaper changed that things have changed over the past 43 years? How pathetically egotistical and narcissistic.
You wouldn’t by chance have the Darlington race that was Pearson’s last drive for the wood brothers? He came in for two tires and they loosened all four and he took off when the jack dropped on the right inside..I’m an old guy.. was standing behind his pit watching that day😊
It was almost like Richard Petty's hit in 1970. Fortunately Ralph Jones's car stayed on the ground instead of tumbling down the straightaway the way Richard's did.
Yes they did, NASCAR always did ....not sure if they still do it but I know in 2006 when my Son and I went to the Coca-Cola 500 in Charlotte NC it was done .. I don't follow NASCAR, it's gotten to over regulated and boring
@@KK-ex5zu No flyovers? Not sure what race you were at to not have one. 1958 Daytona Beach race had the USAF Thunderbirds do an airshow/flyover. 1959 Daytona 500 had the USN Blue Angels do an airshow/flyover. 1961 Darlington had the USN Blue Angels air show/flyover, etc. NASCAR has had flyovers since the 50s and used to have air shows before the race.
I was there that day! Richard was sick, stomach bug if I remember correctly he took on oxygen, he looked really bad I was in the infield in the pits! Petty, (Maurice) try those headers, crossover headers they were called! He ran them the first time Atlanta, and won the race! Going away with it during the early part of the season they allowed the Chryslers to run same size carburetor as the other two makes, that's when Richard started running much better the irony of it is after the firecracker 400 he didn't win another race that year 77'🚫 the next race petty won was the 1979 Daytona 500!!! Approximately an 18-month drought😮 you were speaking of the sound of Yarborough's engine, I heard them for the first time at Bristol! They were hooked up so well,Cale wood nail the throttle in the middle off the corner so much earlier anybody else! It was downright disgusting! 🚫🚫🚫 When Maurice ran the headers, he allowed it was worth about twelve horsepower at best? I am a never will go away Richard Petty fan! 😜...... I ended up in my early twenties, well, I'm, well, I'm... UM, UM,.. oh I had to go to numerous 12-step STP red Richard Petty anonymous meetings!!!! 😮. (RPA) .... My dad insisted I go! 28-day program! Consisted of Coca-Cola, Purolator, Norris, Hawaiian tropic, mustn't forget, Holly farms!!!!!! Visitation days we were allowed 😜 to wear our Plymouth by Petty shirts! 🎉..... And you thought you would make a statement concerning Cale's six banger. I'm truly kidding, no offense intended! I didn't graduate college... I refused to write my thesis! Just saying! I really miss those days those were great times!! I'll Grant you, they didn't have as many top notch teams nor sponsorship's $$... But those 3 to 7 car teams competitive weekend and week out put on, and practiced strategy that kept you on the edge of your seat, grandstand's or living room couch!!!! I'm sorry I could go on and on and on and on, I hope me saying that made it easier, for a read?.. sincerely yours, Bob🎉 robert19572022@gmail.com or. robert19574343@gmail.com
Darrell caused that crash being a little impatient...maybe he tried to hit the brakes or crack the throttle, or maybe slower car should've been lower on the race track. Pearson was good at Darlington but the Wood brothers prepared a good car.
Actually, there were no pontiacs in the race, and only one mercury. (Although i *thought* I saw a second mercury earlier in the race, but I don’t have time to rewatch it.)
when nascar wasn t woke and judgemental and had the real fans not the stupid fans of today judging us callin us racist now the glory days are gone unfortunately y all blame bubba wallace he is a human being just a very stubborn one y all sorry bubba
Go watch highlights of the 1956 Southern 500. Then look at the comments. Many of the commentators try to say the men in this video are pussies who would be afraid to drive back in ‘55.
