Those were stock cars and I love them! The 70s and 80s had such awesome racecars! You could paint a stock Monte Carlo and look like you have a racecar! Try that with a camry!
Was glued to the TV that day......I was 12 and had started watching NASCAR in 1979 when the first televised 500 was on CBS. Living near Kannapolis, NC I was a huge Dale Earnhardt Sr. fan. You couldn't beat Ken Squire calling these races either.
That’s the big difference between the H-pipe exhaust and the X-pipe system they run now. The few cars that have the higher pitch sound are running a different crank but that was pretty much gone by mid way through 1984.
Cale was only running a part-time schedule by this point. He competed in 16 of the 29 races in 1984, scoring 3 wins, 4 poles, and 10 top five/top ten finishes, and an average 7.4 finish.
Imagine if he was still full time..... Yeah looking at his stats, he ran 16 races almost every year after 1980, when he finished 2nd in points. 1985 still chalked up 2 wins and had 6 top fives and 7 top 10's. Still had 3 Top 10's and led 6 laps his final year in 1988. The man was a lap leading machine from '73 to '80!
This is the day when they raced every lap at 100%. Nowadays they coast until about 50 laps. The whole broadcast was so exciting, such strategy from each crew. I love the cast of characters and so many great drivers, so much fierce competition with moderate safety. The fact Richard Petty won 7 and 7 with so many wins is just insane to me. Dude was the most cowboy of them all
I do believe Dale Earnhardt learned a thing or 2 about Daytona and Talladega following Cale early on his career. Cale was the first superspeedway master back in those days.
@@joecraig6265 got that right right before CNC heads and Robert Yates, and nascar hired the biggest cheater to be the head of performance Gary Nelson I think his name is? Thank God I got to watch it all live, those were some good races!
When where you born and what was your introduction into NASCAR if you remember? I was bored as heck, I knew nothing of NASCAR or the Earnhardt's or anything, one day I was flipping through the channels, I watched the very end of the Talladega race, JR won and on the last lap Bobby Labonte flipped over. I have not missed a race since then. I was born in 85.
Wow when a Ford looked like a Ford; a Chevy looked like a Chevy; a Buick a Buick; a pontiac a pontiac, and and oldsmobile an oldsmobile. None of this cookie cutter bullshit with stickers pasted on it.
1974 they transitioned from big blocks to small blocks. Big engines were going by the wayside. The only vehicles with big blocks were trucks or work vehicles.
While I was growing up & then well into my 20's, I absolutely hated whenever TV or MRN radio would go to commercial break when Richard was leading 😬 Inevitably they would come back from the break, low & behold Petty had blown an engine, tire, someone crashed right in front of him or something crazy had taken my Hero Driver out of the race! 😭 But then there was The King, smiling & tell'n Ned "We'll be back next week" 😎
The 4th Year of NASCAR Racing on Philippine Television kicked-off on February 20, 1984 with the 1984 Daytona 500 broadcasted by GMA Radio-Television Arts and aired at 3:15 P.M. under the auspices of Vintage Enterprises, Inc. and Hyper-Visions Productions, Inc.
Pretty cool to see racing at Daytona where the fastest car wins, cars can slingshot pass with no help, oh and 25 or 30 of them haven't been wadded up. If you were around to see racing like this at the super speedways you probably like me, think what were seeing today is an abomination.
The legendary Smoky Yunick once said everybody talks about how much Waddell Wilson knows about horsepower and he does but that Waddell was a genius when it came to aerodynamics. This is just my opinion but Ford came to Harry Rainer and Waddell and wanted them to develop the Windsor engine which Ford had never ever raced but I think that was just a ploy to get the Chevrolet out of the way because Waddell knew what it took to keep it on the ground. Like I said or like Smoky said Waddell was a genius when it came to aerodynamics.
Interesting to see the Petty crewmember trying to remove the "headlight" cover to open up more airway space for cooling. Now, they would just remove 200mph tape.
Earnhart didn't dare do the bump and run to these guys, he developed that bad habit later. That's why I became an "Anybody but Earnhardt Fan". I used to help run non-wing sprinters in So Cal, and Earnhardt would have been run out of town for the deadly antics he pulled later in his career.
During this era of racing no one was waiting on anyone, those guys would have ran over Earnhardt if he had loligaged around or held someone back because he was slower , years later the blocking and dragging around the track was conflictive to the old racers , they would move the racers outta the way if respect for faster cars wasn't complied! Racing year after year got more boring as the whiner generation took over! No offense but I watched racing since @ 1970 and all out horsepower and speed was the agenda of racing in those days! I've been a fan of Earnhardt since @ 1978 and because of the fact that he kept wide open racing going on! Cry baby Waldrop, Gordon, and many more made racing boring! Have a good day and hope you can appreciate my thoughts on the racing indifference
Earnhardt didn't wreck nearly the amount of people the revisionists like to insinuate that he did. Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch have ran over/destroyed more opponents race cars than Earnhardt ever did on his worst day.
Small Block Chevy the little engine that did...it did it all, and still doing it, after all these years, since 1955...Still the most dominant force in auto racing world wide, with the same basic design since its beginning in 1955 to 2019, almost 65 years now
Sure is great watching Buddy Baker work his magic in those days whether he was driving for theWood Brothers, MCAndersonor Hoss Ellington he was a DraftMaster in everything he drove
It is weird. They sponsored Earnhardt when he was with Osterlund and Bud Moore, then stayed with him when he quit Bud Moore for Childress...but decided to sponsor Moore's car again this year. Earnhardt and Rudd flipped rides in '83 and then had the same sponsor in '84 lol.
@@therobert9521 probably. If I had to guess, Bud Moore made sure the contract went to the team and not to the driver, and then when Earnhardt signed with Childress, Wrangler scrambled to keep him. Rudd has talked about how he felt betrayed by Childress and Earnhardt and that being cut took him completely by surprise, but I've never seen anything about the sponsor thing.
@@cnking27 Supposedly Rudd said he spilled his guts to Earnhardt and Earnhardt wanted to go back to Childress. Childress got his team competitive by 1983 and won some races. Wrangler wanted to stay with Earnhardt so they went with him and decided to sponsor Bud Moore's car to honor the contract. I think Rudd talked about this on a Dale Jr. podcast not too long ago.
I'm British and I always enjoyed watching NASCAR. However the enjoyment has somewhat waned when they split races up in to stages, and basically ruined it. I have no problem with restrictor plates, but races should be allowed to run from start to finish. The points system was good to, when consistency was rewarded in terms of the overall championship. This is a real joy to watch. Racing as it should be. Oh happy days.
Look at Sterling Marlins picture from the 1983 Daytona 500 and the one from 1984. What I want to know is how he got his helmet off without pulling it off. Super Glue? Nails? I need to know. Not near as bad as he does but still do.
1984 1. Austin City Limits in its 9th season, Lickona, Watson & Casey Productions provides personnel and production services. 2. Muppet Babies and Pryor's Place both debuted on CBS, as part of their Saturday morning programming block. 3. Jeopardy! debuted in syndication, originally hosted by Alex Trebek.
Shows you how bad ass these drivers were, even guys like Dave Marcis, JD McDuffie, you know, guys that didnt win much if at all, are certainly looked upon fondly now and revered. I remember ALL of em. Not just Petty, Allisons, ect. Certainly not like that now 🙄
Because VHS tapes don't age well. Even though this particular was was a re-air on SPEED Channel back in 2003, it was still on a VHS tape for a decade. Even when properly cared for, VHS tapes will not hold their quality forever, unfortunately. Trust me, I wish some of these were better quality than what they are, but hey, it's better than not having it at all, am I right?
Actually, VHS tapes will hold up remarkably well when stored properly. The real problem is actually that the more you use a VCR the poorer they are at playing back VHS tapes. It's actually the wear and tear on the machine that causes the tapes to appear as though they have lost quality.
And another reason for that would be the fact that both versions of this race, the 2003 SPEED Channel version and the 1999 ESPN Classic version were combined in a VHS-to-VHS dub to create the most complete version of this great race that's resurfaced. I should know since I'm actually the one who created the combined version and originally uploaded it years ago in 20 parts, which is how all the commercials happen to be edited out. A VHS-to-VHS recording also lowers the quality to some degree.
Toyota has built a pretty strong base in America culture wise I don’t get why all the purists are upset.. maybe I’d like them more if they used the Supra body for their NASCARs.
Squier got worse and worse as he got older mixing cars and drivers up. He spent most of this race saying Dale Earnhardt was driving for Bud Moore in a Ford even after they talked to Richard Childress. Earnhardt drove for the Moore the year before but now had Rudd. He just kept getting them confused
So what if he made a few mistakes. You're perfect? Ken Squire is very important to the history of NASCAR, and huge part of bringing the sport mainstream in the U.S. I also think Ken Squire was great.
It's spelled Squier. And I agree with his importance and while he made more than a few, they were from his excitement for the sport. Despite that, I believe he did not get his due when NASCAR took over the TV contracts in 2000ish. It is good that he can be celebrated now while he is still with us.
he may not have been a great commentator but he genuinely loved the sport and was a great ambassador for it at a time it didn't have many in the "respected (re: not southern)" media.
