I remember this race for the motorhome fire at 1:39:25. Rumor has it that someone kicked over the grill after someone else tried to sneak in some veggie burgers on it.
No, what's really cool is the Monte Carlos of the 80s. That's still winning races to this day every race week on the local dirt and asphalt tracks nationwide to this day...Those Chevys wins more races in one weekend than any Ford brand will in years to come, that's the coolest race cars ever, they wear bowties
@1:52:36 my brother got the hood off that car that day.I remember it was hot as hell that day.I also remember going into the pits after the race and they pushed Terry Labonte’s car beside us and Terry Labonte was walking behind it.Good memories thanks for posting this
My first NASCAR race. I was 13 and remember it like it was yesterday. The main thing I remember... THE HEAT!!!!. Was unbelievable. I miss this kind of racing.
HAHA, the great Ol Days, @ 18:39, Finish line Flagman hanging out over the track with a Healthy Durrie hanging out his Gob, probably has a Beer in his left hand! Excellent memories and post SMIFFY, seems like yesterday, Beauty Mate.
@@cerberus1981 Harold kinder Doyle Ford took over at Daytona 1990 so this would be Harold's last year.he retired after the 89 season an died of lung cancer within a couple years
Joe Ruttman hit right in front of us. We were three rows up. I swear the whole place shook! Two days earlier, Brett Bodine hit right in front of us during practice. That was even harder!
Folk's who have never been to a race, especially the bigger track's such as Dega, they simply can not comprehend the booming percussion generated by a high speed race car when they hit that concrete wall, or even each other! If your seated close to the crash, oh man, you can really feel the percussion it in your chest! 😳💥💨
@@emeyer6963 Yup! They were at Pocono the week before and due to Richmond's success there ESPN did a special segment. By this point it was known he was near the end. The networks, no affiliation with NASCAR, took it upon themselves to offer some transparency.
hahaha I always thought the same thing....if you think it was hot being in the stands that day in a t-shirt and shorts, imagine being a 70 year old man in a polyester suit. Holy shit lol
nascar was at its best between 1985 til 2001..they had the names,,the big sponsors and in my opinion the nicer cars....nowadays its boring with the spoiled little brats on the track who can careless about tearing up a car
Back then there was no lucky dog bullshit you had to race to get your lap or laps in this case back, you'll see allot of that back in the day and I've seen drivers in fact Bill Elliott came back from 3 laps down at this very track and won, and he did it by passing cars on the track not by cartoons and lucky dogs did it the hard way, and not only him.
This was the myopia of then and later - everyone overlooked the crashes had been escalating in the years BEFORE the restrictor plate was brought back, and the non-plate tracks have tended to have more vicious wrecks (this 2017 Speedweeks there was a disastrous sprint car crash that badly injured three spectators at one of the Florida dirt tracks).
MetalMastodon sad part is, a team comes up with an advantage and an innovation and gets penalized for it. How can we have progress if you fine it out of them?
Nah it's just unwatchable I don't watch the races nowadays I just watch races from before I was born and when I use to watch nascar growing up I'm 18 and if nascar today was still the same as it was back then I would still be watching the races every weekend
Wish I had more time to watch these old Talladega races, Ned J. commentating. Dave M. get's in my face wanting a speedy interview, spit start flying out of my mouth. Back up some and maybe Dave get's a good interview, lol.
Mike Helton was once the POTSS President of Talladega SuperSpeedway, he doesn't look any different on here than he doe's today hardly... damn near same suit & all...
Could anyone help me identify a late 80s Nascar race...... Either '88 or '89, maybe even '90 (no later). I think it was a 1.5 mile track. Both Mark Martin and Alan Kulwicki had similar crashes (hit the wall, right side smashed in), Terry Labonte spun (driving the blue #44), and I think Ken Schrader crashed 3 times. I think everyone was chasing Bill Elliott that day. Bob Jenkins was the main announcer. This is all I remember.
If Terry Labonte was in the 44 car, it would've been 1986 at the latest. If everybody was chasing Bill Elliott, it would've probably been '85. I know Alan Kulwicki made ran his first Cup race that year, but don't remember if Mark Martin was in it that year... after his first excursion into NASCAR (1981-83), he went back and ran ASA and other things, and ran a few Cup races until going full-time with Roush in '88. Ken Schrader was driving for Junie Donlavey in the #90 Red Baron T-bird at that time. Oh, and the races in Australia were in '88 and 89 if I remember right.
When Winston Cup or NASCAR was worth watching, not now, at least I got to enjoy a good few years before left became more that just the direction on the race track.
O.K. So just WHY was this type of racing so much better than now? No pack racing, and 10 MPH less? I believe NASCAR needs to figure out how to go back to this type of racing (IMHO) Cars were hard to drive, and the price of failure was high... So much better
Great finish but it had been on my old tv I would have about beaten a hole in the top trying to clear up that picture. That about gives up my age and if that don’t I seen it live. LOL
I noticed they were talking about the Rusty Wallace/Raymond Beadle conflict. What people didn't know then was Rusty was pissed because he was having to buy tires and other things out of his own pocket which was just wrong on Raymond's part. Also Raymond was nowhere around during that time and it had Rusty pissed. Rick Hendrick helped Rusty and the team buy tires etc. It was a really f'd up situation Raymond put Rusty and the team in because he was caught up in his drag racing and using funds for it. The only reason Rusty run 1990 with BlueMax is because of that contract but he got the Miller sponsor and was starting his own team with Penske and Don Miller but due to the contract he had to race 1990 with BlueMax. That 1988/89 team should've won two championships in a row and easily could've in 1990 but the 1989 issues spilled over into 1990 and some key members left.
It was something to get excited about.unlike today if you fucked up you were dead this is no Lil panty ass screw fest this is real men putting their life's on the line.
Back when NASCAR was NASCAR before the meaningless points system and bullshit playoffs before all this soft PC pussy shit caused them to change all the alcohol and tobacco sponsors to be replaced I don’t care what they call it today I still call it Winston cup