David Pearson, The Silver Fox, bless his heart & memory 🙏 That Man (as my late great Father would say) must have been one hellava farmer, cause he sho'nuff spread alotta manure around! 😆 So many, all of them really, are/were living legends & Men like that simply can not be replaced, thank the Lord there are videos like these so they can still be watched & enjoyed by later generations. It's really too bad Richard Petty wasn't there, Dale Inman & Maurice Petty also. RIP to all that have gone on ✝️
The bondy long stories are gold too! Especially the one with him going to the accountants office to pick up his 150$ expense check which was quite a bit of cash back then and sees a guitar at a pawn shop he likes and spends the whole damn thing on that guitar!!!😂😂 then Cale bails him out of a speeding ticket because he didn’t have 20 dollars on him!!! So few months go by and bondy leaves a 20 dollar sack of Pennie’s on cales porch to pay him back with😂😂 little stories like that are hilarious to me
My favorite finish has to be the1974 Firecracker 400. Pearson lets off the gas, suckers Petty into passing him with one lap to go, falls about 300 yds. behind, catches right back up and passes Richard just before the finish line to take the checkered flag. Classic finish!
This series is priceless. Great stories from drivers, announcers, everybody. Just imagine today's drivers telling stories like these, although DW would be older, Mike Joy would be host, and everybody would be picking on Jimmie.
Couldn't happen. First, it would take a crew of at least 1,000 because each of today's drivers would have to have his or her own hair and makeup people. Second, each would have to memorize the script he or she was given so they could answer each question in a way that wouldn't make his or her sponsor upset. Even if the driver was retired his or her name would still be on merchandise, so.... Third, the boys today don't act like the men of yesterday, as Donnie Allison said "Today's drivers don't hang with each other...". Fourth, Mike Joy doesn't belong on the same planet with Ken Squire or Eli Gold so I can only imagine what a snooze fest that would be. Last, NASCAR has ruined its self with its rules, its all things to all people promotion flop, and its lack of understanding that they at least were a racing series that did promotion instead of a promotion firm that does a little racing.
so glad you uploaded this , sadly so many of these greats are gone now...I love stock car auto racing but I much prefer listening to these guys and watching old races on RU-vid than watching the current season races every sunday.. Sad commentary on the current state of the sport
I M A G I N E . . . . Lunches at Blue Ribbon...Gainesville, Georgia. 1990 / 91. With David Fox, youngest son of Raymond Fox...grew up playing with Dale Jarrett, Kyle Petty, SEEING Dale Earnhardt Jr...and sister, (as none allowed in pits) in infield, under age. Avoided Talladega, as "TOO HOT"...with free VIP passes at will call. Book out there called "Fox in the NASCAR (or STOCK CAR) Henhouse". Lugnut wars with Smokey Yunick's shop across a drainage ditch in Cocoa, Florida...at midnight, for SEASONS. Dad a mean drunk, contract R+D for Chrysler (DODGE), RACE HEMI and aero programs. "Gift" for Dave, when turned 16, of a Hemi Charger 66 or 67. Spun a main bearing first night out, dad took car back. Gutted it, got rebuild bearings and seal set from local NAPA. Added four more shocks, cage. Asked Buddy Baker to drive it in World 600. He'd run good before, but had never won one. In a STOCK CAR. Go see the museum. "The Legends of Stock Car Racing". R A C E C A R spelled backwards....
I love listening to all these legends. Red Farmer is living history. His stories are priceless. Red l would bet he has raced more laps in races car than any one. He would race anything, modified, late models, sportsman, go cart, NASCAR. He is the man !
Dick Brooks is a good story teller. Junior Johnson seems too humble to loosen up, but I bet he has some classics he could tell. These guys are a joy to listen to. Vintage NASCAR is gone forever in my opinion and the TV ratings and attendance show it. 🤔
I noticed that…he was one of better story tellers there! It’s especially funny how he cracks on ole pearson about him being out of his prime and towards the end of his time😂
I know I'm very late finding this video series ya posted, but I sure do appreciate it. Good stuff. I wish they would've talked more about "their little engineering tricks" to gain an edge over everyone else. Thank you!!!
Grew up poor... grew up if you wanted f something you had to earn it... besides their background the biggest difference was culture. In modern times everyone is a narcissist. You think the world cares about what you have to say. I do and you do that's what we're doing here. The modern athlete no matter what sport has got a 24-7 platform in which he can express his narcissistic mouth 24/7. They grew up in a much quieter slower worlds that respected hard work. You can't undo the way they grew up you can't create Heroes... the fans these young guys appeal to also like twitcher they also like to see all the drama on the internet that's the culture they grew up in that's the culture they live. I did not and I do not like it🤷♂️
@@aricsnyder5882 the group of guys you named are the last generation that grew up in a low-tech world they are my generation. Most of the ones you named are from Generation X are born in the 70s. The ones you named afterwards they grew up in the Twitter world the social media world. Somebody like Tony was like get the f*** out of my face these kids love it they love the drama
Thanks for this. This is timeless I'm telling ya. I 👍 Sure wish I knew who the born again Christian was little little bud was talking about from Myrtle Beach. I might know him.
the young drivers of today are never going to have stories like these this was long before the million dollar motorhomes the fancy car haulers these are stories of of the men that made racing what it is today
@jerry s is there even footage of it? I may have seen it I watch all that old stuff a lot of that stuff in the Golden Age there's no footage wasn't on television... what does exist is horrible. Typically 8mmm film with somebody adding sound effects. Cheesy Tire screeching sounds and engine LOL... like in the early seventies when the wide world Sports is covering it. Sometimes the engines actually overwhelm the commentators LOL if you watch any sporting event late 50s or 60s there's no way they could have even if they wanted to just wasn't the camera technology
I git stopped, running 16 between Savannah and Macon, heading to Dawsonville for moonshine fest. Cop stops as truck is DROP DEAD gorgeous, following an RV going as fast as IT can... too slow. No tags, tailgate down to hide that fact, letting pine straw vent out of full bed. Not speeding (NEVER caught speeding...) Cop SEES Melling shop parking permit sticker on windshield...talks for a good while...a friend passes at speed, heading for Statesboro McDonald's...gas. Wails horn laughing. Late, as left SC at 1 ish....to hit ATLANTA traffic on a weekend at 5, to pick up daughter. " I gotta go." to cop. Wrote nada..."Don't try to catch that guy." Did a splash and go at McDonalds, (soda AND gas), and passed guy going back onto 16. Atlanta by 4:45.
dks13827 May be heresy to say it, but honestly Richard isn’t extremely good at story telling. Granted he’d be better than say Coo Coo Marlin or Richard Childress in this series. I’d like to have seen Dale Sr, Dale Inman, and Benny Parsons involved with this.
Curious ?? Childress hasn't heard anything.. Talking about Harry Hyde..OMG this is awesome and drivers.. But Hyde pure wit... One of those guys that is who they are just funny
I just looked up this restaurant...and apparently it has some of the worst food that’s ever been made at any restaurant. Period. I can’t find when it closed though
