The Best Cars of the 1990s | Under the Sheet Metal 

You should check out the chassis EMS-128. It won 5 of the 6 races in 2006 with Kasey Kahne. I asked Ray via Twitter what happened to that car but he doesn’t remember.

Harry Gants 4 wins came in the same chassis and motor

Freak will always be the coolest and greatest chassis in nascar history

Always love stories about particular cars. You knew when the TV announcers mentioned "Midnight" or "Blacker" that those machines would be a contender on the road to victory.

You have the most interesting Nascar stuff there is.

Immediately the song hyped me up lol

Man, I love love LOVE these videos! I love hearing about specific chassis and how well they did and what their careers were like. This gives me even more hope one day a nascar game that has a more in-depth career mode will allow you to not only own your teem and build cars.. but designate chassis numbers and having their own win-loss type stats. even maybe giving you the ability to have a museum like RCR, Hendricks and the like where you can display them.

About Jeff Gordon's car Blacker. I heard Evernham say in an interview that Earnhardt & Rusty had famous fast black cars so they decided they would build a car & name it Blacker. I can hear Benny Parsons say, "here comes Earnhardt in thar black car".......Evernham built one "blacker".

Am I the only one that believes Kyle Petty could’ve had a better career had he gotten into a top tier ride at some point?I mean Larson only won 6 races in Sebates/Ganassi equipment and look what he’s doin in Hendrick cars.No I’m not saying Kyle petty is as good as Kyle Larson,but Petty could’ve been better in good stuff imo

I'm very new with NASCAR, but I'm amazed how much career can a single chassis have. I've watched any other kind of motorsport and they always changed the chassis season by season. Only privateers ran old chassis and of course they were outdated by then

I have been a fan since 1988. I always loved the story behind the individual race cars.l Remember seeing a lot of these cars on track. I love your videosl please keep them coming.

I love this series. It just goes to show that not all winning cars get to be proudly on display in a museum once retired

Damn Brock you really are bringing back my childhood a video at a time

I love these kinds of stories, great work!

I love the under the sheet metal video

This is some really really good stuff man. The amount of research that's required for your videos has got to immense. I hope one day someone from NASCAR finds this channel and hires you as a historian

11:45 you childhood had expired but it soo sad how the paint just faded away leaving 106 a shadow to itself

That thing Kyle Petty was driving was one of the best race cars Kyle ever had. Too bad they never could build a few more good ones, Kyle was pretty good in that Mello Yello 42 scheme and might have had a championship. It is interesting how both Midnight and the Duke were both Rockingham winners and Blacker was too.

I've 1/24th scale version of Jeff Gordon's car Blacker. I got it when I was kid.

Love this video. It would be interesting if we could elaborate on WHY these cars are so dominant. It boils down to a LONG list of details....stupid simple science we were all supposed to be learned in high school.Mounting points(these are NOT easily changed) for suspension geometry(easily adjusted, with a truck load of parts)and CG, and torsional stiffness, as built are the big things that define a Nascar chassis. Generally, the chassis is the Foundation on which the "magic" is built. Springs are big in the set up. A crew chief once told me the biggest spring in the set up IS the chassis(referring to torsional stiffness). Much the way that hand painted graphics has become a lost art, I believe the new car in cup will eliminate any chances for innovation or improvisation(a fading art) in our sport. This DUMBING DOWN (costing vast DUMP TRUCK LOADS of money) is what is killing this sport. The opportunity to exercise a new idea...or utilize an old one, has been eliminated. Yes, a level playing field is important(morally,to MOST fans). BUT the opportunity to bring a superior piece to the inspection line is important,(for the competitors) as well. NASCAR should focus on the SAFETY aspects,engines and tires and then throw the rag.

Love this video definitely gotta do a cars of the 80s or 2000s as a sequel

Excellent work as usual nascarman History!.

Brilliant episode! Great music and editing!

Sad to see that Gordon car not have the Rainbow paint scheme. My all time favorite NACAR paint scheme.

Great series man, no need to stop there.

My favourite series, thank you Brock

Anyone actually know what ended up happening with the NWO car? I know WCW gave the car away on Nitro but I haven’t been able to find anyone who knows where it is or who owns it

Great video

I love these videos!

We won a couple of races with this car and it is in goog shape? Ow i get it let's sell it to an Arca team

5:02 All these years I thought Kyle Petty hit Dale and spun him out in The Winston. I didn't know it was aero. This just blew my mind!

$294,000 in 1990 is worth $605,534 today (in 2021).

Too bad this will never be a thing again

Would like to see Sterling Marlin's 1995 Daytona 500 car added to this list. Won half the races it entered and absolutely dominated Daytona and Talladega in 1995 and 1996. 1995 - Twin 125 - 1st - Daytona 500 - 1st - Winston Select 500 (Talladega) - 39th. Broke a rocker arm while going for the lead. Rejoined the race 43 laps down. Helped Jeff Gordon and Morgan Shepherd run down Dale Earnhardt and Mark Martin from 10 seconds back in just 13 laps. Easily the fastest car on the track. - Pepsi 400 (Daytona) - 2nd. - Diehard 500 (Talladega) - 1st. Won from the pole. 1996 - Twin 125 - 2nd - Daytona 500 - 40th. Burned a piston while leading. - Winston Select 500 (Talladega) - 1st. Came from the back to the front 3 times and still led the most laps. - Pepsi 400 (Daytona) - 1st. Dominated and could pass anyone at will. Held off all 3 Hendrick cars by himself. - Diehard 500 (Talladega) - 29th. Crashed while racing side by side with Dale Earnhardt for the lead. This is the one where Ernie Irvan accidentally turned Sterling into Earnhardt sending both Marlin and Dale head-on into the Tri-Oval wall. Sterling's car was damaged beyond repair and never raced again. It was eventually rebuilt and today is in Larry McClure's personal collection. Stapleton42 has an awesome video about it. Just my opinion, but I think this car easily deserves to be on the list. Great video!!!!

>YT names Blacker's chapter as "Blackbird" [Wangan Midnight intensifies]

Best show on RU-vid!

The tasty base line at the beginning 🥵

I loved the 95 colors light scheme. And that body of grand prix

at least is good to know that all of these cars are in Papyrus nascar racing 1, 2 and '99 remaster with truck series

I wish I had watched this before I went to the vintage races at mid ohio last weekend so I could have asked the guys running the rusty wallace nascar if that was midnight.

I know it's leaned more too winning cars but are there any cursed chassis?? Or just always end in heart break?

These cars were sentient. "I'm gonna make you like a bullet."

Shame we’ll never get to see stuff like this again with teams not being able to build their own chassis.

Both Blacker and Midnight ran their final races in separate Winstons.

Im kinda shocked JR 51 didnt make this video.

Hard not to do Mark Martins car from 90’s.

Being a Jeff Gordon fan and the 1997 October Talladega race was my first full race that I watched (and replayed over and over again), I have a soft spot for that particular 24 car raced that day, even though it was the pinball of the Big One. Based on Ray Evernham's stories, it was the B-car to the 24 that won that year's Daytona 500, so naturally it took over restrictor plate duties, but it had a rough run at it. It scraped and spun late in Daytona in July, caused the Big One with a flat left-rear at 'dega, and then returned in 1998 for the Bud Shootout in which Evernham said he'd personally cut it apart if it failed again. And what happened in the Shootout? Gordon lost it on the final restart and stripped 4th gear. So, did Evernham cut my favorite car into tiny itty-bitty pieces? I may never know!

I wonder what it is about certain chassis that make them dominant. I mean surely they were all built to a spec. I just wonder what nuisances and small differences would take a good chassis to elite status and also why it was hard if not impossible to fully replicate a particular dominant chassis.

What happened to the stp Pontiac John Andretti won with?

So if I find any of these chassis/cars some where along the road, would it be illigal if I took them?

Gosh I really miss Pontiac in NASCAR. Too bad the brand itself went under.

Is that the Polish Flag at 7:33? The one that Dale holds

not gonna lie, that white menards car does look cool

Can you look into DEI’s “Red Headed Step-child?”

Would've been crazy if it was the Duke that killed 007.

Whatever happened the Midnight Rider

Kyle Petty had more talent than he's willing to admit. If he had better equipment throughout his career, the history would have been very different now.

Only way Hendricks cars can win is cheat or buy them !

As if Kyle Petty succeeded 29 years before the creators themselves murdered Mr Bond

"Felix Sehboduzz"

The Duke Killed James Bond at Charlotte

Have you done away with this series ?

Go back to Rockingham, NASCAR

Stopped watching Nascar when our American Sport sold out to "TOYOTA" Our American nascar heritage started in 1948 no way will i ever watch Nascar again unless they remove Toyota. Wouldn't surprise me if they sold out Nascar completely to China either