Way cool. I was at qualifying night for this race. Was my senior year of HS. Went to the track vs. going to my sr prom. Got a load of autographs from drivers that night. Begrudgingly I must admit that was more action I got there than I would have gotten from any potential prom date.
#98 Joe Ruttman, #11 Darrell Waltrip, #3 Ricky Rudd, #75 Neil Bonnett, #43 Richard Petty, #7 Kyle Petty, #2 Morgan Shepherd, #90 Dick Brooks, #22 Bobby Allison, #33 Harry Gant
4:39 one of the best looking cars even in NASCAR IMO The 83 84 Grand Prix was a beautiful car to begin with but that orange and green 7eleven paint job made it even better
This is awesome!! Thanks for posting. Great to see how they worked on the cars back then...almost like a local shirt track race..no fancy garages or haulers. Seeing the drivers hanging out in their street clothes. I started watching NASCAR around this time and have kept up with it ever since (geez I feel old) :) But it is way too "corporate" now...all anout the money now and not the racing. I miss the "old" days as shown here. Thanks again!! My fav driver for 25 years was Terry Labonte.
@BSNFabricating You're correct. Bodine won in July after Waltrip was declared winner in May; Bonnett was declared winner at first, but a scoring recheck gave Waltrip the win.
WOW! We must have past each other a few times...I was taking alot of pic's. Even spotted myself in this vid. Really cool ....Didn't know they even made a video camera that made such a good quality like this...Had to be a Sony? or commercal made?
Money and greed. I love Junior Johnson but when he brought RJ Reynolds in well, they had a lot of money to throw around and Nascar became cooperate. Wall Street bound. They left the region where it started and the small tracks that made super stars.
Way cool. I was at qualifying night for this race. Was my senior year of HS. Went to the track vs. going to my sr prom. Got a load of autographs from drivers that night. Begrudgingly I must admit that was more action I got there than I would have gotten from any potential prom date.
Thanks for posting this.
#98 Joe Ruttman, #11 Darrell Waltrip, #3 Ricky Rudd, #75 Neil Bonnett, #43 Richard Petty, #7 Kyle Petty, #2 Morgan Shepherd, #90 Dick Brooks, #22 Bobby Allison, #33 Harry Gant
4:39 one of the best looking cars even in NASCAR IMO The 83 84 Grand Prix was a beautiful car to begin with but that orange and green 7eleven paint job made it even better
The best vid on (real)NASCAR that I've in years.
This is awesome!! Thanks for posting. Great to see how they worked on the cars back then...almost like a local shirt track race..no fancy garages or haulers. Seeing the drivers hanging out in their street clothes. I started watching NASCAR around this time and have kept up with it ever since (geez I feel old) :) But it is way too "corporate" now...all anout the money now and not the racing. I miss the "old" days as shown here. Thanks again!! My fav driver for 25 years was Terry Labonte.
Got the link from Randy's forum. Thanks for posting this stuff.
How come they have a deep V8 tone one min like waltrips car,then sound like a V6 the next?
@BSNFabricating You're correct. Bodine won in July after Waltrip was declared winner in May; Bonnett was declared winner at first, but a scoring recheck gave Waltrip the win.
Back when it was the real deal.
WOW! We must have past each other a few times...I was taking alot of pic's. Even spotted myself in this vid. Really cool ....Didn't know they even made a video camera that made such a good quality like this...Had to be a Sony? or commercal made?
great.. thank you.. thank you.. ect...
I swear some of these cup cars sound like they are running v6 engines, were they?
180 degree headers. Very unique sounding exhaust on a V8.
No but during those years they did run a 6 on some grand national cars. Not all of them did though.
@@xpicklepie the were no 180 degree headers in this. there was no room for them under the engine, nor behind the engine.
Yes it is. That's Ron Bouchard and a kid he stops to talk to.
@briancalibergbmd LOL - Shirt track! That's actually appropriate seeing the guns Tim Richmond and some of these other drivers sported back then.
The last Cup race at the Fairgrounds was in July of '84 I believe...I think Geoff Bodine won that one but I'll have to check
sorry...meant "short" track...not "shirt" track :)
How did we destroy this sport in twenty short years?
Money and greed. I love Junior Johnson but when he brought RJ Reynolds in well, they had a lot of money to throw around and Nascar became cooperate. Wall Street bound. They left the region where it started and the small tracks that made super stars.
Amen. As I watch this video, I wonder that, myself.
REAL CARS ! not front drive pseudo copies of some 6 cylinder piece of crap you cant make into a race car