The Car That Changed NASCAR: Sterling Marlin's Crazy Sounding 1995 Daytona 500 Winning Monte Carlo!

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  • Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
  • If you remember the signature howl of NASCAR races at Daytona and Talladega in the late 90s early 2000s...THIS is the car that sparked all of that. Larry McClure has the actual 1995 Monte Carlo Sterling Marlin won the 95 Daytona 500 with while sounding completely different than the rest of the field. This car was used again at the 96 Diehard 500 at Talladega where it was involved in the crash with Dale Earnhardt prompting the "Earnhardt bar" addition to future cup car chassis. Restored in the early 2000's by Morgan McClure Motorsports it sat in a museum for over 10 years. Now Larry has it back and we show you inside outside and underneath the car including its famous X pipe exhaust!
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  • @Stapleton42
    @Stapleton42  2 года назад +1328

    Update: This video has been live for 2 hours and Sterling has already contacted me. The wheels are in motion to get him reunited with this car for one more ride 💪🏻 MAKE SURE YOU SUBSCRIBE FOR THAT!!

    • @adamalfredsson373
      @adamalfredsson373 2 года назад +18

      That’s just soo cool

    • @DeanSchumacher
      @DeanSchumacher 2 года назад +12

      THTS badass gonna be a sweet video

    • @hoyle7780
      @hoyle7780 2 года назад +26

      Met sterling a couple times I lived in columbia TN for a few years & he was always at Mule Day.
      Super nice humble guy
      This is sick Stapleton!!!! You are getting better & better with this stuff.

    • @HammerPowered
      @HammerPowered 2 года назад +6

      That's amazing. Hope it can happen for sure.

    • @teamdeep5822
      @teamdeep5822 2 года назад +5

      Can’t wait to see it.

  • @alanbranch851
    @alanbranch851 2 года назад +116

    Never will forget Sterling in the 4 car at the 96 Pepsi 400 started front row and led a ton of laps till ignition failed. Got passed by the whole field Sterling thinking a blown engine till he switched to the backup ignition, engine fired and he flew back through the field to win the rain shortened race 🏆 🏁

  • @Racer57
    @Racer57 2 года назад +396

    You are hitting a gold mine here. This is the stuff nobody really covers, TV doesn't cover it, reporters and articles don't cover it, podcasts just scratch the surface talking with this prior generation, but you bring us there and really dig into it. The rear window trick for the windtunnel, you might hear about that, but that was really hush hush at the time. But never got to actually see it. Thanks for bringing this stuff from Nascars golden era. Once that generation is gone, the tricks and stories go with them.

    • @Stapleton42
      @Stapleton42  2 года назад +11

      I know what you’re talking about with the window 👀

    • @charlierhiger7478
      @charlierhiger7478 2 года назад +2

      I agree with you.

    • @stevea6936
      @stevea6936 2 года назад +4

      This was my first Daytona 500 in 1995 and I remember calling my brother's the nite before and clearly telling him that the order of finish would be Sterling Martin and Dale Earnhardt and sure enough exactly as I saw it and told it

    • @ryanlagoda1352
      @ryanlagoda1352 2 года назад

      Absolutely.

    • @pekindown
      @pekindown Год назад +1

      I have to add to the comments about how great your content has been. I’ve watched some of your other videos but still haven’ t subscribed. This one and some your other ones have made me do that. To get up close and personal with all these past nascar people and places is fantastic! Keep it up. You two are so laid back and knowledgable. Love It!

  • @stevecleveland6644
    @stevecleveland6644 2 года назад +204

    I always liked the McClure racing team but how cool is Larry to take his time to talk in depth to this guy about the history on the car. This is the type of people that NASCAR is missing today. Not just the drivers but team owners.

    • @sludge8506
      @sludge8506 2 года назад

      🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    • @Fbarts
      @Fbarts 2 года назад +2

      That's what the big money does.

    • @panzerwaffen2873
      @panzerwaffen2873 Год назад +2

      @@Fbarts yeap..it's like more for the money than real passion for cars

    • @josephbrooks9409
      @josephbrooks9409 Год назад +7

      Yep…just riding around one afternoon (High Point, NC, my hometown) I decided to swing by the shop where Terry Labonte was running the Sunoco 94 car. As I walked up, one of the guys invited me to “come on in”. A minute or two later, Terry came out from one of the shops and we spent the next 20 minutes or so just talking about racing and setups. At the time, I was the chassis specialist on a rookie Sportsman car at Bowman Gray. It was just one of many times in “the older days”, when you could show up at a garage and hang out with “the guys”. Oh, and yes… Larry McClure was one of the most personable guys you’ll ever meet.😊❤️

    • @sethandrews1282
      @sethandrews1282 6 месяцев назад +1

      Morgan McClure Motorsports was always welcoming. I ran into people who worked for them when I was little and they would always be welcoming, show me the cars, and anyone was welcome to visit the shop. It didn't lose the local family feel.

  • @CamaroThings
    @CamaroThings 2 года назад +95

    A lot of kids today will not understand just how special this car is and just how important this car is to 90s and 00s Nascar history. Just amazing how much went into making this car a winning masterpiece.

    • @jebediahgentry7029
      @jebediahgentry7029 2 года назад +4

      That car was dominant with the Lumina body and when they changed to the Monte Carlo. Had it not wrecked at Talladega, Ihe very well could've won more restrictor plate races.

  • @KevinBoosted
    @KevinBoosted Год назад +26

    Funny story. Just before the New Hampshire race in 1995, Sterlins show car came to our local Kodak store in Milford, CT. I was 7 years old and this thing was so loud I had my ears covered before he was in the car to start it. The guy looked at me, and said, you wanna help me back it out of the trailer. I said let’s go! He let me climb in the car and sit in between the roll bars of the passenger side, started it up and backed it out of the trailer. I’ll never forget that day!

  • @KeithKman
    @KeithKman Год назад +22

    Boyd Bulter aka Dr. Gas of Sandy, Utah changed NASCAR forever with his exhaust system. The sound was iconic!

  • @CamaroThings
    @CamaroThings 2 года назад +52

    This car, the sound alone and the fact of it being a proven winner is just pure perfection. Literally RUclips needs to archive your channel for eons because these stories need to be saved for eternity.

    • @1978garfield
      @1978garfield Год назад +1

      HIs channel should be archived on to a flash drive.
      That drive should be put in to a media player.
      That media player should be launched in to space.
      That way if nuclear war destroys the earth, some day aliens will find the media player and learn the wonder that was NASCAR.

  • @evilbeetlekustomscreations4965
    @evilbeetlekustomscreations4965 2 года назад +62

    This takes me right back to being a kid watching NASCAR with Grandpa so glad to see this man is still around😊

    • @WhiteOak09
      @WhiteOak09 2 года назад +7

      Back when nascar was worth watching unlike today.

    • @frostysnowman0930
      @frostysnowman0930 3 месяца назад +1

      Yes! You took the words right out of my mouth!

  • @chevyman6671
    @chevyman6671 2 года назад +29

    I’m all for seeing Sterling starting the car and hearing that famous sound! 🇺🇸🦅🦅

  • @mikelliteras397
    @mikelliteras397 2 года назад +64

    Larry McLure is a legend. I was at that race, hell, I was at the clash and qualifying the week before. That sound was crazy compared to anything else. It was my 2nd Daytona, what a great time to go. $85 tickets, $200 for 3 nights hotel across from the track and people like Larry doing these little things to get a half mph or 2-4 hp more. I have pics of Dale Sr taking a pic with my friend at the trailers, without being swamped with people. Also with Mark Martin, Stirling, Rusty at the old Outback. What a great time. Literally 50 of us friends for 15 years straight, 500 and the Firecracker. I sponsored a small spot on Billy Standridge’s car a few years later and I remember the July race when he blew up on the first caution because they, unknowingly, had the engine set up to scavenge the oil out of the pan and it blew because he didn’t keep the rpm’s up enough. He said Cale Yarborough’s people didn’t tell him. Just like Stirlings car, they had things they had to do to run these cars. It’s not like today where they don’t even have to shift and aren’t allowed to touch anything.

    • @E180TEKNO
      @E180TEKNO 2 года назад +3

      The good times !!!

    • @flobama3247
      @flobama3247 2 года назад +1

      They definitely still have to shift. Manual transmissions are still used in Nascar. You'd be hard pressed to find a professional race car driver who doesn't know how to use a manual. Now obviously Formula 1, Indycar and most GT race cars now use high-tec DCT with paddle shifters, but that's just common sense because they're shifting gears way more, so it's a faster and more efficient way to go through gears and you can keep both hands on the wheel.

    • @jk-kr8jt
      @jk-kr8jt 2 года назад +4

      @@flobama3247 i know how to use a manual. He mows my lawn. 🤣

    • @mikelliteras397
      @mikelliteras397 2 года назад +3

      @@flobama3247 sequential is barely shifting.

    • @tracypippenger4806
      @tracypippenger4806 2 года назад +1

      Good old days of Nascar that car sounded totally different

  • @markfortin421
    @markfortin421 2 года назад +16

    Well...that's it. You are single-handedly re-kindling my love for Nascar! Not today's Nascar, but the real era of racing, tweeking every little thing to get that 2 mph and 5 horsepower.
    Thank You SO much for what you are doing...I'm 75 and THAT was my golden days....

  • @randytingen
    @randytingen 2 года назад +130

    Man that’s a part of nostalgia there. You have exceptional taste Mitch. That’s the golden era of NASCAR as far as I’m concerned. Keep up the good work. Your content is the best on RUclips.

    • @Stapleton42
      @Stapleton42  2 года назад +3

      Thanks Randy we are glad you’re here

    • @UFC_Buffalo
      @UFC_Buffalo 2 года назад +4

      Literally the Golden Era of everything back then, humans clearly peaked in 2000.... it's all downhill now.

    • @tcmusic6429
      @tcmusic6429 2 года назад

      @@UFC_Buffalo you’re archaic

    • @randomepic6204
      @randomepic6204 2 года назад +3

      @@tcmusic6429 lol he's not lying

    • @tcmusic6429
      @tcmusic6429 2 года назад

      @@randomepic6204 opinions aren’t facts. People of your generation are actually whack.

  • @way803
    @way803 2 года назад +7

    Sterling never got the recognition he deserved in my opinion. Thank you for your video's of yesteryears of Nascar.

  • @jhuntosgarage
    @jhuntosgarage 2 года назад +3

    Nice work on the 4 car. I worked at Dr.Gas/Pro-Motorsports Engineering in 1996 making X-pipes and other items. Good times!

  • @SundayBacon72210
    @SundayBacon72210 2 года назад +7

    Dude Sterling and Earnhardt were basically my childhood. Earnhardt was my favorite, but my best friend loved Sterling so we always had something to talk about Monday morning at school after the good ones.

  • @thekingscene
    @thekingscene 2 года назад +66

    Probably the best sounding car I've ever heard.. Those were the best days in Nascar

    • @therealether1
      @therealether1 Год назад

      You obviously haven't heard a NOVI

    • @partymanau
      @partymanau Год назад

      The thing sounds like Tom Burklands twin engined streamliner.

    • @patrickcannady2066
      @patrickcannady2066 Год назад +2

      NASCAR in the 70s and early 80s was wild AF

  • @jfreddy9370
    @jfreddy9370 2 года назад +31

    That car is such an icon. I'm so happy you got the chance to see it in person. I would love to see Sterling Marlin fire it up someday! Keep up the great work!🏁

    • @Stapleton42
      @Stapleton42  2 года назад +1

      Thanks man!!

    • @Roadhouse1997
      @Roadhouse1997 2 года назад

      ​@@Stapleton42 noticed it but where in the world did you get the bowtie on the grill of your mc and how well does it fit to the grill.

  • @3602go
    @3602go 2 года назад +8

    Around 20 years ago, I bought just the X-pipe for a street car I owned, it made my car sound like a "Stock Car" at high RPM's, it was made by 'Dr. Gas'.

  • @Aljjl
    @Aljjl 2 года назад +7

    Great video & info! I watched this car at Daytona and had good memories of Nascar drivers & racing back then. I’m 71 years old now and very rarely watch many races from start to finish!
    Fond memories of the good old days with good old boys in great cars!!

  • @josephhays9286
    @josephhays9286 2 года назад +21

    Stapleton U bring the best history to all of America and U keep exploring the history and finding more to keep nascar history alive

  • @AmericanConstellation
    @AmericanConstellation 2 года назад +15

    I saw and heard that car. I was there. Everything changed after that. They sounded like Indy cars....I saw Earnhardt's car with the penny on the dash. I loved those times at Daytona.

  • @tonyrobertson9452
    @tonyrobertson9452 2 года назад +4

    yes ! let's hear it Sterling.
    How nice of the McClure guys to let you in and spend time with you,us. thanks alot.
    this was cool.

  • @Crispy1320
    @Crispy1320 2 года назад +5

    That was so cool to be able to see the underside of an actual Daytona 500 winning car.

  • @JaredR1996
    @JaredR1996 2 года назад +21

    Gather around class, it’s time for another NASCAR history lesson. Thanks as always Stapleton

  • @markturner1672
    @markturner1672 2 года назад +11

    One of the first lessons I received while helping friends with their cars was, “if ya ain’t cheatin, ya ain’t eatin.” God, I love the sound of that car, gives me goosebumps. Saw Irvan win twice in a Morgan-McClure car at Talladega. Those, were some of the best years of racing in my opinion. To get a glimpse of all the little things, cheatin or not, that went into a cup car in those days, wow, just wow. Each video is better than the last, I appreciate your hard work, thank you. Hell yes I want to see Sterling, get him as fast as possible.

    • @johnjohnsn7633
      @johnjohnsn7633 5 месяцев назад

      As Smokey Yunick is famed for saying , "Maximizing the Rules ain't 'cheating'."

  • @paulstansfield8693
    @paulstansfield8693 2 года назад +9

    You both have a gift of asking a focused question, which makes the recipient really open up, give you so much more information. Another post, thank you Paul🇬🇧

  • @canamshooter9104
    @canamshooter9104 Год назад +4

    I remember this car and the sound. A good friend of mine that I raced SCCA Solo with moved to Utah and got hooked up with this guy who was literally a rocket scientist and had designed a new style H pipe. My buddy installed one on his Mustang and tried to talk me into one (but I was poor at the time and declined). I still have a couple Dr Gas windshield stickers floating around my garage somewhere. When the 4 car hit the track and everyone was wondering what the hell they had done to it, I smiled and explained what was going on to whoever I happened to be watching the race with.
    Great memories.

  • @marcusjohnson7441
    @marcusjohnson7441 Год назад +6

    Best sound ever in NASCAR.. Every now and then you can hear them in any series lower then cup. 3 or 4 years ago at Kansas, during the Xfinity race. The #39 of Sieg was running it. Stood out from all the rest, even during restarts. I miss the Craftman trucks running them all the time, with certain trucks. I remember Bob's Dodge ran them almost every race and ugh. Pure music

  • @sensoryoverload8915
    @sensoryoverload8915 2 года назад +3

    My home town, we loved and were so proud of that team. I miss that era of NASCAR.

  • @finnickrinzler8907
    @finnickrinzler8907 2 года назад +6

    I love watching people who were on the world's biggest stage, people who seemed like celebrities to me being interviewed without crowds or tv cameras. Another awesome video S42. Can't wait for Sterling.

  • @allenfritz3437
    @allenfritz3437 2 года назад +11

    so amazing how much innovation these guys come up with. definitely miss the good old days of nascar better than whats going on now.

  • @Harvicknation4
    @Harvicknation4 2 года назад +34

    Sterling is not driving anymore. But he still has a car that runs at Nashville Fairgrounds speedway. He was teaching his grandson to drive.

    • @fatman1288
      @fatman1288 2 года назад +1

      yeah its sad his health has gone south, i hope Dale Jr brings him on his podcast

    • @jackiedavis7560
      @jackiedavis7560 2 года назад

      Does he have dementia or something along those lines

    • @fatman1288
      @fatman1288 2 года назад

      @@jackiedavis7560 parkinsons unfortunately

  • @thooks1234
    @thooks1234 Год назад +7

    I remember hearing the car on TV and then getting to hear it in person at Talladega. It would have the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
    Thank you and the McClure family for this. I miss Nascar. Today's Nascar isn't it. The late 70's, 80's and 90's were unreal. Real people out there, on the track, in the pits and in the stands.

  • @twenty4dupont
    @twenty4dupont 2 года назад +8

    Man your access to NASCAR history is unmatched. As a a longtime NASCAR fan I thank you for the content. 👍🍻

  • @Davidpetty87
    @Davidpetty87 2 года назад +5

    I think it would be awesome to have sterling marlin start that car again after so many years I love these kind of videos it brings me back to my childhood so thank you Mitchell and Logan and I will watch ever video on the history of Nascar that you make I watch every video you make anyways so great job you guys keeping up the old Winston cup series alive

  • @david03lewis
    @david03lewis 2 года назад +5

    So glad for this video! I remember watching that car going around the track with my Dad that has passed away and vividly remember the sound of that #4. It sounded sweet.

  • @flatlineracer3207
    @flatlineracer3207 2 года назад +4

    Blast from the past! WOW. My FAV car. Used to do work involving Kodak back in the day. My FAV 90's car. Love the McClure family. R.I.P. Eric

  • @kennyswanson5101
    @kennyswanson5101 2 года назад +1

    I enjoy that you can tell he still has a bit of apprehension describing all of the rule bending that they did back in the day. I'm sure there is a gold mine of interesting stories in that man's head.

  • @brucefrye8799
    @brucefrye8799 2 года назад +3

    I've been a McClure racing fan for a long time they're like my hometown race team. I live a hour away Bristol is my favorite and hometown race track. I can remember Bristol before it became the coliseum it had concrete bleachers. I went to my first race there in 1976 with my pawpaw

  • @supersevenn
    @supersevenn 2 года назад +4

    i always loved how the 4 Morgan McClure Kodak cars were ALWAYS a threat for the super speedways.

  • @glenedwards3038
    @glenedwards3038 2 года назад +4

    You two would have to be the luckiest people alive for getting to see such an awesome amount of racing nostalgia that no one else may never get the chance to see first hand and show to all of us! Thank you so much for being and doing what you do.

    • @Stapleton42
      @Stapleton42  2 года назад +1

      Lots of work to see this stuff man. Thank you

  • @crxman33
    @crxman33 2 года назад +2

    This is the best type of Nascar content. History, science, cheated up stories etc. LOVE it

  • @davidedwards2773
    @davidedwards2773 Год назад +2

    I was there working turn 2 at the 95 Daytona (Capital trailers). That car sounded awesome. Never forgot that sound!👍🏻

  • @infinitebarstiable
    @infinitebarstiable 2 года назад +9

    I was lucky and had an engine builder from this team as a teacher at NTI. He told us this story among many others. There was another member of this team at the school also.

  • @Kenny_Mars
    @Kenny_Mars 2 года назад +4

    This is like talking about an old friend who passed away years ago. Fond memories, it's all we end up with. I haven't watched much Nascar since Mark Martin retired. It's milk toast now.

  • @cudaman340
    @cudaman340 2 года назад +3

    I saw this car many times when it was displayed at the City Garage Museum in Greeneville, TN. Mr. Bewley, who owns the museum, once had an Oldsmobile dealership, and sponsored Morgan-McClure at Bristol in 1986, the first race I attended. It's a very neat car!

  • @tallat8888
    @tallat8888 Год назад +2

    I started watching Nascar races back in 1977 I was 10 and couldn't get enough of it. The day Dale Sr. Passed was absolutely the worst day I had in my life up to that time. I have a lot of appreciation for this content you are bringing to us
    Thanks 👍

  • @andrewpieniazek2097
    @andrewpieniazek2097 2 года назад +5

    I remember watching qualifying and paid so much attention to it sounding different and what they were saying about it, I think I was 11 years old, so neat looking back now

  • @kenreilly5308
    @kenreilly5308 2 года назад +10

    I saw that car live running at the July 4th 400 that he dominated. It sounded awesome live.

    • @Jeffgordonfan24hesthegoat
      @Jeffgordonfan24hesthegoat 2 года назад +1

      I bet the air smelled amazing 💪

    • @mikelliteras397
      @mikelliteras397 2 года назад

      It did for sure, it might as well have been a spaceship. It put Stirling on the map. Couldn’t get near his trailer after that race

  • @horsepower711
    @horsepower711 2 года назад +14

    When they brought this car out I knew that the sound was the exhaust configuration, and even showed a couple of guys how it was because we ran the same basic system on our limited super modified, we used CSC over the top headers that were separate banks and put the merge collector and about 18 inches behind them connected the two exhaust pipes together with the same 4" diameter tubing the rest of the exhaust pipes were made from. People were going nuts trying to figure out what the secret was with even a few thinking we had a trick 180° flat crankshaft from Chevrolet racing and we tried to tell them they didn't exist, it was even said that the engine and it's components were super trick NASCAR stuff since the same person built our engine that had built engines for a several time championship Winston West team. It was sure a lot of fun using the team's motto of "if you don't hear a new rumour by 11:00 a.m. start a new one". We would then bet how long it would take to get back to us, and how many changes had been done to it.😏😎😇

    • @c2jones
      @c2jones Год назад

      Yes, and the "sounding like an IndyCar" thing had to be totally coincidental. An IndyCar is designed entirely different (mid-engine, etc.) and thus this trick was solely to do with this particular configuration.

  • @craigmaverick
    @craigmaverick 2 года назад +2

    I totally remember watching this car and hearing it back then! It was awesome!! That yellow Subaru brat is sweet!!

  • @mickeythomas2206
    @mickeythomas2206 2 года назад +8

    Sterling was one my favorite drivers meet him Texas motor speedway took pictures with him got him to sign few things love to see him start the car 🏁🏁🏁

  • @sickstringbender1364
    @sickstringbender1364 2 года назад +3

    I have been watching for a long time now and can say as a child of the 80's and 90's this is the information I always wanted to know...just a little late. keep it coming cause I cannot get enough!

  • @mikelliteras397
    @mikelliteras397 2 года назад +2

    Thanks so much for this, brought back some great memories to an old guy that’s stuck in a wheelchair these days. 👍👍

  • @j.t.cooper2963
    @j.t.cooper2963 2 года назад +2

    👍🏻😎 The car that started the whole street car X-pipe craze back in 1995.

  • @jimhaines8370
    @jimhaines8370 2 года назад +24

    Yes having Sterling there would be great, I do think Morgan McClure racing really was under rated in history

    • @Stapleton42
      @Stapleton42  2 года назад +3

      They absolutely were. The outliers doing their thing way out in Virginia…

    • @jebediahgentry7029
      @jebediahgentry7029 2 года назад +3

      They were very underrated until the late 90s when it became more and more expensive and necessary to have a teammate. The late 90s until now pretty much killed the teams running only one car without the same budget as the bigger teams.

  • @gwmcklintock
    @gwmcklintock Год назад +3

    Remember that car and hearing it for the first time. It reminded me of pulling truck called the Country Pumpkin. Sounded a lot like it. It was more of a scream than a roar. That truck was absolutely ear-shattering.

  • @chrisheinen9628
    @chrisheinen9628 2 года назад +4

    Mitchell & Logan, can’t wait to see more.

  • @hockeyfanmn
    @hockeyfanmn 2 года назад +1

    Watching these videos is a racing fans version of "Behind the Music" type of show...nice to see the stories behind it all!

  • @matthewconti79
    @matthewconti79 Год назад +4

    The guys who built the cars and engines back then were so freaking smart to be able to find ways if making more hp or downforce. I’m sure a lot of people think they’re just ‘country bumpkins’, but I’ll put their brains and ingenuity up against any other form of racing.

  • @evelkoloski
    @evelkoloski 2 года назад +13

    WTF That yellow Subie Brat dude!!!! epic lil ride!!! Have not seen one in that nice of shape since they were new!

  • @v4yt126
    @v4yt126 2 года назад +2

    The knowing smile on the engineers face tells you this man knows man many more things:)

  • @81casperflip
    @81casperflip 2 года назад +7

    I'm just glad that car still exists. And it's still painful to watch that 96 Talladega crash

  • @gldndomefan
    @gldndomefan 2 года назад +8

    Hey Mitchel, i commented on an earlier video about visiting the shop one time when they unload the wrecked car. That is it! Same wreck, etc. SO cool they rebuilt it! amazing video man!

    • @Stapleton42
      @Stapleton42  2 года назад

      That’s awesome I wish I could have seen it back then too

    • @gldndomefan
      @gldndomefan 2 года назад

      @@Stapleton42 I have finished the video now and that would be cool if Sterling could fire it up! I was just in Bristol and then thru Abington on the way home. See their last shop has military trailers all over now. I been to the shop before that too w/ my uncle. Memories are foggy there so cant wait to see that video!

  • @MotoMatt
    @MotoMatt 2 года назад +4

    Superspeedway cars are like huge science projects.

  • @dekesone1
    @dekesone1 2 года назад +4

    Great video. Brings me back to the greatest era of NASCAR and the superheros of the day. I miss Sterling, Dale, Rusty, Mark. The Labontes, and so on. Plus the cars had so much more attitude than todays

  • @artieaudio77
    @artieaudio77 2 года назад +1

    So cool seeing this. I built my 89 lx drag car in 98 with long tubes and dr gas xpipe setup. Car sounded amazing no other car had my sound back then. Haha

  • @jayh4185
    @jayh4185 2 года назад +4

    That's going to be awesome to see him start that car. Can't wait to see it.

  • @danieldoroff6723
    @danieldoroff6723 2 года назад +5

    man I appreciate pretty much all the old nascar stuff, but as more of a technical guy I'm so excited to see all the little things they did to the heads and manifold!

  • @ryanlagoda1352
    @ryanlagoda1352 2 года назад +2

    Another piece of Stapleton Autoworks internet GOLD! Cool as hell!! And YES get Sterling to fire that badass up!

  • @joeyjojojr.shabadoo915
    @joeyjojojr.shabadoo915 Год назад +4

    Stuff like this is incredible. As much as I loathe RUclips culture and what it has become, I wish it was around in the 80's so that we could get more guys such as WW2 Vets talking about their experiences like we are able to get Golden Era NASCAR (late 80's to 90's for me anyway) talking about their tricks and Engineering secrets. It's one thing to hear them talk on something like Dale Jr's Podcast, but it's a complete other story seeing the equipment and listening to them talk with their sly smiles while doing so, remembering the old days. GREAT JOB documenting some of these amazing men that came from a different time all together. It's a shame to lose these men to history, but that doesn't mean we have to lose them entirely.

    • @Stapleton42
      @Stapleton42  Год назад

      We agree completely man. These videos are done with the intent to be viewed by future generations as an archive of sorts!

  • @Slinger43
    @Slinger43 Год назад +3

    Very cool! I bleed Petty Blue & have since 1966, but I bout cried like a 5yr old when Coo Coo's boy won Daytona 😂👍 So this was a treat for me! Thank you.
    Btw, heard awhile back that Sterlin's health wasn't good, hopefully he is doing better these day's 🙏

  • @davidcallender3784
    @davidcallender3784 2 года назад +4

    Once again all I can say is thank you. Keep up the nostalgic road for us older people. (And the younger to get the bug).

  • @dukenukem1682
    @dukenukem1682 2 года назад +2

    I pass by this shop occasionally and could see the 95 car and the early 2000s car from the road. I thought about getting some pictures and sending them to you. Glad you made it up to this neck of the woods. The Daytona winning Lumina was in the MM Chevrolet dealership here in town last time I was by there.

  • @dave-r
    @dave-r Год назад +2

    This was awesome. I remember this car and the sound of it.

  • @gettygetman
    @gettygetman 2 года назад +4

    Incredible video! This is THE car that made me a Sterling Marlin fan. My grandfather took me to watch the 95’ twin 125s at Daytona. 8 year old me fell in love with that yellow number 4 leading the pack.
    It is so cool to get a closeup look at this car. I always thought they junked it after that Talladega wreck.
    Great work on this video. You earned a sub. 🤘

  • @timberace77
    @timberace77 2 года назад +8

    You have my vote for a follow up with Sterling starting the engine. Great content.

  • @jesseemullen
    @jesseemullen 2 года назад +2

    So glad it was restored. I was worried it would've been sent to the junker after the Diehard 500

  • @mikemaccracken3112
    @mikemaccracken3112 Год назад +5

    I remember Bobby Labonte flipped his car at Daytona and reviewed the x-pipe exhaust. A local late model racer showed up the track the following week and I heard the car and knew immediately what he did. It was definitely worth some horsepower.

  • @backinblck1
    @backinblck1 2 года назад +5

    I definitely miss the sound of these cars. I like the new ones but these sounded so much more like a world class racecar. we need to go back to this.

  • @alanunseld4942
    @alanunseld4942 2 года назад +4

    sterling is the coolest met him at a winston cup preview one year

  • @knightnrmer
    @knightnrmer 2 года назад +2

    I remember this .... it was the greatest time of racing .

  • @htalbott1899
    @htalbott1899 2 года назад +2

    Damn that's the cool stuff, sterling was always one of my favorites.l really thank you for all you do. I am 75 years young and have been a nascar fan since the late 50s the history is great.

  • @thewilfords4602
    @thewilfords4602 2 года назад +3

    This is awesome i live in Bristol it’s my hometown. Grew up at the track when my dad was the Cleanup Crew Foreman in the 90’s. I know everything about around here.

  • @bigwater52
    @bigwater52 Год назад +3

    Man i found your channel in rehab, one night and you posted the texas snow storm content. Didn’t know anything about y’all. I’ve been here since, enjoyed the yellow belly content, race week in the red suburban. And now into the nascar glory days. Keep on keeping on

    • @Stapleton42
      @Stapleton42  Год назад +1

      Thanks dude we are glad you’re into the variety!

  • @puzzicat5395
    @puzzicat5395 6 месяцев назад +2

    Stapleton42 I was there, I went to practice in Daytona in 95 and saw every thing!. Excellent Documentation!🏆

    • @puzzicat5395
      @puzzicat5395 6 месяцев назад +1

      Stapleton42, I’m the same age as the guy who has the Winston Cup Museum, I live in Ormond Beach Florida. The Birthplace of Speed! I live 20 minutes away from The Daytona International Speedway. My first experience there was the 1970 24hrs of Daytona. What a great experience it was! My first cup race was the 1974 Daytona 500. Which really was a 450 mile race because of the Energy Crisis of that era, after Petty won the race I found myself in the garage area and found Donnie Allison, Coo Coo Marlin and Gary Bettenhausen! I was lucky enough to get there Autograph! After that I was Hooked on NASCAR! But the best part of this is that now like you. I have a Son that from 6 weeks has been to the track and Now lives in Mooresville N C and is now a Professional team member at Legacy M C Racing! My boy has hit the big time, he’s living his dream as a professional engineer! I hope maybe you can meet him one day because we got a lot of great pictures and stories. For example, I was in Earnhardt’s pit in 2001 and during the 125s before the checkered flag dropped on him for the last time🏁! Yup and more! PuzziCat

  • @JONISTI1
    @JONISTI1 2 года назад +3

    I first heard this car at Talladega in the July race 1995. The sound was mesmerizing... oh at Sterling won that race as well... That was the last July Talladega race... it was a damn hot day then wow....I still got blisters on my butt from those old metal seats in Anniston tower

  • @rockykingrea1252
    @rockykingrea1252 2 года назад +5

    I was at Talladega when he ran that car. I listened to him ask the shop to put two radio antennas on the car when they got back to the shop. He was behind Mark Martin in a caution and saw that Mark had 2 antennas on each top corner of his back window. Sterling was talking on the radio about how cool he thought it looked. Man those were the days.

  • @HammerPowered
    @HammerPowered 2 года назад +5

    It's something how iconic this car became because of how it sounded. And it sounded great. Cool that it was the one that set the tone, literally, for 20 years.

    • @Stapleton42
      @Stapleton42  2 года назад +1

      Great way to put it

    • @johngarneau4073
      @johngarneau4073 2 года назад +1

      And I am fortunate to have that exhaust setup from their engine shop.

    • @horsepower711
      @horsepower711 2 года назад

      The only thing is they didn't come up with the idea. Larry even says in the interview that they were contacted by "Mr.Gas©" a company that had been using the idea for years on street vehicles, and our race car (limited Super Modified) had used it in a compressed due to space and over the top headers since 1984. But they were the first in NASCAR to use it.

  • @justinholder9678
    @justinholder9678 2 года назад +3

    The way you are bringing all of this NASCAR history together is AWESOME!!!

  • @thumplife792
    @thumplife792 2 года назад +2

    I saw this car as a teen back in the 90s. It was in a Marsh parking lot outside of Concord Mall in Elkhart Indiana. The truck driver was just backing it out, and we pulled in before anyone else arrived. We talked to the semi driver for quite a while and he was gracious enough to let us really stick our heads in the car and get a good look at everything. I still remember how the steering wheel felt when I grabbed it. It wasn't what I expected.

  • @paulvonauth7254
    @paulvonauth7254 2 года назад +9

    I managed machining at Roush Racing back in the time frame of Mark Martin, he drove the Valvoline 6 car, all the performance, and cheating was in the intake manifold as he touches on, followed by the cylinder heads, I machined many of both items.

    • @TheLocalLt
      @TheLocalLt Год назад

      Any truth to the idea that when Roush started running five cars, the 16 (Musgrave), 26 (Benson) and 97 (Little) were basically R&D cars for the 6 (Martin) and 99 (Burton), or did the performance gap have more to do with the multiple campuses Roush was operating out of at the time? Or maybe neither?

  • @edwardgiesbrecht7796
    @edwardgiesbrecht7796 2 года назад +3

    Very interesting! Would like to see the old car collection in the Mclure shop

  • @greasyhandsauto-shaunbutte9726
    @greasyhandsauto-shaunbutte9726 2 года назад +2

    Dr Gas, (I won’t say his name, out of respect for his privacy.) is a friend of mine. He’s a smart dude and the nicest guy you could ever meet. He told me, Marlin would win Dayton and he was right. He also said he was nervous to weld on that thing.

  • @jebediahgentry7029
    @jebediahgentry7029 2 года назад +2

    Yes yes yes! Let's start a campaign and get Sterling in that car again! This was the era I grew up with. The 1995 Daytona 500 was the very first race I ever watched and seeing that car just brings a smile to my face. We have to get him back in that car. I LOVE what you are doing with this channel man, keep it up!!!

  • @howabouthetruth2157
    @howabouthetruth2157 2 года назад +5

    This video was priceless!!! Learned a lot about some of the crafty little tricks they used to make this team & their cars such a force to be reckoned with on the super speedways back then. Wow........thanks guys! And YES, it would be awesome to have Sterling fire this bad boy up for the first time in decades!!! Looking forward to the intake & heads video that helped Ernie win the '91 Daytona 500!!!

  • @kennyfofo
    @kennyfofo 2 года назад +6

    Mitchell thanks for preserving these stories because you can tell these men love to tell their stories to someone that is truly interested in what they have to say. Great content!!

  • @robertcates4066
    @robertcates4066 2 года назад +2

    That would be awesome, love to hear this run!!!

  • @bobmurica4174
    @bobmurica4174 5 месяцев назад

    This was a great video. I remember Sterling being so fast in this 4 car. So nice of Mr. McClure to take the time to talk too. I miss those days of NASCAR.