miche turner “and they were going too fast..” is the perfect summation. Waaaayyy too fast, with nothin’ but a roll cage and some sort of seatbelt system with those open face helmets. Their balls I’m sure have so much mass they could alter the earth’s orbit.
Ian Thompson I totally relate to you. The only modern stock car racing I have any attention span for, are local races at dirt tracks. (Probably because of the sense of community.) Other than that, I could only ever get into vintage NASCAR. (Pre-1980 to be exact, with the best-looking cars being from the 50's and 60's.)
Same... I wish I was born into that era, Jesus that was some carnage but I would've gave everything to race along those legends. I guess it was also cheaper back then, you could buy a homologated car from the show room and have it prepped under a shed tree, it was some good cash but I doubt you would ever be able to do that with a Camaro today.... I can recall, the closest we have to REAL old NASCAR is Lemons and Chumpcar racing, and the Outlaws
I'm an old fart. Take it easy on me. Preferred the old NASCAR races before they all became jellybean look a like cars. When Dodge dropped out of NASCAR, I also did.
Yeah. Racing a Fusion against a Camry. My God. In Canada CASCAR has Challengers, Mustangs and Camaros doing battle. And yeah the Challenger is kicking ass. Too bad everything has no similarity to the cars you can buy.
we need cars like that again..after all of those crashes the whole car stayed intacted..try that with a car today and best belive they will be sweeping up your car for 2 miles...60's and 70's were the best muscle car Era
this was back when Men raced and the cars were also stars. the Matador, a pecular car at the time, was an AMC product buit by Penkse racing. watched it dominate the firecracker 400 in 1974 drove by Bobby Allison until he dropped a cylinder with 10 laps to go. David Pearson won that race with a wild pass and repass on Richard Petty on the last lap. dead heat for 3d between Cale Yarbrough and Buddy Baker. one of the best races I ever saw.
Best era of nascar,the older generation where lucky to watch these races.Racing in the purest form.Nascar and all other racing has become a joke nowadays including motorcycle racing
+Dave Thompson Most overrated driver ever. Everyone thinks she's cool because she's a woman, but she no better than middle of the pack most of the time. Even the worst male driver who came before her was at least that good.
Nice! that was funny! I feel sorry for her as I think she is a good driver but, whenever they say: "Oh no, spin in turn 3" it shows a car spinning and then turning right in to Danika giving her no place to go.
@Daniel Johnston I just go to the local dirt track on Saturdays and support real racing. Seems most every major series except maybe Indy and a couple others are all a complete snooze fest now.
This is when racing was real. Now when someone gets tapped, they go home and cry about it. Plus this was the true age of American Muscle. No Toyota trash back then.
I don't know much about NASCAR so I have to ask: they used regular gas back then? Because having watched modern motorsports, the way they spill the stuff all over the place looks pretty wild.
Real racing. The problem today is NASCAR became so focused on safety that it is now MORE dangerous driving to the race the driving in it! Don't take this wrong way I do consider safety important but it's taken to ridiculous extreme today. The truth is if it isn't dangerous anyone can do it and no one will watch. This is exactly what is happening, plunging attendance and TV ratings.
You are exactly right. When Dale died there was a lot of people wanting it safer. Which is completely different from what Dale wanted. He died doing something he never did block. He was always running over people not blocking. The day he died it changed Nascar forever and they new it would but no one new how at the time. But you nailed. I like Nascar but I don't love it like I use to.
I`m glad I was around during the `70s as I watched this , a lot more freedom and spirit . I also remember having to find a pay phone that worked and wasn`t greasy all over the mouth piece .
Most fearsome and solid cars that Detroit ever produced. That atmosphere will never repeat. Racers here rolling at the edge of life or lived dangerously. Great film, thank you
I cannot watch Nascar after growing up with King Petty, Smokey and Jr. To me the fun of the race was of course the drivers but I also liked the Rivalry between Auto companies. Ford vrs Chevy, Pontiac vrs Dodge, Plymouth vrs Ford and Chevy, AMC vrs Everyone. You get the Idea. Stock car races were supposed to be "STOCK" cars. Something you could buy. Now every car is the same with a sticker on it letting you know if it's a Ford or Chevy or a Toyota. Boring.
My dad had one. A 75 Matador station wagon. It was brown and looked like a pile of poo. It DID have a 360 that I wanted to drop into a lemon twist 71 Javelin that had a blown 304 and was cool. Alas my dad thought I would a) kill myself, b) amass violations and c) impregnate teenage girls (along with infuriate their fathers). The Matador.. a gateway into a high powered Hugh Hefner-ish, Richard Petty-ish mix if only for a father that would have been more...um accepting of a teenagers vision.
Ahh, those were great times... Back then, with real cars and with real drivers, not with some shapeless roll cages on wheels, with painted-over headlights. A true american sport. NASCAR really needs to return back to its roots.
I really liked racing when there wasn't the name painted on the front of a car to tell the world what make of car it is now. One could tell an AMC from a Buick from a Chevy from a Dodge from a Ford from a Plymouth from a Pontiac racing in the 50's and 60's and 70's and mid 80's.
THAT'S THE REAL SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!! When the drivers would be leaning up against their cars drinking a cup of coffee and having a smoke right before the race starts.
In the 90s NASCAR should have changed the formula from intermediate coupes to pony cars. Cars such as the 90s Firebird and Camaro would have been closer to the stock car spirit, that is, American V8 rear-wheel drive coupes. Maybe Chrysler would have brought back the Challenger 15 years earlier (and the Cuda...). In any case, today's NASCAR would be awesome, with Camaro, Mustang, and Challenger competing against each other. They are the current muscle cars after all.
I remember these years. The back and forth between Cal Yarbrogh and Richard Petty. I especially remember the race they tangled up and both went into the pitts and Cal Yarbrough ended up winning the race in a car with no front clip on it.
@@acerosstine49 You are incorrect. They were putting restrictor plates and smaller carbs on the Hemi engines till they outlawed them. That was the main reason for Petty teams cracking cylinder heads in multiple races cause they were running lean on top end and creating so much heat in the combustion chamber that they cracked the heads. In 75 when they went to the small blocks, they stopped using the restrictor plates and settled on an 830 cfm Holley for all engines. In 88 Alison almost put his Buick into the grandstands after a RR tire blow out.
kind of an evolution starting in the mid 60's on...I think the last factory cars were last used in the early to mid 80's with ground up tube frames becoming standard
Now they have to be concerned with fuel mileage....really? These are freaking race cars dammit! Soon they will have to have an emissions test before the race.
Watch any Nascar race today and then this...yeah, give me the day when the drivers were their own characters (not a "Brand" in and of themselves), you could identify the cars by shape (the days when "WTF is a 'body template'" would have been a team's response), and the cars had to be based offf of production vehicles- come on, a push rod, V-8 Camry? Best part of the races today is wrecks-the funniest part is the brain trust can't figure out why attendance is down along with TV rating. Nice job!
a valid argument can always be made that the 80's was the "golden age" of NASCAR. you had some of the best drivers ever, still driving factory cars like aerocoupes, cheater pontiacs, buick, olds, t-birds...and incredibly fierce competition by several well-funded teams. and motor-men like runt pittman, waddell wilson, ernie elliott, etc. but when it comes to all-out factory wars between Chrysler and Ford camps running dodge/plymouth/mercury/ford nameplates, 1966-70 was absolutely mind-blowing
The fact is you could go to your neiborhood car dealership and order the car you saw racing........and to qualify for NASCAR they had to make at least 500 production cars......truly NASCAR at its best!.......now days......well it's not even in the ballpark!
Back when the cars were showroom factory shells it was truly 'stock' car based not some pie-in-the-sky altered funny car like they are now....RWD V8 Camry anyone? No wonder nobody watches it anymore lol
Great video and I love the April Wine music bed. This is when NASCAR was truly exciting. Today's cookie cutter approach where every car is virtually the same is boring as hell.
Back when stock cars were real steel bodies and they were going fast too. Petty is such a legend!
miche turner “and they were going too fast..” is the perfect summation. Waaaayyy too fast, with nothin’ but a roll cage and some sort of seatbelt system with those open face helmets. Their balls I’m sure have so much mass they could alter the earth’s orbit.
Say something about Dodge.
Say something about AM C.
And those were men. No ac vents in the helmets. Smoking while filling the gas tank .
And the Aero Wars had that the very best.
There used to be a NASCAR saying, “What won on Sunday sold on Monday”. People really bought their cars based on how they performed on the track
Man I would have been so into NASCAR back then...
Ian Thompson I totally relate to you. The only modern stock car racing I have any attention span for, are local races at dirt tracks. (Probably because of the sense of community.) Other than that, I could only ever get into vintage NASCAR. (Pre-1980 to be exact, with the best-looking cars being from the 50's and 60's.)
Same... I wish I was born into that era, Jesus that was some carnage but I would've gave everything to race along those legends. I guess it was also cheaper back then, you could buy a homologated car from the show room and have it prepped under a shed tree, it was some good cash but I doubt you would ever be able to do that with a Camaro today....
I can recall, the closest we have to REAL old NASCAR is Lemons and Chumpcar racing, and the Outlaws
GOFLuvr 1980 was great as well...
GOFLuvr 1969 is where the best looking stock cars really took off for me
I'm an old fart. Take it easy on me. Preferred the old NASCAR races before they all became jellybean look a like cars. When Dodge dropped out of NASCAR, I also did.
Yeah. Racing a Fusion against a Camry. My God. In Canada CASCAR has Challengers, Mustangs and Camaros doing battle. And yeah the Challenger is kicking ass. Too bad everything has no similarity to the cars you can buy.
agreed
i agree with you
still to this day it gives me chills to see those chrysler wingcars on the track....at 200MPH!!!!!!!!!!
we need cars like that again..after all of those crashes the whole car stayed intacted..try that with a car today and best belive they will be sweeping up your car for 2 miles...60's and 70's were the best muscle car Era
Real cars Real men Real fast fun
Now a days its worse
And real music
And racism
@@initialdfan8352 ratio
I wish I could've experienced this back in the day when NASCAR was like this!!!!!!
You can get close. Go to a local dirt track race some Saturday night.
this was back when Men raced and the cars were also stars. the Matador, a pecular car at the time, was an AMC product buit by Penkse racing. watched it dominate the firecracker 400 in 1974 drove by Bobby Allison until he dropped a cylinder with 10 laps to go. David Pearson won that race with a wild pass and repass on Richard Petty on the last lap. dead heat for 3d between Cale Yarbrough and Buddy Baker. one of the best races I ever saw.
Best era of nascar,the older generation where lucky to watch these races.Racing in the purest form.Nascar and all other racing has become a joke nowadays including motorcycle racing
Roller, by April Wine, a Canadian band from the 70's and 80's.
Sad thing is. ...All those wrecks were STILL Danica patrick's fault! !
Dave Thompson Or Pastor Maldonado
+Dave Thompson Most overrated driver ever. Everyone thinks she's cool because she's a woman, but she no better than middle of the pack most of the time. Even the worst male driver who came before her was at least that good.
+Joe Snow I'm I'm total agreement my friend. ..she is a cheap novelty toy at best!
Nice! that was funny! I feel sorry for her as I think she is a good driver but, whenever they say: "Oh no, spin in turn 3" it shows a car spinning and then turning right in to Danika giving her no place to go.
This was racing! Now it's about corporations and sponsors.
Mushroom Top s
@Daniel Johnston I just go to the local dirt track on Saturdays and support real racing. Seems most every major series except maybe Indy and a couple others are all a complete snooze fest now.
Well, those were corporations already, but at least those were cars you could actually buy at local showroom, and there wasn't much difference.
@@Swoldemort500 Thats your opinion. I disagree.
Wow, the cars look different from one another! You mean the car company that builds the best car does better?
This is when racing was real. Now when someone gets tapped, they go home and cry about it. Plus this was the true age of American Muscle. No Toyota trash back then.
those cars back then were tough the cars today have shit body panels
Toyota > dodge
I don't know much about NASCAR so I have to ask: they used regular gas back then? Because having watched modern motorsports, the way they spill the stuff all over the place looks pretty wild.
Just high octane gas from union 76
Bruh obv not lmao why would they use regular gas on a race
Real racing. The problem today is NASCAR became so focused on safety that it is now MORE dangerous driving to the race the driving in it! Don't take this wrong way I do consider safety important but it's taken to ridiculous extreme today. The truth is if it isn't dangerous anyone can do it and no one will watch. This is exactly what is happening, plunging attendance and TV ratings.
You are exactly right. When Dale died there was a lot of people wanting it safer. Which is completely different from what Dale wanted. He died doing something he never did block. He was always running over people not blocking. The day he died it changed Nascar forever and they new it would but no one new how at the time. But you nailed. I like Nascar but I don't love it like I use to.
I love the Superbird with the whole crew and confederate battle flag on it!
yess
+Jack Kennedy that was a 69 charger Daytona but I know what you mean
they are ALL one of us!!!!!!!
The South Made Nascar. Confederate Flag? Totally ACCEPTABLE!!!
GOT THE SAME FLAG HANGIN IN BEDROOM WINDOW.
Dangerous to work in those early NASCAR pits...
Back when they looked like real cars... love it.
AWESOME video. The team riding on the car carrying the stars n' bars at :42 is vintage NASCAR to the core.
43 Petty Charger - still my favorite. Nothing says "Go Fast" than the angular look of that beautiful blue hot rod.
all about his 71 roadrunner
I`m glad I was around during the `70s as I watched this , a lot more freedom and spirit . I also remember having to find a pay phone that worked and wasn`t greasy all over the mouth piece .
+P J PHILLIPS We still have greasy gas pump handles : )
yaaaaaay !
Most fearsome and solid cars that Detroit ever produced. That atmosphere will never repeat. Racers here rolling at the edge of life or lived dangerously. Great film, thank you
I cannot watch Nascar after growing up with King Petty, Smokey and Jr. To me the fun of the race was of course the drivers but I also liked the Rivalry between Auto companies. Ford vrs Chevy, Pontiac vrs Dodge, Plymouth vrs Ford and Chevy, AMC vrs Everyone. You get the Idea. Stock car races were supposed to be "STOCK" cars. Something you could buy. Now every car is the same with a sticker on it letting you know if it's a Ford or Chevy or a Toyota. Boring.
Win on Sunday sell on Monday
ALL of these cars are now classic collectibles to drive on the street..............Today's NASCAR cars are all the SAME damn car.
I remember those Saturday afternoons on wide world of sports...fondly
True Stock Car Racing ! All makes , AMC Matador even!
What’s a Matador?
Don’t know about the amc javelin. AMC - American motor company matador family muscle sedan
My dad had one. A 75 Matador station wagon. It was brown and looked like a pile of poo. It DID have a 360 that I wanted to drop into a lemon twist 71 Javelin that had a blown 304 and was cool. Alas my dad thought I would a) kill myself, b) amass violations and c) impregnate teenage girls (along with infuriate their fathers). The Matador.. a gateway into a high powered Hugh Hefner-ish, Richard Petty-ish mix if only for a father that would have been more...um accepting of a teenagers vision.
OMG, a confederate flag..i'll need therapy for years
Robert G I have my Confederate flag as my screen saver. You will be ok.
But what if Richard is a man of color?
But, what if Richard is a man of color?
This was before it became offensive.
Charger's,Chevelle's,GTO's! Love them!
Chrome bumpers!
This was when stock car racing was interesting.
1949-1966 were the best years IMO
Ahh, those were great times...
Back then, with real cars and with real drivers, not with some shapeless roll cages on wheels, with painted-over headlights.
A true american sport. NASCAR really needs to return back to its roots.
Win on Sunday sell on monday
SOOOOOO much better than today!!!
and bring dodge back to NASCAR
Now this is what I call racing! Hell yeah :D v8 city
I really liked racing when there wasn't the name painted on the front of a car to tell the world what make of car it is now. One could tell an AMC from a Buick from a Chevy from a Dodge from a Ford from a Plymouth from a Pontiac racing in the 50's and 60's and 70's and mid 80's.
THAT'S THE REAL SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!! When the drivers would be leaning up against their cars drinking a cup of coffee and having a smoke right before the race starts.
I mean I still see them do it now so
0:20 - Richard Petty ?
They should have all the car makers make the cars for NASCAR instead of giving all the teams the same type of car.
In the 90s NASCAR should have changed the formula from intermediate coupes to pony cars. Cars such as the 90s Firebird and Camaro would have been closer to the stock car spirit, that is, American V8 rear-wheel drive coupes. Maybe Chrysler would have brought back the Challenger 15 years earlier (and the Cuda...). In any case, today's NASCAR would be awesome, with Camaro, Mustang, and Challenger competing against each other. They are the current muscle cars after all.
Trans am racing is what your looking for modern series has challgers camaro and mustang pony car classes.
Nascar is more of production high preformance models but would be better if they went back to original style
Cool times, Cool Cars, Dangerous, and Fun. Wish racing was like that today!
Edit: I don't want the Danger.
@@Bigtimesinsmallworld man I would race in nascar if could go 220 at dega lol
There was more excited in this 4 minute video than there has been in the last 15 years of NASCAR and all their chUmpionships!
Ahh, the 1970s...when Nascar really meant something...even though I wasn't even born! xD
Lol. Same
Music: Roller
Artist: April Wine
Awesome video , real cars and tough drivers . It aint the same anymore , for me that is . Went downhill after we lost Dale .
AMC Matador......................WHOH!
Imagine that, "Stock Car" racing used to involve Stock Cars!
I can't stand it when people call them NASCARs....... They are stock cars!
Back when Nascar was Nascar, and they used ACTUAL cars. Today's sport is so downhill, with cheap race cars.
I remember these years. The back and forth between Cal Yarbrogh and Richard Petty. I especially remember the race they tangled up and both went into the pitts and Cal Yarbrough ended up winning the race in a car with no front clip on it.
When NASCAR had REAL MEN behind the Wheels of REAL CARS. Look at that Shit, a maul and a chisel for an adjustment. HELL YEAH !!
The days of AMC's, plymouth's and no restrictor plate racing
They were running restrictor plates in the 70's.
@@dwc4343 no they did in 1988
@@acerosstine49 You are incorrect. They were putting restrictor plates and smaller carbs on the Hemi engines till they outlawed them. That was the main reason for Petty teams cracking cylinder heads in multiple races cause they were running lean on top end and creating so much heat in the combustion chamber that they cracked the heads. In 75 when they went to the small blocks, they stopped using the restrictor plates and settled on an 830 cfm Holley for all engines. In 88 Alison almost put his Buick into the grandstands after a RR tire blow out.
they should tell the teams to buy a muscle car from 60-70 and combined them with todays technology. make it the first and best race of the session!
I prefer the older nascar and the older music, and I'm only 12
Joe Fisher I prefer the older NASCAR and the older music, and I'm only in the womb
LOL
I prefer older nascar and i’m not even sperm yet.
I’m 15 I really want too go back fuck this generation
1:45 gas spilling, tells you how cheap gas was in the 70s
i bet the stop pit smelled like gasoline, exhaust fumes, and burnt clutch discs... man those were the days
i really miss that nascar!!! the REAL nascar
Stop acting like you have no sympathy for modern NASCAR. NASCAR is just as real as it was before!!!
@@makiagrigsby8211 wow i wrote this comment 11 years ago. Modern NASCAR is great yes but it's the same just because cars are not stock anymore.
@@muradxv well if NASCAR's were stock then they would not sound as great and wouldn't be as powerful. They have to be custom built for the racetracks.
When the cars actually looked nice
Just a PSA for everyone that misses the old days and real cars - Dirt tracks and street stocks still exist...AND you can watch in person, cheaply.
Great video! Cars had style back in the day. Today its all cookie cutter cars.
April Wine & 70s nascar works for me.
THESE WERE THE DAYS !!!
Song is not before the dawn but "Roller"
There is NOTHING stick about the cars nowadays.
Petty's 43 Dodge Charger was one sweet looking hot rod. Miss that very much.
That was a Superbird.
OMG this is why i love musce cars!! :D
0:20 the king in CARS
Haven't HEARD this band in a good while...sat in folding chair in Asia....shifting while listening LOUD in barracks, with race on radio in ear buds...
kind of an evolution starting in the mid 60's on...I think the last factory cars were last used in the early to mid 80's with ground up tube frames becoming standard
Back when Mopars would get banned because they beat the hell out of Ford and GM products.
Band April Wine is a Canadian rock band formed in 1969, music Roller, great great great.
When NASCAR was still manly and sexy - oh and interesting.
I miss the exhaust fumes and smoke
+James Edwards & the fuel spillage!!!
Now they have to be concerned with fuel mileage....really? These are freaking race cars dammit! Soon they will have to have an emissions test before the race.
Roller by April Wine. One of the best underrated Canadian bands ever.
Watch any Nascar race today and then this...yeah, give me the day when the drivers were their own characters (not a "Brand" in and of themselves), you could identify the cars by shape (the days when "WTF is a 'body template'" would have been a team's response), and the cars had to be based offf of production vehicles- come on, a push rod, V-8 Camry? Best part of the races today is wrecks-the funniest part is the brain trust can't figure out why attendance is down along with TV rating. Nice job!
a valid argument can always be made that the 80's was the "golden age" of NASCAR. you had some of the best drivers ever, still driving factory cars like aerocoupes, cheater pontiacs, buick, olds, t-birds...and incredibly fierce competition by several well-funded teams. and motor-men like runt pittman, waddell wilson, ernie elliott, etc.
but when it comes to all-out factory wars between Chrysler and Ford camps running dodge/plymouth/mercury/ford nameplates, 1966-70 was absolutely mind-blowing
The fact is you could go to your neiborhood car dealership and order the car you saw racing........and to qualify for NASCAR they had to make at least 500 production cars......truly NASCAR at its best!.......now days......well it's not even in the ballpark!
Back when the cars were showroom factory shells it was truly 'stock' car based not some pie-in-the-sky altered funny car like they are now....RWD V8 Camry anyone? No wonder nobody watches it anymore lol
Boycott Nascar and watch Sports Car Racing.
no pit road speed limit.....took some balls to be a crew guy back then.
Yeah and look at shitcar now
Back when men were men, and any mention of restrictor plates would get ur ass kicked!!!
Hell yes, from Halifax Nova Scotia by'
you sure about that? you must have never heard of the allison family then or cale yarbrough
@ 1:46 I'm guessing there's a NO SMOKING sign somewhere behind the camera? =P Awesome vid
For me, the charger and the talladega are the sexiest cars in the nascar's history!!
typical.. watching chevy's dust motors trying to keep up with the mopars and ford..
I love seeing those land yachts racing at high speed!
Now that is the way car races should be!!!!!!
Great video and I love the April Wine music bed. This is when NASCAR was truly exciting. Today's cookie cutter approach where every car is virtually the same is boring as hell.
3:16 anyone else find this amusing?
So much better than today. This is racing.
Back when NASCAR was worth watching!
That 43 Dodge Charger of Petty's was one mean looking 'rod.
The pitt stops look much more chaotic than F1 !
damn superbirds took his air
Car designs were better even if they weren’t as fast
When men raced cars not little boys
i love NASCAR...
3:03 I didn't know Cheech and Chong were in NASCAR...lol