1962 Daytona 500 (Original)
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- Опубликовано: 1 янв 2014
- I do not own the copyrights to this video. This is the 1962 Daytona 500 that I had on a VHS. It comes from a VHS set called "The Golden Era of Racing". If you know anything about this set please tell me because I would like to buy more volumes from the set.
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I've got the '62 Daytona Race 500 program with Fireball Roberts signature over his photo along with Richard Petty's too. My father got the autographs because back then, they'd sign in the pits after the race. Petty would win his first 500 in '64. I grew up in Daytona, and went to school across the street from Smokey Yunick's garage. The 60's were some great years for stock car racing.
Glen 'Fireball' Roberts and Smokey Yunick,what a team!
The Pontiac won but was later disqualified the year after because NASCAR hated Pontiac. The end of Pontiac for a while in NASCAR.
@@fnpoovey Actually it was the 1963 GM Racing Ban that ended Pontiac's Dominance of NASCAR - to me mostly sour grapes that Pontiacs were leaving chevy's in their dust - Yet Ford and Chrysler kept racing
Don't forget the great Pontiac and it's 421SD.
I was there as an 8 year old kid watching from the infield on top of Dad's new '62 Rambler station wagon!
Amazing! Car keys in the ignition, roll up windows, stock steering wheels with rope taped around it for grip, short sleeved shirts and no gloves. My how things have changed! That was stock car racing!
+81zed No doubt. These big ass men had balls of steel. Old biased ply tires, no power steering, no "cool suits" (that was a T shirt or short sleeved shirt" , inside of the car reeked like exhaust, heavier cars with big blocks. You had to be a gorilla to man handle these beasts and tough as shit to handle 500 miles in these hostile conditions. Sure, it was more dangerous but these bad ass old school drivers knew the risks. And names like "fireball roberts". Shit, NASCAR has no flair or excitement anymore. It's corporate, boring, lame ass bullshit. Just my opinion but I havent watched it since about 2000
wrotenwasp I could not agree with you more. Those early days were really the glory days of racing. Look at the cars that Smokey Yunick built. The 7/8 scale Chevelle and the Yellow Banana Ford Fairlane were epic! And they were allowed to race them!! Maybe that was one of the reasons for the regulations put in place today. The areo wars between Chrysler, Ford, and Mercury was simply short of amazing. We'll never see anything like that again, ever. Can you believe the 1970 Plymouth Superbird running around Talladega at well over 200 MPH had DRUM BRAKES?? All of them did. Those were the days. Now it's just BIG corporate dollars and how much money they can pour into it and still make a profit.
81zed that's the era I grew up in, I miss it
Why don’t they have races like this now days?
Can we go back to this please? Pure gold.
Love to see Smokey in this Vid and see his car win. Amazes me how so many said he was a cheater. But his views are the same as mine and just about any other racer I know, "If the rules don't say it's illegal, I must assume it's legal"
DoubleVisionandco he didn't cheat, just built better equipment at the time, I talked to him, I really respect him, sad he's gone, still love " The Best Damn Garage In Town"
Smokey's philosophy was, "You build a car, I build a car, we race them." He got out when all the political bullshit started (standardized this, that and the other) He believed (as I do) that if you don't win, build your next car faster. Requiring/disqualifying certain methods/devices was anathema to him. Destroyed the spririt of racing.
mescko yep
DoubleVisionandco When I dabbled in racing many years ago in Central Florida I had an old time racer named Don Crites tell me “Son, there’s two kinda racers....cheaters, and losers.”
@@mescko Smokey got out of NASCAR after working Day and Night for Months to build his 1966 Chevelle that would have Blown away Factory Sponsors Fords Mercury Chryslers and Plymouths,, He put his hear and Soul into that Car ..and is was as smooth as a Turtle underneath Flush mounted windows removed door handles ect.. a Bumper that hung lower tot he ground ..
Not to mention NASCAR was letting Ford Factory cars get away with 28 Gallon gas tanks when 22 gallons was Legal
2:00 All American makes! That's what I'm talking about!!
I believe the 1962 Daytona "500" was the first to be televised by ABC's "Wide World Of Sports", taped and edited for showing the next weekend.
Does a videotape or kinescope of that telecast exist? And if so, could it be put up on You Tube?
Best damn garage in town! Also see 1981 Daytona 500 genius!
At the 3.20 mark i'm sure he has the insurance papers in the glove box..That was a lot of fun watch..Thank you..
From 3:00-3:35, there were three spins and/or crashes that could have, and frankly should have brought out the caution flag. Buck Baker's crash even tore down the guard rail. Yet, the caution flag never once came out in this race, making it the third time in the first four runnings of the Daytona 500 that the race went caution-free. And there were probably some incidents in the 1961 Daytona 500 that should have drawn cautions, but never did. But there was something about the officials not wanting to throw the caution flag when it was warranted back then, because the same thing transpired in the 1963 Southern 500 at Darlington, as there were incidents in that race that should have brought out the caution flag, yet that race also went caution-free.
Extraordinary how whoever controlled these tapings 50+ year's ago didn't allow him to also show the OTHER motorsport NHRA, AHRA, IHRA. It was just as big as NASCAR in the 60s and 70s. A real racibg fan back then liked ALL sanctioned body's.
Racing in T shirts, OMG!
..and he won 22K. Won’t even cover the tires these days.
uhhh you can buy a whole set for 2k lol
What was Ford and Chevy running in 62? 409 Chevy and Ford 406???
Almost the same exact track configuration of the current AMS
Erirre resemblance pit road and dogleg bump in trun 3
3:12 just like cars
Stock Car racing in its purest form.
So l stil watch old nascar at 7 pm
Eso sí eran pilotos no llevaban nada de medidas de seguridad
3:19
So did they play music or something??
???
Is George AlsoBrooks wreck here?
Nope.
When men were men and not the girly boys of today.
Not to sound dumb, I was born in 85, didn't watch Nascar until the end of 01, but they didn't have in-cars then did they? That's a re-enactment right? 3:10
Actually they did...it was just heavily undesired. The camera weighed a ton and was usually in the way. So for movies and promotional vids like this they would pay back markers to run it. For them the pay was better than where they would finish without the weight so it was ok. This was used for the 1965 movie redline. In fact there is footage of the camera car for that movie in some ABCwide world of sports races. Try finding races from 65 and see if u can find it...I remember seeing one of the "camera" cars I think in one of the Darlington races that year.
Also check the infamous 1962 Atlanta race....there was 3 separate companies covering that race. The company that did this race ...dynamic, then ABC in black and white, and a shock company...I think royal or regal was the company. So in each others camera cars were seen in the others broadcast.
@@MichaelBarrJr Thanks! One Mike to another! We should start our own sports show! lol! Have a Merry Christmas if you celebrate, sorry if rude.
@@mikeyeden5791 I would love to do a podcast one day...merry xmas to you as well!
It was 16 mm arriflex cine camera. I worked for the man who installed and operated them for nascar
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Thanks Carl Fisher, from American citizen John Robert Bruffett Junior USA flags 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The Winner is a Smokey Yunick built Pontac ..
Smokey got out of NASCAR after working Day and Night for Months to build his 1966 Chevelle that would have Blown away Factory Sponsors Fords Mercury Chryslers and Plymouths,, He put his hear and Soul into that Car ..and is was as smooth as a Turtle underneath Flush mounted windows removed door handles ect.. a Bumper that hung lower tot he ground ..
Not to mention NASCAR was letting Ford Factory cars get away with 28 Gallon gas tanks when 22 gallons was Legal
All American makes! Sigh!
I hate the music and the fake tire noise.