Shout out from a 50 year old man that had a dad that raced these kind of cars at 311 Speedway in Madison, North Carolina in the late 70s and early 80s. He and his partner turne a Ford Falcon into a tricked out, useless spoiler overridden car. Good times! Thank you for posting!
Great slide show, I grew up on asphalt racing in the 60's and 70's ( because that's what the local track was) , love the old school racers! Thanks for sharing.
1973 through 1993, why is the time I was going to see the late models and what a rush!! Jimmy bickerstaff Glenn gault, Tommy Jarrett, Bob wearing, Dave Hoffman. These guys could run with anybody in the country in their division
Nice to see the old Ed Sanger 95..Gary Webb 56..Curt Hansons 9...those were the good old days..i was probably about 5(1978) when dad started taking me n my 3 step brothers to Dubuque fairgrounds almost every sunday and occaisionally to Farley..on fair race nights back then,the drivers would give kids rides around the track a couple times..the first couple years my dad made me go with my older brother in the car he chose..i remember riding with Ed Sanger and Greg Kastli..i was about 7 when i got to ride without my brother n pick my own driver..Gary Webb made a fan out of me for life lol..he actuall got on it in the corner just enough to get the car angled to slide a little,to experience a taste of what its like.. remember being scrunched under the roof sitting up on the deck hugging the roll bar..that blue and yellow 56 could actually b the car..i even got to go to the yankee before hawkey downs changed to asphalt..i remember seeing Billy Moyer in that old black 21 thats in the pic..i still love seeing latemodels n going to dirt races..they're a different kind of exciting these days,but nothing compares to the old school cara and races,for sure!
Roger Poindexter. #23 late model Glen Jones. yeswe used to go to rens. crown point (Broadway). and in 1982 eldora for the world 100. I remember paul shafer, bill davis, larry owens bob line, etc.
I was at the 1982 World 100. Mike Duvall in the F1 Flinstone Flyer, took home the trophy. Yes I remember those names and a few more. Ron Hekkema and Bob Pierce. Now Bobby Pierce is dominating the dirt tracks and is a World 100 winner.
This is what I remember when my first brother in law took me to the dirt track in about 84 or so...now the dam modified street class look like hobby or 9to1 cars.
the camaro was the trick in late model racing back then because of the leaf springs plus they had a front suspension that had great geometry. i ran a camaro for 10 years. won a lot of races.
From '87 to about '92 I used to build Corvette aluminum bodies for a figure 8 team I was working with. The style after the "coke bottle" shaped cars. We took second place in the Track Comp. Class at Detroit's AutoRama custom car show. One of the biggest in the country. Then we won in Toledo, Ohio. Then topped the year off with a track championship.
Yes sir and them ol boys actually had to drive their cars. I would love to find some of Leon Archer(222) and Baldwin Buck Simmons(41). If you know of any, please leave me a message on this video. Thank y'all.
Just wanna say thank u 2 the person who uploaded this I haven't seen race cars like this since I was a small kid some of my most early memories r being with my dad at my local dirt track in toccoa Georgia my dad has passed but I can still remember what it was like and me sitting behind the really big steering wheel that was in his 68 Camero it was a beautiful blue with the letter 7a I'm crying cause all these memories have just flooded my mind I wish he was still here so we could watch this video again thank you for the video
Allup Enyaface I don't recall the name but anyone who was brave enough to run a Ford against all those Camaros must have been a man of high self confidence & highly skilled as a racer.
These are early 1980s. The end of metal bodies. Replaced by plastic panels that are easy to replace. Homemade cars ended with the use of race car chassis built for this purpose. I remember well as my uncle raced late model stock cars at this time.
sledrelics I almost forgotten about old Brewster Baker aka Kenny Rogers... I loved that movie as a kid.(6 pack). He ran #49 Camaro, I might just go and look that up and see if it's available to watch on u tube
I plan on actually replicating the sixpack car I have a good bit of it already I have a rolling chassis and I'm going to be putting the Vintage spindles on it tomorrow
@@forwarddrive4066 I was a kid when that movie came out. Hardees fast food chain had a promo going on, and were giving 1/64 scale die cast "6 pack" car truck and trailer! I LOVED that movie.
@40-44 sec the red D7 corvette I believe is Jerry Inmon's 4x4 car, note the small lug pattern on the front wheel. Photo at Pontiac Superdome spring 1982
He was the greatest. One Sat night at Cherokee, they were having a benefit race. He raced hard all evening. Won his heats. Won the main. Then sold 3 lap rides around the track for $20. He rode people all night to raise funds.
Those were my late models growing up. some of them..man!!! how outlandishly ridiculous some of those set ups were; wings, plexiglass all around, huge spoilers. theyll do anything to get that edge to win. The 70s late models were better, those were true late models. sat down low. very wide rear tires and almost a bicycle size left front on Novas, Chevelles, Chevy II's, Vegas, sometimes a corvette here and there.
Oh yeah back when the car you bought on the showroom had the balls to race. Show me a late model today, they don't exist. You can use a glorified name and call them super late models, they still have no resemblance to any late model you can buy on the showroom.
Great pics of days gone by. Really miss them.
Love the old school hand lettering, before the artistic sign painters were replaced by sticker slappers! Fun slide show to watch! Thanks!
Old school is the best I miss those days!, good job!
Love these pics.back before they were called late models they called them super modifieds
Shout out from a 50 year old man that had a dad that raced these kind of cars at 311 Speedway in Madison, North Carolina in the late 70s and early 80s. He and his partner turne a Ford Falcon into a tricked out, useless spoiler overridden car. Good times! Thank you for posting!
What was his name we ran at 311 /rainbow/Southern speedway and caraway when it was dirt
Great slide show, I grew up on asphalt racing in the 60's and 70's ( because that's what the local track was) , love the old school racers! Thanks for sharing.
the best era of dirt racing
A few of those are from cedar lake in Wisconsin Tom Nesbitt Egersdorf brothers Terry Lefner Fegers brothers
1973 through 1993, why is the time I was going to see the late models and what a rush!! Jimmy bickerstaff Glenn gault, Tommy Jarrett, Bob wearing, Dave Hoffman. These guys could run with anybody in the country in their division
Nice to see the old Ed Sanger 95..Gary Webb 56..Curt Hansons 9...those were the good old days..i was probably about 5(1978) when dad started taking me n my 3 step brothers to Dubuque fairgrounds almost every sunday and occaisionally to Farley..on fair race nights back then,the drivers would give kids rides around the track a couple times..the first couple years my dad made me go with my older brother in the car he chose..i remember riding with Ed Sanger and Greg Kastli..i was about 7 when i got to ride without my brother n pick my own driver..Gary Webb made a fan out of me for life lol..he actuall got on it in the corner just enough to get the car angled to slide a little,to experience a taste of what its like.. remember being scrunched under the roof sitting up on the deck hugging the roll bar..that blue and yellow 56 could actually b the car..i even got to go to the yankee before hawkey downs changed to asphalt..i remember seeing Billy Moyer in that old black 21 thats in the pic..i still love seeing latemodels n going to dirt races..they're a different kind of exciting these days,but nothing compares to the old school cara and races,for sure!
Wow! So freaking cool! Brings me back to 12 to 15 years old. Thank you! Grew up a huge Jeff Purvis dirt race fan. Miss these days.
Man I miss these cars.
So many Corvettes👀I had no idea!...and I really miss the second gen F bodies, they all got used up.
Dick Potts #92 was a racing legend in the Midwest. May he rest in peace. Thanks for the pictures!
Roger Poindexter dick was awesome. my dad used to race against him 2 or 3 nights a week in central indiana. sadly i cant find any of those photos.
Who is your Dad? I use to go to Rennselear (sp?) and Henry's Speedways every weekend. Would occasionally go to Kankakee and Broadway Speedways too..
Roger Poindexter. #23 late model Glen Jones. yeswe used to go to rens. crown point (Broadway). and in 1982 eldora for the world 100. I remember paul shafer, bill davis, larry owens bob line, etc.
I was at the 1982 World 100. Mike Duvall in the F1 Flinstone Flyer, took home the trophy.
Yes I remember those names and a few more. Ron Hekkema and Bob Pierce. Now Bobby Pierce is dominating the dirt tracks and is a World 100 winner.
#49 Bud Lunsford Greatest of all time !!!!!!
This is what I remember when my first brother in law took me to the dirt track in about 84 or so...now the dam modified street class look like hobby or 9to1 cars.
Late 70's, early 80's Camaro were the best looks LMs!
Go. Ronnie
Weedon
In western NY, we used to call these, "Super Stocks" before they evolved into Late Models
Thanks for posting......very cool pics!!! I remember a lot of them.
the camaro was the trick in late model racing back then because of the leaf springs plus they had a front suspension that had great geometry. i ran a camaro for 10 years. won a lot of races.
The old school, before the wedge cars were the coolest.
From '87 to about '92 I used to build Corvette aluminum bodies for a figure 8 team I was working with. The style after the "coke bottle" shaped cars. We took second place in the Track Comp. Class at Detroit's AutoRama custom car show. One of the biggest in the country. Then we won in Toledo, Ohio. Then topped the year off with a track championship.
Bet that camaro with the Sprint Car Wing was begging for horsepower
So much cooler than the homogeneous over-decorated cars you see nowadays.
amen to that brother!!!
Yes sir and them ol boys actually had to drive their cars. I would love to find some of Leon Archer(222) and Baldwin Buck Simmons(41). If you know of any, please leave me a message on this video. Thank y'all.
I agree, these cars actually were identifiable as to what they are. The LMs you see now, they all look the same, can't tell what they are.
Just wanna say thank u 2 the person who uploaded this I haven't seen race cars like this since I was a small kid some of my most early memories r being with my dad at my local dirt track in toccoa Georgia my dad has passed but I can still remember what it was like and me sitting behind the really big steering wheel that was in his 68 Camero it was a beautiful blue with the letter 7a I'm crying cause all these memories have just flooded my mind I wish he was still here so we could watch this video again thank you for the video
That was when racing was still fun
Well done! Thanks for the upload.
Anybody remember Joe Meriden? Drove a 67 mustang? Badass driver.. #M22 on the doors
Allup Enyaface
I don't recall the name but anyone who was brave enough to run a Ford against all those Camaros must have been a man of high self confidence & highly skilled as a racer.
These are early 1980s. The end of metal bodies. Replaced by plastic panels that are easy to replace. Homemade cars ended with the use of race car chassis built for this purpose. I remember well as my uncle raced late model stock cars at this time.
Yes and I found out that a friend is getting inducted into late model hall of fame.curt Hansen along with another all time great Iowa driver ed Sanger
Wish l could find one to restore
Joe Robinson from Carolina speedway(NC). Won over 100 races with a blue #27 camaro. He was almost “too clean” of a driver.
What! No Brewster Baker!
sledrelics
I almost forgotten about old Brewster Baker aka Kenny Rogers... I loved that movie as a kid.(6 pack).
He ran #49 Camaro, I might just go and look that up and see if it's available to watch on u tube
@@forwarddrive4066 One of my all time favorite movies. Don't forget about stroker ace(Burt Reynolds) or greased lightning (Richard Pryor) The best.
I plan on actually replicating the sixpack car I have a good bit of it already I have a rolling chassis and I'm going to be putting the Vintage spindles on it tomorrow
That would be super cool!!
@@forwarddrive4066 I was a kid when that movie came out. Hardees fast food chain had a promo going on, and were giving 1/64 scale die cast "6 pack" car truck and trailer!
I LOVED that movie.
@40-44 sec the red D7 corvette I believe is Jerry Inmon's 4x4 car, note the small lug pattern on the front wheel. Photo at Pontiac Superdome spring 1982
Silverdome, but whose counting . . .
I’d forgotten about that! Must have been a flop because I never heard of anyone else running a 4x4 late model!
Bob senneker Mike Eddy Winchester Speedway in Indiana collecting beer cans under the bleachers that was the good old days
Mike Duvall at 1.58!
SkyPuncher R.I.P. Flintstone Flyer.
He was the greatest. One Sat night at Cherokee, they were having a benefit race. He raced hard all evening. Won his heats. Won the main. Then sold 3 lap rides around the track for $20. He rode people all night to raise funds.
I'm pretty sure that it's Louis Lilliston driving the B&L Seafood car at the 4:42 mark. He was the owner, and I don't remember anyone else driving it.
0:24 dayum that rear lip lmao
Bosozoku fellas may be into something
Those were my late models growing up. some of them..man!!! how outlandishly ridiculous some of those set ups were; wings, plexiglass all around, huge spoilers. theyll do anything to get that edge to win. The 70s late models were better, those were true late models. sat down low. very wide rear tires and almost a bicycle size left front on Novas, Chevelles, Chevy II's, Vegas, sometimes a corvette here and there.
Somemof these look like Eastbay raceway, I think I recognize some cars.
I saw Seaford Delaware track too
here in the west coast that's a hobby stock
The first songs better than the cars
Oh yeah back when the car you bought on the showroom had the balls to race. Show me a late model today, they don't exist. You can use a glorified name and call them super late models, they still have no resemblance to any late model you can buy on the showroom.
They're called super stocks in my area and they're just like older late models. Just more modernized but they still ressemble a showroom car.
was camaro a mandatory body style or something for late models?
I don't think so, but it had the correct wheelbase & the SBC engine had best support for parts & good oval track engine.
@@buckyteel4129 leaf springs
Iowa oldies race car mid 90s
Looking for iowa driver and there mid 70s race cars
Duvall 💪🏼
COOL !!!
WHERE THE HELL'S THE MUSIC.
Looking for Portsmouth Ohio speedway 2003 bombers to 2007 pitcher's looking for 7xdonnie hall thanks his Dad