I grew up by Rockingham motor speedway in the late 60 thru the 80s. I actually had a pair or them coka cola pants Bobby Allison's pit crew wore. I was 10 years old at this race and want to thank my gear head dad for raising me at the ROCK both tracks. Cool stuff. 👍👍🏁🏁
Even if it is a bit fuzzy. Watching this is a 100 times better than todays crap with much much better announcing too. Cars are kick ass cool. And they had style. No (cookie cutter) template cars here. These cars sound much better also/big block iron. I was overseas at this time in Uncle Sam's Canoe Club. Thanks so much for posting.
See, you say that but you absolutely would be whining like a baby if today's racing were a field full of nobody's who before even reaching double digit lap numbers were already being passed by leaders. And Logano, Hamlin, Busch, & Larson unless none of them finished. You'd complain so much without it ever occurring to you it's exactly what you're nostalgic for here.
@@joshuapowers4623it was just better more exciting not as much rules all about horsepower today they like to keep them all bunched up. Back then it was much more by the seat of your pants racing not all big Corporation backed.. go back and listen to Buck Baker's interview those races were much more people based and not corporations. That alone makes it much better than today's racing
What you don't see on those cars are all the spoilers. These cars had minimum down force on the front and rear. They could follow each other nose to tail and the car would not pickup and Aero push, nor would they get loose if somebody got on their bumper. That is the biggest problem with todays cars. They are too reliant on downforce.
I'm halfway through this and....no one has wrecked anyone else, and lapped traffic is getting out of the way. No cookie cutter cars. The announcing is so refreshing...without the nasal twang of Jeff Burton. This is NASCAR racing at its grass roots.
We have very similar story's, Watching a a Nascar race with my dad and working on cars with him from the time I could walk. Pops died a few years ago but I carry on the tradition with my son and still use the same tree to pull engines. You would think the old tree would be dead from all the antifreeze,oil and contamination over 4 generations but its as strong and healthy as ever, lol ..
Just SOMETHING about these Old ABC Broadcast that makes it very Relaxing to watch. Its the reason why I spens SO MANY Sunday Afternoons watching NASCAR and INDY Car in the 1970's
Absolutely agree. Takes me back to my childhood. Me and dad watching races and fights. Good times and good memories. As you get older, you realize life is just a collection of fleeting moments....and its hard to live in that moment as its happening. Memories( and youtube😄) is all we have when its said and done.
Good memories with my friends and family at Rockingham . Back in the day ,when the cars that raced on Sunday looked like the cars that you drive on Monday. With not a seat in the grand stands. Now nobody is seated on the backstretch anymore. No legacy names in the field.
Thanks for the excellent audio/video quality on this upload. It's a gem to get a clean window into the past like this and see those stunning cars. Regulations must've been practically non-existent. Allison, Isaac, and Petty were passing the field like they were standing still on the bottom lane. 3rd place Vandiver finished 13 laps down! Also, crazy to see the pit crew naked out there with no firesuits or helmets, with gas splashing everywhere. Would've been nice for the broadcast to keep the viewer better informed on lap times and intervals, but I get it that it was 1972. Love these classic uploads and please keep them coming!
I am so glad to see this video! When I first became a NASCAR fan Bobby Isaac was my guy. I remember seeing this race when it was first broadcast. Sadly, this was his last Cup win. He left the K&K team before the end of the season.
Woah. How is that allowed?! I am so happy things like this don't happen anymore. So much for the "good" old days. I'm so grateful for modern day NASCAR.
People like you are why NASCAR is dying. You can't bring back people from the dead. And if NASCAR had kept the old cars, and stuff like that, people would've gotten bored of it. Be grateful that NASCAR still exists.
The fence ends at turn four, we hoped over the wall at the end of the race and went down into pit road. Steep banks, carrying a big orange over sized cooler and make are way onto pit road. 94, I think. Earnhardt won. Wat a day to experience.
That shouldn't surprise anyone that Bobby Allison & Junior Johnson qualified faster than anyone else. That is two of the best NASCAR has ever seen or will ever see. Bobby could beat you in ANY make of car. Even think he has won in more different makes of cars than anyone. GOD BLESS BOTH of those LEGENDS.
Junior Johnson was instrumental in bringing Chevrolet back into NASCAR with the first gen. Monte Carlo with Allison behind the wheel. That car’s livery was iconic. Eventually, the Colonnade style mid-size GM cars were adopted by various teams in the mid to late 70’s and Chevrolet never looked back
Great broadcast. Cameraman almost didn’t find the winner with half a lap to go..was tracking second place car?? A bit dodgy there I must say. Classic Americana. A pleasure to watch.
They never clarified the issue with the tire compound. Maybe Bobby Allison was running on a soft compound which might explain his run from the back to the front. The moment the Commentator said it was a long race... Allison's engine blew up. Coincidence?
Wow, Bobby passes away a week or two ago and the first thing I see is Bobby in the 12 car, what kind of deal did Jr. make? Well I move the video to the 55 minute mark and Bobby is leading and then he is headed behind the wall.
So I have a question. When did NASCAR stop being a stock car and start being a steel tubed framed car with panels? After watching the Southern 500 in 1985 with Bill Elliott's Ford's. I think his car is a real production vehicle but I can't be sure.
That's what happens when you don't fit speed limiters... the fast cars and the brave drivers win. Not just a procession driving round following eachother ..
I have always loved vintage Nascar and drag racing from the muscle cars era. 👍 Please check out my 1968 Barracuda fastback powered by a rowdy 512 stroker backed by an A833 4 speed manual. 👌 I think you'll approve.
If I remember correctly, Bobby Issac was running a HEAVILY restricted Hemi. Petty and most, if not all, of the other Chrysler drivers had switched to wedge heads due to the crazy restrictions Nascar was putting on the Ford and Chrysler hemi style heads post 1970. After reading through the ridiculous lengths Nascar and the NHRA went through to make regulate Chevorlet into competitiveness, I have zero respect for the brand! Add in Junior Johnson admitted those Chevorlets were less than legal and received special helpand it's no wonder Chevorlet finially was getting slightly competitive here and there.
@@JerryGoad-y7cThey didn't restrict Chevorlet, they plain out looked the other way and let them cheat so more fans would come to the races because Bill France was tired of Ford and Chrysler dominating the 60's and early 70's. Chevorlet didn't hardly win anything post 62 until NASCAR began the restrictor plate era and regulated the crap out of the intake systems of the Fords and Chrysler. Add in the 427 wasn't that great of a motor, that didn't help them either. Quite simply put, Chevorlet just couldn't run with Chrysler and Ford when the competition was unrestricted during the 60's. Chevorlet only wins when the sanctioning bodies bend the rules to benefit them. That is true beyond NHRA and NASCAR. Chevy is a wannabe....
NASCAR is pure shit now for several reasons. I started watching in the 1970s and the last race I truly enjoyed watching was the 2005 Daytona 500. I haven't really watched since.
Nobody tell him American car brands were shitting themselves back then because much better brands from the outside (Toyota) were selling a much, much better product
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I grew up by Rockingham motor speedway in the late 60 thru the 80s. I actually had a pair or them coka cola pants Bobby Allison's pit crew wore. I was 10 years old at this race and want to thank my gear head dad for raising me at the ROCK both tracks. Cool stuff. 👍👍🏁🏁
IT IS SHAME THEY STOPPED RACING THERE
Love all those cars ever racing
Elerby
@@Gabedudley1 Benny Parsons neighbor hood
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Even if it is a bit fuzzy. Watching this is a 100 times better than todays crap with much much better announcing too. Cars are kick ass cool. And they had style. No (cookie cutter) template cars here. These cars sound much better also/big block iron. I was overseas at this time in Uncle Sam's Canoe Club. Thanks so much for posting.
See, you say that but you absolutely would be whining like a baby if today's racing were a field full of nobody's who before even reaching double digit lap numbers were already being passed by leaders. And Logano, Hamlin, Busch, & Larson unless none of them finished. You'd complain so much without it ever occurring to you it's exactly what you're nostalgic for here.
@@joshuapowers4623it was just better more exciting not as much rules all about horsepower today they like to keep them all bunched up. Back then it was much more by the seat of your pants racing not all big Corporation backed.. go back and listen to Buck Baker's interview those races were much more people based and not corporations. That alone makes it much better than today's racing
Back then when people weren’t whining about low horsepower racing
What you don't see on those cars are all the spoilers. These cars had minimum down force on the front and rear. They could follow each other nose to tail and the car would not pickup and Aero push, nor would they get loose if somebody got on their bumper. That is the biggest problem with todays cars. They are too reliant on downforce.
@@joshuapowers4623aw shucks. Get out there on that early 70s Ford pickup and help shack some speedy dry on the track so we can get back to racin'.
I'm halfway through this and....no one has wrecked anyone else, and lapped traffic is getting out of the way. No cookie cutter cars. The announcing is so refreshing...without the nasal twang of Jeff Burton. This is NASCAR racing at its grass roots.
Yes in deed! CHEATING at its finest!
@@Woodrats272xp. Prove it.
Don’t have to. They pretty much admitted to it!
@@Woodrats272xp If its not in the rule book its not cheating.
And NO computerized schitt......just brains & know-how..
The Voice of College Football doing a pretty damn good job at NASCAR! Keith called a number of races in the Early 70's.
KJ was the ultimate professional!
Lots of crossover. Eli Gold was simultaneously the voice of Alabama football and MRN/TNN Motorsports for a time
I watched this race with my dad. Four years later, I joined the military. In 2007, I buried my dad. Miss those times.
poor guy wanna Likes?
We have very similar story's,
Watching a a Nascar race with my dad and working on cars with him from the time I could walk. Pops died a few years ago but I carry on the tradition with my son and still use the same tree to pull engines.
You would think the old tree would be dead from all the antifreeze,oil and contamination over 4 generations but its as strong and healthy as ever, lol ..
Just SOMETHING about these Old ABC Broadcast that makes it very Relaxing to watch. Its the reason why I spens SO MANY Sunday Afternoons watching NASCAR and INDY Car in the 1970's
Absolutely agree. Takes me back to my childhood. Me and dad watching races and fights. Good times and good memories. As you get older, you realize life is just a collection of fleeting moments....and its hard to live in that moment as its happening. Memories( and youtube😄) is all we have when its said and done.
Thank you for these great classic Nascar race's, can't tell ya how much I enjoy watching them again some 50yrs later!
Love Rockingham..Meeting up at Hardee's, then stopping at Jesse's on the way to the track Sunday morning was the best.
Awesome looking coupes with monster V8s - loving it! Greets from Aussie.
I loved Keith jackson during the color back in the day
Especially considering he was a stick and ball guy. Great voice and great commentator.
Good memories with my friends and family at Rockingham . Back in the day ,when the cars that raced on Sunday looked like the cars that you drive on Monday. With not a seat in the grand stands. Now nobody is seated on the backstretch anymore. No legacy names in the field.
Please bring this track back!
the issue is the track can be rebuilt but nascar is hopeless
Bring these CARS back!
Thanks for the excellent audio/video quality on this upload. It's a gem to get a clean window into the past like this and see those stunning cars.
Regulations must've been practically non-existent. Allison, Isaac, and Petty were passing the field like they were standing still on the bottom lane. 3rd place Vandiver finished 13 laps down! Also, crazy to see the pit crew naked out there with no firesuits or helmets, with gas splashing everywhere.
Would've been nice for the broadcast to keep the viewer better informed on lap times and intervals, but I get it that it was 1972.
Love these classic uploads and please keep them coming!
Awesome stuff, keep 'em coming!
I am so glad to see this video! When I first became a NASCAR fan Bobby Isaac was my guy. I remember seeing this race when it was first broadcast. Sadly, this was his last Cup win. He left the K&K team before the end of the season.
Bobby is super underrated.
I absolutely loved this; I saw this race on ABC the day it aired.
Wide World of Sports?
I was there that day in the stands turn 2, cool windy day I remember. I was 15 years old at the time!
Petty, Allison, and others legends. Greetings from Brasil, São Paulo
I think 1:01:20 shows just exactly how far we've come as a sport. That is the most 70's thing I've seen in this whole video
Woah. How is that allowed?! I am so happy things like this don't happen anymore. So much for the "good" old days. I'm so grateful for modern day NASCAR.
This is when racing was so good.
This is the stock car racing I fell in love with. I don't watch it anymore.
People like you are why NASCAR is dying. You can't bring back people from the dead. And if NASCAR had kept the old cars, and stuff like that, people would've gotten bored of it. Be grateful that NASCAR still exists.
@@sonnypruitt6639 The funniest part of it all is that people like you two NEVER explain what it is that you miss so much.
1:01:20 look at this. HOW is that allowed!? "I miss the old days" my butt!
recommend watching Talladega 2009 race
The fence ends at turn four, we hoped over the wall at the end of the race and went down into pit road. Steep banks, carrying a big orange over sized cooler and make are way onto pit road. 94, I think. Earnhardt won. Wat a day to experience.
Keith Jackson and Chris Economaki are the announcers with Gary Campbell as a reporter.
That shouldn't surprise anyone that Bobby Allison & Junior Johnson qualified faster than anyone else. That is two of the best NASCAR has ever seen or will ever see. Bobby could beat you in ANY make of car. Even think he has won in more different makes of cars than anyone. GOD BLESS BOTH of those LEGENDS.
He's won with more teams than anyone else, but I believe he's tied with Buck Baker for most manufacturers won with (8 each).
Bobby Allison and his car owner, Junior Johnson could hardly stand each other that year. They narrowly lost the championship that year to Petty
Right. They were not buddies.
It was only business @@AmericanFlyOnTheWall
The track is currently being renovated. I live a few miles south of the track. Hopefully it will bring back some good racing.
Are they still running any races there, loved that track, been 4 times
That's great news! Hopefully they will bring this track back!
I don’t know why but seeing this as most popular race so far for NASCAR Classics is just funny to me.
Real NASCAR!!!
FOR DAMN SURE "REAL" NASCAR...BETTER THAN THAT SHIT "NOW"......I Call nascar now "CRAPCAR".....
Bobby Isaac is a kinda forgotten racer. You watch these old races,and he was ALWAYS in the mix.
Wow Dave Marcis in his early years, just his 5th season in Cup at the time. I believe Darrell Waltrip debuted that year, but not in this race.
@37:56 Petty's fuel man gets a serious dousing of racing fuel in his eyes.
great video. Use the de-interlacing to clean up the blurry elements.
Junior Johnson was instrumental in bringing Chevrolet back into NASCAR with the first gen. Monte Carlo with Allison behind the wheel. That car’s livery was iconic. Eventually, the Colonnade style mid-size GM cars were adopted by various teams in the mid to late 70’s and Chevrolet never looked back
Dang, J.J. got busted and B.A. playing along. Outstanding!
i was 10 in 72,great times.👍
Anyone noticed that one if Jackie Oliver's sponsor was Fosters Lager?
Bobby Allison was not messing around!
He did have the advantage of better tires. Keep that in mind.
Richards line was just smoother than everyone else.
Out of 30 something cars at least 20 drivers are bobbys and buddys
I miss Keith Jackson 😢
His voice was certainly a familiar one in our household growing up ..mostly due to college football. What an icon.
LXL: Keith Jackson
Analyst: Chris Economaki
Reporter: Gary Campbell
My buddies said we will jump over the wall and go down into the pits, race is over Dale won, climb over the wall in turn four, the banking is steep.
Back when they ran real cars...
Even then they weren't off the show room floor "real cars". They were purpose built chassis with factory panels, floor pans, and deck lid.
And cheated like crazy!
15:34, I swear I heard someone in the background say..." These bulky sons o bitches."
Ya something like that. I heard it too. 😂
Damn looked like the gas man on Petty's 2nd stop for left side tires. Took a bath in gas. Pretty sure it got in his eyes.
Rodger Penske tried to save this track when he bought it. NASCAR is the one who buried it!
Great broadcast. Cameraman almost didn’t find the winner with half a lap to go..was tracking second place car?? A bit dodgy there I must say. Classic Americana. A pleasure to watch.
This is an awesome Sunday break for my Dad that busted ass 6 and half days a week. Somehow we all became mechanics before we drive (legally).
A Good buddy of mine, His uncle went to this race, He was like in his late 20s(The Uncle)
They never clarified the issue with the tire compound. Maybe Bobby Allison
was running on a soft compound which might explain his run from the
back to the front. The moment the Commentator said it was a long race...
Allison's engine blew up. Coincidence?
Incredible Monte Carlo vs charger vs all the cool body styles
31:41 do you wish AJ was here?
Bobby Allison - I like for everyone to be there when I win.
The GREAT Keith Jackson.
Wow, Bobby passes away a week or two ago and the first thing I see is Bobby in the 12 car, what kind of deal did Jr. make? Well I move the video to the 55 minute mark and Bobby is leading and then he is headed behind the wall.
The banking is steep 30 degrees maybe.
I Like 1971 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Iconic Generation 2 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Beginning Of Modern Era
So I have a question. When did NASCAR stop being a stock car and start being a steel tubed framed car with panels? After watching the Southern 500 in 1985 with Bill Elliott's Ford's. I think his car is a real production vehicle but I can't be sure.
Donnie Allison reminds me of what had happened at Daytona 500 in 1979. Don got into a tussle with Cale Yarborough!!! Big time cat fight!!!
3 laps in and they were lapping the feild
That's what happens when you don't fit speed limiters... the fast cars and the brave drivers win. Not just a procession driving round following eachother ..
21:37 Allison out here pulling Tyler Reddick saves. Just legendary handling
Bobby Allison fish tailing in the turn, pushing Baker up the track and never let up...drove that thang like a scalded dog
1994. When , this track is the best one mile fast track. When this guy beat Tony S. Matt K.
Great race
Absolutely unreal that there wasn't two junk race cars at 21:03.
It ain't where you start, it's where you finish
Bring back the rock!
The world was so big and free back then
Bobby drifting thru the turns.
This was racing. I don’t know what it is today but it’s nothing that it was.
Heh, DONNY Allison. It's DONNIE. It's 1972 though, I'll let it slide.
Guauuu Dale Earnhardt appear? was a superstar !
Damn the year i was born
well its a 427 against the hemis what did you expect
That moment when Donnie jinxed Bobby...
Awesome, but please use de-interlacing when encoding!!!
To bad Bobby and junior never got along they would of won many championships
The Rock. Bobby Isaac laps the field
Looks kinda like a traffic jam driving into the junkyard.
Ron keslowski? Hmmmm....
Brad's uncle.
There is nothing like a piece of USA bullshit in 2024. Love every minute of it.
She went a kaboomm
45:45
I have always loved vintage Nascar and drag racing from the muscle cars era. 👍 Please check out my 1968 Barracuda fastback powered by a rowdy 512 stroker backed by an A833 4 speed manual. 👌 I think you'll approve.
look what happens to the 426 hemis when gm fixed the crank oiling on the 427 chevys bye bye
If I remember correctly, Bobby Issac was running a HEAVILY restricted Hemi. Petty and most, if not all, of the other Chrysler drivers had switched to wedge heads due to the crazy restrictions Nascar was putting on the Ford and Chrysler hemi style heads post 1970.
After reading through the ridiculous lengths Nascar and the NHRA went through to make regulate Chevorlet into competitiveness, I have zero respect for the brand! Add in Junior Johnson admitted those Chevorlets were less than legal and received special helpand it's no wonder Chevorlet finially was getting slightly competitive here and there.
Is always a rocket scientist, I'm not gonna go back and forth with you.. That's why you gotta restrict the chevy's because they run so d*** good
@@JerryGoad-y7cThey didn't restrict Chevorlet, they plain out looked the other way and let them cheat so more fans would come to the races because Bill France was tired of Ford and Chrysler dominating the 60's and early 70's.
Chevorlet didn't hardly win anything post 62 until NASCAR began the restrictor plate era and regulated the crap out of the intake systems of the Fords and Chrysler. Add in the 427 wasn't that great of a motor, that didn't help them either.
Quite simply put, Chevorlet just couldn't run with Chrysler and Ford when the competition was unrestricted during the 60's. Chevorlet only wins when the sanctioning bodies bend the rules to benefit them. That is true beyond NHRA and NASCAR. Chevy is a wannabe....
Drivers love it.
The Cars......is why I quit watching a long time ago.
Real cars, real nascar.
f fiberglass bodies w stickers.
the ruination of the sport.
Man, I love the actual cars here rather than the bullshit cars today that look all the same.
10
lol no wonder petty won so many races. theres only a handful of drivers in this race anyone would even know. Bunch a field fillers for sure.
The Rock
Cool
NASCAR was so cool before they let Crapanese Toyota in
HA HA HA.....Crapanese LOVE THAT MrDvsuton....FUNNY AS HELL MY FRIEND......
NASCAR is pure shit now for several reasons. I started watching in the 1970s and the last race I truly enjoyed watching was the 2005 Daytona 500. I haven't really watched since.
Nobody tell him American car brands were shitting themselves back then because much better brands from the outside (Toyota) were selling a much, much better product
The Jap cars are not the reason NASCAR sucks now.....its the people running the organization
Toyota Camera are real cool muscle car. The old Nascars are the best!
👍🏁🏁👍
This was Bobby's 37th and final career win. R.I.P to a great racer
RICHARD PETTY THE GREAT OF ALL TIME ⏲️ I WAS JUST 10 OLD BUT I CAN REMEMBER WATCHING 👀 ON 📺 I LOVE THIS VIDEO USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 THE GREAT 👍🏽 COUNTRY I LOVE THE UNITED STATES 🇺🇸 OF AMERICA AND Nascar
I was 10 years old
There are more commercial breaks during this Then on regular tv. nascar SUCKS HERE as bad as it does on tv.!
LOOK I RACED FOR MANY YEARS AND ANYBOY WHO DOS NOT THINKS BOBBY ALLISON IS NOT CHEATING I HAVE A BRIDGE TO SALE YOU, CHEATING IS NOT WINING...SAD
Cheating is winning as long as you don't get caught.