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
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
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.
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 .
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
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.
@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.
+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.
My dad took us to Michigan International Speedway to see NASCAR and Indy races every year when I was kid. I remember all these cars and drivers. Real NASCAR.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
Around this era, NASCAR was starting to embrace various racing technology (if you want to call it that) that other forms like Drag Racing, SCCA, F1, had been using for awhile. They weren't anything like they are today. NASCAR was playing catch-up to other forms of racing, especially Drag Racing.
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
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.
It's mainly because of the Fuel Bottle's method of docking to the Fill Pipe feeding the in-car Fuel Cell, not because gas was considered cheap. It also had a lot to do with the training and strength of the Gas Man; at around 8lbs/gallon, these bottles were heavy when full!
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!
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.
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!
I love generation 2 from 1970 through 1980 seen that 358 cubic inch V8 motor later in 1981 they introduced Generation 3 from 81 through 1993 it was a good time in NASCAR Winston Cup Series I see Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Bill Elliott and Jeff Gordon era the modern era 1972 through 1993
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.
I sure loved the cars of yesteryear (with the exception of the Bird, that is, as it really wasn't fun knowing who was going to win all the time). Fun seeing how brutal the pits were, too.
+Mark - I'd like to see an outer, high speed exit lane for the pits. Put a row of bollards down the middle, far enough apart for the cars to pass through at an angle and when they get out there they can floor it. Next change, do not count caution laps! A 500 lap race should actually include 500 laps of *racing*. Since most pit stops take place under caution, when they aren't actually *racing*, the positions should be locked during cautions. Very easy to do now with the position trackers they have in the cars. During red flags work on the cars should be allowed, like it is at small tracks across the land. When things get so wrecked up the track is impassable and 1/3 of the cars are tore up, it makes sense to let everyone drag their heaps back to the pits and spend a fast 30 minutes trying to get them ready to run again.
You know, I remember watching those races until the birds got outlawed. Well, like I told my Ford friends...Ford could make one too if they wanted...but they didn't and had the Mopars outlawed. They had to make at least 500 of them to be available at dealerships to qualify. I didn't have a license or money then as I was a kid but man...walk into a Plymouth dealership and drive out in one of those? Only in America. I miss those days.
Pirate Labs Your wrong ford came out with an aero car in 71 to compete with the winged cars and nascar decided to ban them all as it was getting crazy. Ford torinos did win a few races against the winged mopars also.
Michael: No, I believe you are incorrect Sir. Look it up. nascar made the decision to ban the Bird in 1970 for the 1971 season so, a 1971 Ford aero car was not involved at all. Edit: Also, Ford would have had to make 500 or more production models to have it qualify so, show me some of those cars? I have never seen nor heard of a Ford Super Bird type production vehicle.
@richintalent ...and that Matador was bad fast.....it was a Roger Penske car driven by both Mark Donohue and Bobby Allison. First stock car with 4 wheel disc brakes. They won a lot of races with that thing....
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.
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 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.
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
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
AWESOME video. The team riding on the car carrying the stars n' bars at :42 is vintage NASCAR to the core.
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.
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 !
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
Real cars Real men Real fast fun
Now a days its worse
And real music
And racism
@@initialdfan8352 ratio
I remember those Saturday afternoons on wide world of sports...fondly
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
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
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.
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
1949-1966 were the best years IMO
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...
SOOOOOO much better than today!!!
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.
Charger's,Chevelle's,GTO's! Love them!
Dangerous to work in those early NASCAR pits...
Back when they looked like real cars... love it.
There was more excited in this 4 minute video than there has been in the last 15 years of NASCAR and all their chUmpionships!
Roller by April Wine. One of the best underrated Canadian bands ever.
THESE WERE THE DAYS !!!
This was when stock car racing was interesting.
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.
So much better than today. This is racing.
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.
Chrome bumpers!
April Wine & 70s nascar works for me.
My dad took us to Michigan International Speedway to see NASCAR and Indy races every year when I was kid. I remember all these cars and drivers. Real NASCAR.
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.
Now this is what I call racing! Hell yeah :D v8 city
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
Petty's 43 Dodge Charger was one sweet looking hot rod. Miss that very much.
That was a Superbird.
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.
OMG this is why i love musce cars!! :D
ALL of these cars are now classic collectibles to drive on the street..............Today's NASCAR cars are all the SAME damn car.
King Richards 43 Charger was a delight to see cruising around the track.
Imagine that, "Stock Car" racing used to involve Stock Cars!
I can't stand it when people call them NASCARs....... They are stock cars!
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.
Now that is the way car races should be!!!!!!
Ahh, the 1970s...when Nascar really meant something...even though I wasn't even born! xD
Lol. Same
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.
For me, the charger and the talladega are the sexiest cars in the nascar's history!!
0:20 - Richard Petty ?
Around this era, NASCAR was starting to embrace various racing technology (if you want to call it that) that other forms like Drag Racing, SCCA, F1, had been using for awhile. They weren't anything like they are today. NASCAR was playing catch-up to other forms of racing, especially Drag Racing.
That was just what I needed right now ( old school)
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
Song is not before the dawn but "Roller"
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
Buenisimas las imagenes y excelente musica!!!! Valen varioooos like!!!👍👍👍👍👍
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
Love it! I miss this stuff so much!
It's mainly because of the Fuel Bottle's method of docking to the Fill Pipe feeding the in-car Fuel Cell, not because gas was considered cheap. It also had a lot to do with the training and strength of the Gas Man; at around 8lbs/gallon, these bottles were heavy when full!
Totally agree, NASCAR drivers are some if not the best RACER"s in the world. You don't just drive a Sprint Cup car, you RACE it!!
@ 1:46 I'm guessing there's a NO SMOKING sign somewhere behind the camera? =P Awesome vid
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!
these were the good days of nascar
and bring dodge back to NASCAR
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
When the cars actually looked nice
The pitt stops look much more chaotic than F1 !
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.
best days of my life
The music just makes this video!!
i bet the stop pit smelled like gasoline, exhaust fumes, and burnt clutch discs... man those were the days
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!
0:31 First and Second Generation Monte Carlo's in the same race. Sweeeeet!
Old school nascar & April Wine can't be beat!
Badass vid. Insane that there was no pit road speed limit, that's fuckin reckless. love it
Richard Petty was my hero in NASCAR
Win on Sunday sell on monday
my night cap good work real racing
so next year we'll have an Impala, a Fusion, and a Camry that'll look like their street-non V8-version. WOW, cant wait
This is real racing! Over powered bad handling, no brakes! This is what racing should be!
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!
damn superbirds took his air
@richintalent
#12 in those clips....the coca-cola car....Bobby Allison
the #22 coca cola car shown in some clips was also BA in Rossi's ride.
Thanks, great video!
Very nice clip !!!!!!!
Love the April Wine. Great Canadian band.
no pit road speed limit.....took some balls to be a crew guy back then.
Yeah and look at shitcar now
nice cars!
Those were the days
@richintalent #12 was Bobby Allison back in the '70's before he drove the Matador
So fuckin gritty and hardcore. This is how NASCAR should be...now its F1 with a roof
I love generation 2 from 1970 through 1980 seen that 358 cubic inch V8 motor later in 1981 they introduced Generation 3 from 81 through 1993 it was a good time in NASCAR Winston Cup Series I see Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Bill Elliott and Jeff Gordon era the modern era 1972 through 1993
Hello Albee....Wow that's sad..Sadly..I just got rid of (sold) a piece of Holman Moody NASCAR history too.
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.
I love this video.
good song
thank dude, very nice fotage
I sure loved the cars of yesteryear (with the exception of the Bird, that is, as it really wasn't fun knowing who was going to win all the time). Fun seeing how brutal the pits were, too.
+Mark - I'd like to see an outer, high speed exit lane for the pits. Put a row of bollards down the middle, far enough apart for the cars to pass through at an angle and when they get out there they can floor it.
Next change, do not count caution laps! A 500 lap race should actually include 500 laps of *racing*. Since most pit stops take place under caution, when they aren't actually *racing*, the positions should be locked during cautions. Very easy to do now with the position trackers they have in the cars.
During red flags work on the cars should be allowed, like it is at small tracks across the land. When things get so wrecked up the track is impassable and 1/3 of the cars are tore up, it makes sense to let everyone drag their heaps back to the pits and spend a fast 30 minutes trying to get them ready to run again.
You know, I remember watching those races until the birds got outlawed. Well, like I told my Ford friends...Ford could make one too if they wanted...but they didn't and had the Mopars outlawed. They had to make at least 500 of them to be available at dealerships to qualify. I didn't have a license or money then as I was a kid but man...walk into a Plymouth dealership and drive out in one of those? Only in America. I miss those days.
Pirate Labs Your wrong ford came out with an aero car in 71 to compete with the winged cars and nascar decided to ban them all as it was getting crazy. Ford torinos did win a few races against the winged mopars also.
Michael: No, I believe you are incorrect Sir. Look it up. nascar made the decision to ban the Bird in 1970 for the 1971 season so, a 1971 Ford aero car was not involved at all. Edit: Also, Ford would have had to make 500 or more production models to have it qualify so, show me some of those cars? I have never seen nor heard of a Ford Super Bird type production vehicle.
@richintalent
...and that Matador was bad fast.....it was a Roger Penske car driven by both Mark Donohue and Bobby Allison. First stock car with 4 wheel disc brakes. They won a lot of races with that thing....
Yessssssssssss, very good video!!!!!!
That was real racing
High quality bad assery right here
Classic American racing with a classic Canadian soundtrack
what is the band soundtrack?
Enmanuel Vargas April Wine is the name of the band.
Awesome