1968 NASCAR Southeastern 500 at Bristol
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- Twelve minutes of footage of the 1968 NASCAR Spring race at the Bristol Motor Speedway (Southeastern 500). Originally aired on Bud Lindemanns' Car & Track television show, this was captured from a re-run on the old Speedvision channel.
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Steel bumpers, and real glass.
And the sound of big blocks....👍
Ya gotta love the hokey 60's music and Lindemanns' old timey dramatic narration!
I used to watch this show every Saturday. Loved it!
Thanks for sharing.
Me too! Thanks for watching.
You just do NOT see racing like this anymore. Thanks for posting this video.
What a race & finish! And all that in entirely different cars, modern NASCAR should learn from this.
Learn what? Those Plymouths and Dodges were going to evolve to look like the Ford and Mercury, themselves inspired by the '66 Dodge.
It was a 2 car race and a 2 car race ONLY lol. 4 th place was 8 laps behind, 7th place (Jack Ingram, interestingly enough) was NINETEEN laps behind, every car was on their own lap for the last quarter of the race, their were seven cars running that were over FIFTY laps behind. Typical race of the day, but, yeah, they sure were great to LOOK at. And so we came..
there is no more nascar ,its a shit show of sissified drivers wearing make up for the cameras those cupcakes could not make one lap in a real race car without pissing their panties
Cookie cutter cars and drivers, yes. How can an 18 year old be a “professional” race car driver?
+Christopher As it should be if that's what the cars do. No "Lucky Dog" or any of that crap.
Half miles are where it’s at for good stock car racing. I used to love races on the old Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway
One of 16 wins by the Silver Fox in 1968.
Thanks for posting. Great stuff.
They should bring back actual production car templates and team built engines.
Thank you for posting!
Back when drivers passed the car ahead without touching them.
500 laps at Bristol without a headrest, fresh air, window net, a spotter, gloves ...
Very few of today's drivers could survive !
Love all the old nascar it's the best David Pearson smoking a cigarette
Compression
Thanks for this post . Im from southwest Virginia & been to a few Bristol races. I only lived 20 minutes away . Moved to Ohio about 4 years ago. Last race i went to was the night race at Bristol.
I've got a few more from Bristol in the early 70's that I will UL in the future. Love that track, I have family in Kingsport.
Nothing but jealousy, must have been great, i aim to get there before NASCAR completely dies.
I keep seeing comments about how the cars really looked like "stock" cars. To be fair, if I look out over a Wal Mart parking lot today, I can't tell stock cars apart. There was more style in the bumpers of these old cars than there is in an entire parking lot of new cars. At least they are still running 60's Chevy C10 style rear suspension.
Damn. This was the last year before the 1969 reconfiguration. Looks a hell of a lot like Nashville.
And the Nashville Fairgrounds used to banked 35°
That was when NASCAR stockers looked more like the regular production cars that they were based on.
This is why I like pure stocks at the local short track. They ARE the cars we run on the streets
Would love to see a monthly race at Bristol. You could race the NASCAR modifieds, Trucks series, F1 race and even a a sprint car series. Fans would flock to this track. There is a great fan base in that area of the country
You better bet us east tennssee boys love our racing. Thats coming from a 16 year old boy who is growing up 3 miles from the track. This past August i snuck some beer in for the first time 😂
@@chucklove8709 I live in Abingdon only been to a bristol race twice though the spring nationwide race in 2012 and the night race in 2018 pass by the old Morgan McClure race shop everyday
Great drivers,great race
Great times,when NASCAR was an adequate alternative for open wheels
Pretty fitting that the East Tenn. Motor Co. car won at Bristol (which is in East Tennessee).
Yes, back then it eas almost unheard of for an outsider to win. No rules back then on practice so literally, the local guy could go every day til his pockets ran out and practice as much as desired.
It was always fitting watching the Silver Fox win no matter where it was. GOAT
@@Miatacrosser if Petty had brakes, we all know who would have won ;)
Back in the early 70's I purchased a 1969 Mercury called Cale Yarborough Special. It had a 351 Cleveland engine. Many, that thing would run! Traded my 64 1/2 Mustang fastback in to buy it. It had a 6 cyl. engine with a 3 speed on the floor. Man that car was a "chick magnet" if I only would have kept both of these. 😜
My dad had one as a Demo from the Ford/ Lincoln/Mercury dealership he worked for.
I bought a Dan Gurney Special w a 390 and factory AC. I restored it and showed it from 99-2005 when I put it in the Dean Kruse auction in Hou . I put a 35k reserve on it thinking it was protected but it sold for 36k. It has sold several times at the big auctions and was at Las Vegas Barrett Jackson in 2018. The owner was none other than Ray Evernham. But John Force wanted it too.
Nice. This classic stuff is not to be fogotten. Daredevels I say. Much safer today yet racing is high risk as ever with increasing speeds. Best bang for my buck on any weekend.
I was actually at this race 4 years old first race I ever saw
🙋♂️Bring back old Nascar. 🙏.
Petty ran half the race with no brakes and still almost won. Lets see these crybabies do that today.
These cry babies whine if the power steering goes out, back then hardly anyone had power steering
In 1968 the grandstands lined the straights. Massive grandstands now ring that track.
Mike Walters It was still like that in 1986. After that, every year they built sections in the turns until it became a huge bowl of stands all the way around the track.
This was f***ing awesome.
Man I miss being able to go to a local dirt track back then and see Torinos, Chevelles, Camaros,, Chargers, etc,. Just like what the big name guys were driving.
Cool race anyway no matter what year.
You would think someone at Speedvision would have known this race was from 1968, not 1970.
I've found several mistakes with the wrong year listed. When these shows aired it was the late 1990's. There are many more internet resources now with which to verify event dates. Then...not so much.
Just looking at the cars immediately told you what year this was. That and the livery or paint job as we used to say back then.
If there's one thing I know about TV, many a nephew and niece get jobs because they are incompetent. ;-)
Why did Bud always call Pearson, Davey? He was always David.
And notice, no spoilers, at least twice a NASCAR official retrieved a tire that rolled away in the pits and notice how much water was on pit road.
The last few laps shown were a good example of the difference between leaning on somebody and running into the back of them and knocking them up out of the groove. My how things have changed.
Every announcer had a different Nick name for the drivers
Many drivers had a lot invested in their cars, so they would take care of them. Unlike the driver of today who flies in, destroys the car and flies out, leaving the crew to work all week on getting a car ready.
And to think the same 43 and 21 teams from this race still race currently..
How do you drive Bristol with no brakes like Petty did. And contend for the win.
Lift about half way down the front stretch.
Shooooww maninho o ronco dos motores V8 é sensacional mesmo
Look! Real cars! Slow, yes. A damn sight more dramatic, yes! Are genuinely stock cars raced in a proper series in the US? I'm in England, I don't know. Oh, and thanks for posting.
Closest you can get to real stock car racing in the USA is SCCA. They have several classes for street cars including a "Showroom Stock" class.
In Nascar , very few production parts are used like the trunk lid. Nascar is a joke now . Go to a dealer and ask for rwd ,2 door, V8 Toyota Camry , there isn't one . The cars are fabbed shells made to resemble production cars. Chrysler has dropped out all together of Nascar while Toyota is all in . This does not represent the current Nascar at all and it is just sad.
Bristol a much better track when it was asphalt
Robert Dahse What is the surface now?
Concrete
Dirt
put them back on Bias Ply Tires
Poor ole Leroy Y. lost his mind and died in a rest home/sanitarium. They blamed it on a wreck he had tire testing, he just never was the same after that. He's not related to Cale Y. by the way.
Junior Johnson saw to it that Leroy was taken care of in his final years.
He contracted Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a tick bite ca. 1970 - THAT took a lot out of him, and he was never the same driver OR man after that. :-(
Those cars had drum brakes on all 4 corners too
There is an episode where Bud shows USAC STOCKS in Green Bay in late 60s. DESPERATELY trying to get my hands on it. Do you have ALL episodes? God i loved Bud THANKS
No unfortunately I don't have all the episodes. Are you sure it was Green Bay? I know they ran USAC Stocks at the Milwaukee Mile and also at Wisconsin International in Kaukauna. I'll check, but I don't believe I have that one.
I believe the race was at Kaukauna, yes, northeastern WI paved short track, Nelson, Trickle, White, JJ Smith cars in a race with cars from 1964 to, i dunno, 1968 or maaaaybe 1969. I was caught offguard with an early morning viewing of it back in 2001 after a long night shift. I taped it only to have a toddler destroy it and the others. There is an entire Facebook group dedicated to the USAC stock division that will consider this the holy grail once they see it. NASCAR bought the vids from Speed and buried them so i have to find that guy like me who loved show enough to tape them lol. Youre efforts will be GREATLY appreciated!!!!
Sorry...Went through my video list last night and I do NOT have it. Looking around online, It appears that Twentieth Century Fox currently holds the copyrights to these. I'll see what else I can dig up.
Good men are very hard to find lol. Sounds like you were/are every bit a of huge racing fan that i was/am lol. Lots of amazing pics and stories of USAC stocks from all eras on USAC Facebook page, you should check it out....THANKS! How on earth does one contact “Universal”, it CAN be done
USAC also ran at Michigan. They had what I believe was called the Twin 250. They ran a stock car race for 250 miles then they ran a indy race for 250 miles. Short but sweet.And I believe it was A.J Foyt raced in both. Had to be late 60's.
Why is the deck lid up on the 26's pit stop?
Leaf springs on those cars only way to adjust them
That 43 in dinoco blue is clearly the king
"Davey" Pearson......LOL.
Only the hottest jockeys...lol. this shit is so awesome....Such a golden era.
I didn't think Bristol had lights until 1978
Watching NASCAR videos I feelme all race driver racong on speedway at youre sid wow
Back when it was actually "stock car" racing.
Was looking forward to 1968 footage, but this is listed as 1970 on the clips itself.
Bud misidentified several cars. He says Leeroy Yarbrough and Cale Yarborough are both driving Mercurys. They were Ford Torinos in this race - looking at some of the brief video shots. Both body styles (Mercury Cyclone and Ford Torino) were very similar in '68-'69, but the headlights and grill areas shown here, and the rear tail light buckets that are blocked off are Torinos. There is the possibility that the entries submitted by the teams did state they were entering the Mercury, and maybe that's why Bud is calling them Mercurys. In other words, if you could find an offical NASCAR race results from this race, you might even see them listed as Mercurys. I don't know. But those cars shown in this video are absolutely running Torino grills and rear tail light panels - not Mercury Cyclone. During 1968 and 1969 the Wood Brothers ran both Torinos and Mercury Cyclones, and Junior Johnson - car owner for Leeroy - probably did too If I remember correctly. In '69 and '70, it was harder to tell from the front, as Ford/Mercury went to the Torino Talladega and Mercury Spoiler II front ends. Those front ends were almost identical, much more so than the different grills on the '68 Torino/Cyclone models used in NASCAR. On the '69 Talladegas and Spoiler IIs, you had to look at the tail ends, because there was a difference in tail lights between the two cars.
Actually the 1969 "w" nose Mercury Cyclone Spoiler was a real cheater car bc it was the body used by many teams but the rules said that they could only run it for 3yrs . The 71 Daytona had AJ Foyt in a 69 w nose Mercury Cyclone bc the rules allowed it to run the 427sohc or Boss429 engines which gave the car a huge advantage.
And you are right aboutthe tail lights. But the 68 cyclone is whats on the track. The tail light is different as u say but i think it may be more accurate to examine the w nose Mercury Cyclone from the front bc thats where the difference is in 68 .. the Fords dont have the "w" nose. It was flatter.
@@jamesmeadow9206 Every car in NACAR could run for 3 years... And running the 427 or 429 in 1971 was normal. More guys used the 427 because they couldn't get the 429 to work well with the restrictor plate and the 427 got a plate with bigger holes. Same for the 426 wedge, vs 426 hemi. More Chrysler guys ran the wedge and bigger holed plate because it got about 10 more HP than the hemi with the plate. Not sure why you think running legal equipment is a 'cheater car'... 69, 70, 71.. That's 3 years....
Would be a lot better without the music. Racing of any sort was a bit Holley Wood back then but still rather watch these cars than the new stuff.
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You cut out the Camaro road test!
Hey Bud a Roadrunner isn't a Super Bee.
Dodge Coronet
@@eltonspurlock No Dodge Coronets in this race...
1970?
actually 1968.... and Paul Goldsmith was driving a Plymouth, not Dodge as was announced. Many errors in this one.
The racing was so much better back then. These were the real glory days
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Petty is accurate
Bring them back! There are enough cars and replacement parts to have a fully supported classic stock car circuit.
REAL racing with REAL cars...(opening the trunk to refuel, haha!) Won’t find the pros racing “stock” cars today...
No reason nascar can’t let even the newage cars actually look like they do when they roll off the showroom, not even worth watching anymore
nascar today sucks,only american cars should be allowed in nascar......chevy ford dodge plymouth mercury pontiac...lets get back to the roots of nascar
allen daugherty where can I get one of those plymouths?
hollowpoint45acp probably the same place where you would find the Pontiac.
allen daugherty Only American cars??? Put your head deeper into the dung. You're such a pig.
Only American cars. Foreign manufacturers get the fuck out.
Toyota is more American than Dodge! Er...Fiat, umm... Mercedes??
Those shitty chevelles were ugly cars that never won a single race
They couldnt keep up with real competitors like Ford and Dodge and Plymouth
No chance you could give me a Budweiser king of the queer beer but I'd never turn down a episode of Bud Lindemann