You should check out the chassis EMS-128. It won 5 of the 6 races in 2006 with Kasey Kahne. I asked Ray via Twitter what happened to that car but he doesn’t remember.
Am I the only one that believes Kyle Petty could’ve had a better career had he gotten into a top tier ride at some point?I mean Larson only won 6 races in Sebates/Ganassi equipment and look what he’s doin in Hendrick cars.No I’m not saying Kyle petty is as good as Kyle Larson,but Petty could’ve been better in good stuff imo
Man I totally agree. Kyle was a good race car driver who just never could get that quality ride. I've been fortunate enough to have had 2 face to face conversations with Kyle and he is not only a good racer but a very nice guy.
Huge Kyle Petty fan, in 92 if he could have had 1 or 2 better finishes it's not out of the realm of possibility he could have had won the championship, it's a stretch but the top 5 going into that last race in 92 at Atlanta had a chance. Huge Pontiac fan but they were at a disadvantage compared to their brothers in Chevy. The 95 win at Dover was special, when he branched with Petty Enterprises in 97 with PE2 and finished 15th in points it looked like a bright future. He wasn't his father but who was? But still 8 career wins is nothing to sneeze about. Early 90's nobody was better at Rockingham than Kyle
Always love stories about particular cars. You knew when the TV announcers mentioned "Midnight" or "Blacker" that those machines would be a contender on the road to victory.
I have been a fan since 1988. I always loved the story behind the individual race cars.l Remember seeing a lot of these cars on track. I love your videosl please keep them coming.
This is some really really good stuff man. The amount of research that's required for your videos has got to immense. I hope one day someone from NASCAR finds this channel and hires you as a historian
About Jeff Gordon's car Blacker. I heard Evernham say in an interview that Earnhardt & Rusty had famous fast black cars so they decided they would build a car & name it Blacker. I can hear Benny Parsons say, "here comes Earnhardt in thar black car".......Evernham built one "blacker".
I'm very new with NASCAR, but I'm amazed how much career can a single chassis have. I've watched any other kind of motorsport and they always changed the chassis season by season. Only privateers ran old chassis and of course they were outdated by then
That thing Kyle Petty was driving was one of the best race cars Kyle ever had. Too bad they never could build a few more good ones, Kyle was pretty good in that Mello Yello 42 scheme and might have had a championship. It is interesting how both Midnight and the Duke were both Rockingham winners and Blacker was too.
Love this video. It would be interesting if we could elaborate on WHY these cars are so dominant. It boils down to a LONG list of details....stupid simple science we were all supposed to be learned in high school.Mounting points(these are NOT easily changed) for suspension geometry(easily adjusted, with a truck load of parts)and CG, and torsional stiffness, as built are the big things that define a Nascar chassis. Generally, the chassis is the Foundation on which the "magic" is built. Springs are big in the set up. A crew chief once told me the biggest spring in the set up IS the chassis(referring to torsional stiffness). Much the way that hand painted graphics has become a lost art, I believe the new car in cup will eliminate any chances for innovation or improvisation(a fading art) in our sport. This DUMBING DOWN (costing vast DUMP TRUCK LOADS of money) is what is killing this sport. The opportunity to exercise a new idea...or utilize an old one, has been eliminated. Yes, a level playing field is important(morally,to MOST fans). BUT the opportunity to bring a superior piece to the inspection line is important,(for the competitors) as well. NASCAR should focus on the SAFETY aspects,engines and tires and then throw the rag.
Man, I love love LOVE these videos! I love hearing about specific chassis and how well they did and what their careers were like. This gives me even more hope one day a nascar game that has a more in-depth career mode will allow you to not only own your teem and build cars.. but designate chassis numbers and having their own win-loss type stats. even maybe giving you the ability to have a museum like RCR, Hendricks and the like where you can display them.
Anyone actually know what ended up happening with the NWO car? I know WCW gave the car away on Nitro but I haven’t been able to find anyone who knows where it is or who owns it
Would like to see Sterling Marlin's 1995 Daytona 500 car added to this list. Won half the races it entered and absolutely dominated Daytona and Talladega in 1995 and 1996. 1995 - Twin 125 - 1st - Daytona 500 - 1st - Winston Select 500 (Talladega) - 39th. Broke a rocker arm while going for the lead. Rejoined the race 43 laps down. Helped Jeff Gordon and Morgan Shepherd run down Dale Earnhardt and Mark Martin from 10 seconds back in just 13 laps. Easily the fastest car on the track. - Pepsi 400 (Daytona) - 2nd. - Diehard 500 (Talladega) - 1st. Won from the pole. 1996 - Twin 125 - 2nd - Daytona 500 - 40th. Burned a piston while leading. - Winston Select 500 (Talladega) - 1st. Came from the back to the front 3 times and still led the most laps. - Pepsi 400 (Daytona) - 1st. Dominated and could pass anyone at will. Held off all 3 Hendrick cars by himself. - Diehard 500 (Talladega) - 29th. Crashed while racing side by side with Dale Earnhardt for the lead. This is the one where Ernie Irvan accidentally turned Sterling into Earnhardt sending both Marlin and Dale head-on into the Tri-Oval wall. Sterling's car was damaged beyond repair and never raced again. It was eventually rebuilt and today is in Larry McClure's personal collection. Stapleton42 has an awesome video about it. Just my opinion, but I think this car easily deserves to be on the list. Great video!!!!
There's some cursed ones we've been trying to look up for a future episode. There's some that were in bad crashes, were rebuilt, and then another driver died in them. Or if an ARCA driver died in a car, it's interesting to know who drove it in Cup before them.
I wish I had watched this before I went to the vintage races at mid ohio last weekend so I could have asked the guys running the rusty wallace nascar if that was midnight.
Being a Jeff Gordon fan and the 1997 October Talladega race was my first full race that I watched (and replayed over and over again), I have a soft spot for that particular 24 car raced that day, even though it was the pinball of the Big One. Based on Ray Evernham's stories, it was the B-car to the 24 that won that year's Daytona 500, so naturally it took over restrictor plate duties, but it had a rough run at it. It scraped and spun late in Daytona in July, caused the Big One with a flat left-rear at 'dega, and then returned in 1998 for the Bud Shootout in which Evernham said he'd personally cut it apart if it failed again. And what happened in the Shootout? Gordon lost it on the final restart and stripped 4th gear. So, did Evernham cut my favorite car into tiny itty-bitty pieces? I may never know!
I wonder what it is about certain chassis that make them dominant. I mean surely they were all built to a spec. I just wonder what nuisances and small differences would take a good chassis to elite status and also why it was hard if not impossible to fully replicate a particular dominant chassis.
Kyle Petty had more talent than he's willing to admit. If he had better equipment throughout his career, the history would have been very different now.
Stopped watching Nascar when our American Sport sold out to "TOYOTA" Our American nascar heritage started in 1948 no way will i ever watch Nascar again unless they remove Toyota. Wouldn't surprise me if they sold out Nascar completely to China either
You reallize forgien manufacters have been in Nascar dating all the way back to the 1950s and 60s right? Germany, United Kingdom, Italty, all of them have had at least 1 sometimes 2 and in the brits case 5 manufacturers that took part in NASCAR. Like it or not Toyota is the best selling car brand in America. They would be foolish not to run in the most popular motorsport in the country. Get your head out of your ass boomer.
Other racing series have such a hard time keeping manufacturers involved (E.g. DTM), let alone attracting new ones. Actively chasing away manufacturers is the exact opposite of what a motorsports sanctioning body is supposed to do. Also, blind loyalty to multinational corporations that outsource their labor to China and have a long history of covering up dangerous defects in order to save $11 per car is not my idea of patriotism.
You should check out the chassis EMS-128. It won 5 of the 6 races in 2006 with Kasey Kahne. I asked Ray via Twitter what happened to that car but he doesn’t remember.
If we do one on cars of the 2000s, that will be on it. I've tried to look that up too but couldn't find what happened to it either.
@@nascarmanHistory DEI plate cars from 01 to 04 as well
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Harry Gants 4 wins came in the same chassis and motor
Wait which chassis did harry Gant win the 4 in?
The rear end was canted.
Am I the only one that believes Kyle Petty could’ve had a better career had he gotten into a top tier ride at some point?I mean Larson only won 6 races in Sebates/Ganassi equipment and look what he’s doin in Hendrick cars.No I’m not saying Kyle petty is as good as Kyle Larson,but Petty could’ve been better in good stuff imo
Man I totally agree. Kyle was a good race car driver who just never could get that quality ride. I've been fortunate enough to have had 2 face to face conversations with Kyle and he is not only a good racer but a very nice guy.
I agree, Kyle Petty was not the fastest driver but could have done much better with Hendrick or Yates back then.
Huge Kyle Petty fan, in 92 if he could have had 1 or 2 better finishes it's not out of the realm of possibility he could have had won the championship, it's a stretch but the top 5 going into that last race in 92 at Atlanta had a chance. Huge Pontiac fan but they were at a disadvantage compared to their brothers in Chevy. The 95 win at Dover was special, when he branched with Petty Enterprises in 97 with PE2 and finished 15th in points it looked like a bright future. He wasn't his father but who was? But still 8 career wins is nothing to sneeze about. Early 90's nobody was better at Rockingham than Kyle
Hell no, he had little to no actual racing talent. Money has never, and will never buy skill and talent
@@Rock-Bottem1982 he won 6 races in underfunded equipment....
Freak will always be the coolest and greatest chassis in nascar history
Always love stories about particular cars. You knew when the TV announcers mentioned "Midnight" or "Blacker" that those machines would be a contender on the road to victory.
You have the most interesting Nascar stuff there is.
I have been a fan since 1988. I always loved the story behind the individual race cars.l Remember seeing a lot of these cars on track. I love your videosl please keep them coming.
This is some really really good stuff man. The amount of research that's required for your videos has got to immense. I hope one day someone from NASCAR finds this channel and hires you as a historian
Immediately the song hyped me up lol
About Jeff Gordon's car Blacker. I heard Evernham say in an interview that Earnhardt & Rusty had famous fast black cars so they decided they would build a car & name it Blacker. I can hear Benny Parsons say, "here comes Earnhardt in thar black car".......Evernham built one "blacker".
I'm very new with NASCAR, but I'm amazed how much career can a single chassis have. I've watched any other kind of motorsport and they always changed the chassis season by season. Only privateers ran old chassis and of course they were outdated by then
Damn Brock you really are bringing back my childhood a video at a time
I love these kinds of stories, great work!
I love this series. It just goes to show that not all winning cars get to be proudly on display in a museum once retired
I love the under the sheet metal video
That thing Kyle Petty was driving was one of the best race cars Kyle ever had. Too bad they never could build a few more good ones, Kyle was pretty good in that Mello Yello 42 scheme and might have had a championship. It is interesting how both Midnight and the Duke were both Rockingham winners and Blacker was too.
Love this video. It would be interesting if we could elaborate on WHY these cars are so dominant. It boils down to a LONG list of details....stupid simple science we were all supposed to be learned in high school.Mounting points(these are NOT easily changed) for suspension geometry(easily adjusted, with a truck load of parts)and CG, and torsional stiffness, as built are the big things that define a Nascar chassis. Generally, the chassis is the Foundation on which the "magic" is built. Springs are big in the set up. A crew chief once told me the biggest spring in the set up IS the chassis(referring to torsional stiffness). Much the way that hand painted graphics has become a lost art, I believe the new car in cup will eliminate any chances for innovation or improvisation(a fading art) in our sport. This DUMBING DOWN (costing vast DUMP TRUCK LOADS of money) is what is killing this sport. The opportunity to exercise a new idea...or utilize an old one, has been eliminated. Yes, a level playing field is important(morally,to MOST fans). BUT the opportunity to bring a superior piece to the inspection line is important,(for the competitors) as well. NASCAR should focus on the SAFETY aspects,engines and tires and then throw the rag.
I've 1/24th scale version of Jeff Gordon's car Blacker. I got it when I was kid.
Love this video definitely gotta do a cars of the 80s or 2000s as a sequel
Man, I love love LOVE these videos! I love hearing about specific chassis and how well they did and what their careers were like. This gives me even more hope one day a nascar game that has a more in-depth career mode will allow you to not only own your teem and build cars.. but designate chassis numbers and having their own win-loss type stats. even maybe giving you the ability to have a museum like RCR, Hendricks and the like where you can display them.
Nascar Thunder 2002-2004 had all of this.
Aside from museum stuff
Excellent work as usual nascarman History!.
11:45 you childhood had expired but it soo sad how the paint just faded away leaving 106 a shadow to itself
Anyone actually know what ended up happening with the NWO car? I know WCW gave the car away on Nitro but I haven’t been able to find anyone who knows where it is or who owns it
My favourite series, thank you Brock
Brilliant episode! Great music and editing!
We won a couple of races with this car and it is in goog shape? Ow i get it let's sell it to an Arca team
Sabates and Ganassi have never made good moves
$294,000 in 1990 is worth $605,534 today (in 2021).
Great series man, no need to stop there.
Sad to see that Gordon car not have the Rainbow paint scheme. My all time favorite NACAR paint scheme.
>YT names Blacker's chapter as "Blackbird"
[Wangan Midnight intensifies]
Too bad this will never be a thing again
Would like to see Sterling Marlin's 1995 Daytona 500 car added to this list. Won half the races it entered and absolutely dominated Daytona and Talladega in 1995 and 1996.
1995
- Twin 125 - 1st
- Daytona 500 - 1st
- Winston Select 500 (Talladega) - 39th. Broke a rocker arm while going for the lead. Rejoined the race 43 laps down. Helped Jeff Gordon and Morgan Shepherd run down Dale Earnhardt and Mark Martin from 10 seconds back in just 13 laps. Easily the fastest car on the track.
- Pepsi 400 (Daytona) - 2nd.
- Diehard 500 (Talladega) - 1st. Won from the pole.
1996
- Twin 125 - 2nd
- Daytona 500 - 40th. Burned a piston while leading.
- Winston Select 500 (Talladega) - 1st. Came from the back to the front 3 times and still led the most laps.
- Pepsi 400 (Daytona) - 1st. Dominated and could pass anyone at will. Held off all 3 Hendrick cars by himself.
- Diehard 500 (Talladega) - 29th. Crashed while racing side by side with Dale Earnhardt for the lead. This is the one where Ernie Irvan accidentally turned Sterling into Earnhardt sending both Marlin and Dale head-on into the Tri-Oval wall. Sterling's car was damaged beyond repair and never raced again. It was eventually rebuilt and today is in Larry McClure's personal collection. Stapleton42 has an awesome video about it.
Just my opinion, but I think this car easily deserves to be on the list. Great video!!!!
I loved the 95 colors light scheme. And that body of grand prix
5:02 All these years I thought Kyle Petty hit Dale and spun him out in The Winston. I didn't know it was aero. This just blew my mind!
I know it's leaned more too winning cars but are there any cursed chassis?? Or just always end in heart break?
There's some cursed ones we've been trying to look up for a future episode. There's some that were in bad crashes, were rebuilt, and then another driver died in them. Or if an ARCA driver died in a car, it's interesting to know who drove it in Cup before them.
@@nascarmanHistory yea it's definitely interesting for sure!! It's my favorite series on UA-cam
@@nascarmanHistory Freak was…. something.
@@nascarmanHistory It's messed up, but that's an episode I particularly want to see.
@@Mentally_Will We will definitely do one in the next few months because it does give an extra layer of understanding to some bad crashes.
at least is good to know that all of these cars are in Papyrus nascar racing 1, 2 and '99 remaster with truck series
Great video
Best show on UA-cam!
I love these videos!
I wish I had watched this before I went to the vintage races at mid ohio last weekend so I could have asked the guys running the rusty wallace nascar if that was midnight.
Both Blacker and Midnight ran their final races in separate Winstons.
The tasty base line at the beginning 🥵
These cars were sentient.
"I'm gonna make you like a bullet."
Shame we’ll never get to see stuff like this again with teams not being able to build their own chassis.
Being a Jeff Gordon fan and the 1997 October Talladega race was my first full race that I watched (and replayed over and over again), I have a soft spot for that particular 24 car raced that day, even though it was the pinball of the Big One. Based on Ray Evernham's stories, it was the B-car to the 24 that won that year's Daytona 500, so naturally it took over restrictor plate duties, but it had a rough run at it. It scraped and spun late in Daytona in July, caused the Big One with a flat left-rear at 'dega, and then returned in 1998 for the Bud Shootout in which Evernham said he'd personally cut it apart if it failed again. And what happened in the Shootout? Gordon lost it on the final restart and stripped 4th gear.
So, did Evernham cut my favorite car into tiny itty-bitty pieces? I may never know!
Gosh I really miss Pontiac in NASCAR. Too bad the brand itself went under.
Im kinda shocked JR 51 didnt make this video.
I wonder what it is about certain chassis that make them dominant. I mean surely they were all built to a spec. I just wonder what nuisances and small differences would take a good chassis to elite status and also why it was hard if not impossible to fully replicate a particular dominant chassis.
Hard not to do Mark Martins car from 90’s.
Is that the Polish Flag at 7:33? The one that Dale holds
It’s an Alan Kulwicki flag. White with a number 7. Rusty was holding a Davey flag in his car at the same time.
@@interstate366 Thanks!
What happened to the stp Pontiac John Andretti won with?
So if I find any of these chassis/cars some where along the road, would it be illigal if I took them?
not gonna lie, that white menards car does look cool
Would've been crazy if it was the Duke that killed 007.
Can you look into DEI’s “Red Headed Step-child?”
ua-cam.com/video/2peJyRhH6Lk/v-deo.html
Whatever happened the Midnight Rider
Kyle Petty had more talent than he's willing to admit. If he had better equipment throughout his career, the history would have been very different now.
As if Kyle Petty succeeded 29 years before the creators themselves murdered Mr Bond
Only way Hendricks cars can win is cheat or buy them !
The Duke Killed James Bond at Charlotte
"Felix Sehboduzz"
Have you done away with this series ?
Go back to Rockingham, NASCAR
Stopped watching Nascar when our American Sport sold out to "TOYOTA" Our American nascar heritage started in 1948 no way will i ever watch Nascar again unless they remove Toyota. Wouldn't surprise me if they sold out Nascar completely to China either
You reallize forgien manufacters have been in Nascar dating all the way back to the 1950s and 60s right? Germany, United Kingdom, Italty, all of them have had at least 1 sometimes 2 and in the brits case 5 manufacturers that took part in NASCAR. Like it or not Toyota is the best selling car brand in America. They would be foolish not to run in the most popular motorsport in the country. Get your head out of your ass boomer.
Toyota is more American than Chevy and ford rn
Other racing series have such a hard time keeping manufacturers involved (E.g. DTM), let alone attracting new ones. Actively chasing away manufacturers is the exact opposite of what a motorsports sanctioning body is supposed to do.
Also, blind loyalty to multinational corporations that outsource their labor to China and have a long history of covering up dangerous defects in order to save $11 per car is not my idea of patriotism.
Nothing American about Turdoyota
@@JJA1987 more jobs here than all manus! so toyota is more american rn