Wow. Ray Fox is my grandfather. So cool to see this. I have so many stories I could tell you. I still have most of his old machinery I use every single day. His lathe, 5 axis manual mill, line hone, bunch of really cool valve seat tooling, I'm incredibly blessed. Thanks Popop. Miss you every day.
I worked for an older guy who was ended up being a grandfather figure to me, he ran the only machine shop in our little town since 78, I wish i could've kept that shop going none of his grandchildren cared anything about it. I didn't have the money
Best auto channel on UA-cam. Very very well put together and illustrated. Look forward to more. At the tender age of 67, your episodes knock some memories loose. Thanks!
Sorry to bother you, but... Any idea who designed that scoop. The Pro/Stock from the late 80s is the radiator scoop from the WWII P-51 Mustang, the next one was a take off of the air intake scoop of a WWII BF/ME 109. This 65 scoop and the snorkel, no idea. Episode idea maybe?
Thanks for how you bring out memories! As a 8 year old I began soaking up all the motorsports literature I could find. I was 9 when Ray Fox and Lee jammed it up NASCARs rear end with this feat. Not only did I love it, my dad did too. Mom and dad both had heavy right feet, and loved banging gears. Mom's Fords, dad's MOPARs, me loving it.
@@powerwagon3731 I was actually a Ford/Merc guy from 4-5, but MOPAR was so closely a 2nd it'd be a photo finish. Mom was the reason, her being a FOMOCO fan, owner. Her driving was more hotrodding than dad in his early hemi cars. Not manual trans, she wouldn't own it until '69. Ordered everything big block, 4 bbl, 2 door, duel exhaust, and as soon as it hit the driveway it went in the shop for a Cherry Bomb switch, after a torch had burned the Cherry Bombs packing about out. The least a stop sign or red-light got out of her was a 2nd gear chirp power-shifting, if not posi track marks through the intersection. Dad, he liked his rumble too, needed a hemi from the mid '50s through early'70s,, but he was fine with an auto, manually shifting after some high RPMs and exhaust cackling. He had his V8 tractors to rip with instead of doing it on the roads. '69 when Mom could no longer get her 427 4bbl, 4 speeds in her Galaxie she switched to Merc Marauder X100 429 auto for 2 years then to Lincoln. She did keep the Marauder for 4 more years too instead of trading it for her new Lincoln.
The craziest part of going those speeds at that time was the tire tech wasn't near what it is now. Thanks for another great video Brian, you're as busy as can be and the time you take to research and fact check as much as you can and weave stories together so well is much appreciated. Keep them coming. The hood scoop on the blower car is awesome also. Can't wait for pettys drag racing video, those humpback Nova's were sweet
I agree it was not, about the only time you saw tire tech for racing that was more then just the then average tire made as a slick/dirt racing tire or in specific widths like for F1 it was for going in a straight line like drag on the back wheels for some NHRA Nitro dragsters or a very custom set for racing the salt flats in Bonville.
Every week I look forward to seeing your video come up on my subscriptions. Great job this season with this channel, the NHRA and your other racing activities.
I say it on every video, but by and far my favorite automotive content creator, and probably creator in general at this point. The reach and knowledge is just unmatched. Thank you for bringing life back to these stories Brian!
Cale pushed a super speedway car to the limit. didn't know how to set up a car didn't matter he could drive. Told wadell Wilson didn't tell him something he didn't want Cale to know or give him something he didn't want him to use. 😊 In the dark most of the time. Cale didn't wanna know
For sure and in a 1965 Coronet I talked to guys that drag raced in those days and with them being uni body construction cars they would talk about how it felt like the cars was twisting apart so I could just imagine on Daytona turning corners at them speeds must of felt like the car would break in half. I guarantee you would not find many guys these days brave enough to run a car like that at those speeds.
Wow reading this makes Smokey Yunicks feat of putting his Chevelle on the pole in 1967 even more amazing, first "legal" Nascar qualifier over 180 mph with only 404 cubic inches of big block Chevy and no supercharger.....
With all the BS goin' on right now These videos save my mornings Thanks dude!!! Glad technology has evolved to help these racers from TBI I suffer from it daily ....it's hell to live with
This is one Mopar success story that I've never heard before. Pretty cool. Also that part about France not wanting the headline and pulling the plug on the first attempt is very accurate. naSCar has a regular habit of leaning towards GM, first and Ford, 2nd in favor of Mopar!!!
Big Bill France 🇫🇷 has allways been a crook and only cared about his pocket and not the drivers look up the tire wars video the drivers said it was unsafe driving 200mph plus and France got no name and Bush/Xfinity drivers just to make it a full car field he only cares about money 💵
Brian, You are an absolutely fantastic story teller! Thank you so much for all of the time and effort you put into your research. Thank you even more for sharing your passion with all of us! Truly appreciated! 👍🏼😁
Wow! Great story, and one that I had not heard before! With John Force posting this morning about attending a race, I for one hope he hangs it up! The past few months have been pretty sketchy for him. Thanks, Brian, as always an excellent post!
I can't wait for your next video to come out. My kids listen to it with me. I love the automotive history. Great voice! Great storyteller. I hope you can get some of your dork emotive podcasts on UA-cam. Some of those stories were amazing, to get them to a bigger audience, the 1903 race to death the history of the light bulb. Dole pineapple flight to Oblivion. Amazing stories
I'm an Australian so NASCAR racing doesn't mean that much to me but I enjoy your presentation so much keep up the good work and possibly have a look at sedan racing in Australia in the late 60s and early 70s it was a very interesting time
When the great Mike Joy does have to eventually hang it up, I really really hope NASCAR on FOX seriously considers you for the job, Brian. Keep up the great videos!!
I really enjoy the stories you put together on your channel. I just read a story on Macs Motor about the Ford and Dodge collaboration early on. I had the opportunity to meet a gentleman named Whitey Hughes back in the late 70s and still lived in his house on the Detroit River. He was I would say he was 80ish at the time. He owned Hughes Machine Shop in Detroit back in the day. He told stories of racing boats with the Dodge brothers on the river. With your penchant for researching stories, I'd love to hear what you find about him and his antics in the day.
@brianlohnes3079 Stress testing while pushing the envelope is what racing always was UNTIL racing became Big Business first Competition second. Tire technology fell as well when there were no longer multiple companies allowed on the same track. Just saying.🤷♂️
Brian Another great documentary! How about some information on the Fish carb? I happened to notice it on the rear quarter panel of the cars in the one picture. I heard several claims about them when working in a speed shop in South Florida, but never actually saw one.
What a Great Episode!!! That supercharged 426 Hemi Coronet was friggin intense!!! What a Beast!!! I'm Guessing that if a Towl Rack spoiler and and lower ride Height was used of the rear end, It could have shattered an average speed of 200.0 mph... That car had a fairly clean Aerodynamic body design.. Ray Fox, looks a lot like the actor (Ray McKinnen) who played the part of Phil Remington, the engineer that Ford sent to assist team Shelby in Ford vs. Ferrari...Ray fox and Ollie Olsen worked wonders Getting that '65 Coronet prepared for the record setting that soon followed at Daytona in February of '65...What a shame , what ended-up happening to LeRoy Yarbrough, the Only triple crown winner in Nascar History Winning Daytona, Charlotte and Darlington in the same Year(1969)..... However, Brain Damage from some bad accidents and some bad falls took it's toll on him... Finally his brain damage caught up to him and he passed away 12/07/1984..... . What is disturbing about Nascar, are the people who organised it ... Of all the People who could have been setting rules and policies of that Sport, BILL FRANCE should NEVER had gotten into the middle of it... He would have been better suited as a childrens playground instructor/officiator/attendant...Bill France : DEFINITELY SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A PERSON MAKING DECISIONS THAT AFFECTED THE OUTCOME OF MULTI-MILLION $ CORPORATIONS!!! He was the LAST PERSON who should have been setting standards for professional level competitors... Which childrens playground did they go, to find that idiot? Who died & Left his sorry useless brain in charge??? Anyway, Great story, And I'm looking forward to the next one!!! Today is: 10/24/24
Funny , I remember reading about the "Mad Dog" breaking 180 in Hot Rod Magazine but not this , just an observation , the amount of rubber fuel line heading to and around that blower would get you bounced by any sanctioning body today , thanks for another great story Brian , please keep them coming...
I totally agree with Jim.... definitely the best channel on you tube....look forward with anticipation everytime Brian posts a new doc....thank you Brian for not only the mechanical side but from the personal and sometimes sad endings...👍👍👍
I remember Leroy. I was big into dragracing and stockcar racing. I would go to OCIR fand RIR in CA. These times I rember well and thank your for keeping this alive.
Apparently,there are folks here that have never seen a torsion bar. Torsion bars mimic the coil spring through twist of a steel bar,there is no spring involved except the effect.
Chipps, very aware of them. Used coil spring as a generalized term that would be easily understood by a lot of people, especially younger viewers who have no clue about torsion bars. Would be a cool video to explore the genesis of them.
Come on guys hit the thumbs up this is ridiculous compared to views, this is without a doubt the best automotive history channel for drag racing and other Motorsport. Please support Brian and hit the thumbs up.
I'm guessing that the car Art Malone drove at Daytona was formerly one of the legendary Novi's (with added airfoils) that he and Bobby Unser had driven at Indy. Fortunately, this version scrapped the notoriously unreliable supercharged screamer Novi engine. The car likely would have been just as fast with the Novi in it, but few mechanics knew how to maintain those things.
Great video really enjoyed watching. Its funny to think you can buy a Dodge Demon that is more powerful than most of the nascars of the 60s, imagine telling someone from that era that you could buy a turnkey car that fast, they would think you were nuts.
Tragic I think is fair to say . How fickle and unfair life can be enjoy every day because it can be a rocky road such highs and bottomless lows it happened a long time ago but my heart still goes to him ❤
excellent work, brian,! just brilliant, the only thing i knew about the demise of Le Roy, and his demise was , as reported on many news ststions where i lived , was that he had been bitten by a tick and died from this,,! also heard many folks say that cale and he were indeed related, despite the obvious difference in the last names,, Thank you for clear up this and for the real story on this great driver of many great cars,,! cheers from italy, robert.
In 68 69 was a Old 455 big block all aluminum hemi style heads, on the dino, they made more horsepower than the 426 hemi, and in 1980 and 90s Dave Smith that used to be in Anaheim California. He knows several people that have these old hemi motors.
I tried this on PlayStation Gran Turismo with a Dodge Charger, the closest chassis available, with all the race mods available and the blower. It was very difficult to get to 181 without crashing. You have to get the corner entry and exit perfect or you are into the wall. I spent hours tuning and trying. He was really wheeling that thing.
As the majority of people who watch these videos are younger and thusly unaware any of these guys ever lived, I felt it necessary to qualify that relationship.
Check out this engine, Corvette Grand Sport, and this was a 377 catch all aluminum dual ignition 16 spark plugs hemi heads, Chevy small block 62, I believe that there was one or five of them made. Please check that out.
Brian, I absolutely enjoy watching and listening to your stories of motorsports history! But I can't help but feel sad for leeroy yarbrough and his family, I mean just imagine being leeroy's mom, seeing your son that was once a respected NASCAR superstar, to being devolved into a mentally unwell alcoholic and witnessing your own son trying to kill you.😢💔💔
I'm a big Mopar fan and wish I was alive in the late 50's and 60's when Chrysler was the top frog on the log you might say but those days was the golden years of speed something I would of loved to of been at those days in time.
Wow. Ray Fox is my grandfather. So cool to see this. I have so many stories I could tell you. I still have most of his old machinery I use every single day. His lathe, 5 axis manual mill, line hone, bunch of really cool valve seat tooling, I'm incredibly blessed. Thanks Popop. Miss you every day.
I worked for an older guy who was ended up being a grandfather figure to me, he ran the only machine shop in our little town since 78, I wish i could've kept that shop going none of his grandchildren cared anything about it. I didn't have the money
Best auto channel on UA-cam. Very very well put together and illustrated. Look forward to more. At the tender age of 67, your episodes knock some memories loose. Thanks!
@@jimmccauley9099 thanks Jim!
I like how the late 60s/ early 70s Pro/Stock scoop sure resembles this one.
@@jimmccauley9099 good observation there. I agree!
Sorry to bother you, but... Any idea who designed that scoop. The Pro/Stock from the late 80s is the radiator scoop from the WWII P-51 Mustang, the next one was a take off of the air intake scoop of a WWII BF/ME 109. This 65 scoop and the snorkel, no idea. Episode idea maybe?
@@jimmccauley9099 - it’s a great concept for an episode!
Thanks for how you bring out memories!
As a 8 year old I began soaking up all the motorsports literature I could find. I was 9 when Ray Fox and Lee jammed it up NASCARs rear end with this feat. Not only did I love it, my dad did too.
Mom and dad both had heavy right feet, and loved banging gears. Mom's Fords, dad's MOPARs, me loving it.
This is fantastic!
I'm a Mopar guy at 63 years but my childhood was Ford and Merc with my all time favorite driver being Pearson and his Merc. Those were great times!
@@powerwagon3731 I was actually a Ford/Merc guy from 4-5, but MOPAR was so closely a 2nd it'd be a photo finish.
Mom was the reason, her being a FOMOCO fan, owner. Her driving was more hotrodding than dad in his early hemi cars. Not manual trans, she wouldn't own it until '69. Ordered everything big block, 4 bbl, 2 door, duel exhaust, and as soon as it hit the driveway it went in the shop for a Cherry Bomb switch, after a torch had burned the Cherry Bombs packing about out. The least a stop sign or red-light got out of her was a 2nd gear chirp power-shifting, if not posi track marks through the intersection.
Dad, he liked his rumble too, needed a hemi from the mid '50s through early'70s,, but he was fine with an auto, manually shifting after some high RPMs and exhaust cackling. He had his V8 tractors to rip with instead of doing it on the roads.
'69 when Mom could no longer get her 427 4bbl, 4 speeds in her Galaxie she switched to Merc Marauder X100 429 auto for 2 years then to Lincoln. She did keep the Marauder for 4 more years too instead of trading it for her new Lincoln.
Brian - You as a Voice of Motorsport - Are Truly Gifted ! Please keep Honing your skills & I will keep listening - watching - Thank You Sir !!
Consider the honing to be on going! Thank you Darren.
i agree w/darrenshaw 200%!!
Always fun hearing all the racing history stories!!!
Thanks for enjoying them!!
The craziest part of going those speeds at that time was the tire tech wasn't near what it is now. Thanks for another great video Brian, you're as busy as can be and the time you take to research and fact check as much as you can and weave stories together so well is much appreciated. Keep them coming. The hood scoop on the blower car is awesome also. Can't wait for pettys drag racing video, those humpback Nova's were sweet
I agree it was not, about the only time you saw tire tech for racing that was more then just the then average tire made as a slick/dirt racing tire or in specific widths like for F1 it was for going in a straight line like drag on the back wheels for some NHRA Nitro dragsters or a very custom set for racing the salt flats in Bonville.
It looked like a Plymouth Barracuda.
Every week I look forward to seeing your video come up on my subscriptions. Great job this season with this channel, the NHRA and your other racing activities.
I say it on every video, but by and far my favorite automotive content creator, and probably creator in general at this point. The reach and knowledge is just unmatched. Thank you for bringing life back to these stories Brian!
I absolutely love your channel, reminds me of my youth being at racetracks and seeing my heroes, Thank you.
Makes you wonder what the car would have been capable of with today's tires and a little aerodynamic tweaking. Love the scoop on the hood.
Nice one, Brian! Once again, you've expanded my knowledge of this car, taking it from "it existed & did This" to "well, here's the story..."
Best Motörhead channel around. Thanks for all that you do, Brian
Even with a blown injected hemi it's still more of a stock car then a modern NASCAR stock car
I can't imagine coming out of a corner at 175+ MPH with so much power that the rear tires are smoking! That is just unimaginable performance!
Cale pushed a super speedway car to the limit. didn't know how to set up a car didn't matter he could drive. Told wadell Wilson didn't tell him something he didn't want Cale to know or give him something he didn't want him to use. 😊 In the dark most of the time. Cale didn't wanna know
For sure and in a 1965 Coronet I talked to guys that drag raced in those days and with them being uni body construction cars they would talk about how it felt like the cars was twisting apart so I could just imagine on Daytona turning corners at them speeds must of felt like the car would break in half. I guarantee you would not find many guys these days brave enough to run a car like that at those speeds.
Great story about Leroy. A truly overlooked talent
Man he sure is!!!
Wow reading this makes Smokey Yunicks feat of putting his Chevelle on the pole in 1967 even more amazing, first "legal" Nascar qualifier over 180 mph with only 404 cubic inches of big block Chevy and no supercharger.....
With all the BS goin' on right now
These videos save my mornings
Thanks dude!!!
Glad technology has evolved to help these racers from TBI
I suffer from it daily ....it's hell to live with
This is one Mopar success story that I've never heard before. Pretty cool. Also that part about France not wanting the headline and pulling the plug on the first attempt is very accurate. naSCar has a regular habit of leaning towards GM, first and Ford, 2nd in favor of Mopar!!!
Big Bill France 🇫🇷 has allways been a crook and only cared about his pocket and not the drivers look up the tire wars video the drivers said it was unsafe driving 200mph plus and France got no name and Bush/Xfinity drivers just to make it a full car field he only cares about money 💵
Another in a long line of excellent presentations on your channel, Brian. Thanks for doing what you do!
Thank you very much, Cliff
Great vid! 74th birthday today. Old stock car racer/mechanic. Thank you for the upload.
Outstanding video as always, Brian. Well done. Keep em coming. Thanks .
Another magnificent yarn, Brian! Most underappreciated motor racing channel on YT, keep going!
As always Brian, thank you for the interesting / often obscure motor racing commentary, another great video.
Once again Brian, thanks for shining a light on a story I had no idea about.
Fantastic story well researched and told. Great job, and thanks!
Thank you, Rob
Brian, You are an absolutely fantastic story teller! Thank you so much for all of the time and effort you put into your research. Thank you even more for sharing your passion with all of us! Truly appreciated! 👍🏼😁
Hey, thank YOU for spending some time watching it.
Wow! Great story, and one that I had not heard before!
With John Force posting this morning about attending a race, I for one hope he hangs it up! The past few months have been pretty sketchy for him.
Thanks, Brian, as always an excellent post!
Blowers are always cool!
Thanks Brian, your history lessons are quite enjoyable.
Amen to that and thank you!
You did it again, Brian. Well done!
I can't wait for your next video to come out. My kids listen to it with me. I love the automotive history. Great voice! Great storyteller. I hope you can get some of your dork emotive podcasts on UA-cam. Some of those stories were amazing, to get them to a bigger audience, the 1903 race to death the history of the light bulb. Dole pineapple flight to Oblivion. Amazing stories
This is fantastic man, thank you. Working on that over the winter.
A blower on a stock car ! That is cool as hell and set a record ! Awesome… Thanks Brian
Thank you Brian for bringing us this information. Maybe you could wake these youngsters up and give them some interesting advice ! 👍🏻💪🏻
I'm an Australian so NASCAR racing doesn't mean that much to me but I enjoy your presentation so much keep up the good work and possibly have a look at sedan racing in Australia in the late 60s and early 70s it was a very interesting time
When the great Mike Joy does have to eventually hang it up, I really really hope NASCAR on FOX seriously considers you for the job, Brian. Keep up the great videos!!
Party pulley and drain plugs, you know how to weave a good tale and really make this stuff interesting. Thanks!.
Thank you for taking the time to give it a look!!
Can you imagine just boiling the hides at 150+ mph? Good lord...
Another captivating story 😊 only thing we can ask for is more thank you sir!
Brian You Just NAIL Every Story you Put Out EYE 4 / 1 WANT TO SAY THANKS
I really enjoy the stories you put together on your channel. I just read a story on Macs Motor about the Ford and Dodge collaboration early on. I had the opportunity to meet a gentleman named Whitey Hughes back in the late 70s and still lived in his house on the Detroit River. He was I would say he was 80ish at the time. He owned Hughes Machine Shop in Detroit back in the day. He told stories of racing boats with the Dodge brothers on the river. With your penchant for researching stories, I'd love to hear what you find about him and his antics in the day.
Both amazing and sad.Well researched as always. Many thanks.
What a treat these stories are. I'm not into NASCAR and I enjoy them. Thanks.
Imagine where American engine technology would be now if NASCAR had allowed overhead cam technology to go forward back then.🤔
You bring up and truly great point
We'd just be racing 2jzs quicker.
I think the NASCAR Mustangs are still running pushrod engines while the street Mustang GT has used an overhead cam V8 for nearly 30 years.
@brianlohnes3079 Stress testing while pushing the envelope is what racing always was UNTIL racing became Big Business first Competition second.
Tire technology fell as well when there were no longer multiple companies allowed on the same track.
Just saying.🤷♂️
@JackF99 no Hemi engines allowed either from Chrysler
Another outstanding video, great job!
Appreciate it Bob!!
Another fascinating story, Thanks Brian
Brian Another great documentary! How about some information on the Fish carb? I happened to notice it on the rear quarter panel of the cars in the one picture. I heard several claims about them when working in a speed shop in South Florida, but never actually saw one.
I heard about Art Malone's supercharged hemi attempt at Daytona but not the '67 Dodge Coronet's attempt, very informative and interesting.
What a Great Episode!!! That supercharged 426 Hemi Coronet was friggin intense!!! What a Beast!!! I'm Guessing that if a Towl Rack spoiler and and lower ride Height was used of the rear end, It could have shattered an average speed of 200.0 mph... That car had a fairly clean Aerodynamic body design..
Ray Fox, looks a lot like the actor (Ray McKinnen) who played the part of Phil Remington, the engineer that Ford sent to assist team Shelby in Ford vs. Ferrari...Ray fox and Ollie Olsen worked wonders Getting that '65 Coronet prepared for the record setting that soon followed at Daytona in February of '65...What a shame , what ended-up happening to LeRoy Yarbrough, the Only triple crown winner in Nascar History Winning Daytona, Charlotte and Darlington in the same Year(1969)..... However, Brain Damage from some bad accidents and some bad falls took it's toll on him... Finally his brain damage caught up to him and he passed away 12/07/1984.....
. What is disturbing about Nascar, are the people who organised it ... Of all the People who could have been setting rules and policies of that Sport, BILL FRANCE should NEVER had gotten into the middle of it... He would have been better suited as a childrens playground instructor/officiator/attendant...Bill France : DEFINITELY SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A PERSON MAKING DECISIONS THAT AFFECTED THE OUTCOME OF MULTI-MILLION $ CORPORATIONS!!! He was the LAST PERSON who should have been setting standards for professional level competitors... Which childrens playground did they go, to find that idiot? Who died & Left his sorry useless brain in charge???
Anyway, Great story, And I'm looking forward to the next one!!! Today is: 10/24/24
Thanks for the stories. Keep up the good work 🎉
Funny , I remember reading about the "Mad Dog" breaking 180 in Hot Rod Magazine but not this , just an observation , the amount of rubber fuel line heading to and around that blower would get you bounced by any sanctioning body today , thanks for another great story Brian , please keep them coming...
Thanks for checking it out!!
Thank you for mentioning the CTE .
It sure seems like he was suffering from it, especially with all that we know now.
I consider myself very well versed in Mopar lore, but this is a story I knew literally nothing about. Thank you for deep-dive, Brian.
Thanks for another gem. Always love your videos!
I totally agree with Jim.... definitely the best channel on you tube....look forward with anticipation everytime Brian posts a new doc....thank you Brian for not only the mechanical side but from the personal and sometimes sad endings...👍👍👍
You are a great story teller my friend!
Great vid! Hope you had a good time at the Hot Rod Reunion!
That Coronet looks really good with that rake! Thanks for the history lesson Brian!
Just FYI Brian, that Coronet had front torsion bars, not coil springs. You can lower them right to the ground with a socket wrench...lol
Copy that, was just making a general reference but great clarification.
And no A arms. 😊
@@KurtfromLaQuinta uppers but no lowers
@@brianlohnes3079
I figured. Just thought I'd get it out of the way...lol
Yet another great story, thank you! Did they use some kind of dynamometer for tuning? How much power do you think it made?
On 9psi of heat soaked boost? Maybe 7-800?
Thanks Brian, always a bigger picture to be seen.
AWESOME story , as usual , thanks Brian !
Excellent video Brian. Love the class room.
Appreciate that! It's all about sharing the history.
Sad ending to a great life story. Bud Moore was a WW-2 hero. I never heard the 65 Dodge record story before. Great video.
I remember Leroy. I was big into dragracing and stockcar racing. I would go to OCIR fand RIR in CA. These times I rember well and thank your for keeping this alive.
Well done, Brian; as usual, well done. May I add a small suggestion...Lee Roy is BRO; Cale is the BORo.
Thanks for sharing this story. I never heard this before.
Can you imagine if that car has the proper down force on the rear. It probably would of been well north of 200 mph. Love your videos and history. 👍
Just imagine if they had thought of a spoiler on the back of that car.
Thank you Brian for all of your excellent research in making these fine videos.
Old F-4 Shoe🇺🇸
Love these videos. Thank you
I,M 70 YEARS OLD I LOVE THIS OLD STUFF GOOD JOB BRIAN
Apparently,there are folks here that have never seen a torsion bar. Torsion bars mimic the coil spring through twist of a steel bar,there is no spring involved except the effect.
Chipps, very aware of them. Used coil spring as a generalized term that would be easily understood by a lot of people, especially younger viewers who have no clue about torsion bars. Would be a cool video to explore the genesis of them.
My '20 Chevy 2500 4×4 has torsion bars up front.
Is there any video on this vehicle? Awesome!!
If there was that I could find, I’d have included it
Best production on Nascar for a while.
Superb as always 😊
Come on guys hit the thumbs up this is ridiculous compared to views, this is without a doubt the best automotive history channel for drag racing and other Motorsport. Please support Brian and hit the thumbs up.
Haha thanks man!!!
AMAZING STORY!! Thank You for this! 👍💯♥️🇺🇲
Commenting to support the algorithm. Go Brian!
I'm guessing that the car Art Malone drove at Daytona was formerly one of the legendary Novi's (with added airfoils) that he and Bobby Unser had driven at Indy. Fortunately, this version scrapped the notoriously unreliable supercharged screamer Novi engine. The car likely would have been just as fast with the Novi in it, but few mechanics knew how to maintain those things.
I see I click it’s that simple excellent as always!
Junior said Lee Roy was the best driver he ever had.
THANKS BRIAN..VERY COOL CAR! I ENJOYED THE HISTORY.
Imagine how fast that Dodge would have gone if they had figured out the aero!
I honestly thing 195 lap average with 230+ the straights. Tires would have been very dicey
Professor Brian continues to rock the classroom.
Well done. If you're taking requests, did dick smith really go 198mph is a Shelby cobra?
Great video really enjoyed watching.
Its funny to think you can buy a Dodge Demon that is more powerful than most of the nascars of the 60s, imagine telling someone from that era that you could buy a turnkey car that fast, they would think you were nuts.
They’d 100% never buy that story! Haha
Tragic I think is fair to say .
How fickle and unfair life can be enjoy every day because it can be a rocky road such highs and bottomless lows it happened a long time ago but my heart still goes to him ❤
Awesome tale well told. As usual. 👏😎
Great video. Thanks.
Appreciate you checking it out!
excellent work, brian,! just brilliant, the only thing i knew about the demise of Le Roy, and his demise was , as reported on many news ststions where i lived , was that he had been bitten by a tick and died from this,,! also heard many folks say that cale and he were indeed related, despite the obvious difference in the last names,, Thank you for clear up this and for the real story on this great driver of many great cars,,! cheers from italy, robert.
it's amazing to me how most of the engine/go fast stories almost always originate with Malone or Arfons. :)
It helped that they seemed to have never learned the existence of the word fear.
In 68 69 was a Old 455 big block all aluminum hemi style heads, on the dino, they made more horsepower than the 426 hemi, and in 1980 and 90s Dave Smith that used to be in Anaheim California. He knows several people that have these old hemi motors.
So sad about Leroy, he spent a lot of time at the front, does AJFoy still hold the closed course record on the Olds
Two schools of thought. Either Super Tex at 257 in the Olds or Gil De Ferran at 241 in an IndyCar
Smoking the tires off the corner!?! WOW
I guess Im going to be 20 mins late to work today!?!
Whoopsie. Hahaha
I tried this on PlayStation Gran Turismo with a Dodge Charger, the closest chassis available, with all the race mods available and the blower. It was very difficult to get to 181 without crashing. You have to get the corner entry and exit perfect or you are into the wall. I spent hours tuning and trying. He was really wheeling that thing.
8:11 Party pulley? That's a new one. I'd love to see photos of it.
Could you also do a video on the drag master max wedge truck
Of course Cale and Leroy are not related. Last names are spelled are different, Yarborough and Yarbrough.
As the majority of people who watch these videos are younger and thusly unaware any of these guys ever lived, I felt it necessary to qualify that relationship.
As did the newspaper article from the time that you showed
Check out this engine, Corvette Grand Sport, and this was a 377 catch all aluminum dual ignition 16 spark plugs hemi heads, Chevy small block 62, I believe that there was one or five of them made. Please check that out.
Brian, I absolutely enjoy watching and listening to your stories of motorsports history!
But I can't help but feel sad for leeroy yarbrough and his family, I mean just imagine being leeroy's mom, seeing your son that was once a respected NASCAR superstar, to being devolved into a mentally unwell alcoholic and witnessing your own son trying to kill you.😢💔💔
I'm a big Mopar fan and wish I was alive in the late 50's and 60's when Chrysler was the top frog on the log you might say but those days was the golden years of speed something I would of loved to of been at those days in time.