The names - Foyt, Allison, Petty, Elliott, Waltrip, Earnhardt, Bonnett, Bodine, Richmond, Rudd, Baker, Labonte, BP, Pearson, Wallace, Gant, such a great time for cars and drivers. And at the beginning, Bill Elliott inside the monopoly board. Back then people wouldve been so impressed by that - computer 'wizardry'. Hope you're good.
@@badbooking3221 same thing in October 92 at Charlotte a rear sway bar mount broke off the frame with 40 laps to go while he was running top 5 an dropped him to 35 place
Mechanical failures literally kept Bill Elliott from winning the 85 and 92 Championships. And even with the late failures in 92, Elliott still had a shot to win the championship that year .... and ultimately lost it by literally ONE LAP at Atlanta.
26:25 I love this. Awesome show of sportsmanship from Bill Elliot's crew. But then again, BP was such a great person and driver, he likely could have pulled into any pit stall and had that done without a second thought from the crew.
had it not been for benny parsons their would never been a team in dawsonvill georga or not a melling team benny told harry melling that bill was the future of nascar he needed a sponsor an hooked the elliotts up with harry melling
My all time favorite race...no question....was a Harry Gant Fan and sad he didn't win at the time but Elliott's stamp on history and the exponential growth of the sport was sparked by Winston Million...the drama of this race unforgettable.... Winston invested their money correctly in this advertising campaign.
This race had two important memories for me. It was my first time attending a Nascar race. Prior to it I did know a little about stock cars and the drivers like Petty. Allison and David Pearson. I saw the Daytona 500 that started this season and first heard about this Awesome driver named Bill from. , I didn't know that. Some friends that were going to this race were looking for a driver to take them and more important get them back home. I offered my services but being one that liked a good stiff drink was immediately rejected. No ... wait never been to a race and wanted to go.see what the big deal was. Ok , we sat in Wallace stands on then the back stretch . When race time started and cars made pace / warm up laps they dropped the green and we were racing. I had Cale in our pool and remember first green lap as they came by. As the race laps were made , I began to notice one car that every lap.coming out of turn 2 was sideways ( loose I'd later learn) He was running in lead or up near and had a yellow and blue , I believe a Chevrolet and number 3. He kept staying ahead and sliding more then I realized he wasn't out of control.but driving harder , trying to stay ahead. When I could ask and hear. I asked a buddy who the driver of that 3 car is. Dale Earnhardt was the answer. I said from now on , he's my driver cause he s a driving fool. Lol. I saw my first race , became what's known as a race fan and learned of a driver , Earnhardt was his name and so became that an Earnhardt man. My life and the most priority changed and I may have missed 2 maybe 3 races not listening to MRN , watching on.ESPN or whatever or sitting/ standing in the stand here , or the Rock, or Charlotte after this race till Daytona in 2001. Hell of a ride .
@@sms98bigblock lol. He only had 7 wins in Nascar by 1985. Can you imagine the Nascar official telling one of the greatest all round drivers ever that, having already won the daytona 500, he had to put it on his car - i reckon they left that to the new guy, just in case old Uncle AJ was enraged. Hope you're good.
@@Beckywild9 lol, think that's what he was getting at. Seems crazy for them to consider a guy with 7 Cup wins, a rookie - don't ya think....? Let alone someone that's won Indy, Daytona, Le Mans, Sebring, etc. I would love to see Nascar officials walk up to AJ and issue him his rookie stripe and AJ's face when they do! Hope you're good :)
Me too and when Lake Speed had the speed and several times when my man Dale won once from his pit and when no speed limit on pit road. The lady in black no race b😮etter.
His 9 on the roof looks like a G. In the 90's I know he had the 94 turned 180 degrees so his spotter could see the number because on from the pits it would look like this h6. From the stands the roof number here looks like a lower case A or a.
You have to do is listen to earnhardts interview at 3:10 he tells you bills aint doing nothing but riding. Didn't nobody have nothing for Bill on them big tracks in them days, he was in another league.
@@PYLrulz1984 Phil came up here to Maine to run the Oxford 250 I think either this year (1985) or in 1986. In one of the heat races he spun, sat on the edge of the inside of the track for a bit, then pulled right back out in front of oncoming traffic running at speed, wiping out his car and the guy's who had the misfortune of hitting him. Phil seems like a nice guy but I'm guessing he's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
The hay day of NASCAR. Grown men, not boys. When fights happened, people got hit in the mouth not just a bunch of nipple bumping and talk. All makes of cars with actual car bodies being sold at that time, Goodyear and Hoosier tires. Makes me laugh at the degradation to what is left of NASCAR.
They all wine. Because this track teaches you to race the track. Once I figured the setup I would race the clock going fast as possible and adjust as the track changed. That's how I race. But this old girl would beat you to your knees
Love these old races where you had every make of car... T-Birds, Monte Carlo SSs, Cutlasses, Regals. Lovin it!
The names - Foyt, Allison, Petty, Elliott, Waltrip, Earnhardt, Bonnett, Bodine, Richmond, Rudd, Baker, Labonte, BP, Pearson, Wallace, Gant, such a great time for cars and drivers.
And at the beginning, Bill Elliott inside the monopoly board. Back then people wouldve been so impressed by that - computer 'wizardry'.
Hope you're good.
Yea, and before them damn Toyota’s came in
A call out to the Bulldog Cale Yarborough for driving the wheels off that thing with no power steering.
Bill Elliott won the June 1985 race at Dover with no power steering and lapped the field.
@@adamtereska8734 You are right Sir. And Earnhardt won at Bristol the same year with no power steering.
Cale said it was like trying to steer a freight train around the track after it failed!
Bill Elliott pretty much won everything in 1985 except for the championship. Darrell Waltrip won that.
Bill Elliott had to wait until 1988 to finally win the championship and he had to fight Rusty Wallace hard for it, beating him by only 24 points.
If it weren't for the suspension repeatedly failing Bill in October, Bill would be the 85 champion.
@@badbooking3221 same thing in October 92 at Charlotte a rear sway bar mount broke off the frame with 40 laps to go while he was running top 5 an dropped him to 35 place
Mechanical failures literally kept Bill Elliott from winning the 85 and 92 Championships.
And even with the late failures in 92, Elliott still had a shot to win the championship that year .... and ultimately lost it by literally ONE LAP at Atlanta.
26:25
I love this. Awesome show of sportsmanship from Bill Elliot's crew. But then again, BP was such a great person and driver, he likely could have pulled into any pit stall and had that done without a second thought from the crew.
had it not been for benny parsons their would never been a team in dawsonvill georga or not a melling team benny told harry melling that bill was the future of nascar he needed a sponsor an hooked the elliotts up with harry melling
Million Dollar Bill from Dawsonville! It was meant to be
Liquid Wrench / Bullfrog car is awesome
Thanks for sharing a good day in racing history.
My all time favorite race...no question....was a Harry Gant Fan and sad he didn't win at the time but Elliott's stamp on history and the exponential growth of the sport was sparked by Winston Million...the drama of this race unforgettable.... Winston invested their money correctly in this advertising campaign.
love the way the cars wiggle around on the old bias ply tires
Great channel love these old races.
This race had two important memories for me.
It was my first time attending a Nascar race. Prior to it I did know a little about stock cars and the drivers like Petty. Allison and David Pearson. I saw the Daytona 500 that started this season and first heard about this Awesome driver named Bill from. , I didn't know that. Some friends that were going to this race were looking for a driver to take them and more important get them back home. I offered my services but being one that liked a good stiff drink was immediately rejected. No ... wait never been to a race and wanted to go.see what the big deal was. Ok , we sat in Wallace stands on then the back stretch . When race time started and cars made pace / warm up laps they dropped the green and we were racing. I had Cale in our pool and remember first green lap as they came by.
As the race laps were made , I began to notice one car that every lap.coming out of turn 2 was sideways ( loose I'd later learn)
He was running in lead or up near and had a yellow and blue , I believe a Chevrolet and number 3. He kept staying ahead and sliding more then I realized he wasn't out of control.but driving harder , trying to stay ahead. When I could ask and hear. I asked a buddy who the driver of that 3 car is.
Dale Earnhardt was the answer. I said from now on , he's my driver cause he s a driving fool. Lol. I saw my first race , became what's known as a race fan and learned of a driver , Earnhardt was his name and so became that an Earnhardt man.
My life and the most priority changed
and I may have missed 2 maybe 3 races not listening to MRN , watching on.ESPN or whatever or sitting/ standing in the stand here , or the Rock, or Charlotte after this race till Daytona in 2001.
Hell of a ride .
Earnhardt and Cale sure gave Elliott a run for his money that day!
3:18:35 The first year of the Winston million Bill Elliott wins and makes history!
Seeing AJ with a yellow stripe. You know he hated that!
He was far from a rookie.
@@Beckywild9 Well aware.
@@sms98bigblock lol. He only had 7 wins in Nascar by 1985. Can you imagine the Nascar official telling one of the greatest all round drivers ever that, having already won the daytona 500, he had to put it on his car - i reckon they left that to the new guy, just in case old Uncle AJ was enraged.
Hope you're good.
@@Beckywild9 lol, think that's what he was getting at. Seems crazy for them to consider a guy with 7 Cup wins, a rookie - don't ya think....? Let alone someone that's won Indy, Daytona, Le Mans, Sebring, etc.
I would love to see Nascar officials walk up to AJ and issue him his rookie stripe and AJ's face when they do!
Hope you're good :)
@@MrMiD.Life.Crisis Correct! I totally agree with Sean! Sorry if my post came off wrong the wrong way. 😉
I was there!! Awesome Bill.
Me too and when Lake Speed had the speed and several times when my man Dale won once from his pit and when no speed limit on pit road.
The lady in black no race b😮etter.
1:57 I sure do miss the days when Nascar wasnt boot kissing the PC crowd.
I am with you troynov1965 i miss Winston cup the hell with politically crowd .
Ment to say the politically correct crowd.
AMEN BROTHER!!!
Yep Brian France has destroyed NASCAR.
@@knobdikker Osama Jong Wallace Jr. Made Shit worse
That one race a year Bob Jenkins doesn't call for ESPN, and it had to be THIS ONE.
who's here after Chase Elliott won the Championship
The good ole days
the birth of million dollar bill
17:09 Some guy in dark blue wandering around the track picking up bits and pieces.... gotta love pre-hi-vis safety crew!!!
I mean, if you can't see a blue blob on a green and grey background, you need your eyes checked.
It would be another 10 years and some change before his son and future CUP Series CHAMP was born.
Love seeing the Confederate flag at these old races
Dixie
Southern pride. Gone now, replaced by sponsors
Why?
Nascar puts a disclaimer under their videos now because of it. Strange days.
The Confederate Flag should be banned from being used anywhere in the United States
His 9 on the roof looks like a G. In the 90's I know he had the 94 turned 180 degrees so his spotter could see the number because on from the pits it would look like this h6. From the stands the roof number here looks like a lower case A or a.
Looks like the decal guy applied it in reverse.
They said it as to be an “E” for Elliot
EDIT: Was SUPPOSED TO BE an “E” for Elliot
@@davidmatthewvinotjr8396 down in Americus,ga we called wild bill Pac-man . The 9 sure did look like it. Just a tast of ga guys
Bill Elliott's "e" Bird
this is when racing was good
You have to do is listen to earnhardts interview at 3:10 he tells you bills aint doing nothing but riding. Didn't nobody have nothing for Bill on them big tracks in them days, he was in another league.
Rusty giving NASCAR and Phil Parsons "the business" after Phil blew a tire - no school like old school
And if is as Rusty said, yeah, it sounds like Phil was an idiot.
Rustr WahWah.
@@PYLrulz1984 Phil came up here to Maine to run the Oxford 250 I think either this year (1985) or in 1986. In one of the heat races he spun, sat on the edge of the inside of the track for a bit, then pulled right back out in front of oncoming traffic running at speed, wiping out his car and the guy's who had the misfortune of hitting him. Phil seems like a nice guy but I'm guessing he's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
The hay day of NASCAR. Grown men, not boys. When fights happened, people got hit in the mouth not just a bunch of nipple bumping and talk. All makes of cars with actual car bodies being sold at that time, Goodyear and Hoosier tires. Makes me laugh at the degradation to what is left of NASCAR.
make owner/driver great again.
@57:10 Neat personal interview with Bill by Benny Parsons in this video. :)
You could hear Elliot letting off the nitrous alot of times on turn 1. That howling laser sound. Its probably why AJ was there
......they didn't use nitrous.
Their has been teams busted using nitrous Darrell waltrip is one of them and AJ foyt is also another one.
@@robertrobinson9920 but they never used it legally.
@@badmonkey2222 yes i know that but just think of how many times they did and didn't get caught.
@@robertrobinson9920 absolutely..they did allot of things and didn't get caught lol
Bill running a cleveland engine and Cale running a windsor engine which is to become the engine of choice untill the FR9 came out.
Man, this track would beat the crap out of the cars and drivers. I bet the wimps of today couldn't handle it with out crashing every lap.
They all wine. Because this track teaches you to race the track. Once I figured the setup I would race the clock going fast as possible and adjust as the track changed. That's how I race. But this old girl would beat you to your knees
3:22:30 the musician Bill Elliot
Bill Elliott racing with his infamous " e bird"
Ring the fire whistle
Why was Bob Jenkins not at this race?
Because he also announced CART races for ESPN at the time and was announcing a CART race at Mid-Ohio on the same day.
Tell me someone got that hat that blew off his head on the track
Larry Nuber thinks Cale Yarborough is foxy 1:45:00
2:48:39
Dave’s Allison’s bad wreck