I became a fan in 1984, and had never seen this race. It was a great race and the quality of the video is much better than most old Nascar races on TH-cam. Thanks for uploading all these SmiffTV!
I mean, neither will Rally, NBA, NFL, hell..golf? Its all just rose colored glasses. Plus legends in their prime. If you look close enough you can still find that in places; no matter the setting.
All due respect to Ken Squire for all the years he has given to racing, but he was the master of the obvious and oblivious to reality. Such quotes as "leading from the head of the field" and triumphant exclamations of drivers having a great day when running 30th while laps down were the norm.
@@timcornell8975 I hear you. I loved Bob Jenkins and Benny Parsons, the best pair to me. But Ken Squier and David Hobbs were the voices of my youth, it just takes me back. In F1, all the Brits love Murray Walker b/c he did it for 4 decades, but he was terrible as an analyst. He'd get the cars mixed up all the time...
He loved the word 'campaigner' and was obsessed with speed records, which are obviously dependent on how many cautions a race has. He was going crazy during the 1980 Daytona 500 over the 500-mile speed record possibly being set, which it was. But his enthusiasm for the sport can't be denied.
Meee Too. Mark Martin was the last of the old school drivers who refused to do that. Those ignorant burnouts are just one of the Many reasons that I refuse to follow the sorry remains of NASCAR these days. THANK GOODNESS For SMIFF TV(!!!) 🙂.
I just noticed something for the first time watching this. Dale is in turn 4 of the last lap at Daytona. He’s hit in the similar area of the car as he was in ‘01, but instead of taking a critical angle into the wall, his car actually breaks the other way. It’s just amazing to me that 18 years later he’d die in that corner, from a similar tap to the right rear, when here it is in a much less safer car. It’s possible when he felt Labonte hit him he jerked the wheel left to have it either back into the fence or spin out like he did. Do it for Dale!
Actually the first gen 4 cars from 1991 to 2001 were actually more dangerous than these because the gen 4 cars were completely different to what nascar was experienced to
@@sludge4125 Lol “The OP”. I’m right here. I’d love to have you explain to me what the problem is about this post? I kinda already know - lots of flakes looking to be easily offended by words that actually have no real bearing on the outcome of their life. My comment at its root was about how daring the older generation of drivers were. They drove equipment not as safe and just think of how every accident back then was literally life or death. If Dale hits the wall in this race like he did in 2001 he may not have been here. Thank goodness we got to watch him 18 more years. If you don’t like my post it’s easy - don’t read it - don’t like it - ignore it - but don’t go thinking you can come in here trying to dump all over someone for making an observation. You know where you can go and how to get there. Good Luck to you, I have a feeling you’re going to need it.
@@stevenmckimmy6618 I’ve found that people who drop comments like this lack the IQ to understand how it makes them look. Ever seen “stand by me”? The folks in the crowd at the pie eating contest were definitely your kin.
whoa.... A.J. Foyt and Richard Petty as co-announcers !! Two names I grew up with during the 1970s... thank you so much for posting these great videos, as in 1983 that's when I graduated High School :) :) :) Inccidently Tim Richmond who is racing here would go on to become my favorite NASCAR driver once I stated going to races in Pocono and Dover just a couple of short years later !!
It was cool seeing the 2 Fords with different bodies running up front and breaking away from the pack in the early going. And it was a preview of things to come in the following years, as Elliott and Earnhardt would become two of the top drivers and would have so many dominant runs on the superspeedways.
@@CTjacob13 : sounds like 8 to me. The only NASCAR series I know that ran V6's were the old baby grands / Goody's dash cars and they never ran super speedways. These cup cars from the 80's did split the exhaust, one side out the left and one out the right. This might account for the slightly different sound than today's cars were both come out the right side. I think they did this for safety so the gas man didn't have a hot exhaust pipe blasting him as he refueled the car.
Damn. I loved this as a kid. What ashame the boring thing it's turned into today. The technology has done that to every motorsports series. But geez, 10:42 Dang!!
It looked like Terry was going high and DW was drifting up, whether on purpose or not, who knows. Then Terry lifted a little to avoid hitting DW and it shifted the weight of his car and made it unbalanced.
DW hitting Terry was very similar to Bonnett getting into Elliott earlier in the race. They both drove it a little too hard into turn 3 and drifted up into the other car. Nothing intentional, just hard racing in a short sprint race.
It is funny how Dale Sr was driving the New T-Bird and then went to the Monte Carlo. Bill Elliot then championed that car with the Melling Oil Pumps and Coors car!
I believe it NASCAR would get rid of radial tires and go back to the bias play tire, raise the cars up off the track and not let the teams seal the nose and sides of the to the race track to where it's barely scraping the track, raise the car front of the car up by taking about 6 inches off the front air dam and get rid of the side skirts, and don't forget go back to the bias ply tire, we could see racing like this again. If NASCAR wouldn't go back to the bias ply tire then do the other things. Get the air moving under the car. There's absolutely no air going under the cars today creating A HUGE hole in the air, so no air is getting onto the nose of the next car is he's within 5 to 10 car lengths. Get the air moving under the car and over the car, then the home being punched in the air would be 40% smaller, and the hole in the air would close up 50% faster. Allowing for 75 to 80% cleaner air on the nose of the cars from 2nd on back. Damn I wish NASCAR would please listen to this.
They need to switch to SUVs and crossovers. They're the top selling cars in the country now anyway. And the original sport was based on hauling things as fast as possible. It'd be entertaining as hell to watch and it would fix a lot of the problems you're talking about here.
@@keithlowe1982 the trucks are just Sportsman/Busch/Xfinity cars with a different skin, though, and it was a gimmick. It wasn't about getting the sport back to its roots. A pickup is not what you'd choose to haul liquor in if you were a bootlegger and had to outrun the cops, today. Make some body-on-frame soccer mom crossovers without the ground effects and massive spoilers and throw them out there going 170 at Daytona, it'd be way more entertaining than the current cup cars going 200. It'd also be way more entertaining to watch them slide around and door each other at Richmond and Dover.
This was the blood and guts style NASCAR action that I want to see return to NASCAR ASAP. The current stage racing style today seriously sucks. #MakeNASCARGreatAgain #FireBrianFrance
Back in the mid seventies up to about 1987 was real racing. Plus you not only had legendary race car drivers but legendary car owners and crew chiefs like or Junior Johnson, the Wood Brothers, Bud Moore,Waddell Wilson etc.
The Black Flag is waved over a specific car to indicate that they need to come to the pits for either mechanical problems (shedding debris/fluid) or to serve a penalty. These days, you get 3 laps to heed the flag. If you do not come in, they post a Black with White stripe flag meaning your car is no longer scored in the race.
Before Nascar turned into million dollar corporations. Guys driving whatever they could get there hands on. Fords, Buicks, Pontiac, Oldsmobiles, Chevrolet. Real cars and real drivers. Nascar will never be like that again.
Don’t know why dale was blowing smoke BUT he should have taken the Black flag coz 1. He may have covered the track in oil and 2. He would not have been there and the accident might not have happened!
Real men driving real cars. These are some of the drivers that made Nascar as big as it once was. The cars didn't cut through the air like a missile No aero push this and aero push that. Unrestricted engines that didn't need 8 other cars to make a pass they had enough HP to do it on their own just using the slingshot to pass. These days its follow the leader to the last 5 lap wreck fest they now call racing.
Yessir The roar of them 7 to 10 cars roaring round that track w the stands empty is something. You can hear each motor and tell which car is which by the sound. Growin up in Mt.Dora Fl. bout 30 miles away we'd go over on thursday to see em unload and fire them up to do warm ups then hot laps til and a day later qualifying. It sounds so cool with no one in the stands,beside the bodies absorbind and killing the echo the noise 30 to 60 thousand people can make. It was so exciting. I hadn't even watched since Dale died. Neil Bonnet Alan Kulwicki J.D.McDuffie and Kenny Irwin RIP guys
@@daviclar867 Dale Sr. and Richard Childreess had a master plan of driving for who paid w the best equipment til RCR was a working,living reality. He and Dale wouldn't be denied.
Earnhardt didn't own the car, so he wouldn't have paid the fine anyway. Bud Moore owned it...and still never paid the fine. It was an exhibition race and NASCAR didn't mention black flags in the driver's meeting. Just FYI
Once again, kinder, provide your documentation on that. My research shows that $5000 was paid, and the other $5000 would be forgiven if dale could be a good bitch for five races. kinder, quit talking out of your asshole. Provide some documentation.
Never said what the problem with Earnhardts car was. If it was an engine blowing up he wouldnt have been running as good as he was. Fender rubbing maybe , it was smoking on straights. Wasn' t looking for a black flag he was looking for the checker. My man. It s great to go back to the good ole days , see Dale running hard again. And in a Ford. LMAO.
Bonnett certainly ruined Elliott's chances here, driving it hard into turn 3 and getting into him. Afterward the announcers don't even mention the fact that Bill had run down the front 5 cars by himself in the remaining laps, just before the last-lap melee.
Come on DALE JR. PLEASE HAVE MEON YOUR POD CAS. TO only be 50 everybody compliments me on Nascar Knowledge. But I never knew DALE EARNHARDT drove a Ford..... As I'm just listening he's blowing up. I think. Smoke everywhere but he still carries the maiL
IIRC, some drivers were still running the '82 Thunderbird as late as the 1984 speed weeks. Didn't some of the Ford teams build the '83 T-Bird after speed weeks?
@@joett84 I don't think so - they built an 83 T-Bird during the 83 season - and brought an aero bird in 1984 to Daytona (with the Coors scheme) - it was fast but I don't think they quite had the handling figured out. Bill ran in the back of the lead draft most of the day in 1984 - looked like he could run with anyone - just couldn't really run the bottom to make passes at the very front of the field. Big difference in how the boxy bird and the aero bird handled - no question the aero bird had less drag but if you have to lift significantly it negates the car being slippery. By 1985 the did have the handling figured out - Ernie's engine made monster power but the speed difference was Bill being able to run the corners wide open at Daytona. GM cars kept putting in lower gears to keep up - which is why so many blew up in the 1985 500.
I'm pretty sure everything by this point in time was small block V-8 engines with single 4 bbl carbs. Some engines probably reving way higher than others due to drivetrain gearing, etc....
Junior Johnson's cars had a different sound than the other cars all through the 70s and 80s, that's what Waltrip is driving. I think they ran a different exhaust setup. With it being Junior, there's no telling.
Zeke Andersson The ones that sound “funny” are using what they called 180° headers. They sounded different because the exhaust pulses actually came through the pipes in a different order than the regular headers. Indy cars use that style of exhaust too, if you maybe thought that these cars sounded like lower-reviving Indy cars of the 80s. I thought they sounded like anemic v6s, but they were all the same 358 V8s.
@@JimWhitakerMusic That's cool, I assumed it was the headers but I didn't know for sure. Why wouldn't they all use them? Was there a big price difference or something? Feel free to ignore this, I'm just curious.
Dale did you see the black flag ? Wasn’t looking for it I was looking for the checkered When people ask what happened to NASCAR why people left , play them that clip and then this race ..this is racing not that crap we have today . Real personality, real drivers , real cars that’s what nascar is missing
No driver ever “sees” the black flag while passing by at 200 mph. But his team is notified. And then there is a brand new for 1983 thing called a radio.
Neil Bonnet ran over Bill , a-hole a dead a-hole. Boo the winner lol. Give him a pass I guess cause he was usually a clean driver. Great video thanks for uploading
So how can 5-6 cars be so close and the end without cookie cutter templates for body's & engines, with different makes, cheat'n while try'n, drivers not submitting to the rules (Black flag?), last lap or so, pass for the win racing? great Drivers!..............god I miss that stuff, it's what got people hooked on NASCAR. there's no reason to watch anymore.....bunch of cats who can't drive it when it's too loose or too tight, don't adjust, just quit and ride around for the sponsors..............Bleep.
$220 grand, that's chicken shit money today, well for some. I stopped watching Nascar a bit after Dale died. It's just boring now, never be the same unless the cars are real stock cars and not whatever you call them now. Although I do like the safety built into them now.
@@sludge4125 yea ask yur mon doushbag she's knows all about it..and your sister they both call me daddy you like vanilla ice for Christ sakes that says it all 😆
I became a fan in 1984, and had never seen this race. It was a great race and the quality of the video is much better than most old Nascar races on TH-cam. Thanks for uploading all these SmiffTV!
NASCAR will NEVER get back to this. The 80s and early 90s were best times in the sport. IMHO
It certainly appears that way. Hey, professional boxing and bowling used to big time, too. The only constant is change.
It died with Dale
Huh?
I mean, neither will Rally, NBA, NFL, hell..golf?
Its all just rose colored glasses. Plus legends in their prime. If you look close enough you can still find that in places; no matter the setting.
no the 60's and early 70's where the hey day of nascar
Damn, Bonnet knew how to wheel a race car.
Neil really could. He's dearly missed.
Just as fast as they are today, but driven by men. This is why everyone loves the good old days.
nascar will never b the same again...the 80s an 90s where the best years of nascar
2002-2006 were great too
Really cool to see the boxFox bird and the aerobird side by side on the track.
Yeah, baby!!!!
It ain't Daytona without Ken Squire...
All due respect to Ken Squire for all the years he has given to racing, but he was the master of the obvious and oblivious to reality. Such quotes as "leading from the head of the field" and triumphant exclamations of drivers having a great day when running 30th while laps down were the norm.
@@timcornell8975 I hear you. I loved Bob Jenkins and Benny Parsons, the best pair to me. But Ken Squier and David Hobbs were the voices of my youth, it just takes me back. In F1, all the Brits love Murray Walker b/c he did it for 4 decades, but he was terrible as an analyst. He'd get the cars mixed up all the time...
He loved the word 'campaigner' and was obsessed with speed records, which are obviously dependent on how many cautions a race has. He was going crazy during the 1980 Daytona 500 over the 500-mile speed record possibly being set, which it was. But his enthusiasm for the sport can't be denied.
Back when NASCAR mattered. Miss the old veterans who made that sport what it was...Earnhardt, Bonnet, Baker, Petty, Gant, ect.
Neil Bonnet was always a classy gentleman and one heck of a racer !! Thanks for putting this out here to enjoy the good ol days
He sure was and a fishing buddy of Earnhardts.
Bet they are still reeling em in together.
Although he could have apologized for ruining Elliott's day
thats when cars looked like real cars I miss those days
Mike Mctighe and drivers had SKILLS! And were MEN not boys
Defiant to the end. The best race car driver ever. Dale Earnhardt. R.I.P. sir.
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Who da fuq cares? His laps weren’t being scored.
Yeah, that’s right, dale, sr., possibly destroy your car while running laps that don’t count.
Thomas Wilson as much as i love earnhardt, Richard petty is better
@@randomkdm lololol....Petty had money provided by stp and Chrysler. Others didn't. Petty was a regular driver.
Earnhardt had to deal with a lot more competition during his career than Petty ever did.
Great intro. And, a very good race.
Those awesome sounding engines 😃
6:54 What a shot!
I love it at the end not having to see those useless doughnuts.
Because they respected the coat of the cars and motors in those days
However you did have to watch Baker’s burnout at 19:10 🤣
@@mikejansen3357 Yeah Baker was washing off his wheels.
Meee Too. Mark Martin was the last of the old school drivers who refused to do that. Those ignorant burnouts are just one of the Many reasons that I refuse to follow the sorry remains of NASCAR these days. THANK GOODNESS For SMIFF TV(!!!) 🙂.
I just noticed something for the first time watching this. Dale is in turn 4 of the last lap at Daytona. He’s hit in the similar area of the car as he was in ‘01, but instead of taking a critical angle into the wall, his car actually breaks the other way.
It’s just amazing to me that 18 years later he’d die in that corner, from a similar tap to the right rear, when here it is in a much less safer car.
It’s possible when he felt Labonte hit him he jerked the wheel left to have it either back into the fence or spin out like he did.
Do it for Dale!
Thank you, Brandon. The OP is a fkn idiot.
MORON
Actually the first gen 4 cars from 1991 to 2001 were actually more dangerous than these because the gen 4 cars were completely different to what nascar was experienced to
@@sludge4125 Lol “The OP”. I’m right here. I’d love to have you explain to me what the problem is about this post? I kinda already know - lots of flakes looking to be easily offended by words that actually have no real bearing on the outcome of their life. My comment at its root was about how daring the older generation of drivers were. They drove equipment not as safe and just think of how every accident back then was literally life or death. If Dale hits the wall in this race like he did in 2001 he may not have been here. Thank goodness we got to watch him 18 more years.
If you don’t like my post it’s easy - don’t read it - don’t like it - ignore it - but don’t go thinking you can come in here trying to dump all over someone for making an observation. You know where you can go and how to get there. Good Luck to you, I have a feeling you’re going to need it.
@@stevenmckimmy6618 I’ve found that people who drop comments like this lack the IQ to understand how it makes them look. Ever seen “stand by me”?
The folks in the crowd at the pie eating contest were definitely your kin.
whoa.... A.J. Foyt and Richard Petty as co-announcers !!
Two names I grew up with during the 1970s... thank you so much for posting these great videos, as in 1983 that's when I graduated High School :) :) :)
Inccidently Tim Richmond who is racing here would go on to become my favorite NASCAR driver once I stated going to races in Pocono and Dover just a couple of short years later !!
VERY GREAT races thank you for the good moments in video smifftv
Those cars had such a unique sound as the pack roared by.. just crazy
I was at daytona in 83... the sound could rattle the wax out of your ears!!!
It was cool seeing the 2 Fords with different bodies running up front and breaking away from the pack in the early going. And it was a preview of things to come in the following years, as Elliott and Earnhardt would become two of the top drivers and would have so many dominant runs on the superspeedways.
Big block power and 200 mph, that's the real NASCAR
Big blocks? 358ci small blocks.
Jim, nostalgia is one of the greatest enemies of the truth.
Nascar outlawed big blocks long before this race. The OP is DOPE.
@@jimjonrs3932 I think these are V6s.
@@CTjacob13 : sounds like 8 to me. The only NASCAR series I know that ran V6's were the old baby grands / Goody's dash cars and they never ran super speedways. These cup cars from the 80's did split the exhaust, one side out the left and one out the right. This might account for the slightly different sound than today's cars were both come out the right side. I think they did this for safety so the gas man didn't have a hot exhaust pipe blasting him as he refueled the car.
1974 was the last year for big blocks in cup cars.
Damn. I loved this as a kid. What ashame the boring thing it's turned into today. The technology has done that to every motorsports series. But geez, 10:42 Dang!!
Jim Fisher I know man, this is right around the time my Dad got me into NASCAR. I thought it was coolest fucking thing in the world
Truer words never spoken
Cheers to the awesome drivers back in the good ole days of Nascar when they didn't have a choke hold on the carburetor.
DW triggered that mayhem by that slight block he put on Terry. Still awesome finish.
That was a pretty shitty move tbh. Terry had pulled up beside him and this isn't even a race for points.
It looked like Terry was going high and DW was drifting up, whether on purpose or not, who knows. Then Terry lifted a little to avoid hitting DW and it shifted the weight of his car and made it unbalanced.
DW hitting Terry was very similar to Bonnett getting into Elliott earlier in the race. They both drove it a little too hard into turn 3 and drifted up into the other car. Nothing intentional, just hard racing in a short sprint race.
Great race. Thank you for sharing
So much better than today’s racing.
AJFoyt......LIKE A BOSS!
It is funny how Dale Sr was driving the New T-Bird and then went to the Monte Carlo. Bill Elliot then championed that car with the Melling Oil Pumps and Coors car!
Them's some unheard of facts right there. WOW!
😲😲😲
@@LT1HILLINGHOE AS in The new designed T-Bird.
@@murdiesel
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I believe it NASCAR would get rid of radial tires and go back to the bias play tire, raise the cars up off the track and not let the teams seal the nose and sides of the to the race track to where it's barely scraping the track, raise the car front of the car up by taking about 6 inches off the front air dam and get rid of the side skirts, and don't forget go back to the bias ply tire, we could see racing like this again. If NASCAR wouldn't go back to the bias ply tire then do the other things. Get the air moving under the car. There's absolutely no air going under the cars today creating A HUGE hole in the air, so no air is getting onto the nose of the next car is he's within 5 to 10 car lengths. Get the air moving under the car and over the car, then the home being punched in the air would be 40% smaller, and the hole in the air would close up 50% faster. Allowing for 75 to 80% cleaner air on the nose of the cars from 2nd on back. Damn I wish NASCAR would please listen to this.
They need to switch to SUVs and crossovers. They're the top selling cars in the country now anyway. And the original sport was based on hauling things as fast as possible. It'd be entertaining as hell to watch and it would fix a lot of the problems you're talking about here.
cnking27.... what are you saying dude. No.
@@kyloten-raikerz6638 why not?
@@cnking27 Where do you think the Truck Series came from?
@@keithlowe1982 the trucks are just Sportsman/Busch/Xfinity cars with a different skin, though, and it was a gimmick. It wasn't about getting the sport back to its roots. A pickup is not what you'd choose to haul liquor in if you were a bootlegger and had to outrun the cops, today. Make some body-on-frame soccer mom crossovers without the ground effects and massive spoilers and throw them out there going 170 at Daytona, it'd be way more entertaining than the current cup cars going 200. It'd also be way more entertaining to watch them slide around and door each other at Richmond and Dover.
This was the blood and guts style NASCAR action that I want to see return to NASCAR ASAP. The current stage racing style today seriously sucks.
#MakeNASCARGreatAgain #FireBrianFrance
I agree. But they have too be politically correct now cause the communist democrats say so.
Back in the mid seventies up to about 1987 was real racing. Plus you not only had legendary race car drivers but legendary car owners and crew chiefs like or Junior Johnson, the Wood Brothers, Bud Moore,Waddell Wilson etc.
@@thomaswilson8634If the democrats are communist then the republicans are Nazis
that music in the opening was amazing lol
Wish Nascar would go back to the original format of this race. ONLY POLE winners from the previous season ONLY!
Lol @ Earnhardt just ignoring the black flag.
Non-points race...fuck it....why not? lol
AdviceDog08 Dale didn't give a fuck. No points screw it race it till it breaks 😂🏁
AdviceDog08 what is the black flag used for?
The Black Flag is waved over a specific car to indicate that they need to come to the pits for either mechanical problems (shedding debris/fluid) or to serve a penalty. These days, you get 3 laps to heed the flag. If you do not come in, they post a Black with White stripe flag meaning your car is no longer scored in the race.
dcjlove also get black flag for other things
when nascar was fun
200 with a V6 🇺🇸✌🏻”Darrell’s runnin like an outlaw!!!! Earnhardt’s chasing em like the sheriff” 😁😁
I thought Darrell's car had a V6 too, but I don't think it does. Appears to have V8 with 180 deg headers on it.
@@jackgtx440 100% correct
V8
Not V6's 358 V8's
Just Glad Bobby Allison didn’t get hurt too bad,,, no soft walls, just concrete... ouch.
A crash was inevitable considering the 3 quarts of oil Earnhardt dumped all over the track ignoring the BF.
Damn Ford
Those cars handled pretty well back then. A few good saves earlier in the race, but at 200 mph, you can't save em all. No green/white/checker? LOL jk
Racing could get back to this if they got rid of power steering.. it would get rid of these polished rich kids that are there today.
Bobby ran power steering.
They had power steering during this time
Car blowing up, hanging right in there, while car bang and scrape around him..lol. These guys were a different breed. Straight balls...fearless.
Bonnet was a driver. When the needle needed threading, he could get it done.
Nascar was so much better before the big multi car teams
Missed opportunity to not have The Clash come perform before the Clash of ‘83.
Earnhardt Looking for checkered. The rest of the flags are for fans.
Before Nascar turned into million dollar corporations. Guys driving whatever they could get there hands on. Fords, Buicks, Pontiac, Oldsmobiles, Chevrolet. Real cars and real drivers. Nascar will never be like that again.
NOBODY drove mopars except buddy arrington.
What were you saying, numb nuts?
Nostalgia is one of the greatest enemies of the truth.
Don’t know why dale was blowing smoke BUT he should have taken the Black flag coz 1. He may have covered the track in oil and 2. He would not have been there and the accident might not have happened!
Neil Bonnet was a heck of a guy. Man..
RP, man ahead of his time, trucker hat with dark shades!
The V6s sound so smooth yet angry at the same time. Neat to hear.
Well, this race didn't have any V6's in it. None.
@@LT1HILLINGHOE You sir, are 100% correct.
Why do people keep saying that were V6's? The Cup cars never ran them.
Dam , now that’s a staked racing lineup. Holy smokes
why was Morgan Sheppard black flagged?
Bud Moore said Earnhardt had no mercy on His engines..
Wait-you mean someone managed to go through the grass without ripping the whole nose off the car? What manner of sorcery is this?
This was held on a Monday. Cale flipped his car only a few hours earlier.
Wow, sawing away at the steering wheel at 195mph. Those guys could drive back then.
It's so good to go back to the unrestricted days. Fewer wrecks but I'd bout forgotten blown engines.
Bobby Allison crush looks just like Darrell Waltrip crash in 1983 Daytona 500.
Gotta think Cale was playing it safe with AJs car, otherwise he'd have one pissed off Texan coming at him
True!!!
These guys did not apologise, they fought. When was the last good fight you saw in the last 10 years?
Only the Intimidator could answer it that way lol.
Real men driving real cars. These are some of the drivers that made Nascar as big as it once was. The cars didn't cut through the air like a missile No aero push this and aero push that. Unrestricted engines that didn't need 8 other cars to make a pass they had enough HP to do it on their own just using the slingshot to pass. These days its follow the leader to the last 5 lap wreck fest they now call racing.
Yessir
The roar of them 7 to 10 cars roaring round that track w the stands empty is something.
You can hear each motor and tell which car is which by the sound.
Growin up in Mt.Dora Fl. bout 30 miles away we'd go over on thursday to see em unload and fire them up to do warm ups then hot laps til and a day later qualifying.
It sounds so cool with no one in the stands,beside the bodies absorbind and killing the echo the noise 30 to 60 thousand people can make.
It was so exciting.
I hadn't even watched since Dale died.
Neil Bonnet
Alan Kulwicki
J.D.McDuffie
and Kenny Irwin
RIP guys
@@feellucky271 You are right when Dale was killed is the day the music died for Nascar. Look what Nascar has come to since.
never imagined Earnhardt in a ford...
Bud Moore Ford to be exact
Dale raced a Pink 50's Vic back in the red clay of NC days.
I believe it was only for the 82-83 seasons
Dale’s first cup race was in a dodge. He drove an entire season in pontiacs. In 1982 and 3 he drove fords. Then it was all chevrolet, all the time.
@@daviclar867 Dale Sr. and Richard Childreess had a master plan of driving for who paid w the best equipment til RCR was a working,living reality.
He and Dale wouldn't be denied.
All the Good ones left us way to soon. GOD bless the good ole days.
I think that Ken Squire was president of the Neil Bonnett fan club, lol. And of AJ Foyt's also. He always seemed to talk about them the most.
Miss all these guys
They should make it 20 laps like this and have them drive custom Xfinity cars.
Custom 4 Cylinder Turbo Toyota's
If Earnhardt had pulled in the pits when the black flag was thrown he would of saved himself a wrecked race car and $10,000.
Hence the handle "Ole Ironhead".
Earnhardt didn't own the car, so he wouldn't have paid the fine anyway. Bud Moore owned it...and still never paid the fine. It was an exhibition race and NASCAR didn't mention black flags in the driver's meeting. Just FYI
@@brink442 didn't mention black flag what are you stupid. they didn't mention to go counter clockwise either.
Once again, kinder, provide your documentation on that.
My research shows that $5000 was paid, and the other $5000 would be forgiven if dale could be a good bitch for five races.
kinder, quit talking out of your asshole. Provide some documentation.
The cars are beautiful. Too bad the actual street cars were still junk.
David Hobbs always did a great job.
Earnhardt in a Ford, like a fish out of water.
Yes, those awkward Bud Moore years. Wrangler always followed though.
I sure miss those days. This is racing and racing died the same day when we lost Dale Earnhardt Sr
No, it didn’t. Just because your man crush or bromance ended doesn’t mean racing died.
James Dillard 2004-2006 Were NASCAR’s Most popular Years
Earnhardt died in 2001
So You Are Wrong
Never said what the problem with Earnhardts car was. If it was an engine blowing up he wouldnt have been running as good as he was. Fender rubbing maybe , it was smoking on straights.
Wasn' t looking for a black flag he was looking for the checker.
My man.
It s great to go back to the good ole days , see Dale running hard again. And in a Ford. LMAO.
Bonnett certainly ruined Elliott's chances here, driving it hard into turn 3 and getting into him. Afterward the announcers don't even mention the fact that Bill had run down the front 5 cars by himself in the remaining laps, just before the last-lap melee.
Allison with a tank slapper
Swell Earnfart fans loook where Earnfart finished in the standings. This is when he had LIVE competition on the track.
Come on DALE JR. PLEASE HAVE MEON YOUR POD CAS. TO only be 50 everybody compliments me on Nascar Knowledge. But I never knew DALE EARNHARDT drove a Ford..... As I'm just listening he's blowing up. I think. Smoke everywhere but he still carries the maiL
Ole Bill running the boxy bird - Bonnet flat ran him over there to knock him out of the draft. Ah well - that's racing back then.
Even in a square 'bird, Awesome Bill ROCKS!
IIRC, some drivers were still running the '82 Thunderbird as late as the 1984 speed weeks. Didn't some of the Ford teams build the '83 T-Bird after speed weeks?
Bill would finish second in the 500 that year. I just wonder if he would have been able to win and beat Cale with the new car.
@@joett84 I don't think so - they built an 83 T-Bird during the 83 season - and brought an aero bird in 1984 to Daytona (with the Coors scheme) - it was fast but I don't think they quite had the handling figured out. Bill ran in the back of the lead draft most of the day in 1984 - looked like he could run with anyone - just couldn't really run the bottom to make passes at the very front of the field. Big difference in how the boxy bird and the aero bird handled - no question the aero bird had less drag but if you have to lift significantly it negates the car being slippery. By 1985 the did have the handling figured out - Ernie's engine made monster power but the speed difference was Bill being able to run the corners wide open at Daytona. GM cars kept putting in lower gears to keep up - which is why so many blew up in the 1985 500.
I was looking for the Checkerd
men with real balls not the crap we have today
Nostalgia is one of the greatest enemies of the truth, dum fuq.
And real moustaches
@@anihtgenga4096 Richard ,Dale and Terry Labonte had the best moustaches.
ha ha
Earnhardt and Sheppard should've caught a smack for this race from both Bills.
Richard Petty sure doesn't like them Fords.
some engines sound more high pitched than the other ones. are they running diferent engine sizes? some sounds like v6s
I'm pretty sure everything by this point in time was small block V-8 engines with single 4 bbl carbs.
Some engines probably reving way higher than others due to drivetrain gearing, etc....
Junior Johnson's cars had a different sound than the other cars all through the 70s and 80s, that's what Waltrip is driving. I think they ran a different exhaust setup. With it being Junior, there's no telling.
Zeke Andersson The ones that sound “funny” are using what they called 180° headers. They sounded different because the exhaust pulses actually came through the pipes in a different order than the regular headers. Indy cars use that style of exhaust too, if you maybe thought that these cars sounded like lower-reviving Indy cars of the 80s.
I thought they sounded like anemic v6s, but they were all the same 358 V8s.
@@JimWhitakerMusic That's cool, I assumed it was the headers but I didn't know for sure. Why wouldn't they all use them? Was there a big price difference or something? Feel free to ignore this, I'm just curious.
Pretty sure in 83 there were still V6 cars
This is the reason I had a problem God like Dale Earnhardt SR.
Miss seeing them run up on the high side.
True Champ! "You were Black Flagged, did you see it?" "No I wasn't looking for it because I was looking for the Checkered one!"
that's why he was booed by half the fans
True dirty smelly runny filthy asshole.
Richard poking fun at A.J.! LOL
Daytona hurt Darrell one too many times during his career. This year being the worst. One of the best, cleanest race drivers ever was.
Lolol
Dale did you see the black flag ?
Wasn’t looking for it I was looking for the checkered
When people ask what happened to NASCAR why people left , play them that clip and then this race ..this is racing not that crap we have today . Real personality, real drivers , real cars that’s what nascar is missing
No driver ever “sees” the black flag while passing by at 200 mph.
But his team is notified. And then there is a brand new for 1983 thing called a radio.
I was there in turn 2 infield. And again in 84. One was the 25th running of the 500. Vice President George Bush started the race.
Neil Bonnet ran over Bill , a-hole a dead a-hole. Boo the winner lol. Give him a pass I guess cause he was usually a clean driver. Great video thanks for uploading
Open face helmets looked so much better
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Dale in a Ford.
Earnhardt 💯💪🏻
So how can 5-6 cars be so close and the end without cookie cutter templates for body's & engines, with different makes, cheat'n while try'n, drivers not submitting to the rules (Black flag?), last lap or so, pass for the win racing? great Drivers!..............god I miss that stuff, it's what got people hooked on NASCAR. there's no reason to watch anymore.....bunch of cats who can't drive it when it's too loose or too tight, don't adjust, just quit and ride around for the sponsors..............Bleep.
$220 grand, that's chicken shit money today, well for some. I stopped watching Nascar a bit after Dale died. It's just boring now, never be the same unless the cars are real stock cars and not whatever you call them now. Although I do like the safety built into them now.
They were real stock cars for about two years. Or perhaps you are so stupid that you think your 1960s era impala or galaxie could do 180.
@@sludge4125 Thank you for your reply. Always appreciate them.
Real cars. Real men
Real whiners.
And I bet you are a really old fuq.
@@sludge4125 yea ask yur mon doushbag she's knows all about it..and your sister they both call me daddy you like vanilla ice for Christ sakes that says it all 😆
@@sludge4125 and I'd really have you in tears if youtube didn't monitor and erase comments u fucng soyboy mellinial pus.
10:0 bye dale
This was when it was actual racing!!! Nowadays it's just soo boring
DIG IT
8:27
Earnhardt was never that young
Jim Fisher: Don't you know that racing today is government controlled. In a while, they're going to mandate when you can take a shit.
Or, if mike “stop and search” bloomers gets in, what you eat.
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