I was at this race, still have the program i bought that day

I was 16 years old with my family at this race. We never missed the 600 race. Great memories watching these legends go at it! I was an original Earnhardt fan. Cale and Dale show ! KFC and a great race. Life was good 👍 😊we had a Monte Carlo .

@davidpate6095

6 ай бұрын

Those were the days.

So many gone by era drivers in this one, glad someone preserved this race, nice to see and take a trip down memory lane.

I was there 7 hour race between 2 long rain delays . Great race ! I hate that Pearson , Cale , and Earnhardt had the accident it would have added to a spectacular race . I loved it !!! I was pulling for David Pearson and the Hoss Ellington Hawaiian Tropic Chevrolet.

@STP43FAN1

3 ай бұрын

Them plus Petty Pond and Elliott in that early crash

Amazing the things you don't get with the commercials. Great find.

I miss the old concrete stands on the backstretch. You had to duck beer cans and chicken bones, but that's where us poor boys sat in the 80s.

Those big bodied cars had cool dripping off of them! The #21 Neil Bonnet Ford was bad to the bone. Prettiest car in the track that day. Sr.’s head damn near hanging out the driver’s window opening laid back in that thing. Those guys were badass.

@johnriggle5336

3 жыл бұрын

They had to have the center of the seats cut out too !

@robbiejones4933

3 жыл бұрын

What happened to America is the question but hey what did we think would happen when they started just giving out trophies for participating and stopped making people earn them guess what a whole generation of pussy's idk about anyone else but when I was growing up my dad would make me get up dust myself off stop crying and earn it if u don't I will give u something to cry about until we stop babying the cry babies it will continue to get worse

@STP43FAN1

Жыл бұрын

And those cars weren’t even the best looking of the decade - the Coke bottle body Chargers Mercuries and Monte Carlos of the first half of the 1970s were great

HOLY SHIT WHAT A RACE, WHAT A FINISH! GO PARSONS!! And btw RIP legend. Now that's determination.

Benny Parsons is vastly underrated as a Wheelman in the history of NASCAR. While he had (& Won) an awesome duel with DW in this race, for me his slugfest (he Won) at Ontario Motor Speedway in 79 was his crowning jewel! He, along with The King, Bobby Allison, Cale & Buddy Baker fought a duel to the death over the last 10 laps, swapping the lead multiple times each lap & came to the checkered flag 5 cars all wadded up in a 3 car space! Ontario was a replica of Indy, big, fast & very little banking in the four corner's & I sat in the Front-stretch grandstands and watched BP Win back to back races in 79-80, The guy was a GREAT Wheelman fo'sho!! 💪🤠👍

@tnwhiskey68

11 ай бұрын

I don't think he was underrated, there were just so many guys who accomplished so much in his era. He is in the hall of fame so he isn't overlooked except for the younger crowd who either only knew him as an announcer or don't know him at all.

@Slinger43

11 ай бұрын

@@tnwhiskey68 Congratulations, you completely missed my point 👍

@STP43FAN1

3 ай бұрын

The other huge battle Parsons had was Pocono in 1977

@patrickisswayze3446

2 ай бұрын

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1980 was when I first became interested in NASCAR. To me the 1977 Chevy Monte Carlo is one of the best looking race cars ever. My dad had a street version, and how I wish I had gotten it when I turned 16 in 1982.

Why is it so interesting when I feel like I’m eavesdropping on a private conversation between people you normally don’t hear conversating as normal human beings? Discussions back-and-forth with the broadcast team and the producers is so fascinating. No I haven’t been into NASCAR for that long but Keb Squires voice is so distinctive and enjoyable. I was driving myself nuts trying to figure out where I heard him. He was the announcer for the movie Rad. “Give it to Jones Cru Jones wins it!”

The gladiators of NASCAR will never be forgotten. I hope heaven has racing.

I was 15 years old then and NASCAR was a big part of my familys entertainment. My uncle used to take me to Martinsville every year. My oldest brother had one of those HUGE sat. dishes with a modified chip. He could pick up hundreds of channels and we could watch any NASCAR race that was being aired. We had many a good time watching the races then. Most of them have passed on now so this brings back a lot of pleasant memories. Hard to believe this was over 40 years ago ! I always did like Tommy Gales Thunderbird , I thought it was a great looking race car.

Real racing in real cars! Excellent!! Thanks for the upload.

Best 600 ever!!!

Ken Squire & David Hobbs were GREAT. To me, this is the soundtrack of NASCAR

Kyle Petty’s car was a former LG DeWitt car that Joe Millikan drove

Great finish, great races, great names, but I bet no one thought it would be Earnhardt's year........

@headbrown5629

Жыл бұрын

They had a good team & a good bunch of racers at the shop building & seeing up the car. If I'm correct, Jake Elder was crew chief. Doug Reichert was also there. But you're right. It was only his second year in full time competition

Absolutely awesome to see this!!

What a race!

What an awesome race, the last laps were epic

1:07:25 "That is perhaps the worst joke you have ever made."

I like and agree with all previous comments.

love it benny got him....

Thanks for this race, cool to see these old races

I was at this race!!!

@andypittman357

Жыл бұрын

Are you originally from the NC/SC area?

1:59:40 Violent crash from the sportsman race the day before

@TDDDDDDDO

2 жыл бұрын

Holy crap

@STP43FAN1

Жыл бұрын

Junior Crouch lost an arm

One car sounds like a 2stroke v8

@GrocMax

3 жыл бұрын

180 degree (crossover) headers used to be popular.

@Slinger43

2 жыл бұрын

Cale's #11 car, Junior Johnson loved those 180° header's, sounded like a very large ANGRY swarm of bee's!

Do you have the Austin City Limits Season 5 opening sequence from 1980?

Kool to hear the tower's commands.🏇

Cheech and Chong driving a car number 74 on 19:12

*POINT STANDINGS and WINS before the 1980 WORLD 600 (13 of 31):* #2 Dale Earnhardt (1844 points with 3 wins, Chevrolet) #43 Richard Petty (-102 with 2 win, Chevrolet) #11 Cale Yarborough (-137 with 1 win, Chevrolet) #15 Bobby Allison (-195 with 1 win, Ford) #88 Darrell Waltrip (-215 with 2 wins, Chevrolet) #90 Jody Ridley (-278, Chevrolet) #27 Benny Parson (-279, Chevrolet) #47 Harry Gant (-384, Chevrolet) Meanwhile, Richard Childress (Chevrolet) was 11th. Despite his great 1979 season, Joe Millikan (Chevrolet) had to scale down to a partial schedule for 1980. Part-timer Buddy Baker (Chevrolet) won the Daytona 500 and the Alabama 500 while David Pearson won the Rebel 500 after taking over the Chevrolet #1 Donnie Allison used to race.. Drivers listed are the season's current top8, last season's top8 plus whatever race winner that doesn't fit any of those 2 descriptions. I’m also using the unsponsored names of the races. In Charlotte’s case, the early race was the World 600 while the Fall one was the American 500.

Always curious about why they ran Monte Carlos at a track like Charlotte when the Oldsmobile they ran at Daytona was apparently aerodynamically superior.?

@STP43FAN1

Жыл бұрын

They found out the Monte Carlo created better downforce while the Olds couldn’t.

@STP43FAN1

Жыл бұрын

The Coke bottle bodies of earlier in the 1970s were better balanced

That’s racing

THIS was racing.

OH BOY!!!

😍

Real racing with real cars.

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