I was there. Infield turn 3 & 4.. my first NASCAR race.. this was when NASCAR was GREAT!! NO restrictor plates.. flat out 800hp!!!

The commentators are timeless, Ken Squire can make watching paint dry exciting.

@bobwalton3642

Жыл бұрын

Yea but the guy with the english accent is so irritating

@beeemm2578

Жыл бұрын

@@bobwalton3642 yeah he always took shots and jokes at the American/hillbilly'Murica racing.

@vapinbachelor289

7 ай бұрын

RIP Ken Squier

@Tipzyyy

6 ай бұрын

because they're LEGITIMATE. Not old drivers who got on the mic to maintain income. NASCAR has no integrity anymore

@tnwhiskey68

5 ай бұрын

@@bobwalton3642 him and Chris Economacki both rubbed me wrong.

And listen to those cars go by at 200+ mph...full unrestricted horsepower.

Very prophetic comments by Squier and Jarrett about Hendrick Motorsports being a "formidable new team in NASCAR" and Rick being "very dedicated to auto racing".

Thanks for posting,the only sports I watch now are re-runs from days gone by.

@robbiejones4933

3 жыл бұрын

Certain people have ruined sports by making them political and manager's who are letting them

@joboots007

3 жыл бұрын

@@robbiejones4933Must’ve supported one buffoonish billionaire,eh Robbie????

@marine4lyfe85

2 жыл бұрын

@@joboots007 Go back to watching Formula One reruns "Maurice". By the way, can I call you "he" or do you prefer "it"?

@joboots007

2 жыл бұрын

@@marine4lyfe85 Excuse me????

@DandoleALaRueda

2 жыл бұрын

@@marine4lyfe85 🤣🤣🤣

Ned Jarrett is the only one who’s left from the original ESPN era because Ken Squire recently passed away and Bob Jenkins and Benny Parsins passed away in 2007

The way Richards head moved when he hit the wall shows just how dangerous a crash was in those days.

@larryhoward4531

2 жыл бұрын

99

@johnnymichael1804

7 ай бұрын

Trump 2024. Make racing dangerous again.

things I miss about these old nascar races that I grew up watching, the cool old in car cams, ken squire and David hobbs

Absolutely historic! Those cars are ripping! Like watching hockey without helmets!

@cosmiccharlie8294

Жыл бұрын

can you imagine how good the tires had to be?

man just listen to those unrestricted engines what a sound that they made.

@badmonkey2222

4 жыл бұрын

With 800+ hp .... Compared to 550 today,. Sad...

@patrickisswayze3446

5 ай бұрын

I like the shweeewh coming off those bodies as they're wrestling bricks at 200mph.

I love going back to these old races. I remember Earnhardt running out of gas and overshooting the pit stop, but I couldn't remember which year. He burned up so much fuel trying to catch Bodine

Amazing that Ken Squier, Ned Jarrett and David Hobbs are all still alive

@scottrupe6376

3 жыл бұрын

Great men!!!!

@Maverick33

2 жыл бұрын

David Hobbs really belongs in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

@arcadeshift5071

5 ай бұрын

RIP Ken :(

Thanks for posting! And I loved the commercials being left in, they helped give the feeling of the times.

@weallsobad7320

5 жыл бұрын

I forgot until I watched this. Hearing Ned Jarrett talking about the "Daytona Five Hundurd" awesome old NASCAR accents.

@markbock839

3 жыл бұрын

yes the commercials bring back my childhood memories cause i was 10 when this aired on tv

@mikes6457

3 жыл бұрын

@@weallsobad7320 0000⁰99 80s 80s 09 o 9 OU 90909999099999 o 9900 o 80s 90999099900990999900⁹90⁹0900 o 09000900990990900 o t9 o 89009 p 9 90s 0908999999999779879978798979999879979997888789989899898987797797t789999978979799999977999989978

I LOVE these classic races. The cars especially! They look so good, DIFFERENT, and each had a uniqueness unlike the carbon copied cars of today.

Nascar now is like going from a rotary phone to a computer in your hand.. I miss the days of the old unristrecd engines. Chris E was the best.....classic!

These old in car cams look way better than today's. Also...so much better to watch non aero dependent cars. When today can a guy get out front by himself? And the pack doesn't by necessity have to be right up the ass of the guy in front to stay in the mix.

Amazing that you don’t see the “Big One” when cars have room to race. Also miss the sweet sound of those engines.

Was fortunate enough to be at this 500..still have the program

@matildaharden1064

5 жыл бұрын

Lance Hurley didn’t they do a tribute to challenger before the race?

I use to love NASCAR. I love 80's.

I just watched a Doco on Chris Economaki and he made a great point. NASCAR has taken the dare, the threat of disaster, or basically The racing edge. He said people don't want to see death but death defying. Oh, and he also pointed out that no one will ever hear, " A new track record " when it comes to speed at these tracks.

This was nascar's peak right here this race.

This when racing was racing. I miss the good old days of NASCAR

@scottbrown7497

5 жыл бұрын

I guess NASCAR was never supposed to evolve

@WildwoodClaire1

5 жыл бұрын

For those of us of a certain [ahem!] vintage, this was NASCAR's good middle days. :))

@unknown0508

4 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodClaire1 You mean pre-good old days, because the "good old days" of NASCAR started in 1987

@blainedickson5326

4 жыл бұрын

All they have to do is retire restrictor plates

@slabbusterrtr7690

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottbrown7497 nope not to toyotas rich boy drivers this is a working mans sport I loke Toyota but it's not american bottom line

Ken Squire is the GOAT 🐐 of racing board boardcasters. 😊

Such a great time to be 16 years old.🇺🇸

I always loved the music that CBS had. They went from Journey's 'Separate ways' to Billy Ocean's 'Caribbean Queen'

1986 would be Tim Richmond's best year in NASCAR, six wins. Unfortunately...those six wins would be offset by plenty of DNFs. Yet he was still considered a driver on the rise.

@JohnReedy07163

2 жыл бұрын

He won 7 times in 86

As a New York Native Geoff Bodine and Dan Gurney are my racing hero’s Beating the sports best too is awesome to see

@JackTorrance333

Жыл бұрын

If nascar hadn’t buffed the chevys, you wouldn’t be so proud.

@JackCallSports

Жыл бұрын

@@JackTorrance333 😐

For real I watch this stuff over and over

Thanks for posting! Wow it brings back memories, this was right when I really started getting into NASCAR at 16 years old. Love seeing the commercials too.

Love the Billy Ocean at 3:30!

@retrocompaq5212

2 жыл бұрын

carribean queen, now we sharing the same dream and our hearts just beat as one

Man i miss these days 80s though the 90s man those cars were gorgeous and total beasts compared to the pathetic 550hp of today, just listen to these 800hp + machines and that's real paint not some vinal wrap slapped on the side, it took 2 days in the paint booth back then and the cars were much more personal to the men, not boy's, driving them.

@charleswaynewright2042

2 жыл бұрын

They were actually production off the shelve bodys with the biggest modifications the roll cage and all cars ran the Ford 9in. Rear end and Ford LTD wish bone front suspension and steering Elliott's T Bird was a T Bird and Earnhardt's Monticarlo was a monticarlo the stock car nascar end started when GM was allowed to run front wheel drive lumina and grand prix cars that led to scued front ends drop tops and air foils like indy cars underneath to suck the car to the track jeff Gordon even admitted that car style was so far off nascar rules that mechanical failure was the only way they could lose a race

It’s understandable why restrictor plates were added to nascar but seeing this race just makes you think: What if?

It's the 1986 Daytona 500 and your standing along the fence feeling the rush of old cars flying by you

"Well.. boldness is all very well but you know what they say - there's old drivers and there's bold drivers, but not many old bold ones, and were going to see a lot of bravery today." David Hobbs

1986 1. Austin City Limits in its 11th season on PBS. The Mesquite Championship Rodeo made its debut on TNN. 2. Double Dare debuted on Nickelodeon, airing at 5:30 pm between Dennis the Menance (1959-1963), and The Monkees (1966-1968). 3. Designing Women and Pee-Wee's Playhouse both debuted on CBS. Amen and Matlock both debuted on NBC.

Let the Earnhardt/Bodine feud begin.

@JAWS1376

5 жыл бұрын

couldn't agree more! I'm watching all the old school races lately. My first race was the 87 Daytona 500. Bodine almost had that one too! It's cool watching the old tracks like Riverside and Wilks, Rockingham

Ahhhh the good ole days of nascar I miss these days

Gary Nelson “we got the stagger wrong, and he’s loose, going to be a close finish”………I’m calling bullshit on that. Nelson was one of the most brilliant minds in the garage. The Earnhardt crew is watching the broadcast, and yelling to Dale that Bodine has a problem, go get him. Bodine is saving fuel, Earnhardt is burning it up trying to catch him. Freaking brilliant.

@donniedavis6163

2 жыл бұрын

I think you nailed it. That's why he was being so careful choosing his words. It's a game of chess

I'm suprised fans back then didn't complain a lot of David Hobbs.

1986. One of my favourite Daytona 500 of all time apart from many others.

Beautiful sounds.

3:16:02 The question is "Does Gary Nelson know enough about fuel Economacki?"

Fun fact: This marked Hendrick Motorsports' first Daytona 500 victory. Only four drivers were on the lead lap at the end of the race (Geoff Bodine, Terry Labonte, Darrell Waltrip and Bobby Hillin, Jr), with Bodine finishing 11.26 seconds ahead of Labonte.

1st ever race for Kodak's 22 year run through 2008

@gary24fan

2 жыл бұрын

Inauspicious start for them too. The car they initially sponsored, the #94 owned by Bobby Eller and driven by Eddie Bierschwale, didn't qualify for the race. Meanwhile, Slick Johnson managed to get Henley Gray's #54 in, and Kodak made a deal with Gray to move the sponsorship and the driver to #54. Eller's team made it to about the 1/3 mark in the season and the sponsorship moved over to the Morgan-McClure and Rick Wilson. After some spotty good performances and a few change of drivers, things finally gelled in 1990 when Ernie Irvan came on.

All that gasoline that spilled on Earnhardt's pit stop with 40 to go, if that went in he most likely would have made it to the end without that pit stop with 3 laps to go.

@robbyburns

7 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, plus how much fuel he used up driving the car to catch up to Bodine in the final laps.

@cjs83172

6 жыл бұрын

Of course, some of that was Bodine backing up to Earnhardt because he stopped a lap earlier, which was why he slowed the pace down as much as he did in those final 20-25 laps. And the fact that Earnhardt still couldn't make it, even with the reduced pace (190 MPH vs. 198) meant that he probably couldn't have made it, anyway. Back then, Richard Childress' cars were known for getting some of the worst mileage of any top team on the circuit, because of how aggressive their driver was. And they had to try to go the distance because Terry Labonte and Darrell Waltrip both stopped on the last caution while most of the other front runners stayed out, so they were safe on fuel with plenty to spare.

@fly5155

6 жыл бұрын

Geoff had an extra gallon of gas in his car. That's how he won.

@cjs83172

6 жыл бұрын

One of the things Gary Nelson always worked on was getting his fuel tanks to pick up all the fuel that was in the tank. He won a lot of races with Bobby Allison that way, including the 1982 Daytona 500, when his car went further than anyone else did on one tank of fuel at any time in that race. Nelson's cars always got better mileage because they picked up more of the fuel in the tank than most of his competitors could. While the fuel cells held 22 gallons of gas, because of where the fuel pick-up is, most teams could only use 20-20.5 gallons because their tanks couldn't pick up the rest of the fuel, so they would sometimes run out with as much as a gallon still left in the tank. Nelson's fuel cells could pick up that last gallon of gas his competitors couldn't, which gave his cars a big edge in fuel mileage races. Jeff Hammond was another crew chief that was a master of picking up all the fuel in the tank, which was one reason why Darrell Waltrip was so proficient in fuel mileage races.

@mrnascar9129

6 жыл бұрын

cjs83172 gary nelson was the crew cheif for bobby allison when they took the fuel tank off of the car and then drove it away

A wonderful race highlighted by some classic commercials - it’s like time traveling! Edit, some of my favorites: 24:26 Budweiser 56:08 Champion

I was in the turn 3-4 infield one row back from the fence for this one.

2:22:15 Chris Economaki's "Mexican Speed Wrench" comment was legendary! Later, he told USA Today: "In this melting pot that is America, you have to be thick-skinned. Just because someone calls me a greasy Greek, I don t run to the (American) Civil Liberties Union."

@badmonkey2222

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine that happening today, hard even worse in today's NASCAR......that would sack him on the spot.

@NotSteveCook

Жыл бұрын

@@badmonkey2222 Bob Varsha often said "All racecar drivers are Italian. They all talk with their hands."😄

Very first NASCAR race I ever attended was this race!.. drove ALL night from Georgia.. eating those "caffeine" pills you could buy at truck stops & convenience stores 😂

@JackTorrance333

Жыл бұрын

White crosses?!! Those were the days.

44:55 The Ned Jarrett/Terry Labonte Speed pass was a cool segment!

3:25 my favorite starting grid theme of all time!

The first official points race with new slant back rear windows for Chevy and Pontiac. Oldsmobile and Buick debuted the Delta 88 GN and Le Sabre GN respectively replacing the Cutlass and Regal which would return in downsized form in 1988, while the T-Bird, that was introduced in 1983, would run it's final season before its 1987 restyling and Buddy Arrington permanently retired the Chrysler Imperial that he ran throughout the early 80's

@badmonkey2222

4 жыл бұрын

Basically 86 was the last year of truly unique looking cars thereafter looking all the same especially after 87 the slant back window was the beginning of the end.

@brianbooher7318

3 жыл бұрын

Yea the areo dynamic band aid cars to catch bill Elliott

@cfoster81

3 жыл бұрын

@@brianbooher7318 Exactly. Bill won so much in 1985 and was virtually unstoppable on the Superspeedways which the GM cars were trying to catch up and that's why both the Chevrolet and Pontiac teams to use the new window and of course Buick and Oldsmobile came up with new cars for '86. To this day, I'm still in shock how Bill Elliott made two laps at Talladega under green

@brianbooher7318

2 жыл бұрын

@@cfoster81 yea he put a ass whipping on the field hat we will never see again.i was more amazed at what he did in the 85 twin 125 he laped everybody except 2place waltrip an he was 38 seconds behind in jus 125 miles .that t bird was flat dialed in in 85 an lead to gm getting their areo coupe which in reality was nothing more than a aerodynamic band aid in 86 jus to catch bill

@cfoster81

2 жыл бұрын

@@brianbooher7318 And in the 500 itself Bill led the most laps while some of the other drivers were dropping like flies because of Elliott's pace and he would have broken Buddy Baker's race record from 1980 and it would've been one of the fastest 500 mile races ever

Fun fact: the drivers paid tribute to the loss of space shuttle challenger and crew in January.

A young Mike Joy

Bodine fan all my life since the days he would come to Freeport, Islip,and Riverhead in the 99 the the red 1 always love em thanks for many good modified memories

@mitchdrew9005

3 жыл бұрын

Stafford and Thompson in the 70’s driving Dick Armstrong owned number 1. Awesome

@earnhardt3613

3 жыл бұрын

i'm sorry

Those in car shots are surreal

1:16:00 Damn, midas was charging $60 for either front or rear brake pad changes back in 1986? I think I paid $30 for my vehicles rear pads in 2023! Oil changes were like $10 or less back then, that's crazy!

THE BEST OF BEST IS WHAT U SEE HERE.🏁👏👍

It was always weird to me when Kyle Petty drove for the Wood Brothers for 1985, and '86 when they had Kyle's 7-Eleven sponsorship, the Wood Brothers ran #7 instead of their traditional #21 which was brought back for 1987 when their long association with Citgo as the primary sponsor began while 7-Eleven was the associate sponsor. Ironically from what I heard back then, there were no 7-Elevens in North Carolina

@brianbooher7318

2 жыл бұрын

It was cool of the wood brother's to let David pearson run the 21 them 2 years which would be his last 2 years an he had some good runs an great qualifying efforts.i no he started in top 5 in 85 daytona 500 an he was a outside pole in 85 southern 500 in the 21 but yea it does seam weird for the wood brother's to be running the 7 cars.

@NotSteveCook

Жыл бұрын

The funny thing about the Wood Brothers agreeing to the number change is that the number appearing on the drivers side, passenger side, and the roof was what made them OK with it (7 + 7 + 7 = 21)

Woah! 41:00:00.. Ford Escort GT man I loved the look of those back then. Still do.

@28:09 "You know what they say, there's old drivers and bald drivers; but there's not many old bald ones." What a great statement!

I can appreciate the old commercials. Before the networks got greedy and they weren't as annoying as they are now. These days it's a screaming idiot fest every 5 minutes for 5 minutes. I cut the cord long ago and watch KZread.

No gloves.. chewing on that wet towel.. Richard Petty is the real deal!! 1:41:00 Ghostbuster to the rescue!! lol

Damn Mike joy was young back then

@slabbusterrtr7690

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah so was I 😭

@gary24fan

2 жыл бұрын

We were all young back then dude.

I liked this test at 44:50 that Jarrett did.

Once again, AJ Foyt makes Kyle Busch seem downright likable.

@jorgejefferson8251

4 жыл бұрын

Even Benito Mussolini could not make Kyle Busch seem likable.

Anyone know the name of the harmonica song at the very end when it's showing the finishing positions? CBS used it for several years as their closing music when the 500 was going off.

I remember when it originally aired I was at the fire academy training about to graduate to become a firefighter paramedic full time I retired end of July 2017

@emeyer6963

4 жыл бұрын

Time flies.

Wow prayer and respect for are national anthem so sad that nowadays it's just all about hate

@EdsterIII

Жыл бұрын

Everything is about destruction, blame, and as you said hate. But what these people fail to remember, EVERY SINGLE nationalities, every single genders, and ALL RACES, have experienced pain, misery, hate, and death. Blaming, pointing fingers, petty bickering and bullsh*t does NOTHING but make it worse. Maybe if more effort was place into actually fixing the problems? Maybe? Add the media dumping fuel to every fire, and it's been a miserable 2-3 decades.

The kindness of Bill Elliott in his ford Push Dale Earnhardts blown junk box Chevy back to the pits

Thank god I found this channel 😂 fucking love this shit 🤠

Neil Bonnett probably would've won this race if his transmission didn't go out on one of those restarts while leading. He along Earnhardt and Bodine were the best cars in this race.

Geoff Bodine is lucky as hell to be alive after the truck series crash he had at Daytona.

When Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, were Nascar sponsors.

@tnwhiskey68

5 ай бұрын

Should still be!

Man check that gift to men on 47:36! I love you!

I enjoyed the ads more than the race almost.

9 years later my friend wins

8:40 LOVE THAT HELMET

Do you have the 85 and or 86 twins races?

Before racing became about how to win by going slower and without getting collected in 15 car pile ups

Better than now

1:13:32 DAMN! big hit

@stljordan

3 жыл бұрын

you can see his sunglasses are all dangling off the front of his helmet when they went to the in-car camera. talk about being knocked silly.

Never thought I would see Ned Jarrett give a PSA on Child Molestation

@bigdaddyd8193

3 жыл бұрын

Jerry Sandusky ones are classic

This is NASCAR. I don't know wtf it is now.

@drivin379

4 жыл бұрын

Monster energy rally with indy car twist well for 2021 anyway

@badmonkey2222

4 жыл бұрын

@@drivin379 a total shit show now.

@NotSteveCook

3 жыл бұрын

Stage(d) racing

Bodine 4 wide 47th min !!!!!

Great Race one of my favorites ever, just wondering Josh were do you get all these races to post on your channel.

@SMIFFTV

7 жыл бұрын

I've been trading and buying them for the past 12 years. Finally decided to upload everything I have lol

@kramnull8962

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much man. There are many of us fans that have our best memories with our families watching these races when we were young. Many many good memories.

@reverendrasheemstewart3744

7 жыл бұрын

SMIFF TV hey do you have the 1987 Daytona 500? Do you have any Indy 500s that you can post

@chrissnyder3430

6 жыл бұрын

Amen! Great memories! Budweiser borrowing ZZ TOP'S UNDER PRESSURE?Or was it the other way around??

@Bread_0

5 жыл бұрын

@@SMIFFTV thanks again man!

Listen to those motors breathe

Every GM Brand was in this race except for Cadillac.

The sloping rear window gives better aerodynamics... but then the rest of the car is still shaped like a block of flats without any kind of flat underside. 🤣

Edit out the hour worth of commercials so I can watch this

@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT

6 ай бұрын

Or just skip em till you get back to the race

Lots of good stuff before it but start of race is at 19:00

The end of this race really highlights what a big deal Celtics versus Lakers was back then

2:27:20 Did Anyone See The Burger King Logo On Eillott's Car

@brianbooher7318

3 жыл бұрын

Your right He did i never remember bill having any ties to burger King in the 80s an im bills biggest fan

@badbooking3221

3 жыл бұрын

Bill put a whopper on the field the year before and the burger joint put some beef into Elliott's sponsorships.

@brianbooher7318

3 жыл бұрын

@@badbooking3221 yes he shure had the competition asking wheirs the beef at.bill beat the whooper out of of them.

What happened to the good old days when racing was racing

Fuel eckonomacki

12:23

Question for you knowledgable NASCAR historians. The talk about the Ford Thunderbird dominance in 1985 was fascinating to me. Bill Elliott was a great driver, but it sounded like there was a legitimate edge in terms of aerodynamics for the Fords that helped him win so much in 1985. My question is this. How did Chevy get caught with their pants down so badly in 85 with the antiquated and less aerodynamic cockpit rears? It seems hard for me to believe that Fords advancements in this area were that much of a secret.

@knobdikker

2 жыл бұрын

It didn't hurt that Bill's brother found something in those 351 Cleveland heads that gave him an extra 100-150 HP over the rest of them out there.

the first true daytona 500 dale should had won y all but a mistake and fuel cost my boy the race unfortunately r.i.p. earnhardt

So wait Bill won the Duel Race and the Busch Grand National race . Say it ain't so cup.guys in the lower series back then wow who would have thought

1:21:36 Whoa!!