bet you cant remember this
Jan. 31, 1960 -- Television finally discovers NASCAR as the CBS Sports Spectacular airs a two-hour live special on the two qualifying races for the upcoming Daytona 500.Feb. 8, 1960 -- NASCAR enters drag racing by sanctioning a meet at the Flagler Airport in Flagler Beach, just north of DaytonaFeb. 28, 1960 -- Richard Petty gets the first of his record 200 career NASCAR Winston Cup victories. It's in a 200-lap, 100-mile race at the half-mile dirt Charlotte (N.C.) Fairgrounds Speedway.March 4, 1961 -- Wendell Scott of Danville, Va. becomes the first African-American to join the NASCAR Winston Cup tour on a full-time basis. His debut at Piedmont Interstate Speedway in Spartanburg, S.C. with a 17th-place finish in a 1960 Chevrolet.Feb. 24, 1963 -- Tiny Lund, who had helped rescue Marvin Panch from a burning car 11 days earlier, wins the Daytona 500 NASCAR Winston Cup race for the Wood brothers.March 31, 1963 -- Fireball Roberts, in his first start for the potent Holman-Moody Ford team, leads the final eight laps to win the Southeastern 500 at the Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. He beats teammate Fred Lorenzen, the only other driver in the lead lap, after they renew an old feud by ramming each other during the middle of the raceJan. 19, 1964 -- Defending NASCAR Winston Cup champion Joe Weatherly is killed during the Motor Trend 500 at the Riverside (Calif.) International RacewayJan. 17, 1965 -- Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. introduces its "Racesafe" fuel cell into NASCAR racing at Riverside, Calif. Race.March 13, 1966 -- Only three of the 13 factory-backed cars finish the Peach Blossom 500 at the N.C. Motor Speedway at Rockingham, but they finish 1-2-8: the Plymouth of Paul Goldsmith, the Ford of Cale Yarborough and the Dodge of David Pearson. Independents Bobby Allison, Harold Smith and John Sears finish third, fourth and fifth.Jan. 29, 1967 -- Sports car road racer Parnelli Jones wins the rain-delayed Motor Trend 500 at the Riverside (Calif.) International Raceway to snap the four-race RIR winning streak of fellow road racer Dan Gurney.Feb. 26, 1967 -- Mario Andretti, who later will find fame and fortune in Indy-car and Formula One racing, wins the Daytona 500 in a No. 11 Ford prepared by Holman-Moody.Feb. 25, 1968 -- Dave Marcis makes his NASCAR Winston Cup debut in the Daytona 500. He's the only active driver to have raced in the decade of the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s. (Later add the 2000s to that!)
I remember, and on February 22, 1969 they showed the fatal crash of Don MacTavish in the Permatex 300 on ABC, I will never forget that.
i got some stuff that i dont dare show on here of back then if u know what i mean
Here is one.Without looking.......................where did "Fireball" win his first race and where did "Fireball" win his last race?Hint: Jeff Gilder and Racers Reunion have been to both tracks in the last month! Boy, that is a dead give away!
What is the second longest scheduled NASCAR race in history?
Boy i will tell you thing yall have got me diging out old programes and books
duh if i answer now leon wont get all his books out
Besides the 427, what other Ford engine was used during the 1968 Grand National season?
soc 429
i guess that would be a single cam on each head to be precise thats when chrysler shouted foul
Johnny, I wasn't sure about the SOC 429, but there was one other engine that was used on the short tracks. Do you know?? Hint, Nascar gave a 293 pound weight break for using this engine.Pete
must have been the 302 that was in the mustang
Johnny, The Boss 429 (Shotgun) wasn't put into Mustangs until January 1969 and Ford needed 500 pieces to homologate for Nascar. I think the 427 Tunnelport was used for part of the year 1969, but the Shotgun engine was eventually put into the Torino Talledaga once Ford got the numbers. I might be wrong, but I don't think the Boss 429 was used until a few races into the 1969 season.Ford, Dodge and Plymouth took advantage of the weight break on the short tracks by using short stroke versions of the 427 Tunnelport and 426 Hemi. Ford and Holman-Moody came up with destroked cranks and used the 427 block to create the 396 cubic inch engine. Pearson credits this engine with winning the championship in 1968. Petty ran a 404 c.i. engine and the other teams from the Chrysler camps ran something very close to Petty's cubic inch. I also saw pics of these "small" engines used in 1967, too.BTW, Mr. Knudson wanted the Boss 429 put in Mustangs rather than the Torino Cobra. Ford shoe horned these monsters in the small engine bay of the Mustang at Kar Kraft in Brighton, Michigan and lost money on every one produced. The Boss 429 Mustang wasn't that great of a street performer, but the race version in the Torino Talledaga was another story. Supposedly a tennis ball would fit in the intake ports!! I'm not sure how big the valves were. Maybe about the size of a fist??!!PetePete
THOSE ENGINES WERE A WORK OF ART THEY WERE CANTANKEROUS TO GET TO RUN THERE IS ONE DOWN HERE IN A MUSTANG A GUY HAS ITS MORE MOTOR THAN CAR HE GOES TO CAR SHOWS WITH IT ITS A TRAILER QUEEN IVE HELPED HIM WITH THE MOTOR A FEW TIMES BUT NOT MY CUP OF TEA MY POCKETS AINT LINED WITH GOLD
I agree with Paul regarding the Don MacTavish wreck that was shown on TV by ABC. It was horrifying to watch that man die. I still remember it to this day CLEARLY. ABC warned it was graphic, but I wasn't prepared for that.Pete
Johnny, those Boss engines were not really good on the street. Worth a mint, though. I had a high revving Boss 302 that didn't want to pull at all until 4500 RPM The Boss 429 was the same way, a high revving engine for Nascar. Then a rev limiter screwed it up even more. How tight was that motor in that Mustang?LOL. The engine was 30 inches wide and the engine compartment was 28 inches. Kar Kraft had to redo the shock towers and the front end geometry to get it in. Even the Brake booster was slimmed down to clear the valve cover! But, Bunky was going to install it come hell or high water. Man, where are those car guys now.Pete
tight--did i hear you say tight??? you cant imagine what you had to go through to change plugs the starter was what i cussed the most it was a necessary item in an unnecessary place i mean nothing was accessible without being a triple jointed person --- heck even the fan belt was a chorethe towers were special made for clearance i got a picture somewhere i will find it
I don't know how you changed plugs in those things. Couldn't get them from the top or from underneath. At least the Hemi had them in the valve covers. Ford you had to be, like you said, triple jointed.
Henry, was the second longest scheduled race in Nascar history the Yankee 600 at Michigan in August 1969? It was scheduled for 600 miles but it rained and Pearson won the shortened event. He forgot to change his goggles for the last restart so he was wearing tinted lens goggles at nightfall when the race was called. Says he could barely see. What a driver!!Pete
as for changing plugs there were panels with removable plugs in fender well you could remove --that way you had a better chance of dropping the socket,plug,or whole thing down there giving you a whole new idea on fishing
Johnny, I was wondering how in the world one could get to those spark plugs. I didn't know about the panels with removable plugs. Was that from the factory? I've seen a couple of Boss 429's and the owners didn't say a word about the panels when I asked how to get to the plugs.. They just said very, very difficult and don't drop them! The panels with removable plugs would be a HUGE help.Pete
Hi Pete! I learned something new.My belief was that the "Augusta 510" run on November 17, 1963 was the second longest. It was also cut short because of five hour time limit and they actually ran only 417 miles with Fireball winning his last race.Thanks for correcting me!
The 600 miler at Michigan was called due to darkness after running only 330 miles in August 1969. That was the only year MIS ran a 500 mile and 600 mile race Nascar event. After that they became 400 milers. We never had a completed 600. I've got a picture somewhere with Pearson in victory lane and it was DARK! I'll put it up as a comment here if I find it.Pete
hey pete here is you a hood full soc--just dive in there sir
room for who or what i think they were trying to see if they could--well they did---barely----