1965 Nascar Daytona 500

I'm so grateful that I was able to meet and spend time with Fred earlier this month! I honestly might be his youngest fan (I'm turning 19 at the end of August)

It was on in 65. Very dangerous & exciting period for our entire country...

If there was one notable face that wasn't in that year's Daytona 500, it was Glenn 'Fireball' Roberts. During the previous year's World 600 at Charlotte, NC, Roberts' purple Ford was avoiding an incident involving Ned Jarrett & Junior Johnson on Lap 7. Then, disaster struck. Robert's car, in the midst of a spin, slammed into the gate opening along the backstretch wall...flipping the car...ripping the fuel tank...& causing an explosion. Ned went to his fellow driver's aid. Roberts was hanging upside down...& then, came the words: "My God, Ned! Help Me! I'm On Fire!!!" Jarrett freed Roberts from his harness, & removed the burning clothing from Robert's body. It was way too late. 'Fireball' Roberts was severely burned...over 80% of his body. Six weeks later, at Daytona Beach, FL., as the drivers were getting ready for the Firecracker 400, sad news came through every stall in the garage: 'Fireball' Roberts was dead. His funeral was held after the race was done. Following Roberts' death, NASCAR implemented a very important piece of equipment for all stock cars...& has been standard to this very day: Self-Sealing Rubber-Lined Fuel Cells. That was Fireball Roberts' enduring legacy...& many drivers owed their lives to it.

This vid has amazing quality for 1965

The huge crash at 6:52 was during the 2nd qualifying race. Rod Eulenfeld in the 71 car blew  an engine in turns 3 & 4 and slid up the track, flipped over, and slid into the grass flipping over and on fire while other cars got into his oil and spun/crashed out. Luckily all drivers were not seriously injured. #daytona500   #nascar  

Your welcome...glad to bring these great races to other racing enthusiasts.

Old school NASCAR!

At least you got this awesome stuff even if it's not perfect it's still cool as hell

Fast Freddys secret for 1965?...The Great Waddell Wilson...

Holman and Moody were also big in NHRA back in the 60s & 70s. And love the 65-66 Galaxies. I raced a 66 in NHRA ran best of 13:79 @ 98mph with 375 hp, not spectacular no but pretty peppy for a driver , i miss that car

thanks very much for the video

Sorry about the 1st 30 seconds of audio..the original vhs I have of this race has done that for years...so I couldn't do much when converting this to dvd.

THANK YOU!!!!

12:00 that manual scoreboard, tho.

0:35 Skip the initial background interference noise.

For those wondering, that noise was probably from the fact that the VHS was likely originally recorded on a Hi-Fi Stereo VCR. That's probably what the excess noise was, especially if it was the beginning of the tape. I know because that's happened to me many times since I started using such VCRs in 2005. But this may be the most complete record of what was one of the worst Daytona 500s ever run. In fact, in just the first six laps, 14 cars of the 43 that originally started, dropped out of the race. That's nearly one car dropping out for each of the first 15 miles of the race. Of course, this race was the first big race after the Hemi was outlawed, which answers for the shallow field for the '65 Daytona 500. Still, a great win for Fred Lorenzen, and it was certainly a case of a reversal of fortune for Fred. Two years earlier, he had dominated the Daytona 500, but lost to the Wood Brothers car, then driven by Tiny Lund, because of fuel mileage. Then on top of that, he had been leading his qualifying race two days before the Daytona 500 when he mistook the white flag for the checkered, slowed down, and Junior Johnson beat him. And of course, it had to be an emotional win for Fred, as this was the first Daytona 500 since the death of his idol, Fireball Roberts, the 1962 winner. This was also the crown jewel of a career in the Daytona 500 that included second place finishes in 1963 and '67, fourths in 1961 and '66, fifth place finishes in 1962 and '71.

wow pit row was a wild and crazy place back then

The Rod Eulenfeld Flip 6:48

Awesome video, totally enjoy watching these old races.....but I have to say the the sound effects are distracting.

"He won everything" - HE DIDN'T WIN A TITLE!!