NASCAR 1969 Flat Out
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Published 2012-09-12
All Comments (21)
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The Torino's were definitely the coolest cars out on the tracks, imo.
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I just love seeing Pearson and Petty behind the wheel of The Torino Taledega racing for Holman Moody 2 power houses on the same team. That's a dream team. Cale & Leroy Yarborough is very good.
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They ALL were my heros growing up! God bless them all!
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Watching old NASCAR videos is like watching a part of my life over again. Indianapolis 500 hundred races also. It brings it all back together like it was yesterday. What was I talking about o yeah it was great when were young. Me and NASCAR have spent a lot off time together. Thanks to all the racers that gave there life's for the safety of others.
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Never been a big NASCAR fan, seeing these old races tells me, I WOULD have been a NASCAR fan.. the world is too sanitized.
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I loved this show, this is when cars were cool.
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Always thought David Pearson should have been one of the early NASA astronauts. He was a man's man
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Gotta dig the 1970 Torino vert pace car with the shaker scoop, most likely a 429CJ/SCJ under the hood!!!
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I bought a car in DAWSONVILLE, built by Bill's dad GEORGE. It was a Mercury Cyclone, he'd built for someone else, then got back, and had Danny drive to Dawsonville high school. A small team (lots of independents) wouldn't be able to buy or get a Talladega or Mercury Spoiler II from FORD direct so GEORGE built to LOOK like the aero version for them. It had a mix of big block parts, and was a bear to drive from D'ville to Gainesville in fall 1991. Brakes were HD from trucks built at Atlanta plant.
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I enjoyed these races much more when the cars were actually based on factory vehicles...not the dumb as hell car of tomorrow B.S. that nascar is putting out these days...I hate where nascar has gone.
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Outstanding! Thank you!
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Awesome love the Purple!
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Ain't none of them boys driving today got the balls that those boys had
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The Spoilers were faster than the Taledagas by 3-7mph bc they were a few inches longer on the nose than the Ford car. Even the W nose Spoilers were competitive in 1969. The W nose version was winning races in 71 bc technically it wasnt affected by NASCARs rule change requiring the Birds Degas, Spoiler IIs. And Daytonas had to follow. The W nose car was allowed to run the 427sohc or Boss429 engines which gave the car a huge advantage as evidenced by AJ Foyts run in 71 Daytona for the Wood Bros.
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Thanks for this UL, a better quality copy than the one I recorded.
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Thanks for posting E
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There were three more races left, but this race put Petty far enough behind that he could not recover. They never actually mentioned how much the points lead was, or how much of a lead Pearson had leaving the event, so I tried to calculate these. In 1969, races were either 50, 100, or 150 points. Based on my back of the envelope calculations, I think Pearson was 259 points ahead going into Rockingham with 450 points left to go. After this race, there are 300 points left and Pearson leads by 349.
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How about that last overhead shot Clockwise from driver's glass LeeRoy Yarborough, Donnie Allison, David Pearson, Cale Yarborough and Richard Petty around Pearson's #17 Holman& Moody prepared 1969 Ford Torino w/ 429 cu. in. Shotgun
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These cars, along with their chryco rivals were actually quite good Ground Effects cars....they were running very fast speeds and you never saw any of them getting airborne.
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Cool part about these tapes are they had SOUND of real cars hitting wall, and kept on going. We used tapes as these for duplicating "AS RACED" bodywork per then NASCAR rules.
