Gotta love Cale's comment at the end of his interview when he said "All that shit happened at the other end of the racetrack" ... RIP and Godspeed Cale Yarborough

I remember watching this race on tv when I was little kid. I was a bigger fan then than I am of today's NASCAR.

Daytona is my dream track to go. I live in Pennsylvania. My dream is to see a NASCAR race in person. I never seen one in person. I been a long time NASCAR fan. I was 5 years old and watched Dale Earnhardt Jr Win the 2004 Daytona 500.

Here's an interesting note of trivia regarding this race. When he dropped out on the first lap due to low oil pressure, Dub Simpson became the first, and to this day, the only driver in Daytona 500 history to take the green flag and fail to officially complete a lap. Also, 1968 was the only year that the qualifying races were not held. They had been extended from 100 to 125 miles in '68, to avoid the possibility of anyone being able to make the entire qualifying race non-stop, as Fred Lorenzen did in 1967, but for the only time in history, the qualifiers were washed out. Beginning in 1969, the qualifying races would be run on the Thursday prior to the Daytona 500, instead of the Friday before the big race, and although weather has intervened in the years since (for instance, the qualifying races were postponed a day by rain and run on a Friday in 1978), the qualifying races have always been run, though they were shortened by 10% to 45 laps/112.5 miles in 1974 due to the energy crisis.

the design of the Fords and Mercury was the direct result of lessons learned at LeMans.............the fastback design was probably the best ever seen in NASCAR.

That was not Buddy Arrington in his car. That car was raced by and purchased before the race by the notorious Bob Pronger from Chicago.

The _Bud Moore_ that spun in this race was the race driver, officially known as 'Paul _Bud_ Moore,' and not the car owner of the same name. The Paul Bud Moore raced part-time in NASCAR. I saw a writeup about him in _Auto Racing_ magazine from 1968. With his horned-rimmed eyewear and slight physique build, he looked more like a college grad student than a NASCAR driver.

Petty, Yarborough, Foyt, Allison, Unser, Andretti…when giants roamed the earth. Or rather, when giants blasted across the earth at 180mph in low-tech sleds with 400+ cubic inches under the hood.

Buddy Baker had some bad luck at Daytona over the years. Always competitive.

This may have been the last NASCAR race on ABC shown in black-and-white. The Firecracker 400 (also on KZfaq) was in color.

My dream is to one day race and win a race at Nascars Top Series levels it’s a pipe dream but that’s the dream.

announcer sounds like the comedian norm macdonald

Lee Roy Yarbrough not Yarborough!

200 Mile Per Hour Fastest Daytona International Speedway From The 80s And Early 90s

Dud I love Richard's black roof.

Notice how in the beginning missing is the year 1966 Daytona 500? They were going 185 mph that year, that's why. NASCAR slowed them down in 67

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1968- they were averaging 185-190, 2023- the entire field parades around ( everybody scared to make a move) 195-200, we should be running 225+ by now.

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