I wish GoPro had the ability to record smell because that leaded race gas just hits different. Serious days of thunder sound vibes here 🤟🏻 Check out the NEW merch line on stapletonautoworks.com

I was fortunate enough to announce the last few NASCAR races at this track...Loved the racing I "called" there!

it's almost like a new racing series needs to be started. Grass roots, take over all the abandoned NASCAR short tracks. old school rules.

The 2001 combination of that Steve Park win, Harvick's win right after, and Dale Jr.'s 400 win in July were what helped us heal after losing Big E. 🏁 Holding up a 3 on the third lap was a way of life for a while.

When he said “they’re in people’s front yards”, that brought back memories. I worked for an ARCA team owner/driver that had a promotions company. We took race cars everywhere and while I was shuttling cars around I found myself in a situation that required dropping off a Stirling Marlin Coors Light car in front yard for a couple days so I could pick up a Gordon car. Good times😂 I love these NASCAR vids, takes me back to my twenties.

I drove all the way from Cleveland, Ohio to "THE ROCK" to see the fall cup race in 1990. Saw Alan Kulwicki take home the win that day after Kyle Petty, who dominated the race dropped a cylinder and fell off the pace......Wish this track was still on the circuit. This track should be saved....

This channel is rapidly becoming one of my favorites . I love old NASCAR and Dale Sr . I live in Texas and have been to Rockingham with my Dad several times before he passed away . I love that place

back when racing was worth watching and rooting for. thank you for bringing us along i really wish racing was this way again i got into it big time in the late 80s but can’t bring myself to watch it anymore

I was the last fan to ever leave the track..After that 2004 race, I sat in my motorhome until dark when nothing but trashbags and me were there..The highway was opened, the state boys all gone..A track employee picking up trash called a security guard in a golf cart to get me to leave..I knew it was the last one, so I wanted to be the last person to ever leave the track. Always stayed at Snapper Patrick's house off of Chestnut Street there in Rockingham..Love me some Rockingham..Shout out to ole Mike Dipple of the NCSP..

Was great having you come by and do this video. Sorry I could not take the time to talk/interview on Sat but as always, on event day my hair was on fire and my brain too full to concentrate on anything but the wheel that was currently squeaking. Very nice job on this installment. Can't wait to sit down and talk with you guys!

There’s a cool picture of Dale Sr. and Richard Petty sitting next to each other in that wood paneled room. It’s a damn shame what happened to Rockingham, that track deserved better.

This track was also a racing movie location, for films like NASCAR IMAX, Talladega Nights, and the Bollywood NASCAR movie Ta Ra Rum Pum. I wish NASCAR returned here. Awesome vid!

Remember watching NASCAR races at that facility many moons ago, glad to see you got hooked up with like-minded people who appreciate the long history and folklore of a place like that.🏎🚗🏁 I really appreciate your taking the time to find cool stuff like this to post in here! Nothing like the sound of a good ole American-made V8 engine burning some race fuel at around 9 grand.......hear that a lot on my lake here with haul-ass boats and such. It will raise the hair on your arms and neck, and definitely get your attention! Right there with you, as always! 👍Thank you for the coolest videos!

Truck series needs to come back to this track.

I was never a fan of NASCAR/stock car racing but all of your history videos and videos like this getting up close and personal with the cars themselves makes me into a big fan of this older nascar era. I k ie it’s not accurate at all but days of thunder is one of my all time faves. Excited to see more vids about these awesome cars

That sound brings me back to when I was a kids watching these cars running, great content. Hope you both had an amazing Christmas

I normally avoid long format videos but yours are totally worth the watch! Keep it up!

This is badass. That vintage stock car group sounds awesome.

He said that number 27 Genuine Draft car was owned by Raymond Beadle Blue Max racing. That is the team that Rusty Walace drove for when he won the 1989 Winston cup Championship. Is it possible that Rusty drove that ACTUAL car during his Championship season? Fun fact: Raymond Beadle was ALSO an NHRA nitro funny car team owner and driver of the Blue Max nitro funny car. He won 3 NHRA Winston Funny Car world championships himself, 79, 80, and 81. Lots of history there. Pretty cool!

The garage area and some of the infield was refurbished when Penske owned it. The plumbing for the entire place is still from 1965 when the track was built. It is said it'd take over a million bucks to renovate it. They just recently tore down the infield cafe where the drivers would eat before the driver's meeting. My wife used to work the chow line there in the early 80's in her late teens. Earnhardt Sr. said something out of the way as he was getting some food and she tossed a big stainless steel serving spoon full of mashed potatoes on him. She said it got real quiet until Earnhardt started laughing and the whole place busted up. I hope you met Jamie while you were there. I haven't gotten pasted the first few minutes of the video as I am typing this.

It was a pleasure working with your guys . Looking forward to seeing y’all again

That story of him finding his family built Lumina is so awesome, it sounds so amazing, much better than today for sure. We have a track where I am from called Thunder Road, small ass track but some big names raced there and we would sit on the hill drinking beer, some great times and the sounds that Lumina makes, I am smiling my ass off right now!

That poor dog this just made me love u guys even more for trying to help the poor thing much respect guys

I am 77 years old and have been involved in Kart racing since I was 15 years old. I love all forms of racing. I retired from racing Karts around 2002, but I introduced my son and grandson to Kart racing as soon as they were old enough to compete. The tracks we raced on were Rockingham, Charlotte, Daytona, Talladega, Pocono, Road America, Loudon, VIR, Road Atlanta, and Summit Point. My two favorite tracks to compete on are Rockingham and Charlotte. My son finished third at Daytona in the unlimited class in Dec. of 2008. He was clocked at 156 MPH during his race on the Daytona front straight, and the top ten in his class were averaging over 100 MPH. I noticed that the cars featured in your video were using the road course at the Rock and this brought back many great memories. Awsome video!

I remember I loved watching the cup races there as a teenager in the nineties, always loved watching Dale bulldozing through the field on the shorter tracks like this :)

I just love the fact that Logan is so excited about the history as you are. You definitely made the right move to North Carolina. Living the dream my friend.

Great video! It brought back memories of 1998 when I worked for the city of Raleigh and I went down there with a bunch of coworkers. We had a great weekend, and I saw some WILD stuff! I live that the track is still active and that they run vintage cars there. It is now a goal of mine to see another race there, and hopefully camp out on the old campground across the street. Thanks for the memories!

Sounds that track ain't heard in years. You could call this poetic. That sound...Make short tracks great again! Also, I can't lie, the idea of them next gen cars bum me out. Long live the old cup cars!

Just hope we can see the track back on the schedule again someday soon

When they quit coming here.... It was almost strangely symbolic of NASCAR's fall into oblivion. ☹️

I had a similar experience in 1990 when I went to the Thunderdome here in Melbourne, Australia. A single all black Lumina was turning laps and the sound reverberating off the empty stands was just the best sound I’d heard…. Great video and we should never forget the history of the sport.

I feel very fortunate to have driven Rockingham, a la the Buck Baker Racing School. Got to meet Buck and he said "wreck one of my cars, I'll kill you." Really glad to see more stuff happening there. I don't want us to lose any of these historic tracks. Thanks so much for helping to keep the cars, tracks, and history alive. This cat you're talking to is awesome too. Extremely knowledgeable, and extremely well spoken. Man, seeing them head into turn 1 puts me right back in the driver's seat. I remember hitting that apex heading into turn 2 and coming scary close to the wall out of 2. Great memories. New sub...

I was fortunate enough to spot a couple of ARCA races at that track before it was closed a few years ago. It's nice to see that it's coming back to life. If you ever drive that track just watch it coming out of turn two it can get hairy really quick.

It is so much fun exploring that place!! Im so glad the new owners are doing stuff with that track again. It was so sad seeing it rot away.

I used to love going to Rockingham back in the day, it was one of my favorite tracks to watch a race in person at. I had connections that allowed me full access to the pits/garage area during the races which was awesome. I remember almost getting run over by Ted Musgrave in the 55 car when he came in hot to the hot pit area on the back stretch so the crew could work on the car during one of the races, so much fun! I remember Mark Martin blowing a tire going into the second turn and hitting the wall hard enough to tangle the gear shift lever in the steering wheel. I loved those days in NASCAR but it started going downhill in 1997 in my opinion when NASCAR tried to go Hollywood. I don't watch it anymore and only watch dirt track racing now.

Yes try it out! I see ls people do the cylinder swap with the firing order. I have seen it done for more horsepower but no one ever dose a sound or throttle response test.

I absolutely love Rockingham! My first Cup race was at Rockingham in 87 when I was 12. Great memories!!

That's really cool! Were family friends with Thomas's dad. Glad to see he's doing well

Nothing like a Cup car rowing thru the gears up threw the S turns at Watkins Glen International. I live 20 miles from there and Have not missed a race since 1992. Mark Martin use to own that place.

I met a driver owner of retired cup cars at Watkins Glen years ago. He was selling the car he had there. Price was around 50k. He said he could get much more if it was sold internationally. Wealthy Arabs were buying many of the cars and shipping them to the middle east as toys. He wanted the car to stay in the US. Glad you guys are getting organized to have club events there. It will make the stock cars appreciate in value and get more of them restored.

An ls with old school firing order would be the shit definitely be a market for it. But being down there in nascar land is my dream for retirement I'll get there but right now I'm jealous LOL

I love the cars from the 80's and early 90's, and the history in that garage is incredible.

I dig the old tracks and the acoustic sounds that they produced. I so got goosebumps hearing the roar of the exhaust from the old cars against the front stretch walls😊😊😊

You guys rock for trying to help the doggie!!! Keep up the awesome content and cant wait to see your builds actually get finished and used again!!!!

Super cool seeing these old tracks coming back.

Also Curtis Markham drove the 63 the next year and he is from my hometown in my home state of Virginia. Curtis has also spotted for Denny Hamlin and was the shop foreman at JGR.

This whole thing made me fall back into the 90s! That 63 car sounded awesome! I loved the Lumina in their haydays. Loved listening to the car rundowns. It all just rushed right back.

So glad you made the move! I really dig your passion for the history. It only happens once.

Found your channel last week while working in the shop, Great content. Keep blazing your own path, Kudos to you and Logan.. Purchased some of your Merch Friday to show support for your channel, May even see you at the tracks next spring/summer next year. Well done Sir!...BRG.

That's awesome you guys are trying to help that puppy, I always try to help animals out and I stop and get turtles out of the road 😀

Years ago our local Matco dealer had it set up where we could buy laps to drive or ride some of the dummy cars for a “nascar experience”, i bought myself 10 driving laps and my parents 5 ride along laps. The cars all had the same drivetrain just different bodies, i was lucky enough to get the car with the rear diff that could be heard from the outside parking lot when we got there. Still was a blast to drive a vehicle that resembled a cup car, all the shaking rattling and banging noises i can still hear it at night lol..

I'd wished they'd put lights at Rockingham and I feel bummed that the CARS Late Model Tour is not coming to town this Calendar 2021. I'd like to see conceptually, a la Steve Torrence's Swamp Rat Tribute, the Midnight MGD Pontiac Grand Prix with the Early 1990's Paint w/ a 1996 Wide Track Body or Chuck Bown's Nescafe Pontiac with the same car or even make a Pontiac Paint with a Camaro Body and Rebadge it as a Firebird. I'd get a kick out of a Real Life Concept Series in the future.

More of this! Only thing cooler to me is an old school Kinser 410 sprint car. The late 80's and 90's was where my passion started

Every car that goes around rockingham gives me goosebumps it echos everywhere

Lots of great memories at this track, last time I was there was 2002, thanks for sharing 👍

I found your channel a few days ago and I can't stop watching your Nascar videos. The first video I ever watched was the Mark Martin dealership interview and then eventually the 2nd video where he took you around town to see his old shops. What a great guy Mark is...just like he seemed in any of his interviews he did at the racetrack. Love the "Rock" video where it was abandoned but being rehabed with that track worker and then watching this video you uploaded on Oct. 3rd with cars racing/practicing at "The Rock". Great Newell videos and the history behind the coaches driven by famous drivers. You, in my opinion, are the best I've seen documenting ANYTHNG Nascar. I do believe I will hit the subscribe button now. As a LONG time Nascar fan here I really appreciate what you do by showing us the in's and out's of Nascar the best you can with information and footage we don't normally see. What I'm saying to sums up very easily - thank you.

Definitely one of your best videos yet! I love seeing all of this old nascar stuff you've been showing. DW's old truck is another cool video. Keep it up, you're killing it!

The KZfaq algorithm finally got it right. Your channel showed up on my feed and I have found quite possibly the best channel on KZfaq. Keep up the good work. Now how can a guy get his hands on the retro goodwrench shirt? 😁

Just seeing and hearing these cars on the track, i dont think i have stopped smiling since i heard that first car as they came out of that tunnel. man i feel like i kid again watching nascar and hearing the cars in the background while the reporters did interviews during the races.

At 21: 37 the picture that you have posted starting in my tent DayZ into my RV camping days that was kodak's designated spot in which my uncle work for over 8 years I saw that part of the track every year. the best place to get pictures of the wrecks my very first race I went to was there in 1982. It's almost tear-jerking to see videos like this and people talk about how old stuff is and I can remember when it was new makes me feel really really young LOL😪😭😏🎥

Awesome sounds! Nothing can replace it!! 👍🏁🏆🔥🔥🔥

Love the old school nascar sounds. Your videos kick ass and always the boom. Keep up the good work. Also hi to the doggo and Logan. Can wait to see uncle George series soon.

Man, I wish someone had brought an old Thunderbird! A lot of my favorite drivers of all time drove a Thunderbird at least once (Bill Elliott, Rusty Wallace, Mark Martin, Alan Kulwicki come to mind) but I'm too young to have seen the NASCAR Thunderbirds back when they were running. I actually used to own a 1995 V8 Thunderbird too so I've got that extra attachment.

Here in Myrtle Beach, SC our local Myrtle Beach Speedway closed down. So all of our local drifters who went to the drift events there were lost. Now they’re doing (quite successful) drift events there at rockingham! Oct. 28th they’re bringing the “Halloween havoc” tradition there with a day full of drifting and live music. Glad to see rockingham coming back to life!

This is great stuff! Thanks Mike and special thanks to Tom Hensley for connecting the dots. You guys made my day!

I gotta say, love the old school cars 90 80 70s super love this content man no one else really does this man i love the Daytona and the Lumina.........would also love to see more 72 petty charger...... love the old Mopar stock cars so much as well as the Pontiacs and Chevy's. This would be killer to see in person P.S. you literally have my most favorite content since i found you on KZfaq

I have a 1/10 scale rc car body of that Rusty Wallace car that I built with my dad when I was a kid. We raced at a local short track in the late model division from when I was a baby till I was 17 in 1994. It was sooo crazy seeing that Rusty Wallace car it made me go into my stuff and dig out that RC car body that is still pristine ill add.............And hearing that lumina going around that track brought back sooo many memories of going to Winston Cup races with my Grandpa, Dad, Mom, Uncle, Brothers, and Cousins!!!!!!!! We loved Taking the lids off the coolers and sliding down the embankment on the tracks while the adults were partying at night on the giant infield full of campers with awsome people who were real. It's a shame how people today are soo self absorbed and wouldn't ever go do that stuff. Society has shifted to everyone all about themselves. I miss the old days of the 80''s and 90's early 2000's.........it was magical to grow up in a racing family and to have been the 3rd generation racing and my kids are going to be generation #4!!!!!!! Thank You for the trip down memory lane that brought tears of joy to my family!!!!!

You had the hair on the back of my neck standing up a few times. Awesome video.

Yes, yes would very much like to see you change the firing order in an LS. Should talk Blueprint into grinding one if they do such a thing. Not because they're local to me or anything like that, not at all lol.

Oh man this is gonna be so awesome!!! I’m always excited to see what you are up to next!

nice to see Rockingham making a comeback, that group is so cool. thanks for showing us the cars.

Graduated 07/92 this is when NASCAR blew me away, we built RC10 Carpet cars with all livery we could paint up thanx bro for the great memories

Man I would love to be apart of that man I know the feeling that ye is talking about rolling up the doors and sun coming up I got same feeling at alanta motor speedway my first time ever turning laps there in a real car crazzy just even testing thinking of all the drivers who inspired me have all raced there. You need to get you a current asphalt racecar and go race the snowball derby in December at five flags speedway and get the experience of actually driving and racing in a real oval race instead of classic racing like this is cool and awsome but getting in a modern car and going wide open in competition completely different man you living the dream right now

Didn’t talk to you much but was there with Thomas in the 63 yesterday good running into you, hope to see you more in the future!

My dad was the chief pit steward at two local tracks back in the 70's 80's and early 90's. What gave me goosebumps is you guys talking about them. Daddy passed away last year at 91.

I love that people are finding the old cars and running them again. I used to love to watch the races at "The Rock". Yes, the sound of 63 going around the track was awesome. You have got to get one of those so we can hear you running around the track from INSIDE the cockpit.

Good stuff guys, love that 2001 winners circle with Steve Park #1 Pennzoil car!!! That helped a lot of grieving people with that win!!!!

There is a ton to like in this video, I hope that dog is ok. I love seeing those older race cars out and about, especially in a place where they belong. Would be awesome to make it to Rockingham at some point.

Saw multiple races at Rockingham. A great track that had some super racing. Brought back some wonderful memories!

I'd love for NASCAR to get back to Rockingham it was an iconic race

They should definitely bring this track back I remember watching the race is here when I was a kid And remember Steve park winning the week after Dale Senior passed

Hope the doggo made it home safe.. major pucker factor at the end there

absolutely love the video, bro... I went to my first NASCAR race in '86 definitely bringin back all the feels

I'm going to rewatch the cup series from the 90s i was just a kid. Man it was awesome.

Another awesome cut brother. Love the way you and Logan mix so well. Keep on grinding

Dude. This stuff is so freaking cool to see, and I bet to experience it like you did is even better. Definitely enjoy this history type content - and I'm sure being in North Carolina you've got a lot to discover.

Been to so many cup races there back in the day my favorire track so many good memories, was there Feb 2001 when Park won, spent lots of time in that infeild and camping, i still live in Fayettville about 45 min away.

Soooo awesome.The old cars from the 90s sound soo much better than the current cars .Would be a great stress burner on the weekends having one of those and just having fun

Would love to see more and more abandoned race tracks bought by people and fixed up.

I'm so grateful to have grown up in Charlotte u moved to the right place bud

The sound of the cars rounding the track brings me back to my. Childhood. My parents went to Maine for a dirt track. They did traditional round, figure 8, and demolition derby.

So awesome. I'm a diehard nascar fan. So cool to see all these cars from different era's. My favorite car there is the Daytona Charger

need to hear the monte at Rockingham.. that thing would sound insane there.

Must be nice to live in NC and able to go the rock!

Nostalgia... anything from late 80's-early 00's motorsports, be F1, Indy or NASCAR, such a golden era.

we were teching in our drag race car in the infield at the rock (strip across the highway) and one stock car was testing and that's when I fell in love with the sound of one car going around.

I've always like this channel, but this content gets my blood pumping! I miss watching DW, Gordon, JR and Smoke. Watched Jeff win Vegas in 01 and Truex win Charlotte in 17. I've always wanted a flamed 24 car. How about someone sell me theirs!

Always postin at the tight time. Just sat down with a bowl of vegetable soup.

I would pay the guy in the Good Year hat to be my friend and talk about racecars. He's so genuine that it makes his enthusiasm perfect. What a great thing for him to be able to get his family's car back.

Born in 91 here in nc this kinda stuff just gets the blood pumpin! Love this content finally getting time to watch again so commenting to help the algorithm bud! Also I definitely would like to hear the custom grind cam and switching the coils around.