You know it's bad when you come to KZfaq to watch a race that was run 47 years ago, than watch a NASCAR race today. No restrictor plates. No whining. And heck, we even saw a burning shoe. These drivers and cars are the real deal.

This is what I miss. Cars that look like the ones driven by regular folks. And rookie Darrell Waltrip!!! Too funny!!!

Im nostalgic for a time I never lived. I would be an avid NASCAR fan these days if there was still this level of soul in the organization.

No yellow flag for the first spin, gas can on fire. Total chaos out there. When racing was racing! Miss those days!

When cars were beautiful..

The sight of any Wood Brothers #21 never gets old!

“The rookie, Darrel whaltrip.” How strange is it to hear that

When I was kid in the mid 70's I went to summer camp every year. Whenever it rained and we couldn't do whatever we had planned for the day we'd all go the chaple and they'd set up the film projector and load it up with old movies and a ton of these old NASCAR clips. These were some of my favorites to watch on those rainy days. Every time I see these old clips and especially the tracks with the Orange 76 gas globe somewhere in or around the track it would remind me of those days as a kid. Those were the happiest days of my life. Outside from sunrise to sunset just hackin around with your buddies.....good times cheers people :)

Wow this is really different racing, as I was only around 6 years old in 1973. Those heavy cars are really moving. Big Blocks & Big Balls lol I guess

This is real racing NASCAR take note from your own history.

I miss the old days of racing.

I'm not a huge NASCAR fan, but I enjoy Motorsports, and I agree with many others commenting here who say this vintage NASCAR is way, way better than modern NASCAR. These cars are badass, and driving them at the limit must be way more difficult than driving today's vehicles.

I am Italian and I live in Monza just 2 kilometers from the circuit: I am fascinated by these images of what I think are the typical US races but I believe that the true essence of sports driving is to drive on circuits such as the old Nurburgring, Spa, Monza etc. In any case, the old Nascar races on the ovals are a good show. Greetings from Monza

I'm 52 yrs old now...this never gets old!!! I could watch these old NASCAR clips over & over again & never get tired of them!!! This makes me miss my dad...he used to tell me about the 60s & 70s NASCAR Racing when I finally got into NASCAR Racing in the early 80s. He would always talk about & tell me stories about these AWESOME drivers: Call Yarborough Buddy Baker Richard Petty David Pierson Bobby Allison Much love from Mobile Alabama

What a save by Pearson

i loved that body style for 1973

I remember working concessions selling tickets or hotdogs, listening to the roar for hours and being able to finish in time to watch the final laps! The crowd would be wild, the atmosphere pumped with excitement and smiles!

First race i have watched in over 20 years.

11:07 - A spin at car 3!! - There's another car outta control!! - Someone broke and engine and spilled oil on the track!! - Jim gets through the corner backwards!! - Quick reflexes save some other drivers!! - David is another spin victim!! Nobody hurt. - The safety car moves out to slow the field. - There's a fire in the pits on the back stretch!!! Gasoline splashed out of the refueling tanks and caught fire!! - The crewmans shoe is on fire!! - Fire is under control before any more is lost, except the shoes!! Action packed couple of minutes. lol

Best race I’ve seen all year...

11:42 "A crew man shoe is burning" 😂 I lost it.

i remember watching races like this as a kid, today every one drives the exact same car, theres no competition between manufactures any more

20:48 - That battle is just insane; that’s real racing, when the cars were actually driven hard. Very impressive.

When they focused on Richard Petty and said his name I thought they were mistakening him for someone else, he seems so strange without his sunglasses, mustache and hat on lol

Real stock cars and REAL MEN! God, I love watching these races! Just sucks now in today's nascar.

This feels WAY more authentic than modern nascar.

this is pretty much the way we got to see nascar races til 1979 daytona (or any other racing for that matter) ... recorded and condensed ... back then the only live race was indy and you had to listen on the radio ... picture being a kid and 4 hours of listening to a race , on a homemade radio , just so you could catch it live ... thanks for the post

This racing wasn’t gimmicked, It was organic

Real cars,real men and a real world.Just bloody beautiful

The real MVP is that comb over Cale's got going on prerace

Won on sunday sold on Monday forsure in this era

From these races, you'd find out which tires you'd buy, what make of car was worthwhile, and what brand of oil you'd stay clear of. You had all the time to see for yourself.

I miss everything about the 70s. Even though I was born in 87.

Cool watching regular cars you see on the street in these old NASCAR races

Sounds like the cartoon crash noises were dubbed onto the soundtrack.....

17:08 No catch can man and gallons of high test leaded gasoline spewing out the overflow. Hell yeah, this is the real man's NASCAR. No fire suits, short sleeves and the pit crew were probably smoking Winstons while they were over the wall.

Had the privilege of talking to Mr. David Pearson years ago. What a great humble man he was!

If NASCAR was still like this I would 100% be watching every wkend. I know everything has to get safer and rightfully so but this style of racing is what makes stock car racing

That’s real racing and that guy was the best announcer

Nascar at it's best. Cant even watch it anymore. These guys were all legends. To commercial Nascar is southern .

Incredible that these men can run balls out for four hours in that heat.

The Yarborough comb over is classic.

I miss Nascar :(

Damn, that is a tight circuit! Not much room for passing... Also, lovely to see cars that actually looks like the real thing duking it out :)

That was an awesome race. These old guys had balls of steel 💪🏻

Boy, I remember the old track and its open infield. During that Labor Day weekend, anything and everything was going on. I could write a book on the drunken shenanigans that went on back in those days and I loved every minute of it and the racing, too.

The safety car was a Gran Am and I owned one just like that back in those days. What a wild and great time. Fast cars, fast girls, and wild racing.

This is great!! I love to see these old races. I wanna see them all!

This is what is missing today, back then - 1) Big simple V8's that resonated with the crowd, you knew there was fire & brimstone under the bonnet/hood, even if you didnt know anything about engines. 2) Likeable, recognisable cars that resonated with the crowd. 3) Likeable, down to earth drivers that resonated with the crowd. 4) Gladitorial event, man & machine. 5) No silly budgets bigger than some countries national debt. Hmmm, ever wonder why NASCAR is on a continous decline today? can anyone figure it out?

This is such incredible racing. Man I wish we had this hard of racing

The Southern 500 is quintessential NASCAR to me

The noise, the smell, the danger. People who are in charge of the sport seem to have forgotten what brings people to the track in the first place, this goes for ALL motorsports. I'm sure unmanned drones running silently around historic tracks is not too far off. You can count me out then.

This was back when NASCAR was real! Forget the fake silliness that has been going on since the 1990's. Stopped watching it then. Elzie Wylie Baker Jr. was my racing hero when I was a kid.

When men were drivers driving a full metal machine knowing no cowardly thing like electronics or carbon fiber will protect them!! I am a 90s born but still loving and enjoying this!! These three things made my day ""Roar, Roar and roar"" from engines!! Rumbling roar!!

I miss this.

I need more of these old races in 4k

beautiful cars. 68-72 ar emy favorite year models of cars. I love Pettys car. What those cars would be worth these days??

Makin' me feel old. Had one of those Mercuries in High School 4 speed and bad to the bone, girlfriend had one like the safety car. 1977. Back when you couldn't give away four twenty anythings.

This film brought back so many childhood memories. These were the Golden Years of NASCAR, and I am so happy to have been a small witness to it. Cheers!

Best track in NASCAR. This was cool, thank you 🏁

This track will always Thrill.

Looking back at these men...to me this is how NASCAR should really be. Not all the computerized RCA cars their racing today.

❤😁🇬🇧 enjoyed that. Proper history lesson. Man those cars were boats! My grandma's cottage was smaller. (Not a euphemism).

This is why my first car was a 72 Satellite Sebring Plus (in 79) , then another one in 83 (400, 4 speed , AC, PS/PB, drove it to Oregon to live in 1985 , hit 125 mph in Kansas with more to go but I chickened out!) , then a 72 Roadrunner to restore in 2006 (400, 4 speed , no frills but an AM radio!) These cars were magical. Big, fast loud and you could work on them!

I love these cars and these races... was it more fun back then ? .. it seems like it. It seems more like it was a daredevil sport than it does today and the cars today look like GLOBS !!

Oh my God this is great! Brings back such wonderful memories of the hey day of NASCAR racing. The greatest racers of the day & ever. Early 70's American stock cars that us common men could relate to. A race that was actually a race! The atmosphere of the track, the grandstands, the fans, the infield full of life, the pits, & the drivers themselves. An era of racing that will forever be unmatched. NASCAR today is rather boring & uneventful. In other words, it SUCKS! As the expression goes, all good things must come to an end! No more so than in racing.

This is when NASCAR was worth watching

It's strange how our minds work. All my life I've been a motorsports racing fan. If it has wheels and/or any type of motorized mechanical propulsion, but especially any ICE powered RACING machines, two wheels or four. Or three. If it was shiny, loud, and fast I was interested. My dad was born in '42. So he was a young boy, in Los Angeles, CA just as the "Golden Era" of the Hot Rod culture was beginning. I was blessed to have been born in '66. The middle of two sisters was I, and we're all now auto&bike racing fans to one extent or another. Thanks dad! (We sure do miss you Joe Cook!) I have memories of watching this era of NASCAR. But in '73 I was just 6-7 years old. There wasn't much televised NASCAR racing back in those days but I have clear (as possible I suppose) memories of having seen this before. Then it came out of the memories mist of my mind... When I was between 11-15 my dad would take me to this incredible car show at a place called Cal Expo in Sacramento, CA. (we left L.A. in 70 as far as I know) called the Motorama or Autorama, something like that,. It was the car show major league, and it was just amazing to see the spectacular and beautiful cars and bikes. My dad was an exceptional automotive and motorcycle painter all his life, so when he'd be impressed, I knew it was genuinely impressive. 😏 There were these makeshift theater areas where there were folding chairs and a projector where there'd be movies playing of these NASCAR races, films about the Bonneville Speedway, the Isle of Mann TT, Indy Car, and such. Did every racing film back in those days have the same guy as the narrator? Anyways, it is nice to have seen this NASCAR video while I was just "junk watching" U-tube. It was the catalyst for several pleasant memories from that particular part of my life. Thanks NASCAR.It's strange how our minds work. All my life I've been a motorsports racing fan. If it has wheels and/or any type of motorized mechanical propulsion, but especially any ICE powered RACING machines, two wheels or four. Or three. If it was shiny, loud, and fast I was interested. My dad was born in '42. So he was a young boy, in Los Angeles, CA just as the "Golden Era" of the Hot Rod culture was beginning. I was blessed to have been born in '66. The middle of two sisters was I, and we're all now auto&bike racing fans to one extent or another. Thanks dad! (We sure do miss you Joe Cook!) I have memories of watching this era of NASCAR. But in '73 I was just 6-7 years old. There wasn't much televised NASCAR racing back in those days but I have clear (as possible I suppose) memories of having seen this before. Then it came out of the memories mist of my mind... When I was between 11-15 my dad would take me to this incredible car show at a place called Cal Expo in Sacramento, CA. (we left L.A. in 70 as far as I know) called the Motorama or Autorama, something like that,. It was the car show major league, and it was just amazing to see the spectacular and beautiful cars and bikes. My dad was an exceptional automotive and motorcycle painter all his life, so when he'd be impressed, I knew it was genuinely impressive. 😏 There were these makeshift theater areas where there were folding chairs and a projector where there'd be movies playing of these NASCAR races, films about the Bonneville Speedway, the Isle of Mann TT, Indy Car, and such. Did every racing film back in those days have the same guy as the narrator? Anyways, it is nice to have seen this NASCAR video while I was just "junk watching" U-tube. It was the catalyst for several pleasant memories from that particular part of my life. Thanks NASCAR.

*Back when you could buy the same car you watched on the race track.*

A stock car race today would be crossovers and hybrids.

Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end....we sang and danced forever and a day....

I’ll watch races from 40 years ago anytime! So much better than the stuff they call racing now.

Back when you could tell the different make of cars. Today they look exactly the same.

I remember watching this race when I was a kid. There is NO plastic bodies on these cars!!!!

All the greatest names in stock car racing right here. Amazing.

Thank you for posting the old races. They're my favorites 😍

No yellow flags unless the pits catch on fire... Those were the days

This is a memory

As someone who almost never watches NASCAR, these cars are much more inspiring and the racing looks more exciting

Sadly those days are gone.Southern 500.

Wish they had in car camera in this race, would scare the crap out of you seeing how on edge the cars are and how hard they are working to keep them on the track.

Muito show!!! Os Dodges são lindos!!!

I spectated this race glad i was around for this era

this is so.....amazing!....love it! goood ol days ( greating from EU)

Fantastic narration and I love how long it takes to cut from one camera to the next. The modern fast pace video scene cut..cut..cut isn't anything like watching a real race on site. Same goes for tennis matches. Who the heck needs to see a face closeup and a swoosh transition in a tennis match.

Check out that Monte Carlo from 2:16 on REAL CLOSE, Take a Look at the extended Roof line and the Longer Trunk then factory

The cars were awesome looking and Cal had some awesome wrecks

Those were the days my friends I thought they would never end. Fonda speedway you are the best memories * 10 not to forget Bob Rees #3 or Laudie Hoyanga #34.

Look at all of the American made Cars & Trucks. Look at all of the thing People !

If a race like this could be done today, that’d be cool. Old cars, the smell of 76 fuel and the noises of the cars

Real honest-to-God HOT RODS! No restrictor plates, no front air foils, no HANS device. Just 20 gallons of gas, a crash helmet and a foot made of lead lettin it all hang out. I was born 20 years too late. I just started to get interested in racing as these guys were retiring.

My pawpa would always talk about these classic races and drivers, I’m 29 and I do watch NASCAR but back then it was so raw and real!

Really fast, almost half a century back.

I'd like more info on whether or not this was the first desegregated Southern 500? I just noticed the close up of the young black boy on his father's shoulders. A proud sight at the Southern 500!

I miss these days. My favourite era of Nascar.

When NASCAR was all out driving and may the best man win.

The cars fighting for grip, running sideways in the bank, ... a far cry from the boring races of today. Same for most of other forms of motor races, except rallying and bikes. IMHO there is a certain level of tech that ruins a sport, be it cycling, athletics, hillclimbing, or whatever. Some sport federations manages and control tech better than others. Ultimately , an enough advanced tech destroys the epic of a sport.

small spoilers, low downforce, more actual racing going on. You'd think nascar would just look at their own history for atleast part of the answer.

Growing up in South Carolina, stock car racing was huge back in these days. I was actually at this race with my Dad. I never dreamed that I'd see a replay of that day. I miss these days and how raw and real this racing was. I know Nascar wanted to grow, but,it was awesome to see to 2 South Carolina drivers fighting for the win.

These guys were tough , the real deal. I grew up by Rockingham , I was 11 in 73 and my dad took us to all the races for many years. I realize now how fantastic those days were. These guys were for real , the racing was in your soul. I don't even care about today's racing , I will watch it but the thrill is gone.SAD.👍👍🏁🏁