1963 Daytona 500 - ABC Wide World of Sports coverage
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- Tiny Lund wins the 1963 Daytona 500 in the famed #21 Wood Brothers Ford. Lund wasn't scheduled to run the Great American Race but 10 days prior, Tiny rescued Marvin Panch from a burning Maserati while Panch was practicing for a speed record run. Panch suffered severe burns and as a debt of gratitude for saving his life, the team selected Tiny to fill in for the injured Panch.
- Auta a dopravní prostředky
"Tiny Lund, you just won $25,000.00 dollars. What are you going to do with it?" "I'm going to pay my bills!!!" His priorities was right! Now that's old school!!!
10:50 "Fireball rolls up the window!" Wow!
Real stock cars and real racing in the year i was born. Thanks for the video!!
I no longer watch NASCAR.
Big block engines, aerodynamic co-efficients of a brick,testosterone. Safety third. These guys wrecked and died often and it was just considered to be the price you might pay for playing the game. Crazy times.
Back when drivers had names like Junior and Tiny and Fireball. And the windows rolled up and down.
And still had the ash tray and was used
@@sillygoose2508 lmfao 🤣
RIP to both.
One of the best stories in the history of Nascar.
I watched this on tv when I was 10yrs old, and living in Beaufort, SC.
Lucky you!
Same with me all the way across in California. Same age. First race I ever saw. Was a Ford fan for life afterward
I'll have 2 tires, 20 gal of fuel, 3 quarts of oil, hot dog all the way, a coke, a pack of camels, and step on it.
No that's lucky stripes non filtered or maybe a call for Philip Morris call for Philip Morris dam I'm old if you get the reference
Chevrolet, Ford, Pontiac, Mercury, Plymouth, Dodge, AMC, Buick... - THIS is why I was drawn to NASCAR. Placing names on the same car is not the same. Stopped following it in 2012, and I'm not alone.
So, you stopped following 30+ years after they switched from running what are essentially shells? It took you a while to fall away. That said, the Brian France era is over and NASCAR is actually really good again.
I remember these wonderful racers in Nascar's golden age. Today there is nothing stock about the cars, drivers are dressed like billboards, and the officials who run today's races have phuqued it up flatter than hammered s@!?. I too left NASCAR in 2012 and l ain't going back.
I was there. It was my first 500. It rained. Tiny ran the whole race on one set of Firestone’s!!!
This is the race that Dale Jarrett talked about when he won his 1st Daytona 500. He said he won it for his Dad because he came so close in 63.
Never heard the King referred to as Dick Petty
After this race, he told them he wasn't Dick Petty and don't call him that; his name is Richard and that's what they should call him.
And Richard's mother also later chimed in on the matter "If he was Dick, we would named him Dick"
Another name for someone named Richard, but Petty wanted to be known as Richard Petty, not Dick Petty.
Always wonder what took the press and Pettys so long to get it straight
stock cars were stock cars the windows even roll up an down and do 166 mph
In reality,Junior Johnson was running an experimental race only engine,a non production cowl induction system and a truck rear end."stock"
Just wanted to say thanks to you guys for kicking these races out there. There aren't many of us left that recall these drivers and I am very grateful. BTW S1ap...gotta beer waiting for you here in MB...love your stuff..
Give a like if you, too, sat through agonizing hours of figure skating, bowling, golf, skiing and tennis just to catch those few precious minutes of sweet stock car racing that Wide World of Sport dribbled out every week...
Those old enough to remember WWOS racing coverage saw races a week or two after they ran and compressed to 20-30 minutes.
Full coverage of auto races didn't start until the late seventies.
By then, it was almost the end of NASCAR'S smashmouth days and the cars were transitioning to the science labs they are today.
While anything doing 200 mph is still an inexact science as to safety, the cars and drivers of the pre 1970 era are really driving cars not much different than what you could drive off the car lot. The 1950s cars are even less refined with many drivers DRIVING the cars to the track.
Needless to say these early cars were only later equipped with roll bars and basic restraints. No fuel cells, no computers, no nothing.
Tremendous skill was required to pilot these early cars and more so to be competitive.
For all the advances in technology, safety, aerodynamics, that permeate racing today, there will never be ANYTHING like those 50s and 60s cars and drivers.
you got that right
I believe in the 60s they had a basic cage not the 50s though they did actually drive them to the race raced them and drove home this was real racing of not only driving skills but a lot of guys also built and worked on the cars
0:22 Wow, those cars look like they're hauling ass, and they're not even out of turn two yet.
It's a trip watching these old races, and seeing how it's changed over the years.
Another superb upload. Thanks for the trip back in time!
Classic names of the motor sport drivers of close to 60 years ago: U.S.A.C. (United States Auto Club) open wheel car drivers of Foyt, Parnelli Jones, Jim Hurtubise, Len Sutton and Paul Goldsmith (I think he was in Indy racing a little). Oh, don't forget Johnny Rutherford. These guys with the early "giants" of NASCAR - many who went on to good things and car ownership...they had "balls" in driving those monster size stock cars.
The funniest (?) thing I thought was when NASCAR driver, Bobby Johns (who also did once or twice some Indy racing [Indy 500 1965...team mate to the great Jimmy Clark of Scotland who won that race]) There, still filling up Bobby's Pontiac and not hearing that the car's front end is on fire, the fuel man Wow! NASCAR has come a very long way in safety since those days.
Well...they don't make them like that anymore! These guys literally drove for peanuts. Pay was okay but fame...that was the thing to have to get glory.
Fireball Roberts, classic!
I can remember calling off our neighborhood baseball game to run home if WWOS was showing NASCAR or NHRA coverage. An hour later, baseball was back on.
P.H. ...............same here, just getting your priorities right at an early age !!!!
great work by lund and ford engines all around
At 12:05 you can see Chris Economaki reporting from pit lane. Not behind the wall but literally in pit lane just a few feet in front of the car. Wow!
always liked chris's reporting
@@sparty94 I visited the Eastern Museum of Motor Racing in Gettysburg PA last year. Chris Economaki has a research library named for him in that museum and loads of momentos there . He had quite a life as a print journalist and then a television reporter.
This is so cool on so many levels. Great coverage, exciting race and iconic drivers just to name a few😎!
This is the very first auto race I ever saw. 10 years old and was hooked on racing and hooked on Ford and boy did they not disappoint me in the '60s. What a ride.
Speaking of rides. Tiny Lund was driving the Wood Bros #21 because Marvin Panch, their regular driver crashed in practice and ended up in the hospital. Tiny got the ride because he stopped and pulled Marvin out of his car saving his life. Tiny Lund's win and the Wood Brothers 1st Daytona 500 victory is truly one of the greatest stories in Nascar history.
Thanks immensely for this, was great to watch 👍
I remember watching this when I was 4 years old . Mechanical Music .
On tape- it wasn't broadcast live. I listened to it live on the radio.
@@denniswilson9317 we never got the live radio broadcast out west where we lived. We always had to wait for WWoS for the edited version on tv.
I like the clock graphic at the pits.
The race was taped, edited, and shown about a week later.
This was, I believe, the second time "Wide World Of Sports" carried the race, the first being 1962, the first race held after "Wide World" went in the air.
This is so cool to listen to!
Wow! Loved this. Still having roll up windows in the car!! Judging from the burnouts as they left the pits-still had open diffs.
They were stock cars
1966 was the first year the limited slip ("posi") differentials were allowed.
@@BrianBattles 1962 GM cars had posi option. It just took NASCAR a few year to allow them.
About 163 miles per hour in a 1963 Chevrolet Impala; can you believe it?
At 10:50, Fireball Roberts in a 1963 Pontiac at a pit stop rolls up the window; Stock Car Racing. It looks like the 1963 Pontiac's and the Fords have factory gas tanks.
The first race i ever seen was 1974 with my dad at Daytona 500
A couple of future Indycar legends, Johnny Rutherford and A.J. Foyt, competed in this race.
Cool!
That's back when men were real men car catches on fire just put it out and keep hauling ass
As the cars come into the pits, they are going through puddles. PUDDLES! Crazy.
Yeah and they're coming down through the pits about a hundred and twenty
@@rickmcclintock99 They're also coming in with hot drum brakes on all 4 wheels which were always bad for fade and spongy pedal action when they got hot. Until they went to disc brakes it was just hard to bring these cars down to 55 in pit lane
1963 rule book, section 20-29 -- Tires - "a. No knobs, powergrip baldies, speedway treads, or worn out tires allowed. Standard treads only."
Slicks were not allowed back then.
It rained. I was in the infield. Very muddy.
I thought to be more likes from years ago when this was out live on TV
NASCAR was not broadcast live from start to finish in those days, a lot were tape-delayed for presentation on Wide World of Sports. (I think 1979 was the first Daytona 500 to be entirely live, on CBS, and it had everything from lead changes to a fist fight at the end after two of the lead cars crashed on the last lap - which suddenly turned people on to NASCAR all over the country.)
This was the first NASCAR race I ever saw. I was instantly hooked. NASCAR was far more entertaining in the '60's. The drivers are legends and heroes even today.
The whiny kids who compete these days are just... whiny kids. The cookie-cutter cars are... boring.
Money has always been an important factor in any sport.
Today, it's the ONLY factor
My opinion.
Me too. This race is why I'm a Ford fan to this day. I had quite the ride with Ford in the 1960's. Never stopped rooting for them in any motorsport disipline me my brother both
I agree with you on Nascar. It's just not the same as modified "Stock" cars
And he rolls up the window and he's off love it
@ appx 11:25 ... racing in short sleeve shirt ... NO fire protection .. 😅😅😅tough as nails these guys....🍀🍀🍀💪🤳 😮😱🙁😵☠️. 🙏🍀❤️🤞🖖👍👍💪🤳. ✌️🚧🚧🚧
Can you stop? Emojis aren't fun their annoying. Im guessing your around 8 - 11 years old.
FORD ,, First On Race Day ...
@Ken Hurley FORD .. ha ! . Found On Road Dead ..
And close to 100 wins behind Chevy on the Nascar circuit.
@Ken Hurley if you can't afford a Ford, dodge a Dodge and buy a Chef.🙂
@@williemoon7522 Fix Or Repair Daily ;)
Tiny rescued Panch from a burning Maserati oh, I never heard of a foreign car in NASCAR race but that's pretty cool I guess Tiny seemed a brave man for saving Panch's life.
Panch crashed in practice in a Wood Bros. Mercury. Tiny did save his life and was rewarded with the ride.
@plantfeeder6677
Panch was going for a closed course speed record in a Maserati sports car when it flipped upside down on fire trapping him. Tiny lifted the car to get him out!!
Crazy man crazy
out of the pits in 34.2 seconds, a very fine pit stop
At 5:40 is that Smokey Yunick cleaning the windshield?
Nothing new there
That’s racing
Stock car racing,
Race what you brought.
2020 you passed me, crybaby's
Ford and Chevy did a lot of crying about Chrysler in those days...
Them Chevys were quick but didn't hold up on the long runs.
Ya we always knew they'd never last. Especially on the big tracks and they never disappointed.
That's when stock cars were stock cars!! Not like the last 20 years where they're all the same
The bodies and for the most part the interiors were stock on these cars,but just about nothing else about them was stock.
@@FATMIKED5183 Wrong. Try again but this time, read the rule book before making that bogus claim.
Real Racing By Real Cars By Legendary Drivers...JUNIOR JOHNSON > Jimmie Johnson!
Just look at how the pit crew guys are dressed😁
The guys smoking cigs not only on the track at 140 mph but in the pit stops, where open cans of oil and gas are splashing around all over the place, and the vapors pour out of the car as it's stationary and there's still no fuel cells just factory gas tanks with no evap system....... it's actually surprising there weren't more fires and explosions than there were!
Can’t believe how bad the b&w tv camera’s were back then
This probably has been video taped later on. Looks VHS quality
AMEN
Wow..deadly pit stop action!!! Nascar safety has come a long way
I need some ned Jarrett action
Been sayin’ Ned for President for decades
Huge
Watching this race just shows everything wrong with NASCAR today.
Old school NASCAR rules. Take it Bill Fleming.
Numbas we're king
MEL TILLIS? LOVE YOU
Kan wee Get a AMEN!.
Yeah real racing Junior Johnson, Richard Petty and the big paid driver Fred Lorentzen .
"Pants on fire"!
Back when NASCAR was true balls out racing instead of the junk they're doing now
Good tiiVEE HOMEY
roll up windows,short sleeve shirts,tiny helmets..wow...
What the heck is this being played on. Looks like video tape ? Is that possible in 1963 ?
ABC Wide World of Sports, of that era, would record the races either on video tape or film, condense it down to the highlights of the race; as there was usually two other sporting events televised in that 90 minute broadcast; then broadcast the race the following Saturday at 5 PM; along with two other sporting events. With the nearly obscure reporting there was of sports back in that era in radio, TV, and newspapers, the broadcast delay didn't take away from the suspense of the event, as many of the TV viewers were clueless who the winner was, even though the TV broadcast of the race was nearly a week afterwards.
Video tape was first used back in the 1950s, where it was gaining use into the early 1960s.
@@bloqk16 the only way we would know who won was from the newspaper sports results page on Monday morning. Otherwise it was wait till Saturday.
@@plantfeeder6677 I was living out in California back in that era, where rarely did the local newspapers report on NASCAR. And prior to my taking up the Autoweek newspaper in 1968, it was magazines that reported on the race results, which was generally TWO months after the race.
Example: The NASCAR World 600 race at Charlotte in late May; the magazine print summary and race results would show up in the August publication issues, which was generally on the newsstands in late July.
What happend to all the chevys
Holy, GH0$T ! I HA VE DE JU VU
'popular among the 'bobby - socks' set ' .... 😄
Can you shut up
Feels like test ER DAE!.
Wendy
Grace of God
321 TIMBA
N AH WEE weren't THEIRS?. W HA TT WEE WEREN'T!.?.??
That’s when I first started watching NASCAR when they were real stock cars and real races. Only watched about five races last year and probably less this year when they get going. Nothing but talking heads and a lot song and dance bull shit.
Spot on . And as my father used to say too much shit grinding.
I hope NASCAR can resume real racing, not i racing, by late June!
In thisw race Junior Johnson was running the experimental race only "mystery motor",a non production cowl induction system,a rear end out of a truck,and probably every part under the car was modified or replaced with something better.
@@FATMIKED5183 Read the 1963 rule book and note how many times "stock", "standard", "production" and "factory" appear and you'll discover that the cars were much more 'stock' than you think.
#3 on a racecar could be a bad number for racing .🤔.. Junior Johnson was #3 .🤨....Dale Sr. was #3 ..🤨😮🙄. Just strange...😵.... coincidence?!? .... or something else?
Stop with the emojis their not funny.
When you could go buy a car off the showroom floor and go racin that " was nascar !! This joke today is nothing but competition between race engine chassis builders, nothing nascar about it! Today! Bet that was fun to watch back then
@Marc Turk . . . Stock car racing back then had elements of suspense that's lacking nowadays, as back in the 1960s the reliability of the cars were very marginal . . . blown engines; failed clutches; chassis failures; tire blowouts; ignition systems going bad, and other mechanical issues were all a part of the drama of those races. Race cars in comfortable leads, in the latter part of the race, had no assurances of winning that race . . . the reliability of the cars were very precarious.
With the exception of flat tires nowadays, 21st century racing vehicles in NASCAR are nearly bulletproof.
@@bloqk16 that's what made it competitive that's racing,
These cars didn't come off the showroom like this.Junior was running an experimental race only engine,a non production cowl induction setup,a rear end out a truck,and probably not one part under the sheet metal was stock.There was big money and not much factory parts in these cars.
@@FATMIKED5183 Yep! That's right about the engine and components in that #3 Chevy.
Many years ago a book on the history of Ford's involvement in racing, from 1901 to 1967, was written by Leo Levine. There's a section in that book about the 1963 Daytona 500 from Ford's perspective:
_First off, when Ford officials contacted Chevy dealerships about that engine, the Chevy people scarcely knew what Ford was talking about. When Ford eventually got delivery of one of the 427 ci engines, at the urging from NASCAR to Chevy, the paint on the engine was barely dry; and when the Ford engineers inspecting the parts and measurements specs on the engine, they concluded the assembled engine consisted of rejected parts; with some of the parts still having tooling marks on them._
_Legend has it that towards the end of the 1963 NASCAR season, when Junior Johnson was in need of engine parts, he hunted down that engine which was kept in a Ford garage. After Junior gave the engine a looking over, supposedly he said that wasn't the engine he was looking for._
@@bloqk16 Junior said GM pulled factory support from racing right after they took him on,but he managed to get cars and three "mystery motor" engines from them(maybe other factory goodies) before they pulled out.
When racing was dangerous and sex was safe. 😉
Men moRR33$!.
Today, Nascar drivers wouldn't even start their car for a $25,000 purse...
If you account for inflation, that’s around $210,000 in today’s money.
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This guy was not famous I'm glad he won stock cars were great.nascar sucks don't watch anymore go back to old I'll just watch old
FNA BUBBA
the ,63 daytona 500 was not great but far, far than the senseless plate demolition derby races we got today r.i.p. bill fleming and chris economaki both the late flagman johnny bruner, jr and the tallest dude ever dwayne aka tiny lund