1966 Nascar Augusta 300
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- I do not own the copyrights to this video. This is the 1966 Augusta 300 that I had on a VHS. It comes from a VHS set called "The Golden Era of Racing". If you know anything about this set please tell me because I would like to buy more volumes from the set.
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I live 5 miles from this track, you can still walk the whole track just a little grown up
The half mile or road course?
@@dancrumbo5922 road course. Short track is long gone
Very cool. I remember watching this stuff on Wide World of Sports. 10 minutes here and 10 minutes there.
I have been following NASCAR since 1962 and this is the first time I knew there was a track in Augusta. Where have I been?
OSU Sam it didn’t last long
It's still there in ruins but very distinguishable. You should look up more videos about it on YT and find out who and how it was laid out by.
5:40 You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel.
my dad was on Tiny's pit crew he worked for mr lyle there shop was down off rosewood dr near fair grounds
Flat out cool. 1700 hundred dollars? This is so much cooler than NASCAR today. How did those cars manage to get through the turns without a splitter?
Agent Orange you see the drivers had such big balls from driving these things that it would keep them glued to the ground
Richard Petty's 41st Career NASCAR Grand National Victory
I was there live and in person! I was only 7 years old but I remember going every Satarday Night they had a race! Yes night but day races too! Lived here all my life and love Augusta but this is one venue that should never have been let die! My early memories are my Dad taking me out Windsor Spring Road across tobacco Rd then there it was. Better times in Augusta!
Best part is you got to see the race without the terrible music playing.
I agree that they should have never let it die. There was also a 2 mile road course.
@@peemeoff1 looks like a sweet track to me! Scenic too
It’s off of Windsor Spring Rd by Diamond Lakes. Didn’t know there was video of it, imagine a lot of Augustans don’t even know we had one
Tiny Lund is really amazing in this video, wish he hadn't engine problems in his car, he would win the Augusta 300 !
Not engine, but Distributor problems
Wish they played that cool music on all TV races. I don't think Richard could have pulled it off unless that music was playing
Alabama Bigfoot Society the 3rd song is the best
4th song is my favorite.
@@elkinsinboxincthat’s what I thought when I heard it. That’s Elkin’s favorite song I think.
Real racing with real cars and drivers. Not like today's nascar steering wheel holders.
Wake up.
@@charlesrussell6201 Don't cry.
@@adcoxrobert3786 Wide awake here. How about you?
Spectacular.
Funny that this is considered a 1966 race. It was the first race of the 1966 season, but it took place in November 1965. Don't feel too bad for Richard, 3 months later he would take home $28,000.
I lived in Augusta, GA for 43 years, until 2009. It's pronounced "Uh-gusta", not "Awe-gusta". Not offended or triggered, just "roll-eyed".
where u live at now?
I was a 5yr old kid in 66, as i sat in the stands at Riverside International Pop told me to pick a driver to root for, i picked the 43 car & ive alway's been proud because nobody called him "King Richard" in 1966! 😉
Anyone know the backstory on why Richard was running Lee's 42 number?
he switched numbers with Jim paschal
Never knew the King ever drove the 42
Very strange watching this
Were they Ford Galaxies
Why was Richard driving the #42?
May God bless Tiny Lund - an independent in two year old hand me down equipment putting on a show like that. I wish he had won it...........
Detroit big iron at its best.
It would have been nice if we still had this track with one big race a year and at least one Sat night special a month during racing season. In addition to having the Masters golf in Augusta NASCAR fans would have brought many more people and money every year (different weekend of course). But just like the dirt tracks in the area (Gordon Park) since Morris, owner of Augusta Chronicle didn’t like racing the paper wouldn’t help promote it. Without local promotion, it’s hard hard to have anything worth wild. Imagine the Masters not being covered the last 50 years, in the Augusta Chronicle.
After having lived there for so long, sometimes I wish it wasn't so popular. Ever tried to navigate Washington or Berkman's Road that week?
When drivers were men with real talent, not little boys who can't race side by side without wrecking each other and crying about it.
petty w/o the 43!!! great vid!
Great music! 🙉
Go right ahead... I believe this was one of 6 times that he won in a car not numbered 43
I was thinking the 'real" Richard Petty was going to be really mad, when he saw this number 42 car winning this race!
Wait you mean lee petty?
@@tamtam21801 lee petty retired, although richard did race in car numbers #42, #41, #42A, #142, #24, and #6
Imagine todays drivers with no piwer steering no rear spoiler bias ply tires, & NO spotter
They must of had two tracks. Cause Augusta is a a road course not a circle.
They had several - 3.2 mile road, 1.5 mile oval, a go kart track, motocross, drag strip, and a couple more that were planned but never constructed.
BEFORE they lost their way....
That’s racin’
3:37 to 3:45 Some of the hairiest racing of all time!
Pits was dirt??
Great video. I blogged about this race about a year and half ago here:
bench-racing.blogspot.com/2011/11/november-14-this-day-in-petty-history.html
I may need to edit my post to embed your video. Really cool footage - particularly of Richard Petty winning in a car numbered other than 43.
Richard Running His Dad's #?
I would rather hear camels farting than this background music..dayum
Bud always had music like that in his productions back then. Car & Driver was like the NFL Films of auto racing. Complete with the music on the day.
Move to the Middle East and fulfill your dream instead of sitting here whining.
Petty 👍🌠🌠🌠💪
0:39
How the hell did Petty make up 4 laps???
Pit stops.
He's Richard Petty.
Bobby Isaac made up the 4 laps instead of Petty. He used caution laps as in present day Nascar.
Usually Petty beat his closest competitor by 4 laps, especially at the short tracks. By the time you get to 5 th place it’s 10-15 laps behind and so on.
@@MrChristopherHaas That's not true. Most of Petty's wins were much closer than that.
Dick Wallen Productions.
I though Bud (I remembered his last name two minutes ago) produced these, also narrating them.
Back when all in balls out racing was happening nothing like the junk they're doing now
this music track is awful
Nah it's a lot better than crap rap
Just an awfull soundtrack. Awfull
@@adcoxrobert3786 Well played Brother. Well played