1970 Daytona 500 ~ ABC Wide World of Sports (Thanks to David Benasutti)
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- The 1970 Daytona 500 won by Pete Hamilton, driving the Petty Enterprises Plymouth Superbird. This was the 2nd Grand National race for the new, snout-nosed, high winged Road Runner.
NOTE: The previous day, marked the very first win for the Superbird, when Ramo Stott won the ARCA race. He also ran the car in the 500, and finished 8th. Just look for the #7.
David Benasutti saved this footage, years ago on VHS, and it was recently converted to digital. Thanks David for sharing!!! - Auta a dopravní prostředky
My Dad was in this race, car issues took him out. Harry Shipe passed July 5, 2022. He ran the “00” car. This video means a great deal to our family.
Awesome...from Silver Spring, MD. I'm near Ocean City.
I looked up your father and saw a great photo of he and his 1970 Ford Daytona 500 car. That was a special time to get to participate. Thanks for sharing.
@@PettyMower Way off subject, but would you happen to know a guy with a purple 1970 Dodge Challenger se?
@@mw5905 What's the name and area?
@@pettymower4785 I owned it for about 23 years. A massive financial collapse coupled with some wonderful mental illness led to me selling it in 2014. A guy named Alex (Laurel, MD) bought it and then sold it to someone in Silver Spring about 2015-16. The new buyer supposedly bought my weld wheels, the 360 Alex blew up (with brand new Edelbrock heads), and a '70 Roadrunner. All I know is the city it's in. I've already paid one private investigator to rip me off. I have the vin memorized. I'd like to know what happened to it and maybe even buy it back should the opportunity arise. It's a darker shade of purple than plum crazy is.
Jim McKay, Chris Economaki, Keith Jackson.......those were some of the voices that filled our weekends.
Wow, how I miss those drivers and those cars. Slingshot passes, no boring "packs" at the super speedways, and best of all there weren't five "big ones" to ruin the last 10 laps. NASCAR will never be this good again.
I stopped watching in 2001. Glad too. Bunch of Social Justice Politics. I can't stand Bubba Smollett.
@@jeffcampbell2710 Danica Patrick too - she never won a f'n race let alone finish in the top 10 just a handful of times in her entire career. She was just in there for her pretty face and I absolutely have no problem telling people that. Her spot was always taking up a spot where someone who could actually race could have participated all those years.
The 69 Dodge Daytona shall forever be a piece of rolling sculpture.
I wish we could go back to days of build it, bring it, race it. This was racing!!!
I once wrote about a few basic rules including number of doors, minimum trunk space and maximum price point
Boss 429’s vs 426 Hemis. The stuff of legends.
The GREATS... Jim McKay, Keith Jackson and Chris Economaki R.I.P.
Wow. That save by Pearson in a car without a spoiler is extremely impressive. That was a terrific piece of racecar driving
He was my favorite when I was a kid. That was a great save for sure!
Good racing, love to watch these cars as I own both a 1970 Plymouth Satellite and 1969 Dodge Charger.
Cool...I'm a Mopar guy too!
The sounds of the intro brings back tons of memories!
Bring them back! There are enough remanufactured replacement parts to have a fully supported classic stock car circuit.
And drivers, it’d be like the Xfl
There is just SOMETHING about these Old Nascar Races! The Speeds that they appear to be moving at and the little bit of Instabilty and lack of reliability just adds that... SOMETHING! This is what I grew up watching and made me a Nascar and Indy Fan.
Lack of reliability was there up until the early 2000s when CNC machinery allowed teams to essentially perfect mechanical parts - It's the exact moment when mechanical failures became rare in ALL competitions including F1, NASCAR, CART and WRC
Who would win?
Ford: A multi million dollar racing team with over a decade of knowledge and experience.
Chrysler: One hemi boy.
By the way I'm a Mopar guy but respect all classic cars and makes, I don't care who won the aero wars, Both companies left their mark. I just love the old races and cars from that era. Great race and great post!
hmmmm for 1970 , Ford had 4 Factory backed teams vs 7 Factory Backed Mopar teams.......then after dayton ford cut all factory funding.
@@davidthayer6969 That's correct David I apologize! I forgot how important factory backing was when the big pull out happened between 1970 - 1971. I just like how Mopar went all out on the "Winged warrior" project, I would've also been super excited to see fords versions on the speedways, the Torino "King Cobra" and Cyclone spoiler "2" are among my favorite Fords. Thanks for the info!
@@CudaRebelsAutoModeling426 thanks, France quite frankly hated the aerocars so when he UPPED the requirement for Chrysler from 500 to over 1900 Street superbirds he really though Chrysler would not go through with it,.......it is indeed a very interesting piece of racing histoy.......seriously I strive to provide accurate accounts and data of what actually happened regardless of the brand.........lolol the Chrysler people LOVE it when I remind people that Chrysler won 38 races in 1970 but the those same people HATE me when I post the real number of the winged car wins which was only 12.
One hemi boy with a wang
@@FlyinBlaney
No dang?
Love watching Mom's old Mercury blasting around the track.
sounds like a good story!
Was she driving?
@@MrJohnnyDistortion If they let her on the track she would have.
@@orsonwells7997
Is she that little old lady from Pasadena, with the big block?😃
that save by pearson on the 2nd to last lap was epic. most drivers would have lost it.
What an awesome race! Nothing like true stock cars!
I became a NASCAR fan in 1974. I love watching these old videos with the guys I grew up idolizing.
This was back before they cluttered up the screen with sponsors and other unnecessary graphics.
Those Superbirds were some mean machines.
Wide world of sports
Ahhhh great memories of my youth!!!!❤
Happy birthday to 1970 Daytona 500 winner Pete Hamilton! He would have been 78 years old today.
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thanks for posting this, great footage, I wish all of the races of the late 60s and 70s were available.
Great seeing that late '60s-early '70s Wide World title.
"What in the Wide World of Sports is going on here?"
This video reminds me of being a kid in the '60s and early '70s trying to catch some auto racing, any auto racing on TV, particularly my favorite at the time, stock car racing. The best chance, really the only chance besides some spotty tape delayed coverage of a race or two per year on CBS, was that ABC's Wide World of Sports would have "highlights" from last week's race as part of their Saturday afternoon show. There was no "flag to flag" TV coverage of NASCAR live or otherwise until 1979, in fact finding any coverage at all was a challenge for a race fan. Saturday afternoon, the anticipation builds. Get the TV warmed up, the footstool pulled up close to the TV so I could sit there and keep the rabbit ears adjusted just right and stop the picture from "flipping" if and when it started up. Wide World of Sports comes on with their iconic opening and preview of what that day's show would include... figure skating, bowling, and badminton. Doh! (Turns the TV off and goes outside to play...)
Me and my Dad would set there and watch the race. When they would switch to figure skating, we'd turn the TV volume down and the radio UP! Just waiting for the switch back to the race. Kids today couldn't handle it! LOL
I was the outside Antenna adjuster. Rabbit ears didn't work when we moved out in the sticks.
When Cale's car finally stopped, he Rolled the window down and crawled out. True "stock " car racing.
This was the year of the wing, the snout, and the elephant under the hood for Chrysler! If Ford and GM hadn't fussed about it, the 1971 NASCAR racing season would have had _ALL_ manufacturers featuring their own versions of those components!
The car manufacturers had to produce something like 3000 street cars of those winged cars to sell to the public in order for them to be allowed to race them. Dealerships believe it or not couldn't give them away. Meaning they sat on the lot forever.
@@daviclar867 - Oh, OK....I hear and understand now... Ford and GM weren't opposed to the speed advantage in NASCAR competition insomuch as if they produced the same, they'd possibly be caught with a "white elephant" (hard sell) of a vehicle at the dealership that by 1971, would have more than likely been a shoe-in for the insurance companies to jack up the premiums on, because with many of the "speed option" (such as tach, gauges, dual exhaust, big blocks, 4 barrel, 4 speed, heavy duty suspension, posi, etc) equipped cars, that _WAS_ exactly what the insurance companies were already doing! It was because of these high premiums that sales on cars with "sports packages" were starting to slip by then!
@@Jhihmoac Also, GM was not involved at that time, having pulled out after the 1963 season, so it was strictly Ford vs. Chrysler. Aside from Smokey Yunick's somewhat undersized car that took the pole for the 1967 Daytona 500, GM wouldn't get back into NASCAR until 1971, when then-Charlotte Motor Speedway president Richard Howard entered a Chevrolet for Charlie Glotzbach that was crewed by Junior Johnson's outfit for the World 600. That combination would later win a caution-free race at Bristol, and then when Bobby Allison brought his Coca-Cola sponsorship to the Howard-Johnson team in 1972, that's when Chevrolet became a force again.
But as I understand it, the winged cars so infuriated Bill France that he chose to effectively ban it after the 1970 season by first restricting the cubic inch displacement for such cars to 305 cubic inches, and then when Dick Brooks actually contended in the 1971 Daytona 500 in the only winged car in that race, France banned it altogether.
The wing was absurdly excessive, it wasn't a foot over the trunk, it was a whole midget above!
@@cjs83172 - I read about the 305 engine size restriction on the winged cars.... In NASCAR back then, those kind of small blocks were like running a tightly wound rubber band on a prop for a cheap balsa wood flying model plane...
Really loved the wide world of sports
Pearson never lost his 'Will' - just the rubber off that last slide.
Has anyone noticed that there are many blown engines but you never see that in a modern race. Technology has come a long way
Yes, it's impressive what today's engines endure through the race and afterwards for the burnout.
Thanks for uploading!!!
You're welcome!
Chris Economaki and Keith Jackson were the best.
"There you go...and he's single, girls!" You gotta love Chris Economaki.
LOL
50 YEARS. AND NOW GO 190. PFFFFFFF. THANKS FOR THIS GREAT VIDEO !!!!!
Betty Scoggins they go 200 mph now..
Those good old heavy TV cameras didn't get shaken about when the cars flew past, though
whens the last time you remember hearing the make and year of the race car before it races a stock car race
Thanks for uploading and also thanks David for finding the footage! :)
If you were competitive in this race driving anything other than the Daytona or Superbird, you were a hell of a driver. Those two cars had an incredible advantage that year. I think Yarborough won the pole in a mercury.
Outstanding.
Its a damn shame how much they destroyed Nascar.
The implementation of restricter plates was a harbinger of America losing it's confidence and greatness. 1970 was it's apex.
The Oil Embargo did the most damage to muscle. Then, Government Emmissions.
Those wings really worked at Daytona... but Ford and GM had a sissy fit and made Nascar ditch the wing and the elephant 426 basically the Superbird altogether....it was just to fast.. as the Petty team wins the next year too.. Ford and GM sissies could start winning again now after Chrysler's dominance. Notice how Pearson almost lost it trying to overcome Hamilton... the elephant and the wing kept Hamilton stable.
Man tv used to be simple and cool
Yes it was!
I'm getting nostalgia for watching this in the front room of a big American house, on one of those huge wooden TV's... despite having been born in England in 1984.
Life was Simple and Cool.
Outstanding.
GOAT= David Pearson
If he hadn't slide, Pearson would have catched him and pulled away to win
He very well could be the best NASCAR driver of all time. He moved his cars like a magician!
The three fastest fat foots upfront! That's one of the main reasons that when Pearson took over the Mercury, the thing was around at the finish!! Please make no mistake, I was never a Pearson fan, nor Cale Yarborough fan! You had to pamper those Big blocks. I don't know whether Pearson learned from Petty or vice versa! You've never lived until you've been under the paddock, coming off of turn 4 and down the straightaway and heard those big blocks at Darlington!!! The closest unique sound too equivalent with that was the small block 355/w-2 Chrysler engine! You could count the licks of each piston!
Instead of competing GM complains until Nascar takes away from Dodge & Ford until they can compete. If anyone is to blame for todays race cars all looking alike & becoming boring, then GM is the main whiner that made it happen
I was pulling for Cale. I was 2 1/2 years old!
The bees got in the film vault.
FINALLY I FOUND ONE!!!!!!
FACT: The Dodge Daytona NEVER won the Daytona 500 or at the Firecracker 400 the name before it became the Pepsi 400 ............but it did win at Talladega !!!!!!
Keith Jackson was *The Best!*
30 YEARS FROM NOW---
Cale pushed that Ford too hard.
NASCAR just isn't what it used to be.. It's all about money now.. Many of these guys would race for the love of the sport...
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Do you understand how much easier it was to win with money in 1970?? Look at Richard Petty's entire career. He would've been walked by Dale Earnhardt and Jimmie Johnson and hell even Jeff Gordon. He definitely isn't as good as Joey Logano. He won because of money. All the old winners were because of money. Jr had Hendrick behind him but he was never a champion. Neither is Austin Dillon. Money matters so much less now. A lot of it is fine detail tuning that everyone can do.
@@V8_Diva it will always take money a stock motor would not hold up to the stress of high rpm’s it will always take a lot of money to build a NASCAR motor only
@@V8_Diva why do you think that, Richard Petty has won 200 races that will never be matched and won 7 cup series, Dale Earnhardt has also won 7 cup series and 76 races Gordon his won 93 races and won 4 cup series
The WING WORRIERS
The Superbirds debut was in Riverside which was won by AJ Foyt in a 1970 Ford Torino
You are correct! Will update the description. Thanks!
Uhh... it is just me or the video size is small?
You must be young. TV footage was square back in the day. Today everything is setup for wide screen.
@@PettyMower i know its 4:3 screen... but i see the video was small
Also im not american thats why i speak bad grammars...
@@LouiseDenmar Your grammar is fine. I was thinking that you were too young to remember the 4:3 ratio screen. LOL
@@LouiseDenmar watch it on an old 19 inch black and white Tube TV. That's real nostalgia. Lol
Today a team owns five cars and can gamble to crash out one to win regardless
Do you have any CBS Mary Tyler Moore Show promos from 1970?
The first outing for the Superbirds was Riverside, they only led one or two laps even after recruiting 5 time winner Dan Gurney away from Ford. For Daytona, Cale set a new record for the pole at 194.15 MPH........he dominated the first 125 , which was an official points race in 1970. He won setting a race record of 183+ MPH that record stood as NASCARS fastest race ever until Bill Elliotts come from behind at Talladega in 1985. It is STILL the fastest points race ever ran at Daytona. In the 500, again the Winged cars were no match for the Fords......the Fords had the pole and led the most laps.........a BAD late race tire decision let Pete, a great driver btw snatch the win from Pearson. After Daytona, Ford canceled funding for ALL of its NASCAR teams......because of this the Fords only entered 16 Superspeedway races (and 3 short tracks) even without funding and badly outnumbered by the Mopar winged teams, 6-4.......the Fords still won 8 of the 16 Superspeedway races and 2 of the short track races. In REALITY the Winged Mopars and the Droop Nosed Fords only raced head to head in 3 races in 1969 and 16 races in 1970 for a total of 19 with the Fords winning 10 of those....when it was all said and done the two fastest races of 1970 , both at Daytona were won by Cales Mercury and Donnie Allisons Torino.
These old races make today's NASCAR boring. Where is today's version of Miss Hurst Golden Shifter?????
No pretty Woman used anymore ; even for beer commercials.
@@NCmtnDwellerWell we can thank today's society and feminists for that one fellas!! So very sorry, not to take up for them!! I know it sucks but oh well!!
If I were a track owner I would definitely bring back the Trophy Girl concept. At its height NASCAR was very masculine. A sport founded by outlaws and built on speed, danger, beer, cigarettes, and sex appeal, no apologies offered.
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This racing makes the not Nascar races look so generic today. Nascar today is described in two words IT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!
....that was REAL racing.....when men were MEN!!! "STOCK" cars......big engines...no restrictor plates....old tire technology......cars could accelerate to pass ..and go as fast as they wanted to go ... to the point of traction loss! I remember watching it,
on that day 51 years ago!!! Rooting for your favorite manufacture....my Uncle being a stone cold Ford guy cheering for Pearson and the Fords!
Dinoco's Strip Weathers wins again
Let me explain, the dodge and plymouth was made to run only 404 cubic inches, while the rest of the manufacturers got to run 427 cubes. The Hemi just like today made much more HP. So you can see how the other manufacturers, Ford, were able to run with them. Because of a cubic inch difference. And the Hemi ran only one carburetor, while the rest of the manufacturers ran two four barrels. Chrysler fought nascar over and over and never won. The people never knew the truth. Especially when every Hemi made from the factory had two four barrels from the factory from 1964- 1971 and the Ford didn't offer the dual carbs on the ford.
i really don't think you know what you are talking about
Nobody was able to run two carburetors in 1969 or 1970.
@@roberttemplin527 Ford did.
Fords were running the new Holley Dominator carburetor in 1969,& 70.
1967-68 ford used two holley carbs.
@@roberttemplin527
Then how did they not run out of fuel with dual quads?
CAN YOU MAKE THE PICTURE BIGGER MATE THANKS AND TAKE CARE
Wow unfortunately he pete hamilton is winner
Please explain your description of "unfortunately".
@@jp-kc4em i mean unexpectedly
@@ridwan783 OK....thank you!
Almost a disaster for the Winged cars.......they pretty much took a scuffing after the Dodges entered the Daytonas in 1969.........Cale clearly had the fastest car here........if not for a blown engine cale would have been in another zip code.
Somewhat true....Cale won his share of races in that car. But it is a "500" mile race...not a 300 mile race. LOL Chrysler admitted they couldn't make the power that Ford was putting out, so they resorted to aerodynamics. To think that the following year a Daytona with a 305 cubic inch engine could run with the 429 maximum displacement says a lot!
dt, always throwing all the "ifs" in the world out there to pretend Chrysler didn't dominate 1970. Pathetic...
To be honest, if NOT for a blown engine, Richard Petty would have won! Pete had engine #2 powering his Superbird.
@@PettyMower lol.....I could say that if CALE had not blown up he would have won......nobody could run with him.
@@davidthayer6969 and you would be wrong again . Ford has mad more junk in the last 50 years then anybody . biggest recalls most recalls just junk really
after all of the hoopla cales mercury was clearly the fastest car.
obviously not bozo . the mopar's were the first to break 200 mph. duhhh .
@@bradhardy2629 brad, first they were far from the first.......NASCAR historian Greg Fielden posted questions to Buddy BAker and Chrysler about their claims in 1970 as AJ Foyt had actually been the first to break 200 mph on a closed track in 1963 in his Sheraton Thompson Offy at the Goodyear tire test track in TExas. Info is not hard to get in the internet age Brad.......oh and BTW the Fords were running 215-220 at Lemans 3 years prior to Bakers 200 MPH run.......oh and btw Baker was not able to beat Cale for the pole at Atlanta the week after his 200 mph run..........like I said, infor is easy to get these days.
@@bradhardy2629 who was on the pole????
@@bradhardy2629 duhhhhh did you realize that NO mopar product has ever ran a 200 mph lap in qualifying or in a NASCAR race............the Baker lap was a PR stunt in a tweaked car.
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