Hell yeh brother, we had a bad Ford too, couple of em 67’ Mustang and a 72 Galaxy 500 👍🇺🇸 plus all the manufacturers were still doing good, I miss those days I was 8 in 74’
@Timothy Sotir . . . my interpretation of the current crop of NASCAR racers is that they perform/behave like slot-cars. Something else to consider, this 1974 race may have been before the cars had power steering.
You'll never see that many lead changes now and in such short periods. These races were way more exciting than what happens now. There's just a few cameras, nothing fancy at all, and yet it was still better than the slick, fancy productions of today's races.
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Wow Richard and David was amazing David was my man but watching this shows the class these guys had sadly missing today
Jackie Stewart, he knew what the drivers were thinking. I watched this race at my grandmothers (she had cable TV, we didn't), I was 7yrs old and was just mesmerized!!!
Hallelujah! Amen! NOTHING like NASCAR racing in the 50's through the early 80's. Then the cookie cutter's and the 'plate' started taking over...Nothing remains today, of NASCAR as it was back then...
Jackie Stewart was a great F1 driver!!! I built his JP car when I was a kid. I watched these races. No safety gear for the crew, high speeds in the pits. That was old time racing!!! Funny thing is ....not many wrecks at over 200 mph!!!
Real stockcars and real drivers , unlike the shit we see today ...........Petty has said on numerous occasions that David Pearson is the greatest Nascar driver of all time ...... Pearson only raced 9 full seasons all the rest were partial ......
customized matadors lowered and some fat tires and rims look pretty slick...back in the day when u basically got a family car body style in a coupe form with a built motor and some tricked out chassis and suspension...
Being from the UK I never saw the appeal of going around an oval, having watched F1 through 80's, but that was some race, watched it until the end, the commentators were really good as well, obviously I know how much of legend Sir Jackie Stewart is but the American commentator was really good to, kept the excitement throughout. Massive respect to the drivers for racing in that heat.
Who remembers back when these cars were new models on the road? They ran stock windshield and rear glass in these cars and used stock body panels. Those aren't small block 358 ci engines either.
Such a great race. This is a must see prior to watching the 1976 Daytona 500. What a great rivalry between these two. It's a shame that Pearson never ran a full schedule with the Wood Brothers.
Didn't they run select events during those years. I do remember the Rainier/Lundy team that Cale Yarbrough drove in the 80's for a short time in the early 80's, they did not run the full schedule, only running Daytona, Talladega, Darlington, Rockingham, Pocono, Atlanta and Charlotte
Pretty cool how most of the Ford boys were running '71 and '72 Torinos with the slipperier nose and not those giant girder looking bumpers of the '73 and later cars.
pit road speed limit started in 1991. the last race of 1990 in atlanta when ricky rudd was coming down pit road, hit the brakes to hard and spun around and ran into bill Elliott's car and hurt a crew member; sad to say the crew member passed away later that same week, and that"s why we have pit road speed limit.
Why was Pearson in my opinion the greatest stock car driver ever? The last lap is your answer. To have the knowledge to get out of the lead because he would have been a sitting duck... and time it just right to slingshot Petty a few hundred feet from the finish... only Earnhardt might have been able to do it ( and it was Dave, not Dale who first perfected the crossover move, especially then turn 3 now turn 1 at Darlington). Had the Wood Brothers ran a full schedule, he would have more wins and championships than Petty. People might say Petty, Earnhardt, Gordon, or Johnson is the greatest... Nope. The Silver Fox tops them all.
The thing that still blows me away is Pearson's closing speed on the back stretch. I mean, he was a good 8-10 car lengths behind and he caught up to Petty like the King was standing still. I remember watching these WWoS as a kid and now I get a kick out of the fact that an F1 driver was doing the color on a NASCAR race. Thanks for sharing!
Parkwaymania That's why they call him "THE SILVER FOX" !!!!! He hangs back, watches, then makes the kill. lol The title of this video should be "how to undress the King" lol Pearson was the best !!!
I remember hearing a story that some driver (may have been Benny Parsons, but I can't swear to it) talking about leading some race late in the going with Pearson on his tail. He was driving hard and thought he was holding Pearson off until a couple of laps from the end, when he looked up in the mirror mid-turn and saw Pearson lighting a cigarette. With both hands. He said he realized that Pearson was going to pass him when he was good and ready
My first race car was an AMC. My first race was an enduro race and I drove a 1974 AMC Ambassador. It was a pretty good car and I avoided trouble but the transmission broke on lap 56 putting me out of the running.
BadBooking - the points system that year was intended to answer the criticisms that the points didn't reward winning enough. The 1974 system's problem was it worked - TOO well. The point system took purse winnings, multiplied by number of starts, divided by 1,000 - the more money a driver won the stronger his point totals would become. The point lead changed nine times between Cale Yarborough and Richard Petty, but in September the money Petty had won to that point made the points race crazy - Petty crashed at Darlington, broke at Martinsville, and finished behind Cale at Rockingham, yet INCREASED his point lead over Cale, because he'd won more money and ran the same number of races. If anything if Brian France has brought this point system back instead of mandate a Chase format it would be a better choice.
when racing was racing and one car could pass another without needing the help of 10 other cars. the fast ones went to the front, the slow ones to the back
David Pearson was a hero of mine because he was from the next city over from me. To me , these were the great days of Nascar. When it was a NC driver battling an SC driver,we in the South felt like this was our sport. Now, it belongs to Madison Avenue.
If Pearson did the slingshot in the 500, he would have won the race, be champ, and February wouldn't have even ended yet! If people think Brian France was on crack with some of his policies, that's nothing compared to the points race of '74!
Yep back when steel bumpers, steel bodies and big engines. This was when NASCAR was fun and good. Not nowadays. Decals, fuel injection, carbon fiber. It is not win on Sunday, sell on Monday anymore. Nascar is all but dead.
John Laws It was Ricky Rudd that spun into Bill Elliott. Mike Rich, 32, a construction worker from Blairsville, Ga., died of a heart attack while undergoing surgery after being hit by a race car driven by Ricky Rudd at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Rich was changing the right rear tire on Elliott's Ford Thunderbird as the Atlanta Journal 500 field was completing the race's 300th lap when Rudd came into his pit position fast, locked his brakes and slammed into the rear of Elliott's car. Rich, who was pinned under Rudd's car, was airlifted to Georgia Baptist Medical Center, for treatment of head and chest injuries. He died at 8 p.m., track spokeswoman Marti Rompf said.
It's fun to watch them but there was so much aggravation for different race teams. Restrictor plates smaller carburetors destroked engines that NASCAR forced, doomed teams like Mopar, while the 366 cubic inch rule protected the Ford camp who ran their engines unrestricted. Anyone who has seen a 351 4-barrel Ford head will realize those intake Runners are like funnels. Ford had an excellent head for their engine. Meanwhile the other racing teams such as AMC Etc were put into a tough situation also trying to compete with unrestricted engines. The racing was fantastic but the rules sucked in those days for some of the race teams
Nothing in the 74 rules was stopping GM from running a 350. Nothing was stopping Mopar from running a 340. And some of them did try. Bore and stroke of all those are basically the same. All of them can go to 365 with no issues. Bob Glidden absolutely dominated pro stock with a 351. I'm thinking like you were saying that the Ford was just better. Early 80s NASCAR allowed GM teams to run Ford style heads so they could keep up without blowing up. Sort of proves that the Ford small blocks were superior.
That piece of sh*t Matador didn't last long. What a junker. They had to use Chevy big block heads on the AMC 403 CID block with custom head bolt holes drilled. It was a half-Chevy by the time it hit the track.
Just think the end of the muscle cars. Oil embargo and gas shortages. New cars that didn''t have the power to get out of their own shadow, the Pinto. And yep this was racing. Nascar flat out sucks now. Now the cars are cookie cutters. No more engine, driver and crew. Think you fast? Prove it!!
If NASCAR wants their fan base back, I mean really want them back, get rid of these new rules and go back to real racing. This crap that they are trying to pass off as racing these days is killing the fan base, including yours truly. Safety rules can stay, but this splitting up the race into increments and such is utter nonsense. They need to have a special trash bin for all restrictor plates as well !
This is back when it was real Ford, Chevy and Dodge, not these hand built tin cans they run today... I don't watch NASCAR racing anymore... Boring... A lot more exciting watching go-kart racing...
AMC's, Mercury's, and Pontiac's racing with Chevy, Ford, and Mopar. The glory days of NASCAR.
I love the Mercury Pearson drove back then my mom had that 75 Mercury. 351 Cleveland engine great car.
Hell yeh brother, we had a bad Ford too, couple of em 67’ Mustang and a 72 Galaxy 500 👍🇺🇸 plus all the manufacturers were still doing good, I miss those days I was 8 in 74’
Bob Glidden RULED pro stock with a Cleveland for years.
The first 5 minutes of this video are better than most anything I've seen in Nascar over the last 20 years.
How the hell am I supposed to watch those floating space ship cars that NASCAR fields now after watching something like this? What a race
This past year's Firecracker was a whale of a race also.
what do you mean? the 1996-2003 era was the best
@Timothy Sotir . . . my interpretation of the current crop of NASCAR racers is that they perform/behave like slot-cars. Something else to consider, this 1974 race may have been before the cars had power steering.
@@RilevTV you have to be to young to have watched the sixty's and seventy's racing if you think that
'This race was the best I've ever seen"!
That slingshot finish by Pearson is the greatest finish in NASCAR history! It fooled even Jackie Stewart.
When cars all looked different…I miss that.
I have nothing but respect and admiration for Sir Jackie Stewart. He was, without a doubt in my mind, one of the greatest sports figures of all time.
For the lives his safety initiatives saved alone he is up there, not withstanding his stellar career on track.
Today's nasshit!, can never hold a candle to these real men driving real cars at the limits!!. It's called Sport!!
You'll never see that many lead changes now and in such short periods. These races were way more exciting than what happens now. There's just a few cameras, nothing fancy at all, and yet it was still better than the slick, fancy productions of today's races.
Wow Richard and David was amazing David was my man but watching this shows the class these guys had sadly missing today
Bobby Allison in that red white and blue AMC Matador, He could really drive, Bobby Allison is one of my all time favorites.
Sick car....sicker driver! That Matador was so bad ass. BA was certainly upper crust of the drivers of that time.
matadors..torinos..malibus...petty 's charger......jackie stewart sounds like mrs. doubtfire ..lol nascar when it was just plain cool
Jackie Stewart, he knew what the drivers were thinking. I watched this race at my grandmothers (she had cable TV, we didn't), I was 7yrs old and was just mesmerized!!!
THIS is stock car racing, folks.
Hallelujah! Amen! NOTHING like NASCAR racing in the 50's through the early 80's. Then the cookie cutter's and the 'plate' started taking over...Nothing remains today, of NASCAR as it was back then...
😃😁👍👍♥️😍🏎️💨🏁💯
This is when NASCAR had style and class.
when cars had style and class too
David Pearson is the GOAT!
2 guys that were worth the price of admission at any track
AMC in the lead, that’s why I miss the 70’s
Jackie Stewart was a great F1 driver!!! I built his JP car when I was a kid. I watched these races. No safety gear for the crew, high speeds in the pits. That was old time racing!!! Funny thing is ....not many wrecks at over 200 mph!!!
0:46 Love these old cars. I will never forget driving them either :-)
Here's proof that NASCAR was motor racing before it became entertainment.
Real stockcars and real drivers , unlike the shit we see today ...........Petty has said on numerous occasions that David Pearson is the greatest Nascar driver of all time ...... Pearson only raced 9 full seasons all the rest were partial ......
I remember watching this on WWofS at the time, when races were always taped. I love how they added the skidding sounds LOL
James Scully and the crowd gasping
I'm still as stunned now as I was then that AMC had a contender. It made me love the AMX's even more seeing the Matador be competitive.
customized matadors lowered and some fat tires and rims look pretty slick...back in the day when u basically got a family car body style in a coupe form with a built motor and some tricked out chassis and suspension...
AMC sucked.
If I remember correctly , That Matador had a Chevy engine .
Being from the UK I never saw the appeal of going around an oval, having watched F1 through 80's, but that was some race, watched it until the end, the commentators were really good as well, obviously I know how much of legend Sir Jackie Stewart is but the American commentator was really good to, kept the excitement throughout. Massive respect to the drivers for racing in that heat.
Sounds like the late, great Keith Jackson there w/Stewart. I was waiting to hear "Whoa nelly they're 3 wide going into the 1st turn!" RIP Keith.
As I recall, it was part of ABC's Wide World of Sports.
No one could call any sporting event better than Keith Jackson.
love the added Flintstones sound effects
Who remembers back when these cars were new models on the road?
They ran stock windshield and rear glass in these cars and used stock body panels.
Those aren't small block 358 ci engines either.
I remember and the 358 motors are glorified crate poppers
Such a great race. This is a must see prior to watching the 1976 Daytona 500. What a great rivalry between these two. It's a shame that Pearson never ran a full schedule with the Wood Brothers.
Didn't they run select events during those years. I do remember the Rainier/Lundy team that Cale Yarbrough drove in the 80's for a short time in the early 80's, they did not run the full schedule, only running Daytona, Talladega, Darlington, Rockingham, Pocono, Atlanta and Charlotte
Pearson never ran a full schedule with the Wood Bros. to my knowledge. They always ran selected events. Cale also ran a limited schedule after 1980.
Pretty cool how most of the Ford boys were running '71 and '72 Torinos with the slipperier nose and not those giant girder looking bumpers of the '73 and later cars.
Pearson was in a 3 year old bodied car.1971 Mercury.
That was a great clean race
2:36 Driving a faster car at the back of this pack is a very momentous occasion to grind through. Loved all of it.
1:48 I met Bobby Allison and Donnie Allison recently. Nice to see them 1-2.
This race was also back in the era when there was no speed limit on pit lane.
pit road speed limit started in 1991. the last race of 1990 in atlanta when ricky rudd was coming down pit road, hit the brakes to hard and spun around and ran into bill Elliott's car and hurt a crew member; sad to say the crew member passed away later that same week, and that"s why we have pit road speed limit.
Nascar safety???-1990....WHATEVAH HAPPENED THERE. ..lol
Alwaysopen: I remember when the 1956 models were new on the road.
This was just the start of Nascar giving GM 'favors' in the rules just so they could compete
I enjoy these races more then the new ones. And boy so many rules have changed.
Why was Pearson in my opinion the greatest stock car driver ever? The last lap is your answer. To have the knowledge to get out of the lead because he would have been a sitting duck... and time it just right to slingshot Petty a few hundred feet from the finish... only Earnhardt might have been able to do it ( and it was Dave, not Dale who first perfected the crossover move, especially then turn 3 now turn 1 at Darlington). Had the Wood Brothers ran a full schedule, he would have more wins and championships than Petty. People might say Petty, Earnhardt, Gordon, or Johnson is the greatest... Nope. The Silver Fox tops them all.
Amen!
The thing that still blows me away is Pearson's closing speed on the back stretch. I mean, he was a good 8-10 car lengths behind and he caught up to Petty like the King was standing still. I remember watching these WWoS as a kid and now I get a kick out of the fact that an F1 driver was doing the color on a NASCAR race. Thanks for sharing!
Parkwaymania That's why they call him "THE SILVER FOX" !!!!! He hangs back, watches, then makes the kill. lol The title of this video should be "how to undress the King" lol Pearson was the best !!!
its pre restricter plate thats why...they are going just as fast as they run today...
It was all because of the draft that he caught him. He timed his move perfectly.
This was back went drivers were real men and not wanna be rock stars, and when racing cars, mechanics and rules were the real deal !!
THESE SOUND AFFECTS SOUND GREAT IN SURROUND SOUND
Stewart: "..Pearson and Petty going this way, what can possibly happen on this very last lap...?"
This rules!
old is cool....no speed limit on pit...
Not sure if it still is but at the time the Baker/Yarborough tie for third was the only official "dead heat" in NASCAR history.
The greatest calculated move in Nascar history ...... David Pearson wasn't nic- named The Fox / The Silver Fox , for nothing .........
The first lap of this race will be more interesting than the entire race this Sunday.
Wow I just realized there's just one camera man following the race all the way around! Pretty awesome camera work at that speed!
He wasn't called the Silver Fox for nothing ;)
I remember hearing a story that some driver (may have been Benny Parsons, but I can't swear to it) talking about leading some race late in the going with Pearson on his tail. He was driving hard and thought he was holding Pearson off until a couple of laps from the end, when he looked up in the mirror mid-turn and saw Pearson lighting a cigarette. With both hands. He said he realized that Pearson was going to pass him when he was good and ready
I always love Dodge and I always loved Richard Petty. But David Pearson was the coolest dude in the world
Pearson rope a doped Petty on that last lap......what balls ..lol
Respect pour toute les chars qui sont là. !!!!
My first race car was an AMC. My first race was an enduro race and I drove a 1974 AMC Ambassador. It was a pretty good car and I avoided trouble but the transmission broke on lap 56 putting me out of the running.
How about Bobby Allison in the AMC Matador!!
i had a rebel sst first car
Geese that Matador is quick!
Nice race
I guess we see why Richard now wears a cowboy hat. 😂
Would be awesome to have this in HD..
BadBooking - the points system that year was intended to answer the criticisms that the points didn't reward winning enough. The 1974 system's problem was it worked - TOO well. The point system took purse winnings, multiplied by number of starts, divided by 1,000 - the more money a driver won the stronger his point totals would become. The point lead changed nine times between Cale Yarborough and Richard Petty, but in September the money Petty had won to that point made the points race crazy - Petty crashed at Darlington, broke at Martinsville, and finished behind Cale at Rockingham, yet INCREASED his point lead over Cale, because he'd won more money and ran the same number of races.
If anything if Brian France has brought this point system back instead of mandate a Chase format it would be a better choice.
when racing was racing and one car could pass another without needing the help of 10 other cars. the fast ones went to the front, the slow ones to the back
Darn, they cut out Chris Economaki's interview with Johnny Rutherford and his wife after the wreck.
David Pearson's 81st Career NASCAR Winston Cup Victory
24:54 White Flag
David Pearson was a hero of mine because he was from the next city over from me. To me , these were the great days of Nascar. When it was a NC driver battling an SC driver,we in the South felt like this was our sport. Now, it belongs to Madison Avenue.
for all of us ford junkies, in the 70"s it was david pearson, the 80"s bill Elliott, the 90"s dale jarrett, and after that take your pick!!
Awesome
David Pearson made one of the aggressive move i ever seen in the last turn by Petty. Pearson is the only one i know to beat Petty.
A good day for American Motors top 5 Finnish
When men were men and cars weren't crap
Wasn't '74 when the races were cut short due the OPEC fuel crisis. I know the 1974 Daytona 500 was cut by 50 miles due to that reason
The first fourteen or fifteen were shortened, but restored to full length starting with this race.
They changed to metric to shorten races. I grew up in Riverside. The races were .62 as long as normal.
And wasn't that whole " Going to run out of oil " a big scam ? Just like Climate Change .
Mercury for the Win. Your Welcome
You're
Are those slide noises added artificially?
Yes unfortunately.
23:50 Dear Mr. Stewart that statement still holds true. 12-14-2019
21:48 for a second i thought that was a crumpled carcass of something on the track...lol
If Pearson did the slingshot in the 500, he would have won the race, be champ, and February wouldn't have even ended yet! If people think Brian France was on crack with some of his policies, that's nothing compared to the points race of '74!
Emergency crew=cigarette huffing hillbilly driving a station wagon...😆
Yep back when steel bumpers, steel bodies and big engines. This was when NASCAR was fun and good. Not nowadays. Decals, fuel injection, carbon fiber. It is not win on Sunday, sell on Monday anymore. Nascar is all but dead.
No pit speed limit.. lol
Right?
Pit speed limit started in the early ninty's after Bill Elliot spun and crushed and killed one of his pit crew on pit road.
And no safety gear for the crew...
John Laws
It was Ricky Rudd that spun into Bill Elliott.
Mike Rich, 32, a construction worker from Blairsville, Ga., died of a heart attack while undergoing surgery after being hit by a race car driven by Ricky Rudd at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Rich was changing the right rear tire on Elliott's Ford Thunderbird as the Atlanta Journal 500 field was completing the race's 300th lap when Rudd came into his pit position fast, locked his brakes and slammed into the rear of Elliott's car.
Rich, who was pinned under Rudd's car, was airlifted to Georgia Baptist Medical Center, for treatment of head and chest injuries. He died at 8 p.m., track spokeswoman Marti Rompf said.
The Silver Fox sand bagging on the final lap to get the win.
Greatest move in the history of NASCAR
version bad ass for sure!
A far cry from the pretty boy whiny drivers these days.
car 05 thats my number. Duke 05
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Pearson was best. Silver Fox.
It's fun to watch them but there was so much aggravation for different race teams. Restrictor plates smaller carburetors destroked engines that NASCAR forced, doomed teams like Mopar, while the 366 cubic inch rule protected the Ford camp who ran their engines unrestricted. Anyone who has seen a 351 4-barrel Ford head will realize those intake Runners are like funnels. Ford had an excellent head for their engine. Meanwhile the other racing teams such as AMC Etc were put into a tough situation also trying to compete with unrestricted engines. The racing was fantastic but the rules sucked in those days for some of the race teams
Nothing in the 74 rules was stopping GM from running a 350. Nothing was stopping Mopar from running a 340. And some of them did try. Bore and stroke of all those are basically the same. All of them can go to 365 with no issues. Bob Glidden absolutely dominated pro stock with a 351. I'm thinking like you were saying that the Ford was just better. Early 80s NASCAR allowed GM teams to run Ford style heads so they could keep up without blowing up. Sort of proves that the Ford small blocks were superior.
That piece of sh*t Matador didn't last long. What a junker. They had to use Chevy big block heads on the AMC 403 CID block with custom head bolt holes drilled. It was a half-Chevy by the time it hit the track.
No pit road speed limits? Wow, looks dodgy
Haha...nobody gave 2 shits for safety then....MANS GAME
Just think the end of the muscle cars. Oil embargo and gas shortages. New cars that didn''t have the power to get out of their own shadow, the Pinto. And yep this was racing. Nascar flat out sucks now. Now the cars are cookie cutters. No more engine, driver and crew. Think you fast? Prove it!!
how ignurt
Cross the finish line in the grass . Should that count???? Don't think so. Especially if you push it across.
If NASCAR wants their fan base back, I mean really want them back, get rid of these new rules and go back to real racing. This crap that they are trying to pass off as racing these days is killing the fan base, including yours truly. Safety rules can stay, but this splitting up the race into increments and such is utter nonsense. They need to have a special trash bin for all restrictor plates as well !
@Jameson Serono Agreed. It will never be the same.
Stage racing wouldn't be that bad if they just kept running and no yellow flag for a brake
drafting sucks, i want to see who has the fastest car
This is back when it was real Ford, Chevy and Dodge, not these hand built tin cans they run today... I don't watch NASCAR racing anymore... Boring... A lot more exciting watching go-kart racing...