@WorldChallenge So true, i wonder if it would be possible to bring back stock (as in not modified too much) car racing.
Surely it can't cost a car manufacturer too much to strip out a car and put roll bars in it. And with it could be used by the manufacturers to show how how awesome their cars are. Just slap a couple of rules, like most be road legal before stripping out and rollbarring it, 3 litre displacement max, forced induction not required but is encouraged.
@MrWoodshade NASCAR is cheaper than you think. The cars they currently use have been in use for years. All they have to do is replace parts and paint, which they make themselves. Production-based series rely on factory support.
Amazing video. Thanks for posting it. I went to lots of stock car events back in the 1960s when I was a kid. It was thrilling to see these cars up close, in person. I always loved the Pontiacs and for a while I loved the 1960s "Total Performance" cars of Ford. No more Riverside these days, what a loss. Racing is just not the same (well, neither are the cars anymore, all plastic and computerized nowadays).
We saw great races there during the 60's, 70's and early 80's. Most of the drivers really enjoyed the track because it gave them a break from the monotanous oval tracks everywhere else. Long live RIR!!!
do not forget AJ Foyt, Scott Speed, Sam Hornish, John Andretti, and maybe soon Danika Patrick.
Also think about former off-road and dirt and/or Go Kart racers like AJ Almendinger, Jimmie Johnson, Brian Vickers, Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne, Ryan Newman, and others.
Almost every NASCAR driver has competed in at least one other type of motorsports.
@tms870 I miss alot of the smaller tracks that Nascar disregarded when they started to expand. It is sad. Do we really need 2 races in New Hampshire? (the hotbed of racing?).
So badass. Roll your car half a dozen times and you walk away with a torn shirt sleeve. 95 mph pace and you've got bales of hay on the corners. Just... wow.
I was there! This was Ford's first race with the new 427. It put Pontiac on the trailer from then on. Dan became known as Mr. Riverside 500. Dan is still very active. He rides his motorcycle over to Cook's Corner in Orange County every Sunday for lunch.
Gurney running a 406 cross-bolted hard block I wonder? I remember those motors, ballsey. 413 Dodges, 421 or 389 Pontiacs, 409 Chevs, hot running, spongy, drifty and 4 turn lock to lock steering.....sshhhheeeesshhhh.
No, Shelby American prepared the Le Mans 24-Hour-winning Gurney/A.J. Foyt Ford GT40 Mk. IV in 1967 as well as the 4th-place Bruce McLaren/Mark Donohue Mk. IV. Holman-Moody prepared the Lloyd Ruby/Denny Hulme and Mario Andretti/Lucien Bianchi Mk. IV's that failed to finish that year though they tied for the fastest lap that was an amazing SEVEN SECONDS faster than the previous year's lap record. Two other H-M cars and one Shelby car also failed to finish, all Mk. IIBs.
LOL Andersport. Good thing for David. He would of been a nobody if he drove a GTO. I'm sorry I loved Pearson but GM was a joke when they got hit upside the head with the HEMI in 64 till the ban. A GTO against a HEMI. LOL. I don't care if they put a HEMI in a Imperial and raced it. Well, that would of been more fair.
Thank you for your perspecrtive on that year. I enjoyed watching racig on Wide World of Sports at the time there was no ESPN or sattelite TV. You knew who won, but it was a novelty to watch. I stilllove the Goat and I dig the Hemi. They need to wallop Toyota out of NASCAR.
I think GM would've found a way to run with the HEMIs with deLorean in charge it would've beena race although Petty would've won. Don't Lol. I'm a racing enthusiast. I respect all Big three makes.
I just wish it was still the Big Three in Nascar too. We raced there alot at Riverside in the late 60s and through the 70s. I just loved that track. I even walked it 2 times. A very good friend of mine Bill Conn has Ray Elders Dodge Charger that won there in 71 and 72. He also owns the #7 Jack MaCoy Daytona that qualifyed 4th in June of 70. I have Dan Gurney's nose cone off his Superbird that he was on the pole with in the Jan. 70 Race.
GM did have a plan but they pulled their backing in 1963 of racing. They had what was called the 427 Mystery Motor, it was a 427 CID big block in 1963. This is the same block that they used for the 396 Big block in 1965.
Road America and the long-long Bridgehampton track both ran 500-mile road races, but they were for sports cars. Riverside eventually added a second NASCAR race each year, a 400-miler. I was not into stock cars much, being a road racing fan, but I loved seeing them on (and frequently OFF, as you can see from this amazing video) road courses.
Thanks, joboots, I was wondering why Gurney was in Freddie's car. Lorenzen was (or maybe became) a decent road racer so I had figured he would be in his normal #28. In Gurney's next 4 wins in 1964-66 and 1968 he's be in the Wood Bros. #121...
Let's see these primadonnas nowadays race for 5 hours straight!!!!!!!!!!
monkstermanjah 8 months ago
dang! there was a huge variety of manufacturers back then!
LostHighwayFilms 10 months ago
This is NASCAR! Not like today were they drive plastic boxes and drive in circles
flaperke 11 months ago
Also, the manufacturers don't enter their cars anymore. Independent teams do.
WorldChallenge 1 year ago
Holy shit, they're all American? awesome
TheScientist0000000 1 year ago
When stock cars actually were and when car companies actually cared about racing.
WorldChallenge 1 year ago
@WorldChallenge So true, i wonder if it would be possible to bring back stock (as in not modified too much) car racing.
Surely it can't cost a car manufacturer too much to strip out a car and put roll bars in it. And with it could be used by the manufacturers to show how how awesome their cars are. Just slap a couple of rules, like most be road legal before stripping out and rollbarring it, 3 litre displacement max, forced induction not required but is encouraged.
MrWoodshade 1 year ago
@MrWoodshade NASCAR is cheaper than you think. The cars they currently use have been in use for years. All they have to do is replace parts and paint, which they make themselves. Production-based series rely on factory support.
WorldChallenge 1 year ago
If NASCAR was still like this it'd be awesome.
FrancisTheGook 1 year ago
Amazing video. Thanks for posting it. I went to lots of stock car events back in the 1960s when I was a kid. It was thrilling to see these cars up close, in person. I always loved the Pontiacs and for a while I loved the 1960s "Total Performance" cars of Ford. No more Riverside these days, what a loss. Racing is just not the same (well, neither are the cars anymore, all plastic and computerized nowadays).
68lincoln 1 year ago
Riverside Intl Raceway was the best!!!
We saw great races there during the 60's, 70's and early 80's. Most of the drivers really enjoyed the track because it gave them a break from the monotanous oval tracks everywhere else. Long live RIR!!!
sphmusak 2 years ago
great vid, those we the days....
SwanKong11 2 years ago
there sure were a lot of cautions.
5953klein 2 years ago
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How many NASCAR guys have over one Sports car or open wheel racing? None...
PeterMayer 2 years ago
Mario Andretti, Jacques Villeneuve, Tony Stewart, Marcos Ambrose, Al Unser, Dick Johnson, Dale Earnhardt, Juan Pablo Montoya...
Hazendado 2 years ago
do not forget AJ Foyt, Scott Speed, Sam Hornish, John Andretti, and maybe soon Danika Patrick.
Also think about former off-road and dirt and/or Go Kart racers like AJ Almendinger, Jimmie Johnson, Brian Vickers, Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne, Ryan Newman, and others.
Almost every NASCAR driver has competed in at least one other type of motorsports.
MonsterTruckRally666 2 years ago
Cant forget Casey Mears!
zfallball5 2 years ago
this area was buried alive by malls and subdivisions...sadness
tms870 3 years ago 14
@tms870 aaaahhhhhh Moreno Valley, can someone drop a bomb on it and build a racetrack!
ltlieu61 1 year ago
@tms870 I miss alot of the smaller tracks that Nascar disregarded when they started to expand. It is sad. Do we really need 2 races in New Hampshire? (the hotbed of racing?).
5inthehole 1 year ago
fireball roberts....toocool
tms870 3 years ago
very nice! i love nascar, but once upon a time it had to be very funny indeed!
Teslatez 3 years ago
FORD
First. On. Race. Day
thank you
rally1234me 3 years ago 4
So badass. Roll your car half a dozen times and you walk away with a torn shirt sleeve. 95 mph pace and you've got bales of hay on the corners. Just... wow.
l2p 3 years ago 7
Over five hours of racing and NO cool suits and they say todays drivers are tough!
cmsracing 3 years ago 5
yeah I know right?
TLTBoy 3 years ago
so the nascar circuits actually had left and right turns before ?
at what point did the guys say "screw the turns, lets just drive in circles!" ? lol
AntonFibes 3 years ago
NASCAR still runs on road courses - Watkins Glen and Infineon Raceway.
JuanKyam 3 years ago 3
hell yeah!
TLTBoy 3 years ago
@AntonFibes when they found out that not too many of them could drive , turn left and right and shift,lol
johnboy9898 9 months ago
These slides and crashes are pretty funny.
lameroger 3 years ago
oh Riverside...why are you now a shopping mall?
wags2010 3 years ago 5
I was there! This was Ford's first race with the new 427. It put Pontiac on the trailer from then on. Dan became known as Mr. Riverside 500. Dan is still very active. He rides his motorcycle over to Cook's Corner in Orange County every Sunday for lunch.
kd6xe 3 years ago 2
Gurney running a 406 cross-bolted hard block I wonder? I remember those motors, ballsey. 413 Dodges, 421 or 389 Pontiacs, 409 Chevs, hot running, spongy, drifty and 4 turn lock to lock steering.....sshhhheeeesshhhh.
markal774 4 years ago
406s werwe never crossbolted. Only the 427.
kd6xe 3 years ago
my favorite track is talladega but this one is pretty good to watch
NASCARNV8s 4 years ago
Holman and Moody also prepared Dan's GT 40 that he won Le Mans I think that was 67 or 68
Mr911cerrera 4 years ago
No, Shelby American prepared the Le Mans 24-Hour-winning Gurney/A.J. Foyt Ford GT40 Mk. IV in 1967 as well as the 4th-place Bruce McLaren/Mark Donohue Mk. IV. Holman-Moody prepared the Lloyd Ruby/Denny Hulme and Mario Andretti/Lucien Bianchi Mk. IV's that failed to finish that year though they tied for the fastest lap that was an amazing SEVEN SECONDS faster than the previous year's lap record. Two other H-M cars and one Shelby car also failed to finish, all Mk. IIBs.
JerseyDevilBM 4 years ago
LOL Andersport. Good thing for David. He would of been a nobody if he drove a GTO. I'm sorry I loved Pearson but GM was a joke when they got hit upside the head with the HEMI in 64 till the ban. A GTO against a HEMI. LOL. I don't care if they put a HEMI in a Imperial and raced it. Well, that would of been more fair.
ze1boss 4 years ago
Thank you for your perspecrtive on that year. I enjoyed watching racig on Wide World of Sports at the time there was no ESPN or sattelite TV. You knew who won, but it was a novelty to watch. I stilllove the Goat and I dig the Hemi. They need to wallop Toyota out of NASCAR.
andersport 4 years ago 2
I think GM would've found a way to run with the HEMIs with deLorean in charge it would've beena race although Petty would've won. Don't Lol. I'm a racing enthusiast. I respect all Big three makes.
andersport 4 years ago
I just wish it was still the Big Three in Nascar too. We raced there alot at Riverside in the late 60s and through the 70s. I just loved that track. I even walked it 2 times. A very good friend of mine Bill Conn has Ray Elders Dodge Charger that won there in 71 and 72. He also owns the #7 Jack MaCoy Daytona that qualifyed 4th in June of 70. I have Dan Gurney's nose cone off his Superbird that he was on the pole with in the Jan. 70 Race.
ze1boss 4 years ago
GM did have a plan but they pulled their backing in 1963 of racing. They had what was called the 427 Mystery Motor, it was a 427 CID big block in 1963. This is the same block that they used for the 396 Big block in 1965.
Milner62 3 years ago
It was sad that GM pulled out of factory racing that year. I can imagine David Pearson driving a GTO against Petty's Hemi if they (GM) were racing.
andersport 4 years ago
500 miles of Road Track Course. Amazing.
Elwo0d 4 years ago
Road America and the long-long Bridgehampton track both ran 500-mile road races, but they were for sports cars. Riverside eventually added a second NASCAR race each year, a 400-miler. I was not into stock cars much, being a road racing fan, but I loved seeing them on (and frequently OFF, as you can see from this amazing video) road courses.
JerseyDevilBM 4 years ago
Gurney won in the Holman-Moody #28--its regular pilot,
Fred Lorenzen,was in the Wood Bros'#21 that day!!!
joboots007 4 years ago
Thanks, joboots, I was wondering why Gurney was in Freddie's car. Lorenzen was (or maybe became) a decent road racer so I had figured he would be in his normal #28. In Gurney's next 4 wins in 1964-66 and 1968 he's be in the Wood Bros. #121...
JerseyDevilBM 4 years ago
wow where did u got that footage?????
NASCARNV8s 4 years ago
I found it via a web forum :-)
JuanKyam 4 years ago
thanks!!!!!!!
NASCARNV8s 4 years ago
That is my favorite track. R.I.P. RIR
Serjery15 4 years ago