There was a big one @ T'dega around 1978 going into T1 I think.
Cale Yarborough was out of his car and walking around looking over his car when another car came into the scene and punted another car into Cales car and Cale got pinched between the two cars.
Pretty sure it was Cale.
I think Marcis was involved somehow
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He is faster than everyone
Quicker than the blinking of an eye
Like a flash you could miss him going by
No one knows quite how he does it but it's true they say
He's the master of going faster. -George Harrison
Originally Posted by KevMcNJ
There was a big one at Talladega in 1979 when Buddy Baker lost it going into one and was turned sideways with the entire field bearing down on the driver's side door, although at the last minute he glanced off and didn't take a direct hit ... I think I've told this story before here, I was covering the pits/garage that day and we went looking for Baker and found him in the old driver's shower/lounge at Talladega (which was about like a filling station outhouse ... times have changed), sitting on the throne (pants up, he was just hiding), smoking a cigarette that he could barely hold because his hands were shaking so badly and his face was as white as pure snow. Race drivers are tough, but they're human, and he was scared (expletive deleted)-less at what could have happened. Cale was in that one and in the 1973 one.
That was the 79 Winston 500. Skip to about 5:25 mark of this video. Its has about 3 minutes of coverage of that wreck - including footage of Cale getting clipped and an interview with him.
Some of the cars were able to be patched back together with good ol' fashioned duct tape - including DW and Richard Petty. Buddy Arrington ended up with a career best 3rd place finish in a hand-me-down Dodge Magnum from Petty Enterprises.
Jack Arute produced and narrated.
Yeah, I did stories on Buddy Arrington before and after that race ... I'd supply the links from Google News Archive, because I know they're there, but I'd rather not advertise my name/byline/whatever on an Internet message board ... it was the Magnum that the Pettys couldn't do ca-ca with but Buddy and his son Joey, who were pretty fair Mopar mechanics, apparently had "figured something out" to make the thing run at Talladega at least, Buddy ran well with it there through '80 before they downsized the cars. I remember people asking Buddy after qualifying "where's the nitrous" and he said "tear it down, you won't find a damn thing but a Dodge." And from the way he talked, I got the impression it had something to do with the setup, not the engine. This is 32 years ago so I may not be remembering totally correctly, but Buddy ran in the lead draft all day, but he was like two laps down at the end because he lost time in the pits, I seem to remember him getting screwed on one lap when the caution came out right after he pitted under green, and he may have had another long stop where he lost another lap, but he was in the lead draft all day and I think Petty may have finished fourth in a GM car, couldn't get past Buddy at the end. That was the thing about the "independents" back then, they couldn't match the top dogs' pit work.
Man those 1978, 79 80 Cup cars were behemoths werent they?
Ya kinda forget how big they were after this many years
Could you just imaging the COT made out of that big Olds!!! That would be an interesting picture!!! LOL!!!
I just remembered I have some pictures of Bill Elliott testing a Dodge at Sonoma in June of 2000. When I get home after the weekend I'll try to find them to scan and post.
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Ex ARCA, ASA and local bullring crewdog. I remember when racing was really racing and the Talladega Express!!!
Man, I forgot how badly those cars were torn up in the 1973 "Big One" at Talladega ... the No. 34 with the driver's side torn off town to the bars was Wendell Scott's car ... there's a lot of people who think "the Big One" is just a recent development because of the plates, I end up having to tell 'em about the '73 Winston 500 ... based on memory, and a quick trip to Racing Reference, the people who were involved were Buddy Baker, Cale Yarborough, Bobby Allison, Joe Frasson, Ramo Stott (who started it), James Hylton, Lennie Pond, Slick Gardner, Walter Ballard, Buddy Arrington, Ron Keslowski, Bill Ward, Ben Arnold, Charlie Roberts, Bobby Mausgrover, Wendell Scott, Earl Brooks, Ronnie Daniel, Larry Smith, Dave Marcis, Richard Petty, Gordon Johncock and there may actually have been a few more who got a piece of it.
I see some Indy names in there, a GATR truck racer in there,& the uncle of a current Cupper in there.
Johncock was driving Hoss Ellington's Chevrolet. He drove for Hoss in a few races that year, I actually think he had a couple of top fives.
This is from 1992. Brett ran a Buick in 1991.BRETT BODINE....DAYTONA...1991
We drive 800 miles every year to see them go 500 miles. And we're glad to do it.
right you are....give that man a door-prize....thanks
Re: Historic Stock Car Photos
More Riverside history
Riverside, Calif.............."Motor Trend 500........Jan., 1967
This one was interrupted for a whole week by torrential rains.
USAC drivers always ran very well in the early Riverside races. They romped in this one.
Awesome thread!!!....glad to be here after all this time...Im Bumpnrun over at the HAMB....glad to be away from that D Wadd over there
What thread(s) were you on over at HAMB? IndyJohn's Historic Stock Car thread was going great guns till the mods got miffed that there seemed to be way more interest in that than in customs and street rods. 250 pages of postings is a pretty active thread. Hard to believe that those mods don't appreciate what they have there. Maybe we can get this one up there one day too.They still have a few interesting drag racing threads over there that, so far, are flying under the radar.
Ray Elder's pit crew servicing his car during the 1970 "Motor Trend 500" at Riverside Raceway. He finished 24th in this one, ironically, one of his poorest finishes at the track. The next year, he would go on to win this race. This picture originally appeared in "Hemmings Muscle Machines".
Ray Elder's very first attempt at Riverside........in the Dodge he had bought from Jack McCoy. Here he is running through the "esses" pursued by James Hylton's Dodge Charger.
Yep....the Historic Stock Car thread is the one Im referring to....I dont mind the whole "OT" thing its the selective enforcement of the rule that bothers me......in five min I can show you 3 or 4 threads that are hopelessly OT but nothing is done about it.....it seems that if the mod likes a particular subject and it goes way OT (and Im talking by 30 yrs OT!) then thats ok, but if they are not a fan then they call it....another thing is after all those posts the only one that had a problem with it going OT was the mod.....what a f***ing total A Hole!!!.....I hope he reads this.
Hey I know its a huge longshot but would anyone out there have a running pic of my race car???.....Its the Chuck Roumell 1999 Monte Carlo ARCA car.....last ran at the Michigan in 2001 ARCA race....crashed out....I bought the car as pictured, the damage was contained to sheetmetal only, frame untouched.....next shot is the car today with a 69 Chevelle body on it that I installed, still obviously a work in progress.....Im putting a roadrace set up in it and doing roadrace track days with it against Porsches and Beemers and running it for fun at my friends 1/3 mi paved oval up here.....any running shots of the car in its ARCA days would be greatly appreciated.....thanks Doug
I found this pic in my box of pics saved from the old Stock car Magazine. They used to put a good color foto in the centerfold every month and I covered the walls of my bedrooms when I was much younger. It was too large to scan the whole image but these small shots show Cales predicament
I have that issue!!! The cover is a montage of the Big Wreck. I bought some issues of Stock Car Magainze when I was a kid ('79 & '80 issues) and never threw them out. I used the pictures in the magazine as a template for the cars I would draw.
The Ayn Rand of Indycar
No one had to badge the Offy.
I saved all of them. I can see them from where I sit right now. The Open Wheel Mags are there too.
But Circle Track and a bunch of oddball racing publications got relegated to the attic a while back
I used to save all my Area Autos too but those weeklys pile up quickly.
I just noticed Kev's comment that you forget how big the cars were back in the day. He's right, locomotives compared to the "stock" cars of today.
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Does your wife know this?Im always right
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hDoes your wife know this?
Of course she does, it's why she sold the encyclopedias and dictionary years ago, she didn't need them! She had Kev!Does your wife know this?
What did I go and do? Kill the thread? Oh, my bad, forgot theon the end of the comment, so.
Ive been looking at this thread just sitting there unused and ignored and have been meaning to scan something but been watching too much hockey latelyWhat did I go and do? Kill the thread? Oh, my bad, forgot the
here ya go. Bumpstart.
Bobby Allison hero card from 1983
and an interesting Richard Petty hero card from the mid 1980s
Can you say Stock Appearing?
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