Noteworthy: that Boss 429 prepared by Holman-Moody was equipped with a dry sump oil pan and a single plane spyder intake housing a 4500 dominator Holley. These engines initially dynoed at just over 600 crankshaft HP. Later 'D' port intake Boss engines made about another 30-35 crankshaft HP and were run on the track at 6800 to 7200 RPM.

I didn't know Chris Economaki went back this far and even further.

Thanks for uploading this nascar

I’ll never never understand why Pearson didn’t get new rubber late other than it being a concession that he will finish where he finishes either way.

Great race

7000 rpms, pretty impressive for the day!!

This was the last race Charlie Glotzbach drove for Cotton Owens.  I checked with other online sources to confirm this.
What I could not find, but recall reading about it years ago [and not mentioned in this race coverage], was Glotzbach getting into trouble with NASCAR officials for some pit road violation.  Supposedly Glotzbach was so annoyed by the accusation that he stepped away from NASCAR for the rest of the season.
That infraction may have been Glotzbach running over an air-hose on pit road, but I cannot find any online info to confirm that.
James Hylton got the Owens Dodge ride for a couple of short-track races afterwards; with Buddy Baker driving for Owens in the superspeedway races for the rest of the season.
Neil Castles got the Dodge [#3] ride with Ray Fox after Baker left.

I miss the old configuration of AMS, with its quarter-mile straights and half-mile turns.
It was a sad day when it was reconfigured to what amounted to a clone of Charlotte.

🏁Very cool, really enjoyed!!!!!🏁

NASCAR, ice dancing and platform tennis. Yessiree, a full card of sports on ABC...

Those 69 Dodge Chargers will always be my favorite Nascar Stock Car and the street R/T

What was Economaki referring to about Cale returning from Vietnam?  was that for some kind of USO Grand National promotion?
RIP and Respect

I believe I was there,,, senior in high school.

Incredible they are racing real street cars and all these different manufacturers mercury wow this is real racing all these different street machines real American Muscle Cars good video this is impressive I really like these classic races with real cars I don’t know what they are driving today they look like some kind of toys .

Yep...I guess one could say: "The NASCAR drivers of now (from 2000 to now, 2024) are the best ever, and, I would say "Yes...many are since 2000 to now, but..." to me, a 74 year old...the NASCAR drivers and teams of decades ago, like this YouTube video of the 1969 "Atlanta 500" of March, the historic legends of drivers at this show's race had "real grit"!
My still All-time favorite of the stock car racing has been the late, great Cale Yarborough of South Carolina.  The man seemed fearless in his style of driving. Of course, there are and were many that fit the word, "fearless" but Cale put his talents in driving a stock car racer to unique limits.
What is disappointing in watching this video is...most of these historic drivers are gone.
These race cars had a beautiful style. I like "the standard typical full size race cars" and not the past several years of nowadays "pony cars" of Ford's Mustang and Chevy's Camaro.

Another race, another Dave Marcis inexplicably good finish.

You can totally see why Dodge went batshit. With the wing in the nose cone nobody could touch the fords

Damn, where are all the Chevies???? They had the BBC 427 I can't believe that the rectangular port BBC couldn't easily commpete with the the Boss 429 even if they had Super Cobra Jet heads,  having flow tested heads at my AutoMachine the Ford heads, pretty much every Ford head is just kinda shitty flowing on the exhaust ports  and all their heads are like that going back 50 years, unless its an outright racing cylinder head, and damn I cant believe there weren't any Mopars with the 426 hemies??? Shit they even lapped Petty before he got tangled up in the 3 car accident!!!

This right here shows why Chrysler had to come out with their winged cars. Head to head, the Boss 429 was the stronger engine.

No 2 way radios in ‘69 ?