Man, when I was a kid, nothing excited me more than catching a glimpse of Petty's two-tone Charger, or Evel Knievel, on ABC's World of Sports.   I worshiped those two in the 70's.

Born in 1960, I watched this race on TV with my Dad every year starting in the mid 1960s.

Still look better than today's "stock" cars.

Love seeing these old muscle cars running around the track

Congrats to Herschel McGriff, a member of NASCAR Hall of Fame's Class of 2023. He deserves it...with a career spanning decades.

Poor Buddy Baker should have won three or four of these over the years. Seven years later he would be one of several famous drivers who won the "500" very late in their careers (Allison, Earnhardt, Waltrip, etc.).

The matador!!

I loved the AMC Matador!! Inwas 13 and watched this on wide world of sports!!

Real stock cars then, no restrictor plates, drivers passing each other constantly without the help of other cars..the greatest era of stock racing.

This was real racing real race cars real drivers except for the guy from the grand old Opry but you know how he did...Good driver doing all the stunt work in that Buick GS! No need for CGI when you got driving talent and a good car!

Please bring these cars back.

Yeah..the days of real NASCAR racing, when most men were gentlemen, helping each other out but still competitive. Thanks to everyone involved for bringing these back to U-tube. 😊👍

Listen to those cars...holy....

727 landing in the background at 10:40.

Loved Petty's mustache 😊

Bud said that the Malibu was a Monte Carlo. Stated that the whole year.

Love seeing these old races. Saw petty win at Columbia south Carolina when I was 7 years old in I think it was 1963.

I always liked this era of NASCAR. The cars looked like regular cars on the street, you had guys from IndyCar and other series coming over for this race to try to get in, you had so many different makes/models of cars. Cars could pass and you didn't have packs of 30 cars running around waiting for someone to make a mistake and cause carnage.

Pettys fu-manchu is sick....lol

I really appreciate the great commentary. These guys really know their stuff and give us all the facts and no exaggeration. Awesome work!  😁👍