1972 Miller High Life 500 At Ontario

From a replay of Car & Track on the old SpeedVision network, the Miller High Life 500 run on March 5th 1972 at Ontario Motor Speedway.

[@Runnerup5.68]

I grew up watching Bud Lindeman shows,no matter what anyone says about him "at least he had the balls to make these shows" Great footage!! Sure ABC wide world of sports did their segments too...

[@MrMakemyday3]

south carolina- the woods are in stuart, va

[@jamesbraun9842]

It looks like the Petty vs Wood rivalry started with AJ Foyt. It was King of Indy against the king of NASCAR.

[@cjs83172]

Actually, it even pre-dated that. It went back at least to when Cale Yarborough drove the #21 car in the late 60s. An irony about that is that, when Marvin Panch, who had driven the Wood Brothers car for a number of years, scored his final victory, it was in a second Petty enterprises car in the 1966 World 600 after Ford decided to boycott a large portion of the 1966 season (as a result of the Hemi being allowed back), and Panch was one of a number of casualties of the Ford boycott in '66. In fact, Richard Petty and Glen Wood, who founded the Wood Brothers team and recently passed away, were two of the front runners in the very first NASCAR race ever held at the Daytona International Speedway, a 100-mile qualifying race for convertibles for the 1959 Daytona 500. The race was won by Shorty Rollins over Panch, Petty, and Wood.

[@edge2sword186]

@@cjs83172 DAN GURNEY WAS THE MASTER OF RIVERSIDE IN THE 21 EVEN BEFORE THAT .

[@cjs83172]

@@edge2sword186 When Gurney dominated at Riverside driving for both Holman-Moody and the Wood Brothers (in car #121, not #21, which was run by their regular driver), it was in that same time frame during which Panch and Yarborough drove for the Wood Brothers, in the mid-to-late 60s. And Gurney wasn't the only non-NASCAR driver to win at Riverside in a car with a 3-digit number, back when that was legal. Parnelli Jones, one of Gurney's long-time rivals, won at Riverside in 1967, the same year he drove the turbine car at the Indianapolis 500, driving car #115 for Bill Stroppe (Curtis Turner drove Stroppe's #15 car at Riverside in 1967).

[@edge2sword186]

@@cjs83172 RIGHT 121 . DON'T FORGET HIS WINS AT LE MANS ? JONES WAS LUCKY TO FINISH RACES THE WAY HE BEAT THOSE CARS . HE WAS NO DAVID PEARSON WITH THE WAY HE DROVE .

[@cjs83172]

@@edge2sword186 There's no question Parnelli was a very aggressive driver. His record at Indy speaks for itself. He's the only driver ever to lead at least 400 miles in two different Indianapolis 500s (1963 and '67), and it would have been three had his brakes not failed in 1962, when he was in a league of his own (Rodger Ward, who won that 1962 Indianapolis 500, said until the day he died that Parnelli should have won that race). And of course, Gurney won at LeMans with A.J. Foyt in 1967 not long after Foyt's third Indianapolis 500 win, as well as taking the inaugural edition of what today is the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1962. Foyt also won at Riverside in 1970 and scored three endurance wins at the end of his career, 2 in the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 1985 12 Hours of Sebring, which was his final victory.

[@mnowakpoland]

113 cars attempted this race, only 51 started though. That has to be some kind of record.

[@rondrake3720]

The good ole days

[@Ziggy_Moonglow]

No bongos during the pit stops. End of an era.

[@Unclemoparman]

Bud is preferable to the cutout homogenized PC announcers of today.

[@sergioleone3583]

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[@PROFESSOR-I.C.]

Don White, USAC Stock Car champion in this race.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

They REALLY DID have a TON of TALENT for this race. Donahue. Don White. AJ himself, Ray Elder

[@Slinger43]

Right! Ol' Hershel Mcgriff was also in there as well! If you watch the video at the drop of the rag, Dad & I were sitting about 150 ft past the Flagstand towards turn one. I was one happy 10yr old kid, watching my biggest Racing Hero drive around Super Tex on the outside of turn 1 to take the lead! 😃!! LOL! Of course, my Petty Blue bleeding heart was broken when that damn 2nd pit-stop happened 😭 With OMS being a replica IMS, I've always thought AJ would likely have Won 4 Brickyard 400's, if Nascar had raced there back then, of course maybe The King Wins a bucket full of 400's also, sure would have been cool to see them race there, but alas, no such luck 😭

[@MrChristopherHaas]

@@Slinger43 it would have been interesting, yes. I would have loved to see Foyt in Woods Bros. car at Indy the year he dominated Daytona. Huge Foyt fanfrom the getgo, saw him win first race i ever saw in person, the Governors Cup 250 stock car race at Milwaukee Mile.I dont count anything on the road course

[@Slinger43]

@@MrChristopherHaasVery Cool! AJ (or maybe Mario, maybe Dan or Parnelli) is probably The Greatest Racecar Driver of all time, I loved watching that Baddass wheel a car, any car! 💪😍👍!! It's amazing to me, how many fans under 40, don't even know USAC raced Stockcars back then, with most of the biggest names in Indycar history wheel'n & Winning many of them! 🤔...Of course, 98% of those fans, don't even know what USAC is! 😂

[@MrChristopherHaas]

@@Slinger43 most of the, if not all top NASCAR pilot from 50s to late 70s also raced USAC stocks. And vice versa.Petty won at Pocono. Waltrip won at Nashville. Bobby Allison raced Matadors in USAC. friggin awesome

[@bobbyblenio4571]

Awesome Vid…the Music Rocks too..Love Old Muscle Cars …actually I Love Everything Old🤣…this New Crap is Boring🤑💥🏆

[@dongrandmaster3787]

I can smell the same burnt oil, rubber, and fuel from your channel as I did then

[@invisiblepuppet3437]

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