1974 Daytona 500

NASCAR Winston Cup Grand National
Daytona International Speedway
February 17th, 1974

[@scarbourgeoisie]

Given the limited TV coverage NASCAR got back in the 70's, getting to watch the King on ABC's wide world of sports as a grade schooler, even in snippets, was the equivalent of Christmas morning to me.

[@timdryden3778]

i was 18

[@robtans5042]

The king when the world and nascar was right

[@garrycowan4747]

Newbomb, i was 10, and it was the first race i ever saw on TV, and it was on ABC wide world of sport too, and i still remember very well ,😁❤🇨🇦

[@wr70beh]

I always liked his car colors as a kid. It was the car, not the driver for me.

[@garrycowan4747]

I was 11, what an excitement to watch 30 minutes of Nascar Winston cup on ABC wide world of sports . Sometimes they showed 1 hour of racing out of 2, it was fantastique 😁

[@electrolytics]

That Petty Charger is absolutely gorgeous.

[@thebrinx9632]

Far better than the crap being broadcast on Sunday now!

[@bryantschell5981]

True

[@craigpennington1251]

But so blurry you can't see it. Would be nice if it were digitized for the modern flat screen.

[@robertwheatley4907]

Back when nearly every driver was a big name star. Today I couldn't care less about NASCAR or name one current driver. Not one. Even the announcers back then were household names. Keith Jackson covered most of the big events and was the best.

[@Riverdeepnwide]

Petty’s Charger is why I bought my ‘74 in’79 and enjoyed it as a lovely young family car for many years.

[@TheMrmmkkpro]

I was 12 years old in 1974, grew up by Rockingham motor speedway. Zmy dad was a gear head and always took us to the drag and circle track races at "The Rock". I miss this racing and my dad and mom. I had a great childhood. 👍👍🏁🏁 I still have a pair of the coca cola pants, red and white like Bobby Allison's pit crew wore when he drove the red and gold coca Cola Monte Carlo.

[@mysterj1]

You were a lucky kid!

[@fathermetalASMR]

Richard showed the world how badass the 1971 - 1974 Charger really was. 🤘🤘🇺🇲

[@nuclearboy78]

I wish I was around these days to see nascar

[@EdsterIII]

SMIFF TV, you have given us some of the best classic Nascar races 🏁 of the last few decades. I grew up during the 70's. Richard Petty was my favorite driver and his #43 car was my all-time favorite car. I used to watch Speed Racer back then and it actually got me interested in racing, real racing. I remember watching 🌐Wide🌎World🌐of🌎Sports🌐 back then and I loved it. Both Nascar and Indy-Car racing were awesome to watch. Thank you for sharing these races, both older and more recent races. Each one has it's own fan base. I personally really love the 70's and 80's NASCAR races more just because the cars had differences. They weren't the same cookie cutter copies of each other. I'm not bashing NASCAR's racing nowadays. I still love to watch it, however the cars back all had a unique look to them. Dodge and Ford weren't twins. You were able to tell the difference between the cars without a numerical overlay. Again I'm not bashing racing nowadays, or the drivers, or the cars, well maybe the cars. But overall cars back in the 70's weren't computerized. Again I'm not saying that racing now isn't difficult. Anyone driving those speeds HAS TO HAVE SKILLS! MAJOR SKILLS! However you can't deny that the cars from 1968 to 1990 looked far superior to cars nowadays.

[@gaffneyrailroading1982]

Coo Coo Marlin is Sterling's old man.

[@michaelkilgore8358]

I was 16 days old when this race was run, love watching stuff from the year I was born.

[@musicstewart9744]

13 myself.

[@thebrinx9632]

8 yrs

[@ajlavric7307]

Awesome thumbnail photo brought me here.

[@brandond5209]

Real men driving real cars

[@cjs83172]

A few years ago, when I first stumbled onto this condensed version of the ABC broadcast of the '74 Daytona 500, I did a little something creative. I combined the ABC broadcast version with the Car & Track version, and what resulted is probably the most complete video record of this fantastic race, since the majority of the Car & Track version focused on the first half of the race and the ABC broadcast version showcased the second half of the race.

[@STP43FAN1]

Sweet. MRN Classics needs to post the radio call of this race plus a pile of others like the Firecracker from 1974 July, the 600 and Yankee 400 that year, Pocono from 1975-77, 1979-82, and 1986, etc.

[@mustangjohhny]

AJ smoking the tires down pit road. Awesome

[@FOH3663]

Hurtubise crash @4:05 ... it's amazing how strong and unforgiving those racecars were built! Tanks! Foyt's burnout @6:15 ... leaving the pits ... John Force would be proud! I noticed it takes 13 pumps of the jack handle to raise the car for tires ... around @13:48 Love the iconic Fuselage bodies of that era ... the air dam out front is icing on the cake.

[@99SVT]

I was at this race. The Daytona 450. Because of the fuel shortage.

[@KK-ex5zu]

This race was basically the Richard Petty and Donnie Allison show, but still a great race! Just what made the difference was Petty blew a tire out late in the race as did Donnie but Petty blew his tire out early enough to recover and take advantage of Donnie's own tire woes.

[@STP43FAN1]

It didn’t start that way. Thirteen other drivers led this race (the CAR & TRACK film shows this better) and the lead changed 60 times, a track record that stood until 2011.

[@Parkwaymania]

Great quality picture! Haven't seen this since it was on TV. I've always liked The King but Donnie should've had this one. Thanks for sharing!

[@landoflogic107]

Parkwaymania I’d disagree. Coo Coo Marlin should have one this one. While you can’t fully trust this, Marlin himself said the “loose lug nuts” NASCAR black flagged him for were not actually loose. It is speculated they flagged him since they didn’t want an independent to win at a televised event as big as a Daytona.

[@topmech71]

It should've been Donnie's race, he was a better driver than what the stats indicate. He had some bad luck he and Buddy Baker as well.

[@dtmjax5612]

Petty had the entire field covered all day long. Always first or second...played with Donnie a while to keep his interest level up, knowing all along his crew, car, and own ability were unmatched at Daytona at that time. He was on a lap by himself and on that day anyway a class of his own. Saying anyone else “should’ve” won defies logic in my opinion. Yeah, maybe if the #43 hadn’t shown up.

[@lw97nilslinuswhitewaterweb93]

@@landoflogic107 sounds like a conspiracy theory

[@sudsysutherland359]

Canadian #52 Earl Ross & teammate #11 Cale Yarborough in the Carling Red Cap cars were a good team as Canadian Earl Ross would go onto win at Martinsville this year (1974) in the “Old Dominion 500” as well as get rookie of the year. Earl Ross is still the only Canadian to win a Nascar Cup race 🏁

[@andyharman3022]

I used to run travel trailers into Canada, and saw a road sign in Ailsa Craig, Ontario about Earl Ross.

[@jimbosc]

Listen to those big blocks howl

[@floridanative7105]

Simple thanks for the Upload takes me bk to age 8 & The Wide Wide World of Sports

[@PaulieDetmurds]

I was 11 years old then,..and I think I watched this one! Vintage Greatness!

[@SailorMoonRailfan]

Paulie Detmurds my dad was living in California when he was 10 and a half years old when this happen

[@mercoid]

I was 8. From that time and into my teens I watched lots of these races on ABC. I love this era of NASCAR.

[@boristheamerican2938]

One of the last times AMC was in Nascar

[@STP43FAN1]

AMC won four times 1974-75

[@mrfish3961]

AMC ❤💥👍👍👍👍@@STP43FAN1

[@randyjohnson6845]

Energy crisis omg I just bought 87 octane today for 1.50 a gallon. Energy crisis was just to raise the gas prices up

[@almostfm]

Hey, thanks for taking the complex situation of the Yom Kippur War and the OPEC embargo of shipments to the US and dumbing it down to "it was just to raise the gas prices up"

[@patrickharper9297]

I miss those days of cheap gas

[@robtans5042]

Yeah we got brandon and high gas Again . F J B

[@STP43FAN1]

The shortages were due to ongoing price controls. Once Reagan ended oil price controls the problem was solved.

[@stupoc6715]

So ..... The Daytona 450 ? I was only a year old , man that 43 car.

[@ralphholiman7401]

1974 Dodge Charger.

[@carlschildtknecht762]

Anyone know when they started running restrictor plates?

[@durn210]

The Petty legacy is embraced by the clean racing and respect he has EARNED for decades. Different driving styles in regards to Earnhardt Sr. nation in which I am enveloped in, will live forever.. Good as gold

[@otherZinc]

Keith Jackson is the most Iconic Voice in Sports History!!!

[@robertwheatley9153]

..and Jackie Stewart clearly is not but rather the most irritating voice in sports history..

[@purplereign84]

Love listening to Jackie Stewart.

[@gaffneyrailroading1982]

Is Jackie Stewart the Scot?

[@DrEight-dg7xt]

@@gaffneyrailroading1982 Yes

[@robertparker6654]

Mr. Motor racing., not engine racing, using motor oil.

[@allenmax8995]

good ol' stock car racin'....great stuff....

[@larsbambi1575]

First off thank you for the old races! I used to work for BACE Motorsports. I am looking for a race from Myrtle Beach South Carolina I believe it was 98 or 99. It was televised on TNN and we won that night in 74 car. (LAJOIE) Dale Earnhardt Jr was running the AC Delco number 3 Anyways long story short it was a special race cuz I took my now wife of 20 something years on our first date to the race (put her on top of the 74 hauler and brought her in winnersCircle). I'd love to have the whole race but really I want winners Circle. I can't find it on KZbin if anybody has a link please share it with me!

[@larsbambi1575]

By the way it was the bush series

[@altfactor]

Jim Hurtubise is best known as the last man to drive a front engine car in Indycar's Indianapolis "500" (1966).

[@adamcrookedsmile]

@23:46 notice how the racing car paint scheme mostly consists of a numbers and a color scheme, it isn't completely covered in commercial logos. Only "STP" can be made out on the bonnet and also on the rear fender.

[@strike_not_found]

70's cars designs were horrible

[@danieljohnson9351]

@@strike_not_found Beats the hell out of todays ugly crap!

[@HODIUSDUDE]

Great UL... Thanks for sharing!

[@SMIFFTV]

Happy to do it, man! And thank YOU for YOUR contributions! Love your channel!

[@mikeyeden5791]

I don't want to sound stupid, I wasn't born until August of 85, and didnt watch Nascar until end of 02, how come Nascar and it sounds like other sports where shortened? @@SMIFFTV

[@kurtperleberg3478]

@@mikeyeden5791 OPECs Stupid Oil Embargo On Any Country That Supported Is real.

[@freshtendrills5969]

Keith Jackson. The greatest.

[@zenpaganwarrior]

Better than Ken Squier? I don't know...both were great, though.

[@ralphholiman7401]

If I remember right, at the time Richard Petty won this one, his fifth Daytona 500 win, no other driver had even won it twice. They called Petty "King Richard the Fifth" after his (they were showing the six wives of Henry the Eight on TV at the time, and I think it came from that).

[@dennissmith9294]

This race still makes me feel the same way the first time I saw it. David Pearson aka Silver Fox Petty was the King of Racing. Pearson was the man of the best race.

[@fubarmodelyard1392]

Live and in color on ABC. Don't you miss those days when the race was covered by guys who knew racing instead of just being pretty

[@RayTuttle-of5qd]

This was the real NASCAR ! No stage breaks no lucky dog no stupid bullshit just a bunch of good old boys in a dog fight

[@billmisko1846]

$8700 for third place, how times have changed

[@MrChristopherHaas]

It would have been more had it been a top tier regular

[@alfonsopreciadogonzalez7298]

The real American NASCAR RACECARDRIVER❤❤❤❤🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🌎🌎🌎🌎😊😊😊😊

[@strike_not_found]

3:12 never have seen That angle from mcgriff's crash

[@deborahchesser7375]

All the cars were different,you could tell what make was what. Drivers stayed with teams forever so you knew all the drivers, no more.

[@STP43FAN1]

The Dodge and Mercury looked a lot alike. That’s inevitable. Form Follows Function in the end.

[@radioguy1620]

back when guys your Dad's age were driving and now kids your sons age are driving, makes a big difference seems like.

[@mattskustomkreations]

Coo Coo Marlin-- what a rad name!

[@kurtperleberg3478]

I Want To Thank NASCAR And Its Late Founder Bill France For Doing Its Bit During The 1973-1974 OPEC Oil Crisis.

[@johnrohlfs9607]

🇺🇸thanks from John Robert Bruffett Junior of United States of America!!!!

[@74SD455TA]

Outstanding!

[@TOMCAT5.5149]

This is when racing was good... cry babies now for drivers..

[@robtans5042]

Men knew what restroom to use settled their differences on the track. Didnt have to call multiple fbi agents to look at a garage door pull rope. Id say in the future it will be Bubba and a transistor

[@beeemm2578]

This is the goods. This is when it was the Dangeroustona 500

[@Slinger43]

God help me, but I just love watching the cars of the 70's race! Did you see the massive amount of California rake those had, my God, Cale's Junior Johnson car damned near look like a Funny-car from that era! Speaking of Funny-cars, how bout Ol' AJ Foyt! Super-Tex looked like The Snake at Pomona leaving the pits! 💪😂👍!! Really feel for poor Donnie Allison 😟 He came so close to winning Daytona, several times infact, only to have something bad happen time & time again. Since he came up short of winning that race, people tend to view him differently than they really should, as he was a very talented Wheelman, thank God Buddy Baker managed to finally Win one, or he would be viewed very differently as well & that would be a great injustice also 👎

[@davecorcoran3874]

Put Mark Martin in that same category.Should have won the 500 and a Championship.

[@tnwhiskey68]

The 70s were such a weird time for cars. Not near as cool as 60s cars but really neat nonetheless! That 1974 43 car sold at auction for over $900k!

[@87Dodge87]

Is that Jackie Stewart announcing?

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

Yes

[@saund102]

35:42 that's one helluva bank.

[@andyharman3022]

Petty's Charger must have had some serious ponies under the hood because it looked like a large brick compared to the Chevy Malibus it was competing with.

[@racefan32]

Listen to Jackie Stewart is like listening nails on chalkboard, But it's still better than listening at DW or the rest of the fox crew nowadays.

[@MrJohnnyDistortion]

I can't understand all of the dust on the track. Why didn't they clean it before the race to give the drivers better traction?

[@jeff55h73]

i believe that was the year the donnie allisons car was built by smokey and the engine was built by grumpy jenkins

[@Trancecub]

Was 1974 the first year when they used 360 cu. in Engines instead of 427 Big Blocks?

[@Ziggy_Moonglow]

Teams could use engines up to 433 CID with anything over 366 CID required to run a restrictor plate. In 1972, Bud Moore fielded a 351 CID Torino for a few races and then ran it 'full time' in 1973.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

This race is a fine example as to why nascar fine tuned its rules to what they are now. Allisons tire blew under the yellow yet he lost a lap. The cars running behind allison when his tire blew were NOT a lap behind Petty yet abc tells us they are. Nascar blew an opportunity to give us one heckuva finish. They should have allowed Foyt, Yarbourough, Stott, Marlin to come around and line up behind Petty. Really Allison should have been able to as well. Just my opinion.

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

The Daytona 450!

[@alfonsopreciadogonzalezpre7622]

Dear NASCAR race Cars you make me feel an great car racer of NASCAR on my hotwheels race track I' m buying all NASCAR car race of hotwheels Sincé 1911 WHEN the NASCAR start the engenen by first time 😀😃😃😃😃😃🤗😅😅😅😅🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗😅😅😅😅😅what race ???

[@j3any3s]

disco David sisco ? what a great name

[@reginaldhall6871]

The old AMC Matador, probably the ugliest car to ever race in Nascar

[@danieljohnson9351]

No, that would be the stupid Camry!

[@robertparker6654]

Ya, the ugly Darth Vader frowning grill , they really are ugly. Even on the street I don't like to see one in my mirror.

[@jesse75]

Is this when Chevy got back into racing ?

[@williamweiss6128]

❤

[@randomCADstuff]

How to make Nascar popular again: 1) Push drivers with awesome names like "Coo Coo Marlin", "Dick Trickle", "Buddy/Buck Baker" (Bubba Wallace has the best name going at the moment). 2) Get rid of all the dumb rules you've been implementing since the 00's.

[@johnriggle5336]

And The Alabama Gang !

[@davecorcoran3874]

Bubba Wallace is only in cup because of skin color.

[@Ziggy_Moonglow]

Bubba Smollett

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

@@Ziggy_Moonglow only stupid people like you think he’s Smollett. Bubba and Jussie aren’t comparable. One of them is innocent and did nothing wrong and is actually the victim of NASCAR’s stupidity and media corruption. The other one is actually guilty for committing a fake crime. I can’t stand you NASCAR fans/former NASCAR fans

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

@@davecorcoran3874 that’s like saying Kyle Larson is on Cup because he’s half-axiom and Daniel Suarez is in Cup because he’s Mexican. What a stupid comment from a NASCAR fan who lack intelligence. Then again, NASCAR fans are dumb

[@mrfish3961]

AMC 👍👍👍

[@danieljohnson9351]

Chargers, Chevelle's, Torino's, and yes, even a Matador! Real American muscle and not a single gag inducing butt ugly Toyota! Plus Toyota don't have there name somewhere on the screen during the whole race, I am so sick of that!

[@soonerlegendspodcast]

Jackie Stewart got on my nerves listening to him. David Hobbs was the best uk announcer imho

[@peterdoucet7974]

20 miles of this race chopped off...due to the energy crisis. A mere eight laps. Acceptable back then...not fair by today's standards.

[@tommylord]

It was 20 laps = 50 miles shortened. Who knows what could have happened, with all the tires blowing that day.

[@paulmatthews463]

Allison "luck" strikes again.

[@70stunes71]

Petty 👍🌠💪

[@clintwill8715]

Daytona 450

[@kekka77]

NTSC = Never Twice the Same Color 😁

[@nsidor1234]

How the heck was the track in such poor shape?

[@danaringquist9730]

Dr 4-28-24

[@bjw9529]

How did everyone not die back then?

[@topperthompson2713]

71 Charger wins again

[@guyconnell2250]

LOL. "Conservation move".

[@jimbosc]

Freaking OPEC

[@robertparker6654]

Fake Carter crisis

[@harriettatkinson2092]

:

[@davdhartung9817]

First time Daytona 500 was shown live on network TV.