1976 Carolina 500 @ Rockingham

Follow the pit crew of the #90 Ford of Dick Brooks while the team competes in the 1976 Carolina 500 NASCAR Winston Cup race at North Carolina Motor Speedway. Dick had a strong run going before engine troubles forced him to the garage.
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[@jm1551701]

I don't watch NASCAR anymore, because this is the NASCAR I will never forget, the best Races ever with the best drivers, this the NASCAR I used to watch and love, I miss this era of racing,

[@benscovil]

Junie was an idol and beloved friend of mine. Having this footage means everything to me as I wasn't born until 1990 and never got to see him at this age. I've known a ton of wonderful people in my life, but Junie was the finest man I'll ever know.

[@bloodredsky24]

This right here is pure gold! A time we'll never see again. RIP Junie Donlavey. These independant teams were the backbone of NASCAR.

[@thebrinx9632]

Loved hearing those names, Brooks, Petty, Wood Bros., (Dave) Marcus...these guys were 1000x what we have today!

[@jethro1260]

Agree, if I only knew then what I say know now.

[@frankdawe5156]

This is when NASCAR was actually exciting.

[@thebrinx9632]

I had a teacher whose last name was Parsons...I was rooting for the name (she was GREAT)!

[@dngnascar]

This is absolute unbelievable footage

[@Tshade67]

My best memory of Dick Brooks other than his '73 Talladega win was his performance at the Daytona 500 in 1971. He raced with the smallest engine (305 inches of Mopar LA small block), the rest were 426, 427 and 429 cubic inches. He placed 7th even after Pete Hamilton wrecked him and being two laps down at one point. He also led 5 laps during that race and finished 3rd in the qualifier. Talk about the Little Engine That Could! He drove the last of the famous "wing cars" and proved aerodynamics played a significant part in Winston Cup racing.

[@noezrider6361]

These guys visited victory lane 1981 at Dover with Jody Ridley driving. A real "feel good" story.

[@Ham.rigs07]

What a time to be alive. This sort of stuff makes me want to move to America.

[@jasongrubbs8373]

I love this footage being born in 70 this is what I remember watching and is why I loved my hot wheels and racing for so many years!! thx for sharing

[@markwitkowski6418]

the golden years,the greatest years nascar has known.

[@Flap999]

This is what NASCAR used to be about. This was when NASCAR was truly great.

[@anthonydeloreto3881]

Bill Elliott’s first career start in NASCAR’s premier series.

[@jamesbowers7343]

His #9 can be seen around the 11:30 mark

[@thebrinx9632]

@@jamesbowers7343 Melling

[@mulehead3697]

Like to have that Rock back on the circuit.

[@christophermathern6796]

Now this is racing.

[@mr9c1driver59]

Love seeing those 75-76 Laguna S3 slope noses.

[@Fitzpatrick65]

This is classic racing at its best. I was 11 years old then Loved the 60s and the 70s.

[@waynejohnson1121]

I would watch that kind of racing any day over what they're doing today . Real men driving real race cars

[@troymiller7381]

I was at that race, I was in the 6th grade. Bobby Allison and Cale Yarborough hit causing the big crash, happened right where we were sitting.

[@billwilmington8284]

Never did I know that Dick Brooks Honda was founded by a NASCAR driver. Thanks for posting these videos. They're so interesting.

[@kurtperleberf6983]

And later.he would work as a pit road reporter for MRN Radio.

[@matthewnosal6893]

That Cleveland makes my hair stand up just idling

[@ghostofpastghostofpast3700]

I was 6 years old at the time and these were my heroes.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

JD McDuffie finished TENTH in this race, a mere 31 laps behind. 19 cars finished the race

[@EricCox4848]

The race Bobby Allison had that big rollover.

[@85Stang331]

This blows away nascar of today

[@loonggoonedaddy]

Thank You! What a footage!

[@scottledbetter7212]

This made my day ! Just subscribed.

[@for8861]

AWESOME-Thanks for the video :)

[@k2rocksstl]

This is exactly how it was working with Mike Mittler and MB Motorsports in NASCAR Trucks. Race in Peace, Mike.

[@Hollowsmith]

6:18 "I've driven cars where a lady could have driven it." LOL

[@bardamu72]

j adore cette video , la NASCAR dans les détails

[@garrycowan4747]

Et les voitures étaient très belles dans ces années.

[@evandrodanielsantos8946]

Fantastic

[@ghostofpastghostofpast3700]

Love this.

[@bigbadbruins1]

Amazing how far they have come

[@scottbrown7497]

Why did the PA announcer sound like Buiford T Justice from Snokey and the Bandit

[@kurtperleberg3478]

He was LW Dewitt.president of the track.

[@kurtperleberf6983]

And LW Dewitt was a NASCAR team owner. He owned the #72 Chevrolet Monte Carlo driven by Benny Parsons.1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Grand National Series champion.

[@EricCox4848]

LG DeWitt.

[@davidharris2178]

Great video.

[@yourejovian]

Great video

[@ypaulbrown]

some great history here.....

[@thebrinx9632]

@16:30 Dave Marcus is in 6th position..I love that!!! (and he was wearing wing-tipped shoes too!)

[@dhart8451]

Dave Marcus....from somewhere in Wisconsin !!

[@dhart8451]

@Johnny Boone I believe there was another driver from that time, Dick Trickle, from Wisconsin Rapids. Not sure if he drove NASCAR but I remember him from USAC

[@benscovil]

Dave Marcis*

[@jeremyh5017]

Nice video!

[@joebauers3746]

At 21:21... Those dudes were smoking ciggies in the pits with all that fuel laying around??? Amazing.

[@davidleonard8369]

Back then it was common to put your cigarette out in gasoline. Many of us old timers still do it.

[@davidleonard8369]

@Johnny Boone yes the fumes ignite but even the fumes need something a hell of a lot hotter than the cherry on the end of a cigarette.

[@noelwarner1235]

It would be so cool to have one of those cars from the seventies or eighties

[@eddiedawkins19]

I think I was actually at this race

[@nosale]

Nascar is not what it used to be nothing ABOUT it interest me anymore ( the good old days are GONE )

[@CocoMark]

Leap day racing!

[@mikesmithey1892]

I was born in Porterville where dick Brooks is from. My dad went to school with him we used to go all over California to dirt tracks and some paved tracks and watching race. Ever since I was a little kid. We went to his house one day and he was out in the garage working on his car and he had a smudge pot. To keep the garage if you don't know what one is Google it anyway they put diesel in them and they stand about 6 ft tall with a big belly on the floor to hold the diesel in your Litem and they the heat up the orange Orchards to keep them from freezing so I got up on a chair and a ladder or something to look inside the pipe that was sticking up and it burned all my eyebrows and my hair off the first part of my head I look like a Three Stooges or something for a couple months. I was probably 7 8 or 9 years old can't remember when he went to North Carolina and all we can do is look at the newspapers back then because it wasn't televised except for a little pieces on Wild World of Sports. I remember he came back in the off part of the season and me and my mom and dad and my brother and him and his wife at the time was Rita like to see that movie LeMans with James Garner and I believe Paul Newman I don't know can't remember but get Brooks had a broken leg and he had a phone and a suitcase big suitcase this is back in like 1971 or whatever. And when Rex would happen during the movie it was so real he would jerk and jobs like he had pspd and cover his eyes. I remember we went out to dinner and his suitcase started ringing so he opened it up on the table and took a phone call it was kind of weird back in the 70s but it was as big as a suitcase. It was the car honor or crew chief or somebody was very important so he had to take the car. Even back in the seventies he told me about flying objects all over the United States to the race tracks. He did very well in NASCAR I think he was the first one to win $1000000 in a career. He had multiple car dealerships and he was franchise owner of Hampton Inns. He had some vintage World War 2 fighter planes in a big house in Spartanburg, South Carolina and he wrecked his plane one day and got some brain damage. Towards the end he was in a wheelchair divorced and with one child Stacy the nurse that was taking care of him coerced him to sign a will to leave everything to her. That did not set well with his his daughter so his daughter sued the probate court and got everything in her name the dealership's the motel she has since sold the franchise for Hampton she had a Chevy and a Honda dealership she sold the Chevy dealership and kept the Honda dealership got divorced and somehow her ex-husband talked her into signing 51% of the dealership to him cuz he was a better businessman I don't know why she did but she did it. She's a very beautiful woman says beautiful kids very successful I wish the best for her dick Brooks was referred as a Wheelman I've heard Darrell Waltrip Benny Parsons even David Pearson said he was one of the best wheel mans in the business and if you don't know what that is that means being able to stay in the throttle in a corner even when the back ends coming around and stay in the throttle turn right to go left. They all said he was the master of it. When he went to Talladega he actually won the race the car he was supposed to drive didn't show up and another guy had a car the driver didn't show up so they took over and won the race the car was so hard to handle that he was constantly wheel in the steering wheel and the car owner said after the race when he came into Victory Lane his hands were covered in blisters in his hands were bleeding because the car handled so poorly. But it didn't stop him from winning the race. He won Rookie of the Year in his first year of racing one time in California at a dirt track in Clovis California he was racing a 1960 Ford Fairlane and after the race he had one so he pulled into the Winner's Circle so me and my dad and my brother went to congratulate him. My dad seen me looking at the back tire it was smoking he said don't touch that it's hot and I remember touching it and it was like Hot Tar my little hands at 6 years old just blistered it was so hot. I remember when I was a kid in California he drove logging trucks up to the Northern California and with bring huge logs down to Porterville to be sawed up he owned a racetrack called Rocky Hill in Porterville California. He was one of the nicest guys I ever knew he gave me pictures and helmets and autographs and all kinds of stuff so I could show my friends. Rest in peace dick

[@BogattheMoon]

Wow, awesome memories!👍

[@plantfeeder6677]

Saw him race the year this film was made in Ontario for the 500.

[@lastchild6153]

Did your hair and eyebrows ever grow back in?

[@TheTheratfarmer]

One year ago. What it is to be a professional.

[@davescott686]

That's a Bud Moore designed intake on that motor.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

Shockingly, Richard Petty won both Rockingham races in 76’

[@rogertynerthinkthiswastheo3112]

Having a factory back car helps

[@MrChristopherHaas]

@@rogertynerthinkthiswastheo3112 ya think?

[@lastchild6153]

What about the extra moonshine money that the Pettys and JR. Johnson had saved up to help contribute a little bit for a extra win are 2 ether way it was still a hard way to make a living.

[@STP43FAN1]

19:41. the Bobby Allison crash

[@TheTheratfarmer]

I teach these same drivers...

[@juancarlosbernabevenegas5500]

Bien

[@jamesbowers5946]

Why did junie say “Abeaut” for about like a Canadian

[@slwsnowman4038]

21ish gallons of gas and 2 tires in 15-16 seconds…that was a slow 4 tire stop 20 years ago.

[@TheTheratfarmer]

race at the la colisium see how vast LA is?

[@acer5871]

I guess we know now Brooks crash was a blowover 20:40

[@jamesscully529]

@Auldin Lockridge It was actually the summer Talladega race; the Winston 500 was in the spring.

[@pughoneycutt1986]

I was at that race in the infield at the apex of turns 3 &4 the thing I remember most was how much faster edd nigre was going through that end of the track than ever one else but he was on the rev Limiter a third of the way down the straight, if he had petty's engine he could have lapped the field every 50 laps

[@MrChristopherHaas]

youre kidding? holy smokes

[@pughoneycutt1986]

@@MrChristopherHaas hell no I'm not kidding, I was absolutely shocked by how fast he was through that turn, his sponsor was 10,000 r p m clutch, so I always thought that he was the first to run the small diameter multiple disc that everyone would run later, allowing him to mount the engine lower in the chassis and thus handle better. I can't prove that is why he was so much faster through the corner, but it makes sense

[@billponder5182]

He probably had the wrong gear in it.

[@pughoneycutt1986]

@@billponder5182 that would explain the pop pop pop from the engine on the straights, but not how much faster he was in the corners than everyone else. I was just shocked by his speed in the corners,we are not talking about 2 or 3 mph it was more like 15 or 20 mph. That was over 40 years ago and I'm still wondering how he could do that

[@marine4lyfe85]

Sounds like they put the wrong rear-end gear in it.

[@TheTheratfarmer]

bare hands driving.

[@nuclearboy78]

I wonder if Kyle would have made it back then? Lol

[@TheTheratfarmer]

Dale syays. "I cant see", low..

[@superdragUSA1]

You would think that by 1976 that they would have stopped using that crappy, hippie psychedelic track with bongos and whistles, ffs. Also notice as he enters his car it says 'David Pearson' on door, just below window net at 8:10

[@noezrider6361]

It says Dick Brooks. I got the magnifying glass on it.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

I would have went with Ted Nugent (Meatloaf singing) Hammerdown myself...

[@1SixpenceFan]

NASCAR got to fancy during the 90s and they're so bad now that I wish they would go completely out of business and be replaced. Go back to the way it was in the 70s.

[@TheTheratfarmer]

Every driver I have ever talked to, loves Rockingham. It is anyones wins track. This nourth wilkboreo thing is not. Sorry Dale Jr.

[@zcam1969]

i don't think Dick Brooks ever won a race did he ? i know he wreaked Bobby Allison at least 10 times at Darlington

[@TheTheratfarmer]

Ohh shit, bare hands working that steering wheel. If engine down, I can get out. Rusty Wallace. Not. Steal cars were made of steal. Cromomoly steal. Yes.

[@curtis4109]

Great for me to see the confederate flags flying.

[@thegoldenwarrior12producti15]

19:40 deaf

[@eddiedawkins19]

Them Ford motors were weak in them days, they couldnt take the punishment that the Chevrolets could

[@TalkinRacinWithMikeRay]

50 years ago they were selling balloons, now i sell everything for your racing experience, i might work Martinsville Sunday October 30th, 2022 in Mark Hills Yard, Earplugs, Earmuffs, Diecast, Everything, come see me, on the hill above the tree!

[@timsharpe3498]

Donlavey probably could have had a few more wins if he wasn’t so blindly loyal to Ford.

[@benscovil]

Totally irrelevant comment. Junie's teams were ran on a shoestring budget and mostly were volunteer. JD McDuffie ran nothing but GM/ Pontiacs... And won nothing. It's irrelevant.

[@timsharpe3498]

@@benscovil Nice try at irrelevant. JD had no talent. Donlovey did. GM has 350 more NASCAR wins than Ford even though GM stopped racing for years after Ford whined about how dominant GM was. Ford got the feds involved because GM was selling so many vehicles that Ford wanted the government to break them up.

[@benscovil]

@@timsharpe3498 I guess the Wood Brothers 199 wins are because Fords were so horrid

[@timsharpe3498]

@@benscovil How many Cup titles did Ford win in the 1970s? Ford mostly dominated when they didn’t have much competition. Pontiac barely dipped their toes in NASCAR in the early 1960s and dominated Ford until they stopped racing due to the Feds poking around after Ford cried about being outsold 8 to 1.

[@benscovil]

@@timsharpe3498 Wood Bros didn't run full time as well as other Ford teams that were quite good

[@hazysativa3045]

Back when Nascar was Nascar... Now its WOKECAR

[@dhart8451]

Those cars look like junk.

[@douglasdixon524]

7:22, She's beautiful!

[@Colonel_RamRod]

Check out the Richmond raiders and McDonald's flag bro holy shit, my hometown looked way different in 76.