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Here are 30 of the most NOSTALGIC things about NASCAR. From drivers, paint schemes, video games, and other crazy things you forgot about.
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[@natelecarde962]

I’m surprised that Kasey Kahne’s old Allstate commercials aren’t talked about as much as other Nascar commercials. They were always funny to me and him always getting tormented in them made me sympathize with him and become one of my favorite drivers.

[@crypto091]

"Here I am, ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE!" Kasey Kahne dances seductively, gota be one of the most iconic pieces of nascar history out there 😂

[@DonovenChambers]

To be honest I think 2003-2007 nascar we’re the best years of NASCAR , from the shape of the cars to be pained jobs , to the divers them selfs . It was all pretty good

[@rcguy902]

90s was way better

[@cool3865]

those were the years that Nascar started its decline. peak was late 90s very early 2000's so really from 1992 to 2002.

[@nathanstroud2223]

I like the second wave of gen 4 cars that bridged the gap between the boxy Thunderbirds and Luminas and the common body template cars from the mid-2000s that were very tin can like in nature, so about 1995 to 2002. I, for one, love the jellybean Taurus that people love to hate.

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

@@cool3865 nah nah nah early 1990's thru 2006 when the 2006 Daytona 500 got the highest ratings ever.

[@Rednax_99]

​@@cool3865 in terms of popularity the 2005 or 2006 season was nascar's peak. Unless you mean on a personal level, but for me that would be 2003-2006

[@BrianOmegaWolf]

Being 24 now I can agree to a lot, car paint schemes don't feel as colorful as they used to be, THE RUG I remember. Using the parking lot for Nascar car shows(of course it's the original streetcourse lol ) the older games, more excitement beginning of races, the way the cars sounded, nastycar was the game my mom used to distract me at Walmart on her old flip phone .

[@brandonwoods1357]

I remember the NASCAR cafe in Pigeon Forge, TN. It was next to the big big NASCAR Speedpark Go Kart track. If it was your birthday the waitress would bring a mic and have you do the "Gentleman Start Your Engines!". The cars on the wall had tires that would start turning and you could hear the engines over the speaker system.

[@nicalos007]

To me, the most nostalgic part of nascar is the camera flashes coming from the sold out crowd who are all there to have a good time and cheer so loud you could hear it from miles away. It was just a different time, something I wish I could experience.

[@Waddle_Dee_With_Internet]

The camera flashes is also the same to almost all of sports too, like in NFL, FIFA, and NBA. I feel bad that I used to complain those camera flashes when I was a kid lol

[@anakin50137]

I have a burned in memory from my childhood of the explosion of camera flashes when the trucks would jump at monster truck rallies in the late 90s

[@cdel4391]

@@anakin50137 me too plus when wrestlers did their signature moves

[@jimmayjohnson8003]

I feel like the past couple of races the crowds have been full or even sold out

[@cdel4391]

@@jimmayjohnson8003 nah, it's probably seat fillers

[@boomkittyFX]

every time i see the number 24, i will always assume jeff gordon, you cannot convince my mind otherwise, it just refuses to change for some reason.

[@SuperNASCARrocks]

The early 2000’s were the best era of NASCAR. Miss those days.

[@cdel4391]

90s for me

[@ENIXITY53]

2013

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

6:57 this one still hits me hard to this day. SPEED was ESPN for Motorsports fans! (even though it was mainly NASCAR stuff SPEED). But when FOX Sports killed SPEED on 8/17/2013, honestly TV channels treated us race fans like junk. Wasn't the same. I feel bad for anyone that never had a chance to watch SPEED. I know SPEED will never come back, but there will never ever be another Auto Racing channel like SPEED!

[@atkearly1]

I totally would sign a petition to bring it back, or something similar.

[@cool3865]

if you thought SPEED was great, you should of been there when it use to be called Speedvision

[@sargentthiccboi9333]

I miss SPEED. Hell I’d even take those European races during off days at this point. Drives me crazy that I can be going through channels and see the most random sports but can’t find any racing

[@crypto091]

​@sargentthiccboi9333 euro races got me thru the long 4 months of non nascar TV. Man I miss those days of nascar 9 months of the year then speed channel to curb my racing fix til preseason thunder which doesn't happen anymore😢

[@TsukiCondor]

One thing I miss, finding die-cast in retail. Back in the day I was able to go to Target, Kmart, qnd even Rid Aid and stumble upon some Winner Circle merch circa 2007-10 from 1:64 scale to even 1:24 scale adorn the die-cast section. But with the authentics I only see like 6 die-cast and 2-3 haulers at my local Target/Walmart. And I don't want to deal with a high cost item banged up in the mail from what I've heard from people ordering 1:24s online.

[@JacobNascar]

No matter the sport, seeing those camera flashes, it makes me feel like what I'm watching is a big deal. I went to last years Bristol night race and saw some camera flashes. I figured it's some old fart who doesn't know his flash is on but I liked to pretend I'm seeing thousands of camera flashes. Although, I would to experience these things again, I'm just happy I got to experience Nascar during those moments.

[@DennyDeliversYT]

i swear if i see another clip of 2014 chicagoland, or jeff gordon’s 2013 charlotte qualifying run, or marcos ambrose 2012 michigan qualifying run…

[@jernulf268]

What's gonna happen

[@RawGator]

yea what's gonna happen??

[@boilercoasters8442]

I felt nostalgia for a lot of these things. Especially the sponsor one. I remember having Wheaties cereal, Zest soap, and Old Spice deodorant about 10 years ago because they were NASCAR sponsors of cars I liked. I also visited the NASCAR cafe in Vegas in 2011 before it closed, which was right when I was getting into the sport

[@RawGator]

oh yea the racecar soap 😂

[@nascarwildcatfan7577]

Been a diehard NASCAR fan since 2011 when I was 8 years old. I remember these things.

[@asteroidrug3822]

I used to watch stop motions all the time as a kid since that was all I could find about nascar because In italy even today there is barely anything NASCAR related

[@8CountAudio]

I think the 93-01 era was NASCAR’s zenith. It stunned the sports world when SI declared Nascar as “America’s hottest sport” on its cover in July of 95. And the classic ESPN crew of Bob, Benny, and Ned and (to a lesser degree) the TNN team of Eli and Buddy were so much better than what came with the new TV deal of 2001.

[@cool3865]

man Bob Jenkins was an amazing commentator, he did so many races in the 90s, from IMSA Group C and GTO, to Indcar, Nascar, ALMS, and pretty much everything, him and Paul Page

[@TracksideViews]

Nothing will ever be the same no matter what it is. It all comes down to the time in your life when you discovered something and fell in love with that it was. The older you get the more you think back on those times of found memories and it just doesn’t feel like it used to. Everything changes. It’s not just NASCAR. As younger generations get older so do the comments of I miss when NASCAR was like, but just further forward in time.

[@ethanbenfield2285]

I have a playlist saved of races that make me feel nostalgic. They range from the early 00s to about 2017. They arent all my favorite races, just races that I can clearly remember watching with friends and family for one reason or another.

[@scusemesir9988]

I remember when I was really young, like 3 years old, getting toy cars of Dale and Dale Jr, rusty, harvick. But I didn’t know the drivers then, for me the black with the red and white 3 was always my favorite, it looked the coolest, that 1 tiny Dale car I got in that cereal box still remains as the sole reason why Dale is my favorite

[@24RacingFan]

Great to see you uploading within 2 weeks of your past video!

[@chasebriscoefan14]

I remember almost all of these

[@anakin50137]

One of the most nostalgic things for me growing up in the early 2000s was nascar drivers as personalities, the commercials were one thing but a lot of the drivers today feel kinda cookie cutter but part of that I think is because of how young most of the drivers are and how hard nascar can come down of a driver if they say something even slightly against nascar

[@greensoul8121]

Their contracts with the sponsors and teams force them to be cookie cutter and have no personality. They have to go through 5 minutes of thanking sponsors and how the Taco Bell McDonald’s Amazon prime plus Dr Pepper Chevy ran great before they talk about the actual race which doesn’t have much personality in itself. It’s unfortunate.

[@FunnierIrishPerson]

I actually have a tonne of NASCAR die casts from 2015, I love them but I never actually noticed how the boxes looked.

[@iceeblueburst03]

The stuff that gives me the most nostalgia were the iconic drivers that got me into this sport like Dale Earnhardt Jr for example along with the epic moments with the final lap finishes! Oh, can't forget about the cool paint schemes from back in the 2000s!

[@ineedmilkster6720]

they do indeed still put harvicks busch cars on the bases (and i believe Kyle Busch's 3chi car will be on one aswell)

[@StevenWatters]

Every single one of those mentioned, brings back so much nostalgia... From 2003 - 2013. It was such nostalgia in my childhood.

[@paullively2246]

The thing that made me most nostalgic was the next gen car I didn't like it at 1st but now I'm starting to get used to it I just don't like how they put the numbers in front

[@Socal_racer68]

the sad thing that we have to understand and deem as nostalgic has to be having numbers in the middle of the car. I still miss it to this day.

[@Indizzinator]

I miss the good old days

[@wordlesslfiddling]

So fun story about the nascar cafe in pigeion foge Tennessee Apparently one yesr my family was up there for vacation and i saw i beluve the kodak 4 car and reslly wanted to eat there do we did and it closed the next year Which is reslly unfortunate because i was too young to actually remember what it was like

[@jacekatalakis8316]

I'm old school enough to remember NASCAR over here on Eurosport, along with CART at night. I remember the 99 Bristol night race got put on the front page of the Teletext/Ceefax sports pages. The front page of the sports section. Not motorsport. Not F1 where it sometimes got put. THe front page of the whole sport section, and it explaining Dale spun Terry, got booed. I remember Eurosport up until the late 90s showing Winston Cup as it was then, I remember staying up till 10-11 at night to watch that CART and then they'd do a Monday Motorsport magazine show and show highlights of the week's racing (well bar F1 for reasons), and always showed the NASCAR highlights. You had Motors TV with their Busch broadcasts in the 2000s as well as Atlantics, you had stuff from Speed that was either live, or as live the next day, got to see the whole season and I forget which year it was but they did the whole season. NASN with the 2004 Cup season too and showing the pre race/start for free before switching paywall as well. All of the above used the US feeds, and there's a clip from Eurosport for Rusty's 93 Talladega crash. I'd recognize that NASCAR WINSTON CUP box in the top right of the shot anywhere, that's how Eurosport let you know what you were watching. Point is, all of the above got me into NASCAR as well as being an Indycar fan already and picking up a bundle with NR2 in it for some dirt cheap price in one of those 4 games in one bundles you got back in the day as well. I put more hours into NR2 and the demo of NR3 than I care to admita

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

Damn NASCAR was booming in Europe just like NBA Basketball and Wrestling. Incredible.

[@carsonphillips2928]

The late era car of tomorrow with the rear blade spoiler is nostalgic for me, that was when I as a 4 and 5 year old would sit in the living room floor with my mom, hoping for Jr. to win one. My earliest specific memory was watching him get in that huge pile up at talladega and my mom saying "were in it"

[@Pittsburgh-Kid.]

I was born in 2010, so I sadly cannot relate to most of these😢 but they sound amazing 😮

[@leeroy5717]

Well in 20 years the current days of nascar will have this feel for you. Great to see fans your age. Get tired of people saying the sport died when Dale died. It’s changed a lot but still think it’s just as great and even better in terms of diversity these days. Id never believe it if you told me in 2005 a cup field would have the people in it that it did at Indy last Sunday

[@marcelf0252]

Actually the first time I've ever heard of NASCAR was through watching crash compilations in the late 2000s since here in Germany it wasn't broadcasted at all back then

[@ryansheehan9462]

As a 31 year old lifelong fan, this video brought back so many memories but also made me a bit sad at the same time knowing so many of these things are just gone forever.

[@garretttrp]

the plastic bottoms on diecast is apparently the difference between "adult collectibles" and the normal ages 4+ toys they were otherwise marketed as in part. they also coincidentally yet unsurprisingly always appear on cars when the featured sponsor had any connection to alcohol.

[@mpf1947]

They also started doing it with energy drink sponsored cars, right before Monster became a title sponsor.

[@conradoiutu8724]

Something that makes me very nostalgic as an Argentine was waiting for Monday and watching the NASCAR races on KZbin with Allen Bestwick commenting.

[@diecastcollector7982]

how back in the day like 2014 the sprint unlimited fans could vote if the drivers would take 2 or 4 tires so the fans kinda had a chance to pull a bit of strategies with the drivers i liked that the most

[@JTeam45]

I'm so, so happy you added flashbulbs. Something huge would happen and the whole flippin' grandstand would light up in a blaze of camera flashes, it always looked so cool!

[@CBG2895]

Nascar was a literal STAPLE family get-together on the weekends because I knew, as a kid in the early 2000s, that I would be getting PIZZA HUT delivered to the house for race day. ❤ Fun fact I love sharing: My mom, who lived down in Hueytown, AL back in the early 80s-90s, She grew up with Davey Allison and remained his best friend when he was in Nascar. My mom would babysit his kids (Robbie and Krista) when Davey would go racing on the weekends. My mom was 22 when she started babysitting Krista in 1989-90 and would continue the tradition into 1991 when Robbie was born. Of course, they were just babies and obviously wouldn't remember but my mom absolutely LOVED them. Davey also gave my mom his #28 Havoline racing jacket that he wore during races, which can still be worn as a regular jacket because they were not fireproof jackets at the time as well as different signed pictures, a #28 Havoline die-cast model car and just a TON of memorabilia that she still has to this very day. (Of course, She doesn't wear the jacket) A funny fact: My step-dad wanted me to help him clean out the closet one day and came across the jacket and memorabilia and was going to put it all in a yard sale and my mom saw him and literally threatened to divorce him if he sells any of that stuff. If i remember correctly, they fought for DAYS about him trying to sell it and she wouldn't budge. I guess he gave up because they're still married. 🙄 Just thought I would share such a cool experience since this is a nostalgia video.

[@ethanbenfield2285]

I know Ken Squire is THE iconic NASCAR announcer, but ill always say the greatest ever was Barney Hall. And I also hold a special place for Bob Jenkins

[@FusionRacing24]

started watching in 2017, i miss that time.

[@kdon116]

6:55 There was one in Myrtle Beach, SC I remember begging and pleading my parents to go there every year during our family vacation. man what I wouldn’t give to go back there. it must’ve closed around 2009-2010

[@MaxLovesNascarOfficial]

8:25 Yes! I remember that and I always watched Erik! It was so fun!

[@smitty221]

I remember being a kid and watching the double e cup series. I didn’t even know what NASCAR was yet until my dad put on a race. I didn’t know at the time but NASCAR would be something i will watch all the time. I kept up with all the NASCAR races and the double e cup series and I was excited. I still watch NASCAR today but it’s not what it was years ago. I miss the good days.

[@TBone31]

I got a brad K miller lite diecast in 2020 and it had the stand too

[@Jamie_06]

5:44 I remembered playing them

[@3ruhCupSeries]

Great video as always Raw Gator

[@Jayden20099]

I started liking NASCAR in 2013 as my dad actually took me to my first NASCAR race in Dover during that time, and he introduced me to the sport that’s when I started liking sport it’s always nostalgic to hear those walnuts on the cars during a pitstop

[@uAaronn]

7:41 I never really understand why people dont like digger, I have a lot of fond memories watching them when they came back from commercial break each time

[@AvengeVenom5videos]

Nascar cafe as a child was the best experience. So much nostalgia seeing the inside of the one in pigeon forge, tn

[@anthonyandthemachine]

When I was a kid and we first got dial up internet, the first thing I did was look for pictures of nascar race cars. That’s crazy about the rug cuz I had 2 and I remember flipping them over and drawing race tracks to race my cars on.

[@AceD500]

Maybe I'm from Europe and I don't know too much about NASCAR races, but I spent some time watching broadcasts on the Internet and playing games, which made me appreciate this motorsport. But my favorite nostalgic moment are NASCAR - F1 Swap cars showcases Three times NASCAR drivers swap thier stock cars to F1 car, and F1 Driver drive his stock car First time it was Jeff Gordon and Juan Pablo Montoya Second time it was Tony Stewart and Lewis Hamilton and Third time Jimmie Johnson and Fernando Alonso

[@irontricky14]

Man I remember collecting a lot of Nascar Hotwheels when I was younger

[@TBone31]

I love your vids rawgator I remembere when I would watch your memes in 2017

[@RawGator]

SHEESH

[@Henry_Hickman]

7:32 I have this as the background music for a NASCAR scratch game I made.

[@josephgooch1451]

I vaguely remember going to the NASCAR café in Tennessee when I was a kid they had several go kart tracks, huge arcade with engine blocks under acrylic it was awesome.

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

8:21 I still love stop motion racing to this day!

[@TNtyer.slayer]

Every time I hear Molly Hatchet's song Flirting with Disaster it gives me hard-core Nascar nostalgia. That song was used for the intro cutscene of Nascar 98 on the original Playstation. The very first console and video game I ever owned

[@chasebriscoefan14]

I watched Double E Cup Series all the time

[@jimsoutdooradventures2748]

I miss the old funny Nascar commercials. I still have them on vhs. I didn't have cable back then, so my grandpa recorded them for me and I would make my own highlight tapes. I think I have 8 VHS tapes full of close finishes, big wrecks,burnouts , championship celebrations and of course funny commercials

[@13Mizzou]

Definitely had one of those rugs and it hosted most of my races as a kid. I had at one point nearly all the Racing Champion 1/64 scale cars from 96-98. My mom worked for school so I was able to get a large sheet of paper the size of one of one of those rugs and made my own California as a second track. Eventually moved to doing drag races using Hot Wheels track

[@MaxLovesNascarOfficial]

1:40 Broo I remember eating these and I saw Dale on my Wheaties box 😭 Rip. Raise hell praise Dale. 🕊️ ❤

[@KordellCaldwell]

20 years? Man I'm already nostalgia for the 5 lugnut pitstops now🥲

[@user-gw8ym3wg3k]

For me the most nostalgic thing thing who nascar was hear that 2015 intro and looking at the shine of the sun against the track and hearing the engines roar across the track and seeing the nostalgic look of the cars were amazing tbh

[@tinasturgeon4730]

Thanks❤ Much Love !

[@BMoney8600]

I remember watching Eric Estep! Talk about memories!

[@santiagomayaman9282]

I started watching nascar in 2012-13 and I was a fan because of Disney’s cars

[@Strelok762]

I had the rug, but I used to make ovals with banking and walls with my old slot car tracks lol

[@nontoxicchaseelliottfan9]

Even though I became a NASCAR fan in 2018, this just gives me nostalgia for no reason.

[@k9burnouts544]

pitstops and the video games hit me.. and The commercials as a kid

[@MidsouthCupSeries]

Banger video, as usual

[@dafuq355]

I stared watching nascar scene 1992 it did change alot and interesting that its 75 years but TYSM for this nostalgia video

[@elderchickengaming]

NASCAR 14 is really nostalgic for me because I played it a lot as a kid.

[@bwbuske]

One big nostalgia piece should be one car teams and/or owner drivers. Nascar was built on those, and we have drifted far away from that.

[@matthewwims3386]

Love how you played the Power Star music from Super Mario Galaxy.

[@leeroy5717]

I went to nascar café in pigeon forge and myrtle beach back in the day. Very cool decor and Everytime I went mom would let me pick out a diecast from the shop. The food was just mediocre but it was a great experience. Eat shop and look at all the decor. And then go out back and play mini golf and go karts. Such a great time. I met Dale Jarrett at one also

[@outlawtaylor3]

What makes me the most nostalgic is seeing the black NO.3 GM goodwrench car.

[@benwilson4539]

Old NASCAR radioactives hit different

[@shockwavegaming5907]

There is still a NASCAR themed bar in Mooresville NC, I’ve never gone to it and I don’t live there anymore, but I race irl and when I go back to Mooresville to get equipment I saw it was still open.

[@HappyKarl095]

I miss Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott doing their own NASCAR commercials as of 2023. That’ll make NASCAR fans like me enjoy the races in TV again.

[@BMoney8600]

There is a small Nascar themed brewery close to where I live called 93 Octane Brewery, I went there for a radio meetup and they had the race on the TVs there along with two PlayStations with a Nascar game hooked up on it.

[@jc1424]

Chris Myers voice was one of the most iconic things about NASCAR on FOX

[@ApexPro-Chris]

I went to nascar cafe in myrtle beach several times, nascar thunder stores and NASCAR silicon motorspeedway in Dallas mall. Times were good then

[@RS99_edits]

8:58 yeah I got a Kevin Harvick through back #29 and it had the base

[@jok3r906]

#19... Yeah that one hit me in the heart

[@alif_falah]

Thankyou nascar rumble for introducing me to another whole world of nascar😊

[@Rezin47]

The Nextel/early Sprint cup years is the purest form of nostalgia to me.

[@JKenn615]

Seeing all of this really brought back a lot of good memories, but man it also hits hard to think that the 2014 season that started with Dale Jr winning his second 500 and the return of the 3 car is going on 10 years already. Time really flies.

[@ScottyPimpinATL]

I remember going to nascar races where you were shoulder to shouder and everyone was friends regardless of favorite driver.

[@luke_the_baptist4015]

6:51 Orlando FL had a nascar cafe that was around in 2013ish I think they closed soon after tho

[@Plaidketchup]

Just the shape and the sponsees of older give me so much nostalgia

[@kzonix9821]

Merci beaucoup ! I loved the I loved the video car ça m'a rappelé beaucoup de souvenirs ❤

[@mpf1947]

Preseason testing. Daytona Speedweeks being nearly three full weeks of on-track activity. Post-qualifying practice sessions.

[@xx_colton_xx]

Yeah everytime we go to Tennessee I always hit up the nascar speed park and drive by the nascar cafe

[@siltstridersftw]

Hate to tell you though but that NASCAR Cafe in Sevierville was torn down a few years ago, they had a auction in there to sell all of the stuff in there. But I did go to one of those and got photo proof in a photo album somewhere. But man, NASCAR as a kid was the best! It's alright to meh today unless it's plate racing or one of those random races that becomes a gem!

[@MTJfan2017]

I used to play NT2004 at my neighborhood friends house and I loved it. Now I hope to get either a ps2 or ps3 so I can have that experience again. But I do have NT2003 on the GameCube so it fills the void till I get 2004

[@HarmonDrexler]

The diecast cars with any beer sponsors still come on that dang plastic stand. The last car with the stand I got was in 2020.

[@skigamer2672]

I remember watching a full race replay of the 2012 Daytona 500 (I wonder why(Montoya)) and at the beginning it went like , we fox sports bumb bumb

[@EpicTyphlosionTV]

The playoffs are bad, change my mind

[@Nascarstopmotion547]

You cant

[@kingcrapout]

The one good thing about it in my opinion, is that the champion won't be decided before the last race, so it adds excitement knowing that either of the 4 drivers could win it rather than the champion winning it 3 races ago

[@natelecarde962]

And the sky is blue, what else is new?

[@Me181]

I like them

[@sladetwinkberry]

They're unfair, but exciting

[@leeroy5717]

The flashing cameras are what made nascar and all sports / big events feel special in the 2000s. Such a special time