1980 Talladega 500

[@robbieeades1956]

That #21 Purolator Mercury was one more pretty car. I’ve always loved that paint scheme. It and Davey Allison’s 1987 & 1988 Texaco Havoline paint scheme are the best looking cars ever in NASCAR.

[@prevost8686]

In my opinion Davey Allison’s Havoline Ford was the prettiest car of all time.

[@Im2gd4ux]

Love Daveys car , Rustys miller car too but my all time favorite is Dales black goodwrench . Car was so bad ass..

[@paulmatthews463]

Yea I hated to see davie's paint scheme change. I thought it was the sharpest car in the field

[@FOH3663]

Davey's 28 was sweet ... Dale's black number three is iconic. For me, the number 43, '70 Plymouth Superbird 426 Hemi ... is up in an entirely different class. Simple and clean; - 426 on the hood - 43 on the door - Plymouth across the rear quarter All in Petty blue ...

[@toddlightner1242]

That grey ghost Buddy was driving was tough looking!

[@clintscroggs65]

My Father and I went to the '79 race and this one. After sitting a few rows off the track and getting sandblasted in '79, we sat in the top row just out of turn 4 in '80. The breeze up there was welcome after a very hot two days. Was glad to see the tradition of no repeat winners continue while I was there. One more year of a new guy (Ron Bouchard in '81) before the first repeat. Those Oldsmobiles were awesome. Downsizing was on the horizon not too much later.

[@dansmith6748]

In 1980, I didn't get a station in my area to watch this. In 2022, I don't bother anymore.

[@STP43FAN1]

You’re missing out on really good racing

[@CarolinaKid93]

​@@STP43FAN1 We're not missing out on "really good racing," we're watching it right here, on KZbin.

[@STP43FAN1]

Yes you’re missing out on really good racing nowadays

[@superblindeye1]

Thanks for sharing the television broadcast. I listen to the radio every weekend, as I am a completely blind NASCAR fan. I have the motor racing network version of this race, so it's cool to hear the television broadcast.

[@bombdawg5916]

Kinda erie to see Adam Petty at three weeks old knowing he'll lose his life in a racecar wreck as a young adult many years later. Very sad.

[@TheMKEWERBY]

VERY!

[@jimbosc]

@@TheMKEWERBY Yep

[@grplrhashi]

That was funny when they asked Dale Inman about changing Adam's diapers he said "No problem they been changing Kyle's diapers for 20 years."

[@chrispix61]

I don't think Adam knew he was going to die

[@STP43FAN1]

42:10

[@chrissnyder3430]

Again, thank you SMIFF! This here, is how ya run a dern NASCAR RACE! I always liked BP as a race announcer but after watching this race and the 79 World 600, I have a new found like for BP the Driver!! RIP BP, NEIL, and #3. I miss all of em for various reasons. Ironically, Cale is my favorite of all time. I'm glad he is still around.

[@Slinger43]

I attended many races at Riverside International & Ontario Motor Speedway back many years ago & I was sitting in the grandstands at Ontario in 79 & 80 when the Late Great Benny Parsons won both times! If ol' BP had raced after Indy became a Nascar track, he would have surely been a muti-time winner of the Brickyard 400, as Ontario was an exact copy of Indy & BP drove Ontario better than anyone in a Stockcar I ever saw 💪🤠👍

[@ixlr8677]

waddles built us a hell of a race motor.

[@chrisburk2764]

holy crap, have to take my last free days before starting in my new firm... and its just that crazy watching these petrolheads...awesome, thank you so much for putting this on the tube... greetings from germany.

[@SMIFFTV]

Greetings from the USA! Lol. My brother-in-law lives in Pretzfeld. Danke schon!

[@Stiitchjones]

Leonard Wood was a cool character...

[@michaeltalbott7076]

Yes he was

[@michaeltalbott7076]

Yes he was

[@jeremyfoley7385]

Ned Jarrett and Brock Yates did a great job covering All the Pit Road Reports during the Classic Nascar Races on CBS

[@mattjack70]

When NASCAR was great. What a finish!

[@TheMKEWERBY]

In short, when NASCAR was NASCAR!

[@reginaldhall6871]

You're missing out. I've been a Nascar fan since the mid 70's. There are finally some good young drivers now. Of coarse there will always be a few golden spoon fed that don't deserve their ride, but for the most part Nascar us worth watching again. It won't never be what it once was, but there is some talent now

[@faststang85]

​@@reginaldhall6871nascar is trash these days, politics, big corporations, bad business practices by nascar have ruined it.

[@reginaldhall6871]

@@faststang85 try to quit relating everything to politics. I never watched Nascar to decide which political candidate to vote for.

[@faststang85]

@@reginaldhall6871 🤣🤣🤣 getting involved with lgbt bs and blm is getting involved in politics. Id...iot

[@johnconnor4330]

Unreal they name dropped Adam Petty .. had he not passed I believe he'd have been the next great driver no question

[@pdxoregon1]

This is so cool to watch. Appreciate it a LOT!😃💙

[@smarternu]

Sad to see Adam as a baby. RIP little man, you gave it a hell of a shot.

[@bloqk16]

It's interesting to see Brock Yates in a speaking role @31:22, where most automotive/motorsports fans of that era were familiar with his prolific writing career with books and magazine publications.

[@TheRedDevil_NC]

Ricky Rudd had a side job as my paperboy in 1980.

[@nevetslegasi5686]

I've always wanted a Purolator Mercury

[@thegreattreon0177]

Neil Bonnett used to be a beast on superspeedways

[@BogattheMoon]

Hell of a wheel man for sure dude.

[@reginaldhall6871]

It was hard to beat a Junior Johnson car in the 70s & 80s

[@zuel660]

Interesting to hear them talking about Nascar potentially going to Indy before the last restart!

[@HarpoSpoke]

I used to hear Earnhardt fans claim he won his first championship in a junk car. They need to watch this race. You don't run up front at Dega in a junk car.

[@chrisking2500]

That thing definitely wasn't junk. I've watched him dominate at Daytona and Charlotte in '79 and '80 in other YT videos in that Osterlund car, too.

[@edmondcamp2878]

Chris King Not only was it not junk he had legendary crew chief Jake Elder who was notorious for helping drivers find victory lane.

[@FOH3663]

@@edmondcamp2878 Suitcase Jake

[@racemom2737]

It wasn't a junk car, but it was an upset he outraced the likes of Yarborough/Johnson, Waltrip, Petty, and Parsons over the course of the season who were well established with their well financed teams.

[@TheNASCARJeff]

Nothing like holding up a newspaper in front of the person you are interviewing huh Ken? The track has twice as meany seats but those metal seats are finally gone! I remember sitting thru bowling, track and field and other bullsh*t sports on the CBS Sports Spectacular and ABC's Wide World of Sports just to see maybe forty laps of a race.

[@DanArnets1492]

*POINT STANDINGS and WINS before the 1980 TALLADEGA 500 (20 of 31):* #2 Dale Earnhardt (2902 points with 3 wins, Chevrolet) #43 Richard Petty (-144 with 2 wins, Chevrolet) #11 Cale Yarborough (-155 with 2 wins, Chevrolet) #27 Benny Parsons (-275 with 2 wins, Chevrolet) #88 Darrell Waltrip (-328 with 4 wins, Chevrolet) #15 Bobby Allison (-332 with 2 wins, Ford) #90 Jody Ridley (-447, Chevrolet) #3 Richard Childress (-572, Chevrolet) Despite his great 1979 season, Joe Millikan (Chevrolet) had to scale down to a partial schedule for 1980. Part-timer Buddy Baker (Chevrolet) won the Daytona 500 and the Alabama 500, Neil Bonnett won the Pocono 500 while David Pearson won the Rebel 500 after taking over the Chevrolet #1 Donnie Allison used to race.. Drivers listed are the season's current top8, last season's top8 plus whatever race winner that doesn't fit any of those 2 descriptions. Yes, I’m using the unsponsored names of the races. In Talladega’s case, the early race was the Alabama 500 while the Summer one was the Talladega 500.

[@MrMakemyday3]

great stuff RIP Neil and Dale

[@brianbooher7318]

True legends die young.rest in peace adam petty.adam woulda been great i no a guy that worked for Felix's Sabato as n Adam petty was doing alot of testing for Kyle when he was 14 an 15 an they daid he could flat smoke Kyle's lap times

[@adamUDavies]

Never cared for D Waltrip , then and even when he was in the booth. B Parsons , and Buddy Baker had much better take and respect for others. Thanks for posting this. Talking with John Cooper from Indianapolis speedway about Nascar racing at the speedway in 1980 and then it was 14 yrs later before they made it there. 🆒

[@beeemm2578]

Waltrip was always an arrogant douche

[@eddyredmond7758]

Legend!!!

[@hayden4597]

22:50 ummmm did Cale hit a bird? It looked like something exploded in the rear end...

[@nascage]

Wow, that was strange. Good eye, there.

[@beeemm2578]

RIP bird...lol

[@sjfarish]

Only if the races were run like this now instead of the so-called races they have now.

[@austindenotter19]

Stages? Stupid.

[@OverTurntGamerTM]

coo coo last race

[@TheMKEWERBY]

The '81 race was even better. With Ron Bouchard, Darrell Waltrip & Terry Labonte finishing 1 2 3. Do you have that race, too?

[@MrChristopherHaas]

It’s posted. You’re right, it’s even better

[@TheMKEWERBY]

@@MrChristopherHaas Yes, I see it now.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

@@TheMKEWERBY enjoy the best you can. Great day for NASCAR and race winner. Bad day for CBS and people like me that still remember wanting to break my tv. You’ll see...

[@chuckcrooks2114]

Back when drivers did not take the other driver out on purpose. Clean racing, more so than today.

[@goldenltd1970]

Yeah, but who started that BS...

[@joeyjohnson4826]

@@goldenltd1970 NASCAR with restricted plates. I mean they still beat and bank at the short tracks. NASCAR was mostly about short track these days... they have room to race. It's not a hundred 80 mile an hour traffic jam. If you don't think they took each other out back then you're sadly mistaken they didn't do it at 200 miles an hour. The biggest difference is they didn't have Twitter. Didn't have 24-hour news media much less social media. If they had an issue they pushed each other😁 and the man you're trying to accuse you could even say he died because of restrictor plate racing.😁 no big one hardly any cautions, races were over on 3 hours lol... so yeah... restrictor plates 😁

[@BogattheMoon]

@@joeyjohnson4826 apparently you didn't see Rusty eat shit at Talladega. And a restrictor plate had nothing to do with who dumped him.

[@racemom2737]

@@goldenltd1970 It started in the 50's, it's always been around. Some were known for it more so than others but it's always been around.

[@racemom2737]

@@BogattheMoon Rusty ate shit at Talladega because it was self-inflicted. It was his own doing. He came down on Dale coming out of the tri-oval in 1993 and there's no ifs, ands, or buts about it. He even admitted it as much on the Dale Jr. download a few years ago when he had his interview. Dale even said the same thing after the race was over. NASCAR was at fault for how the end of that race ended. Dale put a filthy move on Rusty coming to the caution flag when it began to rain and that should have been the end of the race. Instead Nascar decided to have a two-lap shootout. Shame on them and shame on your for your biased comment.

[@omegatafkal24]

Marty Robbins...

[@FOH3663]

... "Dale Earnhardt, the new, young hard-charger of Grand National Stock Car Racing" "Earnhardt, a force to be reckoned with" His post race comments; @1:16:12 Talladega was still fairly new, big wide smooth surface, absolutely grueling on those engines ... matted, all day. Wood Bros gearing the big Mercury tall, ... savvy.

[@chrisking2500]

Joe Millikan had more points than Dale in '79 but didn't run a full schedule and lost ROY. He ran up front the whole year and still lost his ride. I wonder what he could've done if he'd gotten to run a full schedule with a strong owner.

[@superblindeye1]

I believe Barney Hall from the motor racing network mentioned something very similar. I've often wondered the same

[@racemom2737]

Dale didn't get to run a full schedule either. He missed four races because of an accident at Pocono. The rookie points standings were different from the Winston Cup points standings.

[@DupontandLowesWarrior]

42:34 Adam Petty (1980-2000)

[@КмранАхмедов]

😔

[@EthanCanseco3737]

27:02 well same here with Patrick Depailler 1944-1980

[@DupontandLowesWarrior]

@@EthanCanseco3737 Who?

[@EthanCanseco3737]

uh Patrick Depailler when he was only 35 years old the same age with Tony Roper and Patrick got killed during testing hockenheimring

[@FOH3663]

Incredibly dangerous ... yet no incidents of any significance. Wonderful

[@alwaysopen7970]

Back when they had their names on their driving suits. It's all sponsors now.

[@edmondcamp2878]

I think when Dale came up on Cale and Cale came back down on Earnhardt and took second from him that’s the day Dale found out you didn’t mess with the old guard.

[@alwaysopen7970]

Things changed quickly. I loved seeing Mammaw from 40 years ago.

[@edmondcamp2878]

alwaysopen Dale said in 1984 everything he learned in Winston Cup he learned from watching Cale and Bobby(Allison).

[@racemom2737]

Reaching here. Didn't really see anything out of the ordinary from either. It was the last lap and they all were racing hard for it. Dale would go on to beat Cale for the ship that year. More like... changing of the guard.

[@thewarwagon5649]

NO pit road speed limit, either!

[@beeemm2578]

Mans game.....lol

[@chrissnyder3430]

What was Dale driving? Oldsmobile?

[@chrisking2500]

Yep, Oldsmobile with Osterlund most of the time and then a T-bird with Bud Moore I think before he switched to a Chevy with Childress.

[@Ghostmotorfinger]

Olds 442

[@johnriggle5336]

He ran Buick too

[@BogattheMoon]

@@johnriggle5336 when?

[@racemom2737]

@@BogattheMoon 1979 Daytona 500 he ran a Buick in his first 500 leading ten laps and finishing 8th. Thing couldn't get out of its own way out front but it could draft well.

[@LCM2248]

Why does it cut off at the Parrott feature?

[@SMIFFTV]

You'd have to ask the dude who recorded it 38 years ago lol.

[@LCM2248]

I don't understand. So your version is not complete to the end? I have it in my collection and it has circulated for years. Yours is of one generation better quality, so I assumed you had the whole thing. Would you like to borrow it?

[@SMIFFTV]

@@LCM2248 I wouldn't be opposed to that one bit! lol. How much longer is yours?

[@LCM2248]

@@SMIFFTV You have the whole thing now. When I watched this when you posted it, it ended after 51 minutes. It's complete now. I don't know if it was a glitch on my computer or what. This is the full version.

[@dannycoker6439]

Analog Transmissions Probably profanity.

[@tedgey4286]

Where were all the last lap wrecks?

[@andyharman3022]

Those had to wait for NASCAR to invent the Green-White-Checker finish.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

No nascar dental plan for Ken Squire? Looks like hed been dippin in the chew lol

[@ilmsff7]

I miss Ken Squier.

[@haroldmordt4421]

Sad to see Adam Petty as an infant

[@beeemm2578]

27:00 When Pat Depailler was killed. Damn

[@MartenFerret]

So, how many of these drivers are dead/retired?

[@jamesbowers5946]

All are retired and quite a few are dead...notably dale earnhardt, neil bonnett, and benny parsons

[@chrissnyder3430]

My favorite Cale Yarborough is still kicking! Loved the #28 Hardees Chevy/Oldsmobile

[@chrisking2500]

Kyle Petty was barely 20 in this race and he's almost 60 now.

[@ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113]

NASCAR Legend/Hall of Fame Inductee, Elzie Wylie "Buddy" Baker, died, in August of 2015 or did you want "notable" Drivers, only?

[@alwaysopen7970]

Google is your friend.

[@jessiehenry6314]

Do you have the '82 Talladega 500

[@LCM2248]

I get tired of the "Do You Have" questions, but this is one of the few important ones. This and the final portion of the '81 Michigan 400 shown overnight across maybe 5 CBS affiliates nationwide

[@de31168]

If it happened in the 80s smifftv has it for sure!

[@SMIFFTV]

I have the last 50 laps of it...and the picture quality is pretty much the best I've ever seen for that era that wasn't from NASCAR's own archives. I will post it right now, since it seems to be in such high demand lol

[@de31168]

Ty 4 taking my request. Love the channel.

[@johnanderson60]

Kyle Petty as baby 42:34

[@jong7001]

Adam Petty RIP =( Kyle is father, in the race... that's really quite heart-wrenching how they discuss whether he'll become a race driver. I was also 2 weeks old at this point, Adam was 4 weeks old... wow.

[@badmonkey2222]

That's Adam Petty not Kyle.

[@johnconnor4330]

Didn't Rudd win a race per year for 15 years?

[@BSNFabricating]

That streak started in 1983 and lasted 16 years if I remember right.

[@scottyfisher2321]

Not a fuckin Toyota in the bunch!!! Big Bill is spinning in his grave!!!!!

[@smarternu]

Nascar Sux now. No more competition among engine builders they all run good computer controls. Even the drivers were tougher, and now with the woke crap I can't stand them.

[@Im2gd4ux]

great race . Man I fcking miss Dale , I watch all of his races over rather then the bs they call racing these days. Nascar is aweful and we went from great guys and outlaws to spoiled brats , nerds and dbags who ruined it.