[Noah]

Anyone remember him? I loved him when I was younger. Back in 1987 (i think it was) I went to see him in Daytona and he spun out in the second lap - I was crushed.

damn i feel old today...

[Nevadastars]

I sure remember when he got into that fight with Donnie Allison on the back stretch of Daytona in 1979! That is the same clip they show before every Daytona 500. That was the first time Network TV aired a complete race, and it was a great one.

Besides that race, I do remember him racing up towards the front a lot with Buddy Baker, Benny Parsons, Richard Petty, Bobby Allision etc. once I got ESPN in the 80's. A good hard-nosed driver for sure. You're not the only old one here.

[Tin Can]

Hey nevadastars was'nt there a big blizzard in the north east then and they had a great tv responce over NASCAR, and alot of people got hooked because of that fight on the back streach. do you remember that?

[Nevadastars]

Originally Posted by Tin Can

Hey nevadastars was'nt there a big blizzard in the north east then and they had a great tv responce over NASCAR, and alot of people got hooked because of that fight on the back streach. do you remember that?

I don't remember a blizzard TinCan. I lived in sunny California at that time. But the backstretch brawl sure brought in a lot of new Nascar fans. I'm sure the hockey fans in the northeast enjoyed it.

[rave20]

Hey nice to see someone else remembers a few of the older guys. Cale won the frst race I went to as a kid (was 10) in 1976 at Bristol. I was a self declared petty fan. I hated Cale from that day on. Now of course I respect him as a tough solid racer. See some of my earlier posts. You know as a kid I wouldn't eat supper when my mom served holly farms chicken!! Seriously!

I remember the blizzard. I was at that race. I remember thinking man Cale just CAN'T win this race. I looked up and see Cale & Donnie sideways! Great day to be a Petty fan! He hadn't won in over a year and the place just went crazy! We had traveled from VA to FL in an RV a bunch of fathers and sons. On the way home we got stuck in that. I have pictures of state troopers in the median of I-95 having a snowball fight because traffic was simply stopped for hours. We didn't even know about the fight until Monday.

I sometimes miss those older days of racing because it so much more fun and low key. Not so business and vanilla. For example, I remember lots of last lap crashes between the two lead cars. When was the last time that happened? Today they'd rather run second then take a chance on tearing up equipment and losing precious points. In the 70's and 80's it was all about the wins baby.