1970 Motor State 400 at Michigan

Somebody needs to find the full races from back then i would totally watch

Visually stunning. The aero war era can't be beat!

..when i was in elementary school one of the teacher's husbands had a Superbird and she used to drive it to school on occasion!😮😮..good times!

That's about the best-looking footage of an older race that you're ever going to see.

I'm a Mopar guy but the Boss 429 was the evolution of the Hemi head design. By 1970 the 426 Hemi was needing a redesign but the new emission laws and NASCAR restrictions made it useless for Mopar to do any more R and D on it. But it was the king of the track for many years and today it still dominates in many classes.

This is beautiful in so many ways

:41 Lights a cigarette with the CARS CIGARETTE LIGHTER!

I’ll be honest I’ve never watched a current nascar race, but something about these old school races is class

Nobody: Old nascar guy: you leave that cigarette lighter in the car, I want to smoke at 180mph god damn it!!!

These were the guys that carried nascar into the big time.

Awesome!I wish they could do them as a classic today,like TCM does in Australia.Surely people would be up for it!

although safety was almost non-existent these were the coolest times for car racing.

Love the sound of Cale's Merc as he's going down the backchute on the last lap. He He never lifted going into the corner! $$

NASCAR racer at the pits: "Yeah, gimme a 4 tire change, top off the fuel, get them bugs off my windshield, and a pack of Winston's to go"!

Cale....The Legend!

I was probably there as a six yr old. The red 71 was my favorite car. Still love it.

Back when the cars were actually different from each other....I gotta believe the aerodynamics of the roadrunners were a good advantage, if petty could've stayed running he might have won this race.

Thanks for posting your video! Love those Dodge & Plymouth Wing Cars!

That's REAL NASCAR!

2:44 Did anyone notice Pete Hamilton's Superbird has a yellow rookie stripe on the bumper? It was his first time at the track. He won the pole and finished second. He had raced only 26 Grand National races at this point in his third part time year. He won the 1967 NASCAR national Sportsman division championship and had competed in the 1969 Grand American division, a division of smaller pony cars. Earlier in the 1970 Grand National season he won two 500 mile superspeedway races at Daytona and Talladega, the Daytona 500 and the Alabama 500. I knew historically first time drivers regardless of previous driving experience, had to go through rookie training and carry a stripe when they raced at Darlington, but never seen a rookie stripe for first time experienced drivers at Michigan races. There's been understated controversy for years whether Cale won that race or not. Yarborough had lost two laps earlier, but was scored on the lead lap at the end; Hamilton's car owner Richard Petty protested, "The (scoring) cards have Cale lapping Pete (on a late caution) without the pace car lapping Pete. That's impossible."