[herr_oberst]

Talk about worlds colliding. This is when all the car manufacturers were building the cars that to this day are still giants to us gearheads. Those Torinos and Cyclones are just beautiful to look at. But absent 50 years of safety and professionalism, the racing and everything that goes along with it borders on cringe. The nonchalance of the fuel overflow in the pits where apparently smoking was encouraged! The single armco barrier on the infield where Yarborough has a chance to be impaled on about 2o different posts, if luck wasn't riding with him that day. That look on Pete Hamilton's face after earning a Darlington Stripe telegraphs what he must have thought could have happened if things hadn't worked in his favor.
(Not to mention the kids in the stands holding their ears. Makes you wonder just how loud 40 open-header big blocks would sound like.)
And speaking of the stands, that view from the stands with about 100 posts holding up that big canopy. You can barely even see the track.
Fifth place, five laps down. 2nd place 1 lap down.
It's always an eye opener to go down racing's memory lane. (I was 11 when this race was run. Seemed like modern times at the time of course, but we don't know what we don't know.)