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Yep. It suck’s nowadays.

Cale drove back when you could tell what make of car they were driving, and they weren't all spec cars, NASCAR was fun back then, you could carry a Rebel Flag, drink all the beer you could hold,fist fight and piss in the infield, there were good guy's bad guy's 43 cars in every race that had to qualify to get in the race the big races there was 51-52 cars trying to get in the race, now they are lucky to get 30-33, Cale the Allison's,Petty's Jr Johnson, made NASCAR. it's to bad the pansy asses got a hold of NASCAR and took the flavor and spirit out of NASCAR, RIP CALE. Rio7

The decline of NASCAR started when Jeff Gordon started racing, and NASCAR decided to change their image from "good ole rednecks" to the preppy Gordon types.

Nascar was over the day Dale died.

IMO, NASCAR knew the "working class" fans were on the way out (not enough disposable income anymore)... and tried to switch the fan base over to the wealthier "white collar" types... didn't work too good...

Yep... was for me anyway!...

holly farms chicken, Jr Johnson and Cale Yarborough

So the story went, After 3 championships in the Hardees Chevrolet, Ford offered Cale the regular deal of factory support & a million dollar bonus to switch. He said he went to GM & told them that. They had no or little response. He grinned & said that all they had to do was ask him kindly to stay & he would have without the million. But he didn't tell them that.

After the snub by GM he said he would have gone to Ford without the million. But he didn't tell them that either.

After that I still loved his driving style but needed a new driver. One that drove GM, was exciting to watch & to listen to. Didn't take long to notice the no. 3 car.

Nascar is nothing but a bunch of woke twits now.

Ain't it the truth LD, like so many other things. Some, just some institutions might be fine by not following along the agenda's.

Lots of sprit left the track that day.

+1 Like the old George Jones song says "who's gonna fill their shoes"

Your right Rio7

Nothing good lasts.

Several years ago, I had a good conversation with Humpy Wheeler about NASCAR’s decline. I pinned most of it on their closures of certain tracks (N. Wilkesboro) and limiting other tracks to only one race. This created a cultural change that was detrimental to the sport. He pretty much agreed and said he wouldn’t want to be responsible for selling out the CMS anymore. We both agreed that NASCAR had seen its best days many years ago.

I remember the Fans Against Gordon (F.A.G.) flags flying in the fans' campground across the road from the front gate at Talladega- - - -camped out there several years in a row!

And for me also

My wife is still pretty sad about Dale’s passing. She knew Dale’s daughter, Kelly, when we were in school. Dale was a pretty approachable guy around town, so this area of the state really misses him. DEI must be doing pretty well, as it is decorated pretty nice for the holidays. I guess Teresa is the sole owner of DEI now?

I was watching the race that day and became a Winston Cup fan What's not to like? Speed, wrecks and brawls. I'm a fan.

Went to several races, bought the t-shirts and hats, but the sport changed over the years. I agree, stock car racing died with Dale.

RIP, Cale

I just watched that race on you-tube it was 1965 it was the Southern 500 race at the Darlington race track ran every memoriol day .look on youtube they have every Southern 500 race ran from 1956 -80's .each show last about 25 minuits . they show and tell how far Cale flew in air that day over the rail but i dont remember. seen it last week end .well worth watching all the old drivers in true stock cars