Sunday, May 10, 2020

action at the 1970 Motor State 400 in Michigan

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  1. Back when NASCAR actually used real car bodies produced by Detroit for the cars! Did you notice at 42 seconds in the video? He is lighting a cigarette with the cars lighter! Hell, they do not even put cigarette lighters in cars these days! Who would have thunk it.....a working cigarette lighter in a NASCAR racing car!!!

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    1. Years ago I came across a photo of a 60s nascar race car driver smoking during the race, and realized how much the world changed since the 60s... driver to pit team radio, nothing raced that has any resemblance to a real stock from a factory car, no more cigarette companies sponsoring races, or drivers, and everyone smoked back then

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