Speed Records and Iconic Liveries

Enterprise special thanks to Marianne Marianne might have been this guy's wife who didn't kill him whenever he kept racing look at those shifters like between your legs had to be Buck Baker's National Pickup Truck Racing Association at Rockingham that's so cool so that might have been like a precursor to the truck series picture this thing going 130 around Rockingham okay sounds like a real sob story first successful overhead camshaft Ford V8 racing engine ever built that is epic wow that is crazy 1937 this is before World War II people were doing this stuff flight had fours are neat there's a lot of cool Flathead stuff in the Nascar Hall of Fame interesting real engines don't have valve covers flat heads forever it's the the concept of a flathead is very interesting like the valves are upside down and the combustion goes through the top it goes like in and back out it's very strange see like the exhaust ports are in the block yeah it's pretty cool they're just like plates they're literally flat heads look at this it's Eureka garen's first helmet that went into space but that's what it reminds me of Bobby Allison looks like my grandpa in this picture there are those crazy Wheels again that's really neat custom broad wheel huh I'd imagine doing a correct Restoration in the eyes of a Allison racing nut and not having those Wheels really really bother them they gotta be hard to get Talladega 1986 this would have been before restricted place because I think it was 87 and they started maybe 88 when I started doing that this is probably a 200 something mile an hour car all day 1986 Talladega I love these Super Speedway cars oh boy this might be the coolest part of the museum right here that's the Neil Bonnet flip car the Michael Waltrip Bristol car and I don't know I was at the Ricky Craven car yeah it is I'm surprised I knew that wow I know way too much about this stuff it's awesome this is maybe the craziest thing in the history of freaking crashes ever okay I don't it just like came apart around him like the dashboards over here you if you've seen the video of this crash you don't even know how the force to just make it snap yeah that's incredible I mean Michael's a big dude too he's like six four six five so it's not like you know there had to be a lot of things going a lot of right ways to not hurt him that's just amazing Obama car the video of that crash is pretty horrendous too you can see that it was a Dale Earnhardt car and then driven by Neil Bonnett…