Time travel back to 1975 | From the Vault

This unearthed video takes you back to the Virginia 500 at Martinsville Speedway in 1975. Benny Parsons on the pole. Darrell Waltrip in the lead late. Richard Petty in victory lane.

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[zachlucas]

I wish I could go back in time and sit in the grandstands for one of these races, just once...

[MattWedemeyer-te]

The 70s was the greatest generation of all and some of the coolest muscle cars that was ever built

[mdebyangel]

Its always so fascinating to see how far the sport has come

[YoungestSonMedia]

Seeing Martinsville with all that grass and all those people is awesome!

[alechorowitz]

This is so cool! Love to see more of this footage NASCAR!

[STPFAN]

This was the last happy weekend for Petty. Next weekend at Talladega tore his heart out

[dustinpracing]

Running the race on an uncured racetrack is WILD!

[watsonroadster]

The asphalt tearing up has to be the reason why the turns at Martinsville are now concrete..

[juanpa]

Que hermosa historia de la nascar se ve como a cambiado todo, me gustó cuando mostraron el equipo de Cocacola y como se ven los pits y como los autos del centro eran conceptos y como han cambiado las normas de seguridad de NASCAR

[matiasarcayne]

A classic Race, very good, Thank you NASCAR

[yahmfyeet]

they saw this and said “yea lets put tapered spacers and splitters on these things!”

[STPFAN]

The next year Waltrip won this race in his first year with Gatorade

[haroldbenton]

It was soon after this race they cut the asphalt out of the corners and replaced it with concrete.