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Oh yes the good old daze....

 

Wasn't only the in car safty equipment, the tracks were as dangerous as the cars... Heck half of them in places were just a narrow path through a forest of trees, with hardly any run off and no guard rails to keep a driver and car from impaling themselves into them... It truly was crazy and the guys doing it had to have man bearings to spare...

 

And a bunch of them actually walked away from those crashes. Hearty stock back then.

Jim

 

WOW..... Cool video...
I'm kinda thinking the drivers were built a lot tougher back then....

 

So, you noticed the lack of harness, helmet, chest protectors, knee pads, elbo pads, roll bars etc and still they were giving it all they had?

Jim

 

That is the way it was back then Jim.

Sadly that is why there are not many old racing drivers at the retirement home. Those guys well very tough for sure.

 

Amazing. A lot of them DIDN'T walk away, too. Great compilation.

 

Sure gives you respect for those guys. Of course, they didn't think twice about what they were doing. They just wanted to race! Safety wasn't a concern.

 

I hadn't thought about it that way, but you are right. They did not think about safety the way we do today. I remember being told "don't get hurt", "be careful" or "your going to hurt yourself", but never "that is too dangerous" or "you can't do that".

Jim

 

Or....
You'll shoot your eye out.

 

I forgot that one. :lol::lol:

Jim

 

Shooting holes in the donuts...huh Chuck :smilewinkgrin:

 

I am sure it WAS a concern, but they were using the most modern things available to them on things they had no idea about. They didn't have anything like nomex for fires and seat belts and roll cages were a by-product of what we are watching here.

Just like they will look at things we do now in a hundred years and say "What were those morons thinking???" We are having fun and doing it as safely as we know how. They were doing the same thing.

We use what we have.

 

I agree completely & rallying today remains the same. Look at what happened to Kubica just a brief time ago. Large bearing indeed!

 

You make a good point John. I have some pictures of me, when I started to ride horses seriously, going over jumps with my baseball cap on backwards. Now I wouldn't think of doing it without my helmet and that was a mere 20 years ago.

Jim

 

:cornut: For me it was the song and video. Kind of soul searching for us old broken down soldiers. Sort of a 'Post Traumatic Stress' song.............back to the thread.

Jasonopcorn:

 

So, you are consistently unsafe, so to speak.

Jim

 

That's the same problem Rusty Wallace had :arf: