Folks Of Interest Another Racing Legend is Gone

RIP Cale Yarborough

www.cbssports.com/nascar/news/cale-yarborough-nascar-legend-and-hall-of-famer-dies-at-84/

 

God's going to have to put in a race track and a drag strip the way they are showing up recently. Rip it up Cale!

 

Cale raced Indy for my friend Rolla Vollstedt. RIP Cale.

 

One of my favorites from that era, Cale was tough as nails and built like a cast iron fire plug. Godspeed Cale.

 

Many many happy memories watching Cale race. He had 2 speeds. Stop and slam wide open.

 

Damn, too many of our hero's going away. R.I.P. Cale.

 

Cale’s fight with the Allisons did more to save NASCAR than about anything!

 

You got that right! I agree.

 

Sincere sympathy goes out to his friends, fans and especially to his immediate Family

 

...So true. I was there in '79.

 

He was one of my all time favorites next to the King Richard Petty, we are losing all the greats

 

This is so true. RIP

 

Condolences to the Yarborough family and friends in the passing of Cale...Bandits right they gotta be breaking records up there for all the fans that are filling the stands to catch a glimpse of Godspeed...may he rest in peace...



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My condolences to his friends and family. Godspeed Cale!

 

Cale was truly from a golden era of Nascar......he and his peers from the same time period made it the golden era.....they were "racers"......not the sophisticated "drivers" that we have today. I was blessed to be around Cale, Benny Parsons, Petty, the Allisons during sponsor excursions in Atlanta, Phoenix and Michigan in those awesome times. RIP

 

Wow

 

Named my son Cale after him. Actually, his middle name as was Yarboroughs.

 

Great racer, sorry to hear of his passing. Condolences to family and friends.

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Cale was the guy who won the 1983 Daytona 500 in a car they pulled off the Volusia County Mall where it was on display. Every Speed Week there are show cars all over town, Earnhardt's cars looked like they were ready to race, others were not.

Cale balled up his main car and the backup car. the team went across highway 92 and took the display car back to the garage. Between what they had, they were able to flog it into the race winner that year.

 

I was thinking Cale might have done some Hotrod in his younger days or did even earlier roundy round...I couldn't find any pics though...anybody aware of any...perhaps mid to later 50s...As solemn as these losses are, it's also I time to celebrate there legacies...

 

I'm an 80s baby so my memories of Cale are the orange and white Hardees's Thunderbird.

 

I always watched Wide World of Sports as a kid in the late 60s into the 70s so that's where I heard these names mentioned many times as they hurtled around the tracks...but they were doing it far earlier as they were getting up there when I was old enough to understand it all...

 

Here's Cales' ride for the 66 or 67 Daytona 500 (I can't tell the difference between a 66 and 67 Fairlane). Holman-Moody Built. Wood Brother prepared.
In Real Pearl White and Candy Apple Red !!

 

He did a couple more 60-65 but I think he was blasting around in those tri fives too...those I want to see...

I read a story here yesterday saying he drove a 57 Chev I believe in a race for someone and it was an overpowered rocket but he raced it like a bucking bronco...this was a 50's event...it was a 55 Chevy......see below...

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/largest-crash-in-nascar-history.392306/#post-4265993

 

RIP Mr. Cale.

 

His first venture into NASCAR was sweeping the floors in one shop. The earliest pictures I have seen of him were with big '62 Fords.

 

With the Pontiacs, by 1962-1963 they were pushing 180 in cars that were not that far from factory stock. The next big revolution came with the advent of the H-M unibody Fairlanes.