|| *Comments on the 1965 Motor Trend 500:* View the most recent comment <#26> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. STbastien posted: 12.01.2004 - 2:09 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) A.J. Foyt lost his brakes entering a right turn on lap 170 of that race. He crashed HARD, rolled end over end and was seriously injured. 2. The Real Thomas posted: 05.22.2007 - 1:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The crash was in the final scene of the movie "Redline 7000." 3. hyltonfan08 posted: 01.23.2009 - 4:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dan Gurney's sponsor was Augusta Motor Sales. 4. the Great Dave posted: 02.21.2009 - 11:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Parnelli Jones sponsor was Mercury 5. Sébastien posted: 03.09.2009 - 9:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Larry Frank #76 had 2 movie cameras, 1 left front & one rear mounted on his car. 6. RaceFanX posted: 12.19.2009 - 1:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) West Coast racer Gene Davis makes his second and final Cup start and gets his lone top-5 finish. At one point in this race, Davis made a pass-in-the-grass (similar to Earnhardt here in 1987) maneuver to get by Scotty Cain's #45. When he got into the dirt, Davis hit a bump and got all four wheels off the ground briefly. He didn't lose much momentum but he didn't get by Cain either. Ned Jarrett's crew had a pretty massive pit fire in this one. Gurney's third win at Riverside Before his crash Foyt was battling Gurney for the lead but a spin dropped him back. Parnelli Jones had the dominant car early but his Mercury didn't last and he dropped out. First of two Cup races for Sam Stanley, scoring his only top-10 in the process. Final start for Bob Connor in #711, despite a spin this 16th was his best Cup finish. Clips from this race are on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMt0LhpJGlE 7. Turd Ferguson posted: 02.27.2011 - 12:29 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsors: 27-Junior Johnson-Holly Farms Poultry 28-Fred Lorenzen-LaFayette 8. AnonymousEFR posted: 05.27.2011 - 10:33 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) A forklift flipped in the track infield during this race, injuring five men, one fatally. 9. rob posted: 10.30.2012 - 11:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) first year that the series started its season in january so the first race of the 1965 season was actually in 1965. 10. Jrister24 posted: 05.16.2013 - 12:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Amazing that 61K fans attended a 6 hour road race in California. I don't think you could pay 61K people to go to a NASCAR race in California in 2013, let alone a 6 hour one on a road course that's so big you can't see the other side of the track. 11. Fozziebear posted: 02.13.2015 - 3:27 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Actually, about 85,000 people PAID (or most of them did) to attend the 2013 Auto Club 400 in March, 2013. 12. Paul S. posted: 09.21.2015 - 8:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsors: #00 A.J Foyt - Vel's Ford (http://hostingbytes.us/images/3/9430156.jpg) #06 Darel Dieringer - Vel's Ford (http://hostingbytes.us/images/3/4218167.jpg) #11 Ned Jarrett - Richmond Ford Motor Co. (http://hostingbytes.us/images/3/7697475.jpg) #45 Scotty Cain - Big Ben Motors (http://hostingbytes.us/images/3/7493071.jpg) #98 Eddie Gray - Bob Estes Lincoln-Mercury (http://hostingbytes.us/images/3/9080338.jpg) 13. Paul S. posted: 09.21.2015 - 9:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) (Sponsors cont.) #5 Gene Davis - Jim Glage Inc. (http://hostingbytes.us/images/3/2270134.png) #6 Ed Brown - Bob Harrell Oldsmobile (http://hostingbytes.us/images/3/1779674.png) #17 Sam Stanley - Clymore Ford (http://hostingbytes.us/images/3/133029.png) #21 Marvin Panch - Augusta Motor Sales (http://hostingbytes.us/images/3/554937.png) #76 Larry Frank - John Foster Ford (http://hostingbytes.us/images/3/5274061.png) #100 Dick Guldstrand - DeAnya Chevrolet (http://hostingbytes.us/images/3/6283813.png) 14. Paul S. posted: 06.03.2016 - 4:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsors #1 Skip Hudson - Big Ben Motors (https://revslib.stanford.edu/catalog/vr887fv4706) #9 Bill Amick - Dick Niles Racing Team (https://revslib.stanford.edu/catalog/tc244pb7751) #19 Bob Thompson - Motor Supply & Machine Co. (https://revslib.stanford.edu/catalog/vs216tk4859) #58 Doug Moore - Friendly Chevrolet (https://revslib.stanford.edu/catalog/jr026pj1039) #60 Doug Cooper - Cort Fox Ford (https://revslib.stanford.edu/catalog/jc909tx9590) #84 Al Self - John-Sons Automotive (https://revslib.stanford.edu/catalog/tc244pb7751) #611 Dick Bown - Rose Auto Wrecking (https://revslib.stanford.edu/catalog/dq818kt0518) 15. Scott B posted: 06.04.2017 - 10:06 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Ed Brown's car was a four door Olds 88, a huge, heavy behemoth of a car (215.3 inches overall length, 123 inch wheelbase). There was no factory support, most likely the car came out of sponsor Bob Harrell Olds' inventory. Not at all what you expect to see on a road course. 16. Scott B posted: 12.13.2017 - 5:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Ned Jarrett's crew had a pretty massive pit fire in this one." The fire came when Ned pitted after brushing the retaining wall on a right hander. The damage looked pretty moderate, but it was on the driver side rear quarter panel, right near the fuel filler. When the crew went to work, some fumes ignited and the car went up in flames. Ned unbuckled and hustled out of the car unharmed, but they had to drop out of the race. Jarrett didn't lead any laps, but was running a pretty solid top-5 kind of race up to that point. 17. Seibaru posted: 07.07.2018 - 3:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last start for Fritz Wilson, and it was an eventful last start as Fritz flipped in practice. 18. joey2448 posted: 07.25.2018 - 6:31 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) I believe the 1965 Ford Galaxie that A.J. Foyt raced in this event is the one that Cole Custer will be emulating with his #00 Ford Mustang in this year's NASCAR Xfinity series race at Darlington for "Throwback Weekend". 19. Timothy Eklund posted: 10.25.2018 - 11:56 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Multiple sites (Driver Averages, Jayski and others) list Dave James as position #44 in the number #22 dodge as a Did Not Start. They also list him as starting 44th. Sources: https://www.driveraverages.com/nascar/race.php?sked_id=1965001, http://www.espn.com/racing/raceresults/_/series/sprint/raceId/196501170219 I also don't know if this counts as a WD or if it counts as all. 20. A.J. posted: 10.25.2018 - 12:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Three drivers retired after one lap with "transmission" issues. I doubt they had start-and-park drivers back in the day, but that seems like an odd coincidence. OTOH those guys earned a quick $500 (equivalent to $4,000 today) and didn't put their cars at risk very much. 21. rm posted: 10.25.2018 - 12:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) A couple of them may have broke on the initial start of the race, for sure, but there also could have been a couple of drivers parking it. That's been a thing in NASCAR racing for as long as finishing last paid money. 22. Timothy Eklund posted: 10.25.2018 - 2:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) WD: 22 Dave James Dodge Back than nascar drivers were not listen in the results if they didn't take the green flag, Bridgehampton and Petty are examples of this. 23. Spen posted: 10.25.2018 - 5:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) S&Ping was extremely common in '64. Curtis Crider's second car almost never ran the distance, and others did it sporadically. 24. Timothy Eklund posted: 10.25.2018 - 5:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I also thing that since they used stock transmissions that it would be expected for them to fail. 25. ARosser14 posted: 12.15.2018 - 8:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Leonard and Ray Wood had a VERY interesting encounter with a hitchhiker, to say the least, on their way back from this race. I'll let Leonard himself tell that tale here, from the wonderful Stock Car Legends Reunion in October 1998. https://youtu.be/6Itoj-Zhhq4?t=3360 26. RaceFanX posted: 04.23.2019 - 2:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Foyt's injuries in this one included a broken back, a broken ankle, and a ruptured aorta...but he still made it out for the USAC Champ Car opener at Phoenix just over two months later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: