Cale Yarborough passes away

[mguthrie]

https://amp.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nascar-auto-racing/article283687968.html

 

[crackerdave]

He was the real deal.

 

[Tight Lines]

That's a legend...I didn't make it to NASCAR until '90 so never saw him race...sorry to hear...

 

[bigchiefchoctaw]

one of the legends for sure !

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

One tough dude and a heck of driver. Saw him race several times in the late 70's early 80's.
RIP Mr. Yarborough

 

[turkeykirk]

One of my favorites.
Favorite NASCAR moment was the Yarbrough-Allison fight in 1979 at Daytona.

 

[specialk]

He's been in hospice for several months....RIP Mr Yarborough

 

[John Cooper]

He was a driver!!!!! A racer !!!!!

Not some whining Earnhardt type, get the rules changed in your favor.

Nope Cale was a run what ya brung, push em out of the way and win type driver.

 

[Nicodemus]

Fireball Roberts, Buck and Buddy Baker. (My kinfolks), the Allison's, now Cale. Real racing is gone.

 

[Redbow]

RIP Cale Yarborough at one time he had a Honda dealership in Florence SC when the Wife and I lived there.

 

[doublebarrel]

He was one of the greatest! BB

 

[alphachief]

From the days when it really was racing. RIP.

 

[NE GA Pappy]

I lost a friend last summer that grew up with Cale. Rusty and Cale would do typical teenage kids things on their daddy's farms. Rusty was over one day, and Cale's dad told the to go get the cows up and into another pasture. Rusty drove a pickup truck and they were having problems with one cow that didn't want to cooperate with them. Cale decided to bulldog that cow off the running board of the old pickup truck. Rusty drove it right up beside the cow and Cale baled off the running board. He missed the cow and face planted right there in the middle of the pasture. Rusty said they didn't get that cow up that day.

RIP Cale, I hope you and Rusty get to relive some old times together

 

[Liberty]

He was my favorite growing up watching racing after church.

 

[Meriwether Mike]

The first driver that I pulled for. He was a true tough guy.

 

[tcward]

Rest in peace Cale. A pure legend.

 

[MudDucker]

I got to know Cale at Daytona. I was just a kid, but he was nice and showed me around the car. Turns out he knew one of my great uncles who was into the unlicensed liquor business. Cale said he got his training running shine in the hills of North Carolina.

Later as a teenager, a group of us got a motorhome in the infield. Petty spun Cale out and at the end of the race Cale got out of his car and chase Petty through the infield swearing to kill him. It was hillarious to those of us watching, but if you had seen Petty's face, he wasn't laughing.

RIP big dog of racing.

 

[Whitefeather]

One of my favorites.
Favorite NASCAR moment was the Yarbrough-Allison fight in 1979 at Daytona.View attachment 1279824

Allison later said the “Cale tried to beat up my fists with his face”
Old school racers stuff