I watched the 1981 Daytona 500 on YouTube today and it was nice to see that for starters, the cars actually looked like the models they were representing. One make had a sloped rear window, another had a straight one. The cookie cutter looks they have now suck.
It was also the first race with the smaller cars. It was nice to see an actual race, and not the freight train nonsense they have now at Daytona and Talladega. Plus, they were running slower, around 185-190mph. Slow the current cars down, better racing and safer for the drivers.