"What the hell ...?"
The moving images from back in the day at North Wilkesboro Speedway, closed since 1996 but about to be improbably revived for Sunday's NASCAR All-Star Race, are hard for any modern mind to process.
"Dude, they are going so freaking fast!"
But for this particular audience at this particular time, their disbelieving shakes of the head and open-mouth, squinting facial expressions are not in reaction to the grainy, square-boxed, standard-definition video or the massive, square-edged race car body styles. Not even the parade of logos and colors provided by sponsorship dollars from so many companies that no longer exist.