NASCAR Legends
Carsets
Legends of 1970 Carset
My love letter to this fun sim. A complete replacement of the default cars, with all the drivers, detail and info possible to help relive the '70 season in all its glory!
1970 may be the most unmistakable season in the sports history. After their debut in late 1969, Chrysler rolled out winged cars for both Dodge and Plymouth to fight back at Ford's sleek Torino and Mercury Cyclone models.
Record breaking speeds and aero battles played out amongst legends of the sport. Petty, Pearson, Baker, Yarborough, Allison and of course Isaac...
the names, the stars, the cars
1970 had it all!
This addon carset features:
A full replacement for the default season!
65 cars representing the 1970 NASCAR Grand National Season, including all full-time drivers, superspeedway standouts and exciting one-offs!
Photos, bios, statistics and ratings included for all drivers
Full-season entry lists (GN1970) featuring drivers sorted for full season competitors to run on short tracks (30 cars) and Speedway entries to appear only on the high-speed tracks!
Special player car, the 200mph breaking #88 Dodge Daytona
Special entry list featuring the full Southern 500 grid (70S500)
Updated carshapes for both Ford and Chrysler cars to better resemble the real cars.
Torino model has been widened and upscaled
Chrysler model has been upscaled, lowered and widened
Proper templates for Dodges vs Plymouths to include correct highlights, shading and parts to better resemble the models
Repainted wheel textures for all colors for more accurate steel rims and Goodyear rubber.
Cars will run aero configuration at speedways and non-winged models on short tracks. Driver models have been retextured as silhouettes, window net removed (it was mandated late in the season) and pace car updated to resemble a road going Plymouth.
Thanks to...
Seb at retrosim.e-monsite.com for inspiration in creating a carset and the wonderful 75-80 carsets
Pontiacfan for initial carshapes modified for this set!
Dave76 and various NR2003 painters for the GN70 mod for reference and some rare logos
Pavel69 + SK for their knowledge and help in editing core files for these old sims
Dave V for starter templates
Matt & Austin for help and feedback on the set!
Everyone for encouraging me to enjoy my hobbies!
Legends of 1969 Carset
Pearson went back to back driving his #17 Ford Torino for Holman-Moody to win the NASCAR Grand National Championship for 1969. With the new sleek Torino Talladega, Ford dominated the speedways for the majority of the season, including Petty shocking the racing world by abandoning Plymouth! LeeRoy Yarbrough driving Junior Johnson's #98 for a partial schedule won nearly every major race, winning the Daytona 500, Southern 500, World 600 and more! With the series adding new major races at Michigan International Speedway, Texas World Speedway and the collosal Alabama International Motor Speedway the sport was evolving.
But Ford's dominance would soon be over as Chrysler was hard at work developing their own aero monsters. The new winged cars would hit the track for the final couple of races of the season, and everyone knew 1970 would be much different...
This carset takes NASCAR Legends to the 1969 season just before the winged cars would change the shape of NASCAR forever!
This addon carset features:
53 cars representing the 1969 NASCAR Grand National Season (45 of the most common teams/drivers in the season, and a group of special entries!)
Photos, bio, statistics and ratings included for all drivers
Repainted wheel textures for all colors for more accurate steel rims and Goodyear rubber
Updated cars.dat and carshape to run non-aero configuration at all tracks, remove window net, a retexture driver model as silhouette and painted pace car as a more realistic road Plymouth.
Where are the Wings!?
The majority of the 1969's 52 race season was run without Chrysler's winged cars! The Dodge Daytona first made its appearance at the infamous inagural Taladega race (where most teams refused to run!). Dodge fielded several more winged cars for the fall Charlotte, Rockingham and Texas World Speedway rounds. So because the Plymouth team did not run wings in 1969, the fact that only several of the top Dodge teams ran them in 4 races, and that NASACR Legends does not support some Chrysler cars having wings and others not, I feel it is more representative for 1969 to have the wingless cars.
Update Nov 8th (v1.1)
- Updated carshape to match the 1970 shape (ST only)
- Updated pace car livery to be more realistic
Thanks to...
Seb at retrosim.e-monsite.com for inspiration in creating a carset and the wonderful 75-80 carsets
Dave76 and various NR2003 painters for the GN70 mod for reference and some rare logos
Pavel69 + SK for their knowledge and help in editing core files for these old sims
Dave V for starter templates
Everyone for encouraging me to enjoy my hobbies!
Legends of 1968 Carset
The 1968 NASCAR Season was won by David Pearson driving for Holman-Moody over 49 races spanning from November 1967 - to November 1968. The very beginning of the manufacturer Aero War, each manufacturer scrambled to bring something more competitive to the track. This carset takes NASCAR Legends back a couple of years, to the introduction of the sleek Torino, Cyclone, Charger and RoadRunner.
This addon carset features:
53 cars representing the 1968 NASCAR Grand National Season (51 drivers who competed most across the key events of the season, as well as a few extra stars!)
Photos, bio, statistics and ratings included for all drivers
Repainted wheel textures for all colors for more accurate steel rims and Goodyear rubber
Updated cars.dat and carshape to run non-aero configuration at all tracks, remove window net, a retexture driver model as silhouette and painted pace car as a more realistic road Plymouth.
In the making of this set I chose to put all cars for each manufacturer on the "Current Year" 1968 model for each car. 1968 was incredibly eclectic with models ranging from 1965 to cutting edge mid 1968 releases. Because of the limited carshape and making sure each car looks "good" in the sim, I thought it would be best to pretend everyone had a Torino/Cyclone/Road Runner or Charger!
Update Nov 8th (v1.3)
- Updated carshape to match the 1970 shape (ST only)
- Updated pace car livery to be more realistic
Update Oct 27th (v1.2)
- Updated the cars.dat to fix some pace car graphical errors
Update Oct 20th (v1.1)
- Added a few alternative drivers
- Updated logos on a few cars
- Fixed underbody colors on a few cars
Thanks to...
Seb at retrosim.e-monsite.com for inspiration in creating a carset and the wonderful 75-80 carsets
Dave76 and various NR2003 painters for the GN70 mod for reference and some rare logos
Pavel69 + SK for their knowledge and help in editing core files for these old sims
Dave V for starter templates
Everyone for encouraging me to enjoy my hobbies!
Tracks
A lot of really nice updates and tracks have been made by Papyrus-sim guru Pavel. They can be found on his google drive:
Pavel Tracks: Link
Daytona International Speedway
This is a version of Daytona which was created by Papyrus and handed out with the 2000 Daytona 500 program (along with an N3 version). The track was converted to work in the full retail release of NASCAR Legends, and some additional updates made by Pavel.
I have added some new cameras and some track AI balancing.