When I was a kid my Dad took us to watch one of the Apollo missions launch. Watching and feeling that Saturn V rocket lift off was one of the coolest experiences of my young life............the Daytona 500 was cool too!
You must have been hanging out down there when I was. I remember watching a night launch of apollo, just like daylight. I also went to Daytona back in the day and have some pictures of them running the Firecracker 400 in 67. One of these days I'll have to scan them in and post them.