this is the first nascar race i went to , my father took me, we had a 1957 nash rambler, loaded up with camping gear and great food. enjoyed being in the infield, got to meet junior johnston and richard petty. i had a great time and many wonderful memories.
If it was like this, I could buy a brand new 2 door Bel Air 57 Chevy with fuel injection for $4000. I would buy 2. They would be worth more than my 401K. .
you mean half the field wrecked. or how about the leader who beat the field 3 laps ahead. sorry but thats just flat out boring in todays time. you have to remember with everything it has to evolve to continue. and thats what nascar did. cant keep pandering to old nascar fans who in 10 to 20 years will be dead. have to keep on evolving to have younger fans keep the sport going. this is boring to my generation. to me no, but to other millennials its boring.
perhaps your generation should be watching big brother and the bachelor, and not a real sport. nascar used to be about who was smart enough to drive the race to win at the end, now with all the silly rules, its just like a game show, with stops so everyone can catch up, too bad the real fans are all leaving - look at the empty seats at the races. too bad nascar doesnt start a new series, with real cars for the real fans to attend.
Maybe you’ve been under a rock the last 15 years, but it’s BECAUSE of your “innovation” and rule changes that NASCAR is in trouble RIGHT NOW!!! They have evolved the sport into a homogenous boring 3 hours of truly just making left turns all day. TV ratings are down over 40% the last 10 years, they’ve removed large sections of grandstands in Charlotte and Martinsville, and big corporate sponsors are leaving. Lowe’s has been as NASCAR today as Purolator and Havoline were in the old days and this was their last season. There’s talk of the France family selling NASCAR to Disney of all things!!!!! All of this because they followed your advice to a T to try to attract a younger audience. But tell me again why it’s wrong for a driver to lap the field two or three times. If his car works and he can do it you go for it.
@@joe6096 They are negotiating atm. The France family want to get their money out before its too late. The thought is that the future seasons will be 20 races and no chase etc. Richard Petty said over at the Goodward historics this year that it would cost him $150m to run a two car team for the whole season these days. The sums just don't work. The leanest team in Nascar are the Wood Brothers. The get the whole family out. They said that its $50-60m per car. Thats insane. Thats F1 territory. And they have the same problem.
These guys were so tough even the death of Bobby Myers wasn't mentioned. Very obvious why racing today is so tame compared to the early days, these guys were crazy. Gone forever. Godspeed.
The thing that strikes me when watching these old Southern 500's is just what a big event it was in the late 50's and early 60's. The week of practice before the event, beauty pagent, marching band and the huge infield crowds with scaffolding. It was a massive annual event with community support and a traditional date like Indianapolis or the Kentucy Derby.
I know we can't go back in time but it is nice to be able to tell a Chevy from a Ford from a Dodge/Chrysler. Heyday was late 70's & 80's & into early 90's could still identify manufacturers. Today I couldn't tell who is who as far as manufacturers.
Love how qualifying was 4 days long and inspections consisted of 2 guys with a tape measure. Awesome. Wish NASCAR was still like this. You know, when the cars were actually STOCK!! There's absolutely nothing stock about today's stock cars. What's with all the dirt and dust on the track? No blowers back then i guess.
It's all about driver safety. Races were exciting but because there was REAL danger involved. As pilots (and crowds) began to die in accidents, things began to chance. This is what caused the inclusion of restrictor plates, speed regulations, yellow flags, etc. We want to see raw carnage on the track, but within the cars are real people with families waiting them for dinner. The more "safe" auto racing is, the more slow and programmed becomes. This is why it's very likely we'll never see +800MPH futuristic racing in the future. Unless we find a way to make pilots immune against crashes, we'll always see NASCAR and variants become more and more boring (with the plus of keeping the drivers alive and well.)
Reluctantly I am for safety. And other inhancements. Take tires for example. Do you think NASCAR should still use baloon tires? Nascar has been the lead for improving our own cars. Keep innovating!
Although much has been done in order to improve driver & public safety....I wish NASCAR would go back to(or create a seperate league for) actual stock cars....the drivers know the risk involved, and let the spectators sign a waver and sit in back row seats with some extra fencing in front to protect them from flying tires, hoods, doors, and quarter panels. And no, not demolition derbies, I mean actual races where the point is to drive clean and finish 1st. These crazy dudes down in Florida been doing it with school buses for years, but there's not really any money in it.
Yeah no doubt about it you're old have you made your final arrangements as not to be a burden on your love one's and could I be any bigger of an ass I'm from 64 not far behind you oops
Boy! He just ripped out the car's radiator, and just had another one put in-today, a stock car lost the radiator, it's engine would have been totalled, just trying to reach the pit boxes...
Somewhere in the field was a '57 Pontiac, #30, driven by an underage Cale Yarborough. It would be three or four more years before Cale would enter a NASCAR Grand National race legally. It's in his biography "They Call Him Cale".
i was wondering bcus back then that was a hell of an impact :( wish it didnt take nascar f1 n indycar till later 2000s to really try to do anything about safety
@ 3:28 a pair of yellow or white 1956 Dodges up front and center, not sure if Lancers, Royals, or Coronets, but you can bet they probably got the D-500 engine. Funny how people were using the 2 door coupes in these races, the 4 door sedan versions were often 100-200 pounds lighter thus capable of going faster. Look it up in the Standard Catalogue of American Cars 1946-1975. Ofc, these guys might've done some weight reduction mods so it might not matter much.
NASCAR and the stock car excitement died in the early 70s when it limited the motor size to 300 CI during the Superbird car domination. Now we have painted blobs going around the track that do not represent anything stock.
...I agree with what you're saying...but to me, it died in stages...the most definitive being when they started running front-wheel drive cars dissected and plopped on a rear wheel drive tube chassis...the next stage, when they started running Toyotas...Toyotas are good cars, but NASCAR is an American tradition, and shouldn't have Toyotas...Nascar with Toyotas, but no Dodges= no good....
NASCAR, NFL football, NBA basketball and now high level College football is not for the middle class anymore but priced so high that it is built for large companies, upper middle class, and the rich. I say screw them all.
NASCAR limited the aero bodies to 305 cubic inches in 1971. Non-aero bodies could still run the 426s and 427s. A few years later the limit was set to 358 cubic inches where it stands today.
Conan the Destroyer Conan the Destroyer This comment is a year old but ima respond anyway. At my home track mid level seats go for around $40 .Mid level NBA seats will cost around the same as long as your not going to a Lakers or Clippers game or something. (Nosebleed seats at NBA games can sometimes cost under $20) NFL tickets also wont usually run more than $50 as long as you aren't trying to sit fieldside or at a highly anticipated game. High-level college football is different. When you sell out 90,000 seat stadiums weekly, of course ticket prices are gonna be in that $90-100 range. Sports tickets also aren't something you're supposed to go off a limb and purchase. If you plan ahead and SAVE you should have absolutely 0 problem attending a sporting event unless you're trying to live off $20,000 a year.
118 mph in 1957 , the beginning of a legend sport, it all ended in 1987 when they introduced restrictor plates , speeds got slower and slower. And now 2024 it's almost dead !
I can't believe I wasn't even born when this race happened And I got chills when Smokey got his car back on the track and because Lee petty was a no good dirty driver he got his pay back for being a smartass.. great time in America!
I’m not 100% sure. But, I believe Bobby Myers was the driver in the crash and died was Chocolate Myers (#3 gasman) dad. In a recent interview Chocolate said his dad was killed at Darlington in 1957.
Smokey Yunick put a roll cage in his car "for safety" also made it more Ridged .. NASCAR told Smokey no way .. Smokey also build a safer barrier wall out of used tries // NASCAR didn't want to be bothered with that either..
At the start of the video it states the 7th Southern 500. The 1957 race was the 8th Southern 500. I was there and still have the program. Speedy Thompson did not qualify a Chrysler in the 1957 race. Must be combined footage.
Denny, would you have even had the opportunity to see this video clip without the help of Wynns Friction Proofing? Sponsors make sporting events possible to be seen on TV, heard on radio and played on the internet for years to come. Enjoy life and quit your complaining.
Looking for the link to previously NAO published film by Pontiac on the 57 Daytona race - titled "The Sand Barrier" (now deleted from TH-cam). In particular wanting to see close-up views of Paul Goldsmith's 57 Chevy 2-door hardtop.
Those helmets ??? Soft top open face crazy going 119 in it with bias ply tires that was huge in 57 4 spd manual trans maybe some 3spds real racing right there .
Suddenly i realized the first 8 min. of this vid is from THE WRONG YEAR. Everything from the beginning "Seventh Annual..." to the beauty contest is from 1956 not 1957. After the 8 minute mark there's a different pole winner etc. from the correct year, 1957.
I stopped watching NASCAR when V8 powered, tube framed, fiberglass bodied vehicles with Toyota Camry painted on the front started racing... A Toyota Camry is a good civilian car though, I gotta admit-very reliable in the long term, never rusts, very practical and well thought out...but how do they put things labeled Taurus or Monte Carlo into a race and it isn't even what they are? They should just make up new names for these vehicles, and rename NASCAR to something more accurate. Call it... Technological Innovations Traveling Sideways ;) good acronym, yes?
If NASCAR was about factory battling factory like it was in the 50's and 60's I'd once again be a fan. Unfortunately in subsequent decades they achieved massive growth in attracting non-motorheads by making it about drama queen drivers and owners in generic spec cars. Now that the fad-following fans are abandoning the sport in droves, how about going back to making it about stock cars?
At 7:54 there is a different kind of contest though...Hahahahah! Specifications are different here, and everything is STOCK!(back in the good old days before fake boobs, lip injections, plastic surgery, and spray on tans) This is what NASCAR needs to bring back...the hot babes! Make America Great again!
When this race took place car dealerships would sponsor teams and supply them with cars for the races. I think that the only things stock in today's stock cars are the car's silhouette and engine displacement. Today, everything, down to the engine block, is custom built for the race cars.
u c that greased wheel. that bearing was ready to seaze and it did ruining three cars, when a cars not handling and the car floating all over the raod a bearing ready to go.. and it did
in 50s dad been buiding race car on hiown since WW2 and in 51 we were racing houston so me iwas up on all these cars olds v-8s dad run in his 40ford for years and in 56 the v8 o0verhead ford 300 ewll googel again has interuped me again!!! dam change bla bla!!!
Return to racing "stock" cars and NASCAR audience would double overnight (sure, with tire upgrades, roll cage, and other safety items added ... but otherwise what you can buy off the showroom floor).
Safety rules of today save lives, back then racing was extremely dangerous, my Dad never once went to see Me race anything for fear of me getting killed.
Dude, what rock have you been under for 45 years? they’ve been at 180-200 mph since 1968-70. They brought out mandatory restrictive carburetor plates in 1986 because they started to creep up to 220 mph on the straight aways in some tracks. Engine power and gearing.
+deasttn Right? These guys had pretty much zero protection. Sure they weren't going 170mph plus but you get turned by someone and it could be serious. Mad respect for these pioneers.
![[HD] 1957 Daytona Beach Race 335 Mercurys, Supercharged Fords, Fuel Injected Chevrolets](/img/n.gif)
this is the first nascar race i went to , my father took me, we had a 1957 nash rambler, loaded up with camping gear and great food. enjoyed being in the infield, got to meet junior johnston and richard petty. i had a great time and many wonderful memories.
If racing was like this today...you’d have to fight for a ticket.
Only problem is the winner beating the field by multiple laps
No doubt! This was real racing, not a circus with a bunch of self absorbed wanna be a rock star drivers.
😂😂😂
So true i cant even stand to watch it anymore
If it was like this, I could buy a brand new 2 door Bel Air 57 Chevy with fuel injection for $4000. I would buy 2. They would be worth more than my 401K.
.
If NASCAR was like this today, I'd start watching it again.
you mean half the field wrecked. or how about the leader who beat the field 3 laps ahead. sorry but thats just flat out boring in todays time. you have to remember with everything it has to evolve to continue. and thats what nascar did. cant keep pandering to old nascar fans who in 10 to 20 years will be dead. have to keep on evolving to have younger fans keep the sport going. this is boring to my generation. to me no, but to other millennials its boring.
perhaps your generation should be watching big brother and the bachelor, and not a real sport. nascar used to be about who was smart enough to drive the race to win at the end, now with all the silly rules, its just like a game show, with stops so everyone can catch up, too bad the real fans are all leaving - look at the empty seats at the races. too bad nascar doesnt start a new series, with real cars for the real fans to attend.
Jimmy Johnson would not have won as many without all the stupid ways to win a championship. Petty and Earnhardt did it the real way.
Maybe you’ve been under a rock the last 15 years, but it’s BECAUSE of your “innovation” and rule changes that NASCAR is in trouble RIGHT NOW!!! They have evolved the sport into a homogenous boring 3 hours of truly just making left turns all day. TV ratings are down over 40% the last 10 years, they’ve removed large sections of grandstands in Charlotte and Martinsville, and big corporate sponsors are leaving. Lowe’s has been as NASCAR today as Purolator and Havoline were in the old days and this was their last season. There’s talk of the France family selling NASCAR to Disney of all things!!!!!
All of this because they followed your advice to a T to try to attract a younger audience.
But tell me again why it’s wrong for a driver to lap the field two or three times. If his car works and he can do it you go for it.
@@joe6096 They are negotiating atm. The France family want to get their money out before its too late. The thought is that the future seasons will be 20 races and no chase etc. Richard Petty said over at the Goodward historics this year that it would cost him $150m to run a two car team for the whole season these days. The sums just don't work. The leanest team in Nascar are the Wood Brothers. The get the whole family out. They said that its $50-60m per car. Thats insane. Thats F1 territory. And they have the same problem.
These guys were so tough even the death of Bobby Myers wasn't mentioned. Very obvious why racing today is so tame compared to the early days, these guys were crazy. Gone forever. Godspeed.
Also Fonty Flocks career ended, right there, as well, due to injuries.
the most fun i had growing up in the 50s and 60s was going to the stock car races. what a blast!
"In less than a minute, a wheel is changed and the gas tank is filled."....my, how times have changed....
The thing that strikes me when watching these old Southern 500's is just what a big event it was in the late 50's and early 60's. The week of practice before the event, beauty pagent, marching band and the huge infield crowds with scaffolding. It was a massive annual event with community support and a traditional date like Indianapolis or the Kentucy Derby.
I know we can't go back in time but it is nice to be able to tell a Chevy from a Ford from a Dodge/Chrysler. Heyday was late 70's & 80's & into early 90's could still identify manufacturers. Today I couldn't tell who is who as far as manufacturers.
If nascar was still like this it be awesome and id probably go to races.
Sixty-six years later and it's still exciting to watch!
Love how qualifying was 4 days long and inspections consisted of 2 guys with a tape measure. Awesome. Wish NASCAR was still like this. You know, when the cars were actually STOCK!! There's absolutely nothing stock about today's stock cars. What's with all the dirt and dust on the track? No blowers back then i guess.
It's all about driver safety. Races were exciting but because there was REAL danger involved. As pilots (and crowds) began to die in accidents, things began to chance. This is what caused the inclusion of restrictor plates, speed regulations, yellow flags, etc. We want to see raw carnage on the track, but within the cars are real people with families waiting them for dinner. The more "safe" auto racing is, the more slow and programmed becomes. This is why it's very likely we'll never see +800MPH futuristic racing in the future. Unless we find a way to make pilots immune against crashes, we'll always see NASCAR and variants become more and more boring (with the plus of keeping the drivers alive and well.)
It was 4 laps, not 4 days...
Myers died in this race.
Reluctantly I am for safety. And other inhancements. Take tires for example. Do you think NASCAR should still use baloon tires? Nascar has been the lead for improving our own cars. Keep innovating!
Although much has been done in order to improve driver & public safety....I wish NASCAR would go back to(or create a seperate league for) actual stock cars....the drivers know the risk involved, and let the spectators sign a waver and sit in back row seats with some extra fencing in front to protect them from flying tires, hoods, doors, and quarter panels. And no, not demolition derbies, I mean actual races where the point is to drive clean and finish 1st. These crazy dudes down in Florida been doing it with school buses for years, but there's not really any money in it.
I love that track. So quirky and difficult. I can only imagine how difficult it would be driving one of these 1950s beasts!
I love watching these old Nascar races from the 50s to the 70s
The good ole days.
Bring em back.
This was the race when 18-year-old Cale Yarborough snuck in and drove until getting pulled by NASCAR officials.
"Why, you little rascal!..."
240 Horsepower!! 117 mph!! This was the year I was born. Man I feel old...
Yeah no doubt about it you're old have you made your final arrangements as not to be a burden on your love one's and could I be any bigger of an ass I'm from 64 not far behind you oops
Me too!
why are so many old people on youtube god.
In the future racing at 200 mph like today will seem like a Sunday stroll
I'm 1957 vintage myself.
Thanks for posting these classic races
I love how they were running these huge cars
also ran a wonderful race, called The REBEL 500, loved it
This was real Stock car racing. was Wendell Scott in this race. thanks for share
No, he didn't start NASCAR until 1961
...ah...a cold beer...and th'm good old days of real racing...
Watch Smokey from the 25 minute mark to 27 minute mark. He’s possessed. Love Smokey 👍
Boy! He just ripped out the car's radiator, and just had another one put in-today, a stock car lost the radiator, it's engine would have been totalled, just trying to reach the pit boxes...
@mrs abe sorry 20 minute mark...to like 22 min
THANK YOU FOR GREAT USA HISTORY IN STOCK CAR RACE
FROM AUSTRALIA
these days is what sold cars you would see a newer car on the track see how it performed and you would want to buy it
I'm pretty sure that until the Daytona speedway was completed that the Southern "500" was the only 500-mile race NASCAR held each year.
back in those days stock oil pans would uncover the oil pick-up Smokey got the pans right. , to save the bearings
Kurt Busch on guitar at 08:17.
hahahaha
Somewhere in the field was a '57 Pontiac, #30, driven by an underage Cale Yarborough. It would be three or four more years before Cale would enter a NASCAR Grand National race legally. It's in his biography "They Call Him Cale".
Yeeeep them 57 Chevies! Hard to beat!! It's amazing how those stock tires held up at 119 mph without flying apart.
They never even mention it , but Myers was killed in that crash. 14:45 to 16:15
Yes he was.
I would be the driver with flames shooting out of his ass jumping over that G.D. wall !!! Know DAT !!
i was wondering bcus back then that was a hell of an impact :( wish it didnt take nascar f1 n indycar till later 2000s to really try to do anything about safety
Actually, in a other video of this on TH-cam has some cut footage saying that he died
R.i.p. Myers
@ 3:28 a pair of yellow or white 1956 Dodges up front and center, not sure if Lancers, Royals, or Coronets, but you can bet they probably got the D-500 engine. Funny how people were using the 2 door coupes in these races, the 4 door sedan versions were often 100-200 pounds lighter thus capable of going faster. Look it up in the Standard Catalogue of American Cars 1946-1975.
Ofc, these guys might've done some weight reduction mods so it might not matter much.
NASCAR and the stock car excitement died in the early 70s when it limited the motor size to 300 CI during the Superbird car domination. Now we have painted blobs going around the track that do not represent anything stock.
...I agree with what you're saying...but to me, it died in stages...the most definitive being when they started running front-wheel drive cars dissected and plopped on a rear wheel drive tube chassis...the next stage, when they started running Toyotas...Toyotas are good cars, but NASCAR is an American tradition, and shouldn't have Toyotas...Nascar with Toyotas, but no Dodges= no good....
Plus now ticket prices are $125.00 a pop and up.
NASCAR, NFL football, NBA basketball and now high level College football is not for the middle class anymore but priced so high that it is built for large companies, upper middle class, and the rich. I say screw them all.
NASCAR limited the aero bodies to 305 cubic inches in 1971. Non-aero bodies could still run the 426s and 427s. A few years later the limit was set to 358 cubic inches where it stands today.
Conan the Destroyer Conan the Destroyer This comment is a year old but ima respond anyway. At my home track mid level seats go for around $40 .Mid level NBA seats will cost around the same as long as your not going to a Lakers or Clippers game or something. (Nosebleed seats at NBA games can sometimes cost under $20) NFL tickets also wont usually run more than $50 as long as you aren't trying to sit fieldside or at a highly anticipated game. High-level college football is different. When you sell out 90,000 seat stadiums weekly, of course ticket prices are gonna be in that $90-100 range. Sports tickets also aren't something you're supposed to go off a limb and purchase. If you plan ahead and SAVE you should have absolutely 0 problem attending a sporting event unless you're trying to live off $20,000 a year.
Bobby Myers
Born: June 27, 1927 Died: September 2, 1957
Home: Winston-Salem, NC
RIP
so the chevs had 283's the fords 312's and ran pretty good, what was the olds' 371 ? what a difference,
That Ford's drift at 2:26 ....Jesus dude!
13 makes. That in and of itself is exciting
It took a lot of guts to drive those rolling gas tanks
This is 1957! The 1956 Southern 500 was won by Curtis Turner.
correct
Video appears to be 1956, not 1957 as I there. The Yuick cars 1957 were Fords.
Damn.. that looks like a run from hell! Those wrecks are so nasty! Everything is so dirty and hardcore... those guys were the real deal!
The QUALIFYING is 1956. The RACE is 1957. Only FIFTY racers in this one....phew glad ive got that figured out...
What in the the hell happened to stockcar raceing in the US 🇺🇸.. The old days the boys had balls.
Hard to believe that Smokey would let a drunk drive his great car
118 mph in 1957 , the beginning of a legend sport, it all ended in 1987 when they introduced restrictor plates , speeds got slower and slower. And now 2024 it's almost dead !
It should have stayed stock cars. Off the floor and onto the race track. With only rollbars and safety race belts installed .
Sound effects marvelous 👍
I can't believe I wasn't even born when this race happened And I got chills when Smokey got his car back on the track and because Lee petty was a no good dirty driver he got his pay back for being a smartass.. great time in America!
Barreling down at 103mph!, lol. Not so fast today, but dangerous as hell on those tires they had to race with back then.
I’m not 100% sure. But, I believe Bobby Myers was the driver in the crash and died was Chocolate Myers (#3 gasman) dad. In a recent interview Chocolate said his dad was killed at Darlington in 1957.
maybe this is why Chrysler put in the 150 mph speedos as they were always pegged at 120!
Racing was so much better back then, heck even the announcers were.
Fireball Roberts' nickname would prove prophetic.
A 57 Chevy with a new 283 engine for Chevrolet takes the win. 🏁
Smokey Yunick put a roll cage in his car "for safety" also made it more Ridged .. NASCAR told Smokey no way .. Smokey also build a safer barrier wall out of used tries // NASCAR didn't want to be bothered with that either..
And old smokey would run fuel line Thur them roll cages boys couldn't figure out his car could run more laps then theirs
SEVENTY cars started this race. On a one lane track. Cant figure out whos in the #4 Mercury at 46 seconds.
Well what do you know a Black and white number 3
Awesome!!!
Smokeys a legend
At the start of the video it states the 7th Southern 500. The 1957 race was the 8th Southern 500. I was there and still have the program. Speedy Thompson did not qualify a Chrysler in the 1957 race. Must be combined footage.
+Cal Wolfe Holy shit you were actually there? :O
True, it was the 8th Southern 500 since the "0" race was 1950, won by Johnny Mantz in a Plymouth.
a 25 min commercial for Wynns Friction Proofing.
+Denny Doobles What's new? My kids love it when we see a Sunoco fuel sign :-)
Denny, would you have even had the opportunity to see this video clip without the help of Wynns Friction Proofing? Sponsors make sporting events possible to be seen on TV, heard on radio and played on the internet for years to come. Enjoy life and quit your complaining.
back then they definitely had to piggy back onto sponsors to be able to put out any production (tv/film/replay)
Also for the "Best Damn Garage In Town".
Where did you source this footage? Is it licensable?
When the race starts,and ends, almost all the cars are 1957 models.
So it looks like you can run races without ads covering everything.
This is stock car racing not like today , today racing isn't stock its techno . Racing should go back to the original STOCK
Sorry,first part was '56.
I love 21:00 and 21:22 - NASCAR’s first fight
Where can I get some Wynn's friction proofing?
Looking for the link to previously NAO published film by Pontiac on the 57 Daytona race - titled "The Sand Barrier" (now deleted from TH-cam). In particular wanting to see close-up views of Paul Goldsmith's 57 Chevy 2-door hardtop.
This is back when NASCAR drivers actually DROVE their cars to the track, not had it towed in a hermetically sealed trailer.
The flag man is standing on the track. Omg...heads would explode today!
Um...the first part of this video is from the 1956 Southern 500.
Those helmets ??? Soft top open face crazy going 119 in it with bias ply tires that was huge in 57 4 spd manual trans maybe some 3spds real racing right there .
Suddenly i realized the first 8 min. of this vid is from THE WRONG YEAR. Everything from the beginning "Seventh Annual..." to the beauty contest is from 1956 not 1957. After the 8 minute mark there's a different pole winner etc. from the correct year, 1957.
And don't get me started on fn Toyota....
LMFAO!
I stopped watching NASCAR when V8 powered, tube framed, fiberglass bodied vehicles with Toyota Camry painted on the front started racing...
A Toyota Camry is a good civilian car though, I gotta admit-very reliable in the long term, never rusts, very practical and well thought out...but how do they put things labeled Taurus or Monte Carlo into a race and it isn't even what they are? They should just make up new names for these vehicles, and rename NASCAR to something more accurate. Call it...
Technological
Innovations
Traveling
Sideways
;) good acronym, yes?
Chocolate suggested race fans take a look at this video.....He was on the money..Bill W
at the start you were showing 1956 footage i know that because there were carl kiekhaefer Chryslers
when racing was real.
+dhamrick100 Yea, real & dangerous.
I remember when the Fourth of July race was held here, the FIRECRACKER 400, that was OUR RACE
Darlington has NEVER had a Cup race in July. Not even once.
That was in Daytona what are you smoking ??
If NASCAR was about factory battling factory like it was in the 50's and 60's I'd once again be a fan. Unfortunately in subsequent decades they achieved massive growth in attracting non-motorheads by making it about drama queen drivers and owners in generic spec cars. Now that the fad-following fans are abandoning the sport in droves, how about going back to making it about stock cars?
Pourquoi le tarmac SO sale?
What the first part is 1956 qualification
At 7:54 there is a different kind of contest though...Hahahahah!
Specifications are different here, and everything is STOCK!(back in the good old days before fake boobs, lip injections, plastic surgery, and spray on tans)
This is what NASCAR needs to bring back...the hot babes! Make America Great again!
💥🤘💪💯
Today,they should stop calling it Stock Cars
When this race took place car dealerships would sponsor teams and supply them with cars for the races. I think that the only things stock in today's stock cars are the car's silhouette and engine displacement. Today, everything, down to the engine block, is custom built for the race cars.
u c that greased wheel. that bearing was ready to seaze and it did ruining three cars, when a cars not handling and the car floating all over the raod a bearing ready to go.. and it did
225 hp! They weren't fooling around
The qualification was from the 56 Darlington.
This is not the '57 Southern 500. This is from 1956.
the race is from 1957.
Cee Infiniti HDRIFHHO
Y'all don't know shit!!!
Can I use some of this audio for a video of my own?
Go for it
Ironically, today, additives like Wynn's Friction Proofing, are discouraged from being used on modern engines...
All 56’s when qualifying …..57’ when racing…
in 50s dad been buiding race car on hiown since WW2 and in 51 we were racing houston so me iwas up on all these cars olds v-8s dad run in his 40ford for years and in 56 the v8 o0verhead ford 300 ewll googel again has interuped me again!!! dam change bla bla!!!
Is that Robert Stack narrating???
Pretty sure that was Lou Dobbs commentating.
Return to racing "stock" cars and NASCAR audience would double overnight (sure, with tire upgrades, roll cage, and other safety items added ... but otherwise what you can buy off the showroom floor).
Safety rules of today save lives, back then racing was extremely dangerous, my Dad never once went to see Me race anything for fear of me getting killed.
these boys are moving for back then. Aren't racing speeds today only about 155-160mph?
Dude, what rock have you been under for 45 years? they’ve been at 180-200 mph since 1968-70. They brought out mandatory restrictive carburetor plates in 1986 because they started to creep up to 220 mph on the straight aways in some tracks. Engine power and gearing.
Chrysler 300 top qualifier but never saw one in the race......?
How were there not more deaths back in those days?
+deasttn Right? These guys had pretty much zero protection. Sure they weren't going 170mph plus but you get turned by someone and it could be serious. Mad respect for these pioneers.
There was a death in this race
Bobby Myers died in the '57 Darlington race....
Lots of alcohol
They need to go back to a true stock bodied car running a the production motor and trans.
could have made a fortune in them days but I was just born