1959 Daytona 500 | From Sand To Speedway
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- From Sand to Speedway presented by the Champion Spark Plug Company tells the story of the inaugural Daytona 500 won by Lee Petty.
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I hope that Richard guy doesn’t give up after this race. He looks like he might be pretty good.
The cinematographer obviously liked Richard. Did you notice his Oldsmobile said "squirrel" by his name?
By golly you may have something there!
When did the announcers stop calling him Dick Petty?
@@mhousto20 His first win at Southern States Fairgrounds. The papers the following day said "Dick Petty Wins First!". As the story goes, his mother Elizabeth, informed the paper (next day) and anyone else who'd listen, "If I wanted him called Dick, I would have named him Dick! His name, is Richard."
Oh boy those where the days where American definitely was on top of the world!
I’d love to experience these amazing days..
My father attended the race. He also attended many of the prior beach races and made 8mm movies of Joe Weatherly, Lee Petty, and many others running on the beach. I saw the 1969 and 1970 races. Great memories. Unfortunately, Nascar today cannot bring back the past.
Am glad that Dale JR is racing Late Model cars. It's more down to earth racing. Raced ASA, ARCA. 1974-83. 🇺🇸🏁🌄
I agree. Nascar is a shell of what it once was. I used to go to a minimum of 15 races per year. I cannot even watch it on television.
Didn't realize Olds won First Daytona Race and First Daytona 500 Race!
500 mile races get boring... I thought maybe 10 races in a day of 50 - 100 miles with 10 different classes and 300 - 500 total drivers would draw much bigger crowds of fans... hold more interest...
Once it got invaded by corporate giants and they changed the rules, it turned into a shit show.
It's so high tech and high dollar that a regular Joe is going to have a really hard time getting into the game without AT&T, Apple, Microsoft, Citibank or some company like that picking up the tab. The cars used to be sponsored by automotive products and local businesses. The music has become the same way. It all leaves me cold.
I don't even hardly watch modern nascar I'd rather watch these old races
Truly the good old days when a dollar was a dollar and NASCAR was a stock car
In fact so stock, you could build a rudementary cage in a convertible and just go race it as is :)
Ha, those cars, even back then were never "stock".
@@steverobertson4338 never said stock
@@donaldhudson2235 ok drunky
@@stereolababy you are welcome @stereolababy. O I do not give Autographs
This blows me away how unsafe and raw NASCAR was back then. What a great documentary!
It's too bad we can't see these cars up close.
At the time, they were state-of-the-art, beautifully prepared machines.
The driver today are spoiled. Dale JR. Is racing Late Model cars. ASA, ! 🇺🇸🏁🌄
how it should have stayed to a degree, honestly stock car racing died 2 times, once with restrictor plates and lastly with Dale. the sport became too safe and regulated in the years that followed these 2 events
@@metallicarabbit Restrictor plates suck but the incarnation of pit road speed limits did way more to ruin NASCAR than Earnhardt's demise. I could care less if all drivers are required to wear the HANS devise. It really does prevent basel skull deaths.
Really DON'T want the moniker "Fireball _____"
This might be the only time you'll ever see Richard Petty without sunglasses. Ever.
1964 firecracker 400
@@tamtam21801 damn is true
The moves that Fireball was making in this car on that track with all those unknowns is insane. The balls of steel on that man holy smokes
Balls of steel, and the size of church bells! 😁
Fireball Roberts.
Now that's a Man's nickname.
Lee Petty! This was real racing . Fireball Roberts in the 3# Pontiac.🇺🇸🏁🌅
My Dad got me into Nascar. He was a huge fan of the older drivers especially. I watch this and think how much he would have loved it. Thank you, for sharing, with me and my Dad.
I was there, Mom was six months pregnant with me when Dad and Mom went to see Mom's favorite driver Fireball Roberts and Dad was there to see some distant cousins named Petty. Now I understand my obsession with '57 Oldsmobiles...When everyone else was into Chevys.
Man, I am absolutely crazy about the '57 Olds line up, both the 88 and 98 series Amazing!
I like to think the 57 Oldsmobile J2 was the first muscle car. Dual quads.
@@jimmycricket5366That was a 59 Olds that Petty drove.
@@wymple09 I love those winged beasts! So much character. Why can't we go back to that design. It was aerodynamic. Beautiful.
@@jimmycricket5366I still have a 59.
This was racing at it's finest. Basically stock cars being pushed to the limits.
Well in 80-00s nascar is golden Age bro and they not stock and good don't hate nascar because they not stock body tha overrated
@@theuser698 ??
@@VSNVanny his comment gave me a stroke
@@judefernandez9234
Put a few (hiccups) in parentheses in there and it all starts to make sense.
Stock car racing has evolved over the decades, from what was shown and before to current times. People think that the Winston cup series era is the best, especially during the late '80s-'01. I feel that it is overrated, because it was mostly about personalities like Earnhardt, Gordon, Jarrett, Wallace, and other folks that fans loved and hated. I didn't care back then. I was about three years old when I was a fan of stock car racing, and believe me, I don't think it was that great in retrospect.
My Dad took me to this race which began my car/racing interest - I was 12 years old. We lived in Melbourne Beach and Dad worked a the Cape and Patrick Air Base. I had a good friend that raced and I was one of his crew. We did the 1996 24 Hours of Daytona and later the 12 hours at Sebring. Also many SCCA races at Sears Point/Thunderhill.
Awe! 💯 Priceless Mems for ya!
Awesome
i like the sound of tires howling as the car rolls down the beach.
Hehe yeah, films did not record sound till way into the 1960s, so all sounds on film before, say 1968 or so (might be even later) were added later.
Also no films from onboards and such, were longer than 2 mins, cause that was all the film roll they had.
@@barath4545 Films recorded sound...
Lee Petty won the 1959 Daytona 500 in a '59 Olds 88 - 2-DR. HARDTOP, W/ A 345 HP Single 4 BBL. CARBURETED 394 CUBIC INCH ENGINE. The Tri-Power J-2 ENGINE OPTION (1957/1958), was discontinued after 1958. "CHEERS!" :)
He won in a Olds convertible
Enjoy videos like these. Thanks for sharing with us. Being a huge NASCAR fan I like seeing old footage of races.
I agree!!!!!!
Unlike the ugly cars from the 90s to today these old car's were very beautiful 1959 thunderbirds 👍
@@m42037 They sure were good looking cars Ken!
I still have my Dads old 8 mm films he took of races on sand in Daytona . I need to get them converted . Also motorcycle races from 1960 up . I grew up going to Daytona twice a year for races . Good post enjoyed seeing this .
Would LOVE to see them! How Kool, you have unseen History in its Making, i hope that you get them uploaded!
Thanks for sharing this man....I was watching hoping to see number 32 58 chev. and there it was at 17.42!!! that man is still alive and also the car,1 out 2 cars left that ran that race known to still be around still,Mike Potter ex-nascar driver found the car in N.C. and brought it back here to east tn.and restored like it was raced back in 1959,the driver was Brownie king out of johnson city,tn.Thanks for showing this man!
That petty kid is going to be really good I have a feeling he’s going to win 7 championships and 200 races so pretty darn good
Something tells me we’ll win this race more than anyone
Those are great times real men real cars our country was loved and respected
Real cars, real race drivers.
Back when NASCAR used real "door slammers"
I remember as a little boy my dad took me to Daytona 2 years in a row before the speedway was built. He and his friend Fritz raced stock cars down near Hollywood. They ran a Henry J and an Oldsmobile. My dad worked at Don Allen Chevrolet when he wasn't racing. Fritz had the 301 garage on Dixie highway. They weren't the caliber of the guys racing in Daytona but they gave it hell locally. Fritz ended up working for AJ foyt I believe. Thank you for sharing this. Great memories for me!
I love watching this old NASCAR movie. I watched a more condensed version before the drivers start their engines every year. I look forward to playing this before the 2023 race and beyond.
This is beyond incredible.. I'm so glad I found this channel
(Great Share!) Priceless Footage:
10:13 Lee Petty and son 22yr old Richard Petty. (Little did they know how successful young Richard Petty was destined to become.)
This is the best type of NASCAR when they are only going 140mph and not 200!! Trying to make a slow car fat is always much more enjoyable to watch then watching people make a fast car fast.
It's more relatable.
Like the tires screeching sound on sand LOL
It's wild seeing Richard Petty blowing an engine and getting a DNF the race and HE Richard Petty has more NASCAR wins than any other driver. 200 I believe.
Richard Petty was my dad's favorite. The dirt tracks with stock cars built great and loud as thunder could really be enjoyable for many years. Changed a lot now days.
@@Justin-fq7vj Yes it has. I been to 4 NASCAR races. 1st was Darlington SC in 1977. REAL STOCKCARS. louder then a rock concert
200 wins, among them 7 Daytona 500 victories.
I would love to watch these cars race today (with added safety features for the drivers). They are much more interesting and authentic than the fiberglass creations that they put out there now.
Fiberglass eggs 😄
@@m42037 Forza Motorsport 4 gave you a bit of a glimpse of that.
@@noviranger239 That made absolutely no sense
That was when it was fun.
It's amazing how the tires can make a screeching sound on sand😂😂😂😂😂😂
That would be the drum brakes locking up and making a screeching protest, not the tires on the sand.
I think NASCAR should go back to its roots
I was there in the infield in 1969. One of the most important characteristics of stock car racing is the brand and marque identification. Narrators consciously RARELY reference whether the car is a Pontiac, Olds, Merc, Buick, etc. in order not to seem to have favorites. But that's exactly what us young fans and gearheads were all about! These days? Doesn't really matter. Identical corporate motors now reside in different shaped sheet metal. Oldsmobile engines? Buicks? Pontiacs? Cadillacs? All gone. It's just Chebby engines now. Or, should I say GM......or Ford....or Mopar. Even those designations are seldom to be spoken lest someone feel offended. At least the later narration paid some homage to these brands. Nice images here, too.
What you just stated is why I lost interest in NASCAR. Now days it's only about the drivers.
Haven't watched in years, once I couldn't tell the makes, all the fun was gone. In the old days, seeing the Plymouths, Dodges, Fords, Chevys, Buicks, Pontiacs, Olds, Mercurys battle it out was what it was about. I guess if you never lived it, you'd never understand.
OH those poor bias ply tires still holding at that speed..
1.44 you skidding sounds on sand 😂got to love old videos lol
I had the privilege to be a fabricator/pitman for Fritz Wilson later in his career. He started this race third , led into turn one and led two more laps then faded. His car gave out at lap 56 according to statistics. I'll tell you one thing. HE got everything any car he drove had in it. Travelled to I-70 Speedway for the World Cup 400 later in his career . Acting as crew chief was the also great modified driver from Denver Eddie Mailo, who's son Eddie Jr. became a winning off road racer a number of years later and in fact I built a Class 5 VW chassis for him at my shop in Denver. Both Eddie Sr. and Jr. were class guys. Fritz finished 7 th at I-70 running against all the ASA guys at that time. Trickle , Refner Martin, Senneker, you name it. At the time we were happy just to make the show. I believe Larry Detjens won on the last turn over Bob Senneker.
Good memories for me...
Steve you're probably one of those fellas that i would love to sit in stunned silence and just listen to for days. Be sure to pass that wisdom down to someone. 🙂
17:15 - Smokey's Best Damn Garage in Town shirt.
That would be Smokey Yunick, considered one of the greatest mechanics of the era.
@@MarinCipollina - Over 35 years ago, I was at his garage during Speed Weeks and asked him a question about a race car I had. He got up from the greeting table, took me over to a car of his, and began showing me parts and asking me questions on mine. This kind of left everyone in line hanging. It apparently aggravated the promoter who came over to drag him back to the autograph table. Smokey told him no three times and then finally went back on the fourth time.
He was definitely his own man and did what he wanted to.
Fireball is my favorite old school NASCAR driver. Red Farmer too. All these guys back then were men’s men. Awesome video.
Built for 3 Million ! 😲😲 (I know.. I know.. inflation)
I went to Daytona in 1962 as a kid with my family to watch Fireball Roberts win. Dad drove our new Rambler wagon. 😁
$3 million dollars in 1959 is nearly $31 million dollars by today's standards.
I was in first grade in Holly Hill, Fl. Highway A1A was the asphalt part of the track and barely two lanes wide. Grandad took us down to the beach to cook out and watch.
A great history lesson about Daytona and a great video. That was real racing! Thanks so much for posting this.
Watched the whole thing! Incredible!!!!! Thanks for posting this, Fantastic!
Sadly I only started to watch NASCAR in 1994 and could not see the true win on Sunday and sell on Monday kind of era. They truly looked like stock cars in the 80's and before then. Those days will most likely never ever come back. I am thankful channels like this preserve the history and the golden age of NASCAR.
On the brightside, no one dies anymore on the track
@@ChrisOhMy These cars compared the street cars of the era were greatly safer but yeah there were way more deaths and injuries back then
Back in the day when the family car was just like the one at Daytona. We're in a race car at the Drive in Theatre or at the beach or just buying groceries or a Sunday drive in the country.
This is some really good sh*t!!! Absolutely fantastic.
Wow.. My daughter went to Riddle in '97-'01'. Saw and HEARD lot's of this track when visiting her. No restrictor plates back then. Sweet sounds..
just 65 years ago...look at us now...what a shame
Tales from the old free America!
Does anybody else out there remember what life in America was like before the lawyers and the Karens conquered the world and turned it into a global HOA? What a country we had!!!
Flashback for this ol FL cracker. Thank you!
That was racing! Now it's a demolition derby on the😳 last lap!
...and THAT'S a fact! My dad & I were watching this year's Daytona 500 ( with that ingenious 3 stage carnival!) and as it came down to the last 10 or 15 laps or so they were running literally inches apart, four wide, and 190 mph. I commented to my dad, "watch this. There is no chance that all of those drivers with make it to the finish. I'd barely stopped talking and somebody slowed about 1/4 mph and the next guy touched him. In the blink of an eye, 15 cars or so were banging off about everything but the pit wall. There's no way 10 or 15 cars can run that close together at those speeds, without somebody touching somebody else and the "fun" begins...
Once again it is noted in 1959 that there is this thing called “drafting” that pulls cars. So WHY does nascar continue to tell us Junior Johnson was the first to discover it in 1960, one year later
Even though the video is about the 1959 Daytona 500 it could have been made a year or more later back then it wasn’t unusual to get a tape delayed race 6 months after it was ran and edited a week before release not saying your wrong or anything just mentioning that possibility
Around 16 mins it also said Richard was head of lee’s pit crew when he actually was running a convertible that blew his engine so it kinda contradicts itself there too lol
@@brandon42054 He finished 57th out of 59 racers, but worked on his father's crew the rest of the race.
@@everfree1992 oh I know but the commentator made it sound like he was pit crew only he also called him richard but When he was driving called him dick so the commentator was all over the place with his info is my point so I could see some of it being incorrect
Miles an hour politics
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I LEARNED A LOT. I LOVE VINTAGE NASCAR RACING!!! GREAT VIDEO AND THANKS FOR SHARING!!!!
Great to see those river barges cranking out at 140 mph…
This is great. Raw racing.
I watched a NASCAR race on TV once this year in 2022 and could count no more than One Hundred (100) in attendance. $150/$200 tickets, $50 parking, $20 beer $10 Hot dogs. NO THANK YOU. I can watch online or on TV for free. These were modified cars raced. Today they are million dollar machines just for racing made to resemble cars.
They are killing the sport. Went to my first baseball game tonight... boring af. We will not know what we have till its gone.
That's why you should go watch dirt racing more entertaining anyway
Very cool video of when this sport had people from every walk of life participating and spectating... The stock cars were just that, REAL STOCK cars that were very similar to what were publicly available in the show rooms... A few safety devices and some mild forms of tuning were done to them, but basically Very Close to stock form...
My brother raced at Florence dirt track😅
The Good Old days of motor racing where oeople on a budget could compete, sadly-are gone... This is WHY our history of motor racing is so important... To remind us of WHO we were, and where we came from...
And so my good friends, now you know how and where the Petty Racing dynasty began. Sweet. Take a good look as to how far the sport has come, and behold the legends it has, and continues to create. Even sweeter....
man these were the days!
Those days are gone.
This started it all. What a well produced film for 1959. Seeing the convertables run was the best part.
I hope that flagman had good life insurance at least for his family. That was the most dangerous spot for a flagman I've ever seen.
Weatherly had no business being a part of that finish. He should've dropped back and let them fight it out alone on the last lap.
this ones great Documentary,,,,nice to see,,,
Well done , thank you
Spent so much time on this Beach ⛱ Ormond to main. First turn now golfers paradise
My uncle William raced there on the sand back in the 50s. RIP uncle William. His brother, uncle George raced Sebring. RIP uncle George. They had a garage in Miami during the 50-60s. My how the world has changed.
320 HP back then, amazing when you realize a V6 Mustang puts out that much HP today!
Started with a 55 Bel-Air Stock car, ASA. Good Times.
to be fair they made a lot more torque. a new car might make 300hp at 7000rpm, where the old BIG engines did it at 5k.
These only strictly stock cars way before my time of cheering being a fan in nascar. I watched all the Winston cup series from 1990s as a kid. I can only remember those days. I love nascar always will. Great documentary.
Hearing the announcer say Dick Petty confused me when I saw the 43 pull in the pits. Then I figured it out and that's the 1st time I have ever heard Richard Petty called Dick Petty. It had me thinking that there was a 3rd Petty relative in the race named Dick Petty.
That yankee announcer didn't know any better.
Way cool ! Thumbs up and wishing you all a Happy New Years.
This is much cooler then those plastic Toyota husks driving around these days.
This was STOCK CAR racing at it's finest ! The way it should be !
This was awesome to see!!
And all on bias ply tires. 😳
All successful. 😳 Maybe take a hint.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL DRIVERS AND TEAMS.
Ding Dong Daddys from the USA 🇺🇸 America's best automotive years 50s + 60s ...
Merry Christmas 🎅
Awesome, that was the year I was born 😀 ❤🎉
They need to bring this back!
Now that was awesome
Enjoyed!!! 🏁🏁
Fantastic !!! Tks
How the hell did that guy walk away from that crash at 2min? ?!?!?!?!?!
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I learned to drive in the dirt . It sure helped.
Respect.
Dude those roll bars do nothing. Lol. What fun it was. A middle class guy can be a racer. Family event.
A lot of people got saved by them
Simple the best, very top old races. I am grom Brazil.
I wish Stock Car Meant Stock Car, And I Hate To Be That Person But, It's more real that way
Yet, you are that person....
Yeah. Modern nascar sucks ass.
Love it!!!
The fact that petty was ahead at the end of the Holman and Moody thunderbird was not the issue, what they disputed was the fact that the Petty car was not on the lead lap. It was a Fact that Petty had spent a long duration in the pit when the other cars were running. They said there was no way Petty could be near the lead lap some lap counters had the Petty car 7 laps down.
These cars looked the most beautifull back in those days.
Nowadays the cars do look exactly the same.
The only thing that is recognizable to indentify different brands from modern stock cars, are the fake sticker head and taillights together with the car brand on the hood
Today stockcars just can't beat the beaytifull lines like the '59 Impala at 5:48, and all the other models on the track
I don't care what anybody says.
But Nascar back in the days was pure and raw, like it should be
That's amazing sand, making a tire screech as it skids.
What I thought was cool, is they designed and knew the track, was really designed for cars of the future. 20 years later the speeds were over 200mph.
It is the cars that have changed dude.. not the track
NasCarHistory🔥💪
Great !!!!
8:17 that sums it up. These were uncharted waters for everyone!
14:45 listen to that 389 sing!
Awesome 👌 🆒️
Today, the only way to tell a Chevy from a Ford, from a Toyota at a NASCAR race is the engine/drivetrain and the shrink wrap on the body. Other than that they are all the same car.
Same with the music. Same robot voice, same canned drum beat, no instruments except for 3 or 4 notes of some preset sound on a keyboard. What the hell has happened to everything?
@@jpalberthoward9 Simple. You don’t have to pay a drummer, you don’t have to pay a keyboard player. It all comes down to money.
@@sfeddie1 yeah, I know everything comes down to money, even if all the stuff being made goes to shit, either to save money or to make more money. And so when you've made all this money, the only thing there is to buy with it is all the stuff that other people have turned into shit because it all about the money for them too. So you think "I know, I'll buy some old stuff because it was made better. But now the collector billionaires have snarfed up the old stuff and hyper inflated the prices because of supply and demand and things that were once good, useful everyday items are now priceless museum pieces because it's all about the money once again, so once you've piled the money up to the moon, the only thing you can buy with it is either shit, or priceless collector idols to be put away and worshipped because.........
(drum roll please)
It's all about the money!
The good book warns us about this. It says that the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. The evidence would seem to agree. But for some reason that nobody wants to question or examine, "it's all about the money" is a sacred cathecism, never to be questioned, lest one commit heretical blasphemy against the almighty bottom line.
No power steering, power brakes, leaf springs, and og open face helmets... now that's racing imo
I was five years old and knew about "stock cars" from my Dad who was in the automotive field through his job at the Sinclair Oil research facility near Chicago. It was a long way from Daytona. Racing isn't what it used to be and this video sure shows that! be. Racing is kind of boring today with identical cars and I can't get excited at all about the personal issues (especially/gender/sexual orientation) of drivers, team politics, etc. yuck! I live a few miles from Daytona today and what I need a time machine to head over there, no later than 1980.
I'd like to have 1959 back..
My mom and dad were there on their honeymoon. They had speed records there dating back to the teens. Then went to Bonneville salt flats.
THE THRILL IS GONE ☹️