1957
1957 Southern 500 at Darlington.....when car bodies were off the showroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBFQ-czndKo
Spencer Maze
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.
galaxiexl500
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.
****1957 Daytona Sand beach race course******************************
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXdQt8pW3ps
Kevin Peterson
im talking about the cup boys running dirt races not lower levels and todays nascar stock cars are nothing like the cars they ran on the beach, or for that matter other tracks in the early days because most of the cars they use to run were cars straight from the dealers lots or showroom and even the family car as well and most of them didnt have seat belts or roll cages and for the most part the motors and suspensions were totally stock. in todays racing even the lowest classes in nascar and all other racing venues all the cars have roll cages or bars to protect the drivers in some way and the motors of almost every car is highly modified with different heads, intakes,carberators, headers, and internal parts, like cams, cranks, pistons, valve springs everything that the rules allow and some they dont is modified for weight savings,or better handling, or horsepower, and aero dynamics a racer in todays sport does everything he can to make his car lighter faster and handle as good as it can in any class there are only really a few things that seperate the cup boys from the saturday night short track drivers.one is money without millions of dollars in cup you cant compete for very long at that level two is the sponsership again cup boys get more money because it costs more money for everything they do im not saying a guy couldnt build a car and compete against them but it would be tuff to do for more than a few races without good sponsership money to back them and three saturday night boys rarely race on anything bigger than a half mile track sometimes there are some that have raced on a threequarter mile and even one mile tracks but that is very rare for most saturday night racers so they never see the speeds the cup boys do and only a few lucky drivers get the chance to move up into even the leading ranks of nationwide or the trucks and even fewer yet get to be cup drivers