A few things to consider for this *1963 race:* The *500* in this road race was for _miles_ in distance, and not the often used _kilometres_to make a road race sound like a long-distance event. This race lasted, at five hours, nearly two hours longer than oval track races of the same distance; with no relief drivers. No power steering for this road course race. Drivers of that era were truly *iron men.*
@@timford3599 Don't know if you know this, but Cup cars back in the 60s weighed 3800 lbs, carried 600 lb big blocks under the hood, and didn't have power steering or air conditioned driving suits. Man's game.
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So cool to see the variety of manufacturers! A lot of Pontiacs! Their Super Duty 421 program was in full swing! Little did they know GM would officially pull out of racing at the end of the season. And yes, this race WAS in '63!
Actually, GM pulled out of racing, cancelling all orders for Super Duty cars on Jan. 24, 1963, 4 days after this race. Bummer, we would probably all be running Pontiac engines instead of Chiverlays through the years.
I grew up in Riverside and spent many a Sunday afternoon watching all the great race drivers and great race cars.I remember seeing the STP turbine Indy cars but of course my favorite driver was Dan Gurney.Damn shame they turned this great track into crappy houses.
Most of the former track site is a crappy mall, surrounded by crappy houses. MoVal is Exhibit A of '80/'90s suburban sprawl. The last race I saw at RIR was the '84 summer race, the Budweiser 400, won by Terry Labonte in the Piedmont car. I still have the program somewhere.
I was there in turn 6 as I was for many years., Dan Gurney for President! Great race course. Loved the Trams Am Series. Times Grand Prix, SCCA races there. RIP Riverside.
I would gladly wear a "torpedo bra" (and a garterbelt and thigh high stockings under my dress too) if I could time-warp myself to 1963 for a little bit. 1963, was also a time when California was a nice state too. :)
Sometimes during the event as well. There is a video on here of an early 60's race where David Pearson pulls into the pits for tires/gas and is handed an ice cold Schafer beer and a lit cigarette. You can see him chug the beer, toss the can out the window and leave the pits with that cigarette in his mouth. Now THAT was racing.
Any idea when the switch was made? We'd like to update the description. The b/g of the title card looks like it shows some kind of product, maybe an automobile belt or similar gasket or something?
I suspect PeriscopeFilm purposely planted the year error for copyright protection, as they are the owner of this video. If someone else was to post or sell this video with the 1964 date in the title, then the ripoff person can get nailed for it.
NASCAR today is a crash & burn derby, not racing. I saw my first NASCAR race in 1964, my last one in '94. No comparison. In 1962, when most everything was still on dirt, I also saw MARC (which later became ARCA) do a 500 lap Stock Car race on a half-mile dirt oval in Pittsburgh, IMCA run a 400 lap convertible event on a paved guarter-mile high-bank in Chicago, and USAC do 350 laps of Stock Car racing on the half-mile Ascot in Los Angeles. AAA ran Stock Car races before USAC was formed. There was a time when there were half-a -dozen national Stock Car sanctioning bodies. When Chrysler boycotted NASCAR in 1965 they sent all of their teams over to race in USAC's similar division (with the exception of Richard Petty who they sent drag racing in the first "Hemi 'Cuda"). The first three or four Pocono Stock Car races were USAC before NASCAR came in. In addition to Stock Car races on ovals & road courses, USAC for many years also had a Stock Car division on Pikes Peak. The history of Stock Car racing goes much deeper than what NASCAR would have you believe.
This was a crash fest with a winner declared like ten laps in 😂 i love to watch this, and modern nascar is gimmicky, but it's so much more competitive.
@nullname0 the playoff system is trash. I'm not defending modern nascar. Im just saying with the equalized cars, the racing is so much more competitive. Even though the same mfers still win each week.
Wow! A clockwise direction race track? Besides the unusual turns, I didn't realize this course was as unique as anything could be! This must have "confounded" the drivers of the time!
Pontiacs may have been the fast cars in '61-'63(at the start of '63 anyway)but anyone who attended stock car races at Riverside in the '60s can tell you who the King of that Track was. Some notable drivers that were not or barely mentioned starting with #43..Petty finished 39th..broke trans. cause like a lot of the good ol' boys he didn't know how to shift in road races consistantly. Richard broke after 27 laps...it's ironic he would show up in November for the 400 miler with an Automatic Transmission!....he retired after 5 laps..broke trans. Gurney drove Fred's car and Fred drove Gurney's car. Lorenzen would become famous in the Holman/Moody #28 and Gurney would dominate most of the '60s at Riverside in the Wood Bros. #21/121. Modified hardtop fans on the west coast will remember the name Marshall Sargent #27...his on track rivalry with Al Pombo are Modified Hardtop Legend. Cars seen but not mentioned...#11 Ned Jarrett..6th pl, #4 Rex White, #6 David Pearson, #25 Bill Clinton(the Bill Clinton who really did not have sex with Monica L.), #1 Danny Letner..9th pl., for all his troubles #54 Jim Pardue finished 8th, #44 on trailer, Loyd Dane finished 44th. Notables not seen or mentioned...#0 Dave McDonald..would be killed at '64 Indianapolis 500 along with Eddie Sachs...finished 12th, #34 Wendell Scott...first blackman to race and win in Nascar's Grand National series..finished 18th after qualifing 33..was running at end of race, #97 Ron Hornaday(sr.)...the patriarch of the Hornaday name in motorsports..drove a '62 Ford entered by Galpin Ford to 11th pl., #98 Joe Ruttman yep that Joe Ruttman....the ageless wonder who outlasted all the racers you see here racing well into his '60s in top level Nascar series..he finished 10th driving one of three of the legendary Bill Stroppe's Mercurys. The others were "15 Parnelli Jones and #14 Troy Ruttman(3rd). I really miss Riverside International Raceway.
1963 NASCAR International Rule Book Specifications NASCAR Grand National Championship Circuit Section 20-4 -- Bumpers a. Cars must be equipped with complete set of bumpers for make and model and must be in top quality condition. Recommend bumper ends should be bolted to fenders as a safety factor and must be approved by NASCAR.
I suspect the year of this race and the use of the _Winston_ name were purposely written into this upload's title as a means of copyright detection; similar to what map makers do with maps with misspelled street names; so the copyright holder has a way to prove their item was being used without authorization/permission. This was the 1963 race; and Winston didn't come onto the sponsorship scene for NASCAR until the early 1970s.
Ya he was the rich boy in racing back then...silver spoon from birth in Nascar. I'm sure he had people just to make the car look good even in the desert. Also he only lasted 27 laps cause in '63 he hadn't a clue how to run a road coarse and he kept breaking transmissions...in fact when they came back here in November(this race was before Daytona)he showed up with an automatic trans....that lasted 5 laps.
I was waiting for the mention of Joe Weatherly's fatal crash...which happened in the 64 Riverside 500, where he was driving a Mercury. Thanks, Eugene, for the clarification.
Nope. Max engine size was 428 CID. a. Engine size (displacement) increase as a result of permissible overboring, measured at the base of the cylinder, is .010 for all eligible models, providing the total displacement does not exceed 428 cubic inches. Stroke must conform to AMA specifications.
Can you imagine trying to wrestle one of those big boats around a road course with no power steering and no power brakes? Then imagine doing it for 500 miles. I also like seeing the California landscape before urban sprawl consumed Riverside. Couldn't we have frozen time there in 1964?
No champagne spraying here that had to wait until 1967 and Dan's historic win of Le Mans for the Ford team. Dan is credited as the inventor of the champagne spray which is half to three quarters true. Dan was the first person to do the act intentionally but the year previously the bottles had been left out in the sun and Jo Siffert accidentally spayed others with champagne. In 2012 Mr Gurney was the guest of honour at The Goodwood Revival I've attended for several years gaining entry by volunteering for charity. The woman I worked under met many of the great and good and not just from the racing world. I never saw her star stuck by anyone, but she was obviously most impressed by Dan Gurney.www.goodwood.com/grr/event-coverage/goodwood-revival/2020/7/video-celebrating-dan-gurney-at-goodwood/
Isn't it ironic that Dan Gurney's epic win for Ford Motor Company in the awesome GT40 Mk IV at the 1967 edition of The 24 hours of Le Mans where he was teamed with The great A.J. Foyt, who coincidently finished 2nd to Dan in this race. These two men were polar opposites in personalities and temperaments, but as teammates they proved to be "The World's Best Sport Car Drivers" in 1967 as they dominated the field of 55 entries in the most grueling 24 Hour Endurance Race in the world at Le Mans.
Joe was series champion of '62 and '63. 5:28 Joe's qualifying start / 26:06 Joe in the turn where he would meet his fate the next year. There's a clip of his accident, the hay bales of '63 were replaced by a wall in '64. There's a mention of a driver in his '63 model too, Detroit wouldn't like last year's model being highlighted.
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Dan Gurney. A true gentleman and class act in a rough era of racing.
A few things to consider for this *1963 race:* The *500* in this road race was for _miles_ in distance, and not the often used _kilometres_to make a road race sound like a long-distance event.
This race lasted, at five hours, nearly two hours longer than oval track races of the same distance; with no relief drivers.
No power steering for this road course race.
Drivers of that era were truly *iron men.*
The total elapsed time for this race was 5:53:20 for an average speed of 84.965mph!
@@jhurst1255 Thanks for that detail. It reaffirms my take that the race drivers of that era were *IRON MEN.*
Yeah, little Pee Wees like Kyle Larson couldn't have driven 'em back then. Or Jeff Gordon, even though he was my hero after Petty retired.
@@donellmuniz590 I think you (like so many others) totally underestimate Kyle Larson's ability and stamina.
@@timford3599 Don't know if you know this, but Cup cars back in the 60s weighed 3800 lbs, carried 600 lb big blocks under the hood, and didn't have power steering or air conditioned driving suits. Man's game.
Vintage stock car racing at its best. Thanks PeriscopeFilm for this well preserved film.
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No houses, nothing around the track. Those were the days!
Awesome! Thanks for posting. I miss those days.
So cool to see the variety of manufacturers! A lot of Pontiacs! Their Super Duty 421 program was in full swing! Little did they know GM would officially pull out of racing at the end of the season. And yes, this race WAS in '63!
Actually, GM pulled out of racing, cancelling all orders for Super Duty cars on Jan. 24, 1963, 4 days after this race. Bummer, we would probably all be running Pontiac engines instead of Chiverlays through the years.
Bias ply tires and bench seats! Riverside was a good track up til closed. Prime real estate.
I think they built a mall of all things on the property
A mall that is also not doing well.
I grew up in Riverside and spent many a Sunday afternoon watching all the great race drivers and great race cars.I remember seeing the STP turbine Indy cars but of course my favorite driver was Dan Gurney.Damn shame they turned this great track into crappy houses.
Most of the former track site is a crappy mall, surrounded by crappy houses. MoVal is Exhibit A of '80/'90s suburban sprawl. The last race I saw at RIR was the '84 summer race, the Budweiser 400, won by Terry Labonte in the Piedmont car. I still have the program somewhere.
I was there in turn 6 as I was for many years., Dan Gurney for President! Great race course. Loved the Trams Am Series. Times Grand Prix, SCCA races there. RIP Riverside.
Norm Thatcher, as seen in the sales pitch part of this film, was best known for building Chrysler-based Bonneville racers.
When men were men and women wore torpedo bras ... lol.
I would gladly wear a "torpedo bra" (and a garterbelt and thigh high stockings under my dress too) if I could time-warp myself to 1963 for a little bit. 1963, was also a time when California was a nice state too. :)
@@AgentPepsi1 I bet you'd look awesome in it too.
21:08 yowsa!
And "sexy" cat's eye glasses.
@@wtxrailfanshe ain’t gonna let you hit
and you could tell what brand of cars they were..this was real driving...and a cold beer and cig after...
Sometimes during the event as well. There is a video on here of an early 60's race where David Pearson pulls into the pits for tires/gas and is handed an ice cold Schafer beer and a lit cigarette. You can see him chug the beer, toss the can out the window and leave the pits with that cigarette in his mouth. Now THAT was racing.
Very surprised to see a Morris Minor pickup delivering the pistons.
Wives Dad owned Riverside. He was also a hall of fame football player. Les Richter.
I doubt if any of the current NASCRAP drivers would be able to even finish this race.
Now this is racing.
Racing is racist!
Racers are racist because they're racing.
Back when "Stock Cars" meant a Stock Car
Thanks for a great upload!
23:40 - Clem Procter having the most graceful crash in NASCAR history - Jim Paschal should take notes!
Winston didn't become involved for many years later. The race at Riverside at that time was sponsored by Motor Trend magazine.
Any idea when the switch was made? We'd like to update the description. The b/g of the title card looks like it shows some kind of product, maybe an automobile belt or similar gasket or something?
@@PeriscopeFilm
Don't have my press guides any more now that I'm retired. Late '80s, early '90s if I remember. Lot of time has passed
@@PeriscopeFilm around 1970
This is 63. Joe Weatherly was in a Pontiac. In 64, he drove a Mercury, hit the wall, and died.
I suspect PeriscopeFilm purposely planted the year error for copyright protection, as they are the owner of this video. If someone else was to post or sell this video with the 1964 date in the title, then the ripoff person can get nailed for it.
Nascar should watch this film and realize how badly they have ruined the joke of a race series they have now.
NASCAR today is a crash & burn derby, not racing. I saw my first NASCAR race in 1964, my last one in '94. No comparison. In 1962, when most everything was still on dirt, I also saw MARC (which later became ARCA) do a 500 lap Stock Car race on a half-mile dirt oval in Pittsburgh, IMCA run a 400 lap convertible event on a paved guarter-mile high-bank in Chicago, and USAC do 350 laps of Stock Car racing on the half-mile Ascot in Los Angeles. AAA ran Stock Car races before USAC was formed. There was a time when there were half-a -dozen national Stock Car sanctioning bodies. When Chrysler boycotted NASCAR in 1965 they sent all of their teams over to race in USAC's similar division (with the exception of Richard Petty who they sent drag racing in the first "Hemi 'Cuda"). The first three or four Pocono Stock Car races were USAC before NASCAR came in. In addition to Stock Car races on ovals & road courses, USAC for many years also had a Stock Car division on Pikes Peak. The history of Stock Car racing goes much deeper than what NASCAR would have you believe.
I'm 66 and racing now is ten times better than the 60s. Races were won by 5 laps often ten. The past always seems better than it actually was
This was a crash fest with a winner declared like ten laps in 😂 i love to watch this, and modern nascar is gimmicky, but it's so much more competitive.
@@chuckiefinster544 and the playoff system?
@nullname0 the playoff system is trash. I'm not defending modern nascar. Im just saying with the equalized cars, the racing is so much more competitive. Even though the same mfers still win each week.
Wow! A clockwise direction race track? Besides the unusual turns, I didn't realize this course was as unique as anything could be! This must have "confounded" the drivers of the time!
Most road courses are clockwise.
Pontiacs may have been the fast cars in '61-'63(at the start of '63 anyway)but anyone who attended stock car races at Riverside in the '60s can tell you who the King of that Track was.
Some notable drivers that were not or barely mentioned starting with #43..Petty finished 39th..broke trans. cause like a lot of the good ol' boys he didn't know how to shift in road races consistantly. Richard broke after 27 laps...it's ironic he would show up in November for the 400 miler with an Automatic Transmission!....he retired after 5 laps..broke trans.
Gurney drove Fred's car and Fred drove Gurney's car. Lorenzen would become famous in the Holman/Moody #28 and Gurney would dominate most of the '60s at Riverside in the Wood Bros. #21/121.
Modified hardtop fans on the west coast will remember the name Marshall Sargent #27...his on track rivalry with Al Pombo are Modified Hardtop Legend.
Cars seen but not mentioned...#11 Ned Jarrett..6th pl, #4 Rex White, #6 David Pearson, #25 Bill Clinton(the Bill Clinton who really did not have sex with Monica L.), #1 Danny Letner..9th pl., for all his troubles #54 Jim Pardue finished 8th, #44 on trailer, Loyd Dane finished 44th.
Notables not seen or mentioned...#0 Dave McDonald..would be killed at '64 Indianapolis 500 along with Eddie Sachs...finished 12th, #34 Wendell Scott...first blackman to race and win in Nascar's Grand National series..finished 18th after qualifing 33..was running at end of race, #97 Ron Hornaday(sr.)...the patriarch of the Hornaday name in motorsports..drove a '62 Ford entered by Galpin Ford to 11th pl., #98 Joe Ruttman yep that Joe Ruttman....the ageless wonder who outlasted all the racers you see here racing well into his '60s in top level Nascar series..he finished 10th driving one of three of the legendary Bill Stroppe's Mercurys. The others were "15 Parnelli Jones and #14 Troy Ruttman(3rd).
I really miss Riverside International Raceway.
What are the big chrome things on each end of the cars?
LOL!!!
1963 NASCAR International Rule Book
Specifications
NASCAR Grand National Championship Circuit
Section 20-4 -- Bumpers
a. Cars must be equipped with complete set of bumpers for make and model and must be in top quality condition. Recommend bumper ends should be bolted to fenders as a safety factor and must be approved by NASCAR.
I suspect the year of this race and the use of the _Winston_ name were purposely written into this upload's title as a means of copyright detection; similar to what map makers do with maps with misspelled street names; so the copyright holder has a way to prove their item was being used without authorization/permission.
This was the 1963 race; and Winston didn't come onto the sponsorship scene for NASCAR until the early 1970s.
Title says 1964...it is incorrect then? ***EDIT*** Ah, ok, I see it was indeed 63. Thanks.
4:00 Richard Petty looks like he's the only one that waxed his car and polished the chrome.
Ya he was the rich boy in racing back then...silver spoon from birth in Nascar. I'm sure he had people just to make the car look good even in the desert. Also he only lasted 27 laps cause in '63 he hadn't a clue how to run a road coarse and he kept breaking transmissions...in fact when they came back here in November(this race was before Daytona)he showed up with an automatic trans....that lasted 5 laps.
@@Miatacrosser and now he has officially launched the fatal red herring to put the final nail in the NASCAR coffin.
Real stock car racing....poor handling....mediocre brakes. Love the Pontiac Super Duties.
I love the Galaxies and the Mopars.
Drum brakes at 160 mph.
Thats a scary thought
Thank you so much for the upload! I hope someday we can start up a NASMCAR or something similar involving old muscle with today’s safety standards!
I noticed a Richfield tanker in the infield. Did they not use Pure when they were out west?
This was the.... 1963 Riverside race. Not 1964.
Yup. The '63 race.
I was waiting for the mention of Joe
Weatherly's fatal crash...which happened in the 64 Riverside 500,
where he was driving a Mercury.
Thanks, Eugene, for the clarification.
" She had a 455 rocket, biggest block alive".
Not in 63. In 63, the biggest "blocks" were in Lincolns, at 462. 455s and 472 (Caddy) engines came later, like 68.
Nope. Max engine size was 428 CID.
a. Engine size (displacement) increase as a result of permissible overboring, measured at the base of the cylinder, is .010 for all eligible models, providing the total displacement does not exceed 428 cubic inches. Stroke must conform to AMA specifications.
This is 63 I think and not 64. Joe Weatherly was killed in turn 5 at the Riverside race in 64.
Can you imagine trying to wrestle one of those big boats around a road course with no power steering and no power brakes? Then imagine doing it for 500 miles.
I also like seeing the California landscape before urban sprawl consumed Riverside. Couldn't we have frozen time there in 1964?
I would like to have one of those cars now
this is 1963 race!
This is essentially America’s version of early Bathurst.
I love this era of racing ' and the cars' but there was a hell of a lot of sliding and crashing ' I think wider tires would have helped.
Ah, yes, racing before drifting was discovered......
Go fast turn left is about the same as point it forward and gas it hard! And I like drag racing.....
13:48
No champagne spraying here that had to wait until 1967 and Dan's historic win of Le Mans for the Ford team. Dan is credited as the inventor of the champagne spray which is half to three quarters true. Dan was the first person to do the act intentionally but the year previously the bottles had been left out in the sun and Jo Siffert accidentally spayed others with champagne.
In 2012 Mr Gurney was the guest of honour at The Goodwood Revival I've attended for several years gaining entry by volunteering for charity. The woman I worked under met many of the great and good and not just from the racing world. I never saw her star stuck by anyone, but she was obviously most impressed by Dan Gurney.www.goodwood.com/grr/event-coverage/goodwood-revival/2020/7/video-celebrating-dan-gurney-at-goodwood/
Isn't it ironic that Dan Gurney's epic win for Ford Motor Company in the awesome GT40 Mk IV at the 1967 edition of The 24 hours of Le Mans where he was teamed with The great A.J. Foyt, who coincidently finished 2nd to Dan in this race. These two men were polar opposites in personalities and temperaments, but as teammates they proved to be "The World's Best Sport Car Drivers" in 1967 as they dominated the field of 55 entries in the most grueling 24 Hour Endurance Race in the world at Le Mans.
I get a kick out of the sound effects.
Great film!....but not 64, lol
This was 1963, not 1964.
This is 1963.
Good show. I just don't get the horror movie music.
1963.
LOL this is barge racing, not car racing!!
Little Joe Weatherly is killed in this race
Yep
No!!!!! This was the 63 Riverside race. Joe was driving a 1963 pontiac. He crashed his 1964 mercury the next year. It was that crash that killed him.
@@eugeneschulte4950 that would explain why it wasn't mentioned
@@johnpreisler6713 Dan Gurney won the 1964 Riverside race too.
Joe was series champion of '62 and '63.
5:28 Joe's qualifying start / 26:06 Joe in the turn where he would meet his fate the next year.
There's a clip of his accident, the hay bales of '63 were replaced by a wall in '64.
There's a mention of a driver in his '63 model too, Detroit wouldn't like last year's model being highlighted.
It was 1963
Actually... i fail to understand the logic in doing this. Adrenalin junkies do the strangest things.
Ok Spock. Logic ain't got nothin' to do with it.
I never go to races because racing is racist.
Foot races, car races, motorcycle races, duck races... all racist.
And, of course, the most RACIST!!! of all... hermit crab races!
It's right in the word that racing is racist!
I heard NASCAR will be installing automatic garage door openers to combat that!
Why are you even here, killjoy? Get lost.