Can't believe i found this video. I was there as a 14 year old with my Dad and a friend of his. Can still remember the wreck when Bobby Myers got killed. We lived in NC at the time and now i live 12 miles from the track. Those were the good old days of NASCAR!!
1957 was a great year for cars...the very beginning of the Detroit horsepower wars which lasted until 1970-71. The Chrysler 300's totally dominated NASCAR in 1955-56 as did the Dodge D-500's in 56. But in 1957 both Ford and GM finally built some cars that could compete with the Mopar's...the supercharged 312 Y-Block Ford's, the fuel injected 283 Chevy's, and the Tri Power Pontiac's and J2 Oldsmobile's...which NASCAR banned all at the same time mid season. But the Chrysler 300 still had the highest factory horsepower rating of any American car in 1957 even with the new high perfo
At the end the announcer says "It's been a great day for auto racing" but @ 9:40 the host says one of the drivers was killed in a collision with a stalled car......so, WTF
Back then it was not unusual that a driver died at a race. And remember this was just 12 years from WW2, where thousands died daily, so people were used to a lot of death in their every day news. On top of that mortality in general was higher back then, amongst newborns for example, so it was not the as big a tragedy if one person died, as it is seen today.
It's only taken those Southern rednecks a 150 years to cope with the fact that they lost the fucking war! That is the flag of traitors and we should treat it the way that Germany treats a Nazi flag!
![[HD] 1957 Daytona Beach Race 335 Mercurys, Supercharged Fords, Fuel Injected Chevrolets](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/84PbuAK3icQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Can't believe i found this video. I was there as a 14 year old with my Dad and a friend of his. Can still remember the wreck when Bobby Myers got killed. We lived in NC at the time and now i live 12 miles from the track. Those were the good old days of NASCAR!!
Jesus, that was a HARD hit.
RIP Bobby Myers 🙏
WOW!!! ... That Was Fun To Watch!!! 😍
1957 was a great year for cars...the very beginning of the Detroit horsepower wars which lasted until 1970-71. The Chrysler 300's totally dominated NASCAR in 1955-56 as did the Dodge D-500's in 56. But in 1957 both Ford and GM finally built some cars that could compete with the Mopar's...the supercharged 312 Y-Block Ford's, the fuel injected 283 Chevy's, and the Tri Power Pontiac's and J2 Oldsmobile's...which NASCAR banned all at the same time mid season. But the Chrysler 300 still had the highest factory horsepower rating of any American car in 1957 even with the new high perfo
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In these old racing videos I love the fire retardant short sleeve shirts and brain bucket helmets. To them that was safety, to us it's like wtf??!!!
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The unprotected pit lane was nuts!
At the end the announcer says "It's been a great day for auto racing" but @ 9:40 the host says one of the drivers was killed in a collision with a stalled car......so, WTF
Back then it was not unusual that a driver died at a race.
And remember this was just 12 years from WW2, where thousands died daily, so people were used to a lot of death in their every day news.
On top of that mortality in general was higher back then, amongst newborns for example, so it was not the as big a tragedy if one person died, as it is seen today.
Usually 5 or 6 would die.
Id love to see this one lane kind of action for my $100 ticket out of todays kids
The MOPARS were yet to come.
God i wish they taped them all. Ill bet Wood bros. are hoarding a few vids lol.
Bud Moore looked like a rascal ...
I just went to watkins Glen 8/21/22, one of the contraband items not permitted at the track...................confederate flag!!
Cope
It's only taken those Southern rednecks a 150 years to cope with the fact that they lost the fucking war! That is the flag of traitors and we should treat it the way that Germany treats a Nazi flag!
NO BUBBA “smollet” WALLACE CRYING HERE
Considering he wasn't even born yet and his parents were most likely kids, yeah.
Waf accident
14:59 ... Wonder what that was all about?
He knew there was a camera, so more pressure to be a billy-bad-ass mainly