1959 Darlington Southern 500

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  • Watch the running of the 10th annual Darlington Southern 500 held on September 7th, 1959. This was the inaugural Darlington race for a young Richard Petty.
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  • @josephg41
    @josephg41 Рік тому +16

    The cars, the girls, love it all. What a time.

  • @jimeditorial
    @jimeditorial Рік тому +30

    Jim Reed...."He's a Yankee, but a good man just the same!" LOL!

    • @barbt.9211
      @barbt.9211 Рік тому +3

      Jim Reed was from Peekskill ny, he past away a few years ago, he was in his nineties, I knew him, those men were though as nails.

    • @jimeditorial
      @jimeditorial Рік тому +4

      @@barbt.9211 that was a very difficult time to be a big league stock car driver..140mph speeds, little safety equipment and driver had to be gentle with the equipment to make it last. He drove a fine race.

    • @dyer2cycle
      @dyer2cycle Рік тому +3

      @@jimeditorial ..yeah, for me, it's those tires they are using that would be scary at 140 mph speeds!

  • @bobk18
    @bobk18 Рік тому +26

    I truly enjoy these old films. As a 6 year old in 62 I remember waiting each month for the newest edition of Stock Car Magazine to hit the stands. It and Hot Rod were about our only way to follow NASCAR from north of the 49th. Big thanks to the people posting(?) these films.

  • @AustinLaPlante
    @AustinLaPlante Рік тому +22

    What a find man! You're basically the king on finding all of these Southern 500 highlight races.

  • @joshward6917
    @joshward6917 Рік тому +16

    Fans always complain and whine about wanting racing how it was in the old days, but fail to remember that races, like the 1959 Southern 500, were won by the leader lapping the field multiple times.

    • @JackF99
      @JackF99 Рік тому +5

      True but in the pursuit of close racing they've completely eliminated the car element: factory vs factory and team prep to see who can get the most creative within the rules. I am personally not at all interested in todays NASCAR focus on spats between drama queen drivers and politics of team owners. So the fan base is very different now.

    • @rickr442
      @rickr442 Рік тому

      @@JackF99 stock car racing has changed because stock cars have changed. Do you really want 35 front drive sedans racing each other? ‘How ‘bout that Daytona 500 with an average speed of 72.6 miles per hour!,,’

    • @joshward6917
      @joshward6917 Рік тому

      @@JackF99 So are you in favor of allowing teams to strap a jet engine to the car and lap the field 15 times? Teams still push boundaries and the boomer fanbase screams and cries "cheater" every time it happens. You can have your races won by five lap snooze fests.

    • @JackF99
      @JackF99 Рік тому +6

      @@joshward6917I just prefer stock-based cars over generic race cars and recall plenty of close races in the sixties when the factories were required to homologate the basic elements of the entire car. As such I don't recall any production cars with jet engines- please elaborate though. When cars changed in the dark days of the Malaise Era NASCAR decided to abandon the stock concept completely. They have allowed complete fantasy cars that don't really exist like rear-drive Tauruses and Camrys but don't allow Ford or Toyota factory overhead cam V8 engines which are readily available in their production cars. They realy should be called the National Association of Spec Car Auto Racing.

    • @joshward6917
      @joshward6917 Рік тому

      @@JackF99 So would you prefer for Dodge to return to the sport and put their new stock electric hellcat on the grid? Do you also want the cars to have factory computer driving like showroom stock cars have now days?

  • @MrChristopherHaas
    @MrChristopherHaas Рік тому +14

    This is the BEST version of 59’ race on you tube. The only version that shows Junior Johnson qualifying wreck aftermath, just awful. Only version that shows “bad boy” Cale/Petty early race wreck. Gabriel shocks sponsored racing videos are the best, FULL coverage, great camera angles. THANK YOU NASCAR ALL OUT, cannot WAIT to see what comes next. I KNOW you have MORE, hoping Bristol 61’ is next

  • @cjs83172
    @cjs83172 Рік тому +9

    Here's an interesting note regarding the winning car in this race. As far as I know, this is the only time a crown jewel race in NASCAR's top series has ever been won by car #7, which has usually been a bad luck number in big time racing. I know Alan Kulwicki used that number to win a NASCAR championship in 1992, but he never won any big races with it, with his closest brush being the 1989 Daytona 500, when a cut tire took him out of the lead with four laps remaining. And it isn't just in NASCAR where the #7 seems to be a cursed car number. The last time that the #7 car won the Indianapolis 500 was back in 1949, ten years before this race, with Bill Holland.

    • @MrChristopherHaas
      @MrChristopherHaas 10 місяців тому

      I saw Gordon Johncock win Indy race at Milwaukee Mile in mid-sixties with #7 Does that count lol

  • @spuddougherty7860
    @spuddougherty7860 Рік тому +5

    Man
    ..Back in the hayday. Love it!

  • @johnhennery8820
    @johnhennery8820 Рік тому +4

    It's really cool seeing those old body styles running in a race and seeing the tires that they used I remember these cars on the road when I was a kid born in 55 I only wish I could have saved some of those cool cars so I built model cars and made them look like race cars I wish my parents hadn't thrown them out wen I was 12 o well it's good to see this race brought back memories I had forgotten awasom video thanks

  • @crazyaces4042
    @crazyaces4042 Місяць тому

    when I was a kid, I got to see the US marine Band and I'm SO glad I did! It was a school class field trip - when life was so much better. I didn't really understand the significance of it then, but I do now. It was a great concert I know that much. Wow how so many things have changed and yes including Nascar - the races and the cars.. no fun to even watch anymore.

  • @neuromanglers
    @neuromanglers Рік тому +8

    Would be amazing to attend a race with those vintage cars

  • @69Applekrate
    @69Applekrate Рік тому +4

    The "Skipper" from Gilligans island before Gilligans island is in the parade

  • @eshelly4205
    @eshelly4205 4 місяці тому +2

    What a great life back then…

  • @CudaRebelsAutoModeling426
    @CudaRebelsAutoModeling426 Рік тому +4

    Wow another great race! Two Darlington southern 500s I thought were lost to the sands of time have been surfaced in less than 2 weeks. very impressed by the work of Nascarallout getting both the this and the 1961 race back for all to see, Well done!

  • @AgentZ7
    @AgentZ7 Рік тому +4

    The Actors & Actresses mentioned at 5:08 were all here for the filming of "Thunder in Carolina" Starring Rory Calhoun & everyone else seen here. You can watch the movie here on YT. :)

  • @tsholts5173
    @tsholts5173 Рік тому +6

    "Number 13 stays unlucky, starts an uncontrollable smoke orgy" 😂 what!?

    • @Camcam96
      @Camcam96 Рік тому +4

      Right?! Funny commentating back then too lol

  • @TheAwmoody
    @TheAwmoody Рік тому +4

    Thunder in Carolina used footage from this race and parade for their movie. You see star of the movie Alan "Skipper" Hale judging some beauties here.

    • @extramile150
      @extramile150 Рік тому +4

      Connie Hines only movie, then big career in tv as Mr. Ed' owner's wife. Also, 'stoogie' should have gotten best actor oscar!!!🏆

  • @shanew.williams
    @shanew.williams Рік тому +1

    Thank You so much for posting this race ! I've waited many years for someone to post the full race highlights of this 1959 Southern 500.

  • @THROTTLEPOWER
    @THROTTLEPOWER Рік тому +3

    🏁Really enjoyed!!!!🏁

  • @user-vs4hg4og5p
    @user-vs4hg4og5p 6 місяців тому

    Thank you for the video. As an old gye, you bring back fond memories. 😊

  • @user-cc5mx6cb2d
    @user-cc5mx6cb2d 2 місяці тому +1

    That little boy is now atleast 70 years old

  • @MrChristopherHaas
    @MrChristopherHaas 10 місяців тому +1

    Gotta love how Smokey Yunick was right there to help Cotton Owens at15:53

  • @philippbehrend5559
    @philippbehrend5559 11 місяців тому +2

    making Rory Calhoun judge a beauty pageant is like asking a wolf to herd sheep

  • @megafrayder736
    @megafrayder736 4 місяці тому +1

    Man I wish they still had the parade and beauty contest. I drove thru downtown Darlington before the 500 last year. Ghost town. Dirty and dilapidated. A shell of what it used to be. Sad.

  • @Timmermon63
    @Timmermon63 Рік тому +2

    Awesome video

  • @toddburgess6792
    @toddburgess6792 Рік тому +1

    LOOK OUT, that announcer is Golden! ;-)

  • @paulross9287
    @paulross9287 Рік тому +1

    Wow! THANKS!

  • @jpalberthoward9
    @jpalberthoward9 Рік тому +6

    I'm just barely old enough to have seen the tail end of this world. Moonshiner maniacs made good with a legitimate reason to drive this way, and give everybody a thrill doing it.
    Why is it that everything is so cool when it first starts out. It's low tech, low dollar, they're still trying to figure everything out, and then when the big money comes in and it gets all "professional" it becomes so stale and sanitized and boring? The same thing happened to rock and roll, and country music. All the elements of menace and danger are gone. It's so safe and legal and politically correct and family friendly that it's got no fire left in it.
    To me, NASCAR is another form of rock and roll, they just use V8 engines instead of guitars.

  • @ron8802
    @ron8802 Рік тому +2

    Hey...its Skipper from Gilligan's Island......🏝....lol

  • @DustinBaerwolf-kv9jx
    @DustinBaerwolf-kv9jx 8 місяців тому +2

    Good to see a 348 chevy win the race

  • @ScarBuck
    @ScarBuck Рік тому +3

    Surprised there was a number 13 car - I thought that was up there with the color green and peanut shells on the floor of the race car.

    • @MrChristopherHaas
      @MrChristopherHaas 10 місяців тому

      Balmer kept the number and continued racing until 67’ I think. He had good factory ride for a time, won a Daytona 500 qualifier….and that’s the only race he ever won.

  • @gourangiverma3947
    @gourangiverma3947 8 місяців тому

    As a kid who was born in 2009, i can confirm that this is NEED FOR SPEED (SOME LIKE IT HOT )PURSUIT

  • @invisiblepuppet3437
    @invisiblepuppet3437 Рік тому +2

    11:55

  • @petermurray4061
    @petermurray4061 Рік тому +7

    I've seen some old NASCAR races over the years, but this is the first I have seen where the #43 isn't predominantly 'Petty' blue, and they keep referring to the driver as Dick!

    • @markfurman4386
      @markfurman4386 Рік тому +2

      My dad's name was also Richard. Everyone called him Dick. It was never a slur or meant as an insult, since the name 'Dick' was commonly used for anyone named Richard. Sort of interchangeable, far as I can tell. No idea why.

    • @MrChristopherHaas
      @MrChristopherHaas 10 місяців тому

      And he has “SKI KING” on his door. Wonder what that meant

    • @pughoneycutt1986
      @pughoneycutt1986 6 місяців тому

      SKI KING was an old TV show, but don't know what the connection was ​@MrChristopherHaas

    • @joesimpson3037
      @joesimpson3037 4 дні тому +1

      It was a song ​@@MrChristopherHaas

    • @MrChristopherHaas
      @MrChristopherHaas 4 дні тому

      @@pughoneycutt1986 something relatable to Richard i recon

  • @moncaman1
    @moncaman1 Рік тому +1

    Excellent watch!!... I love the dude with the confederate civil war hat... I guess he came in second best!!!...😜🇺🇸🗽👍...

  • @gameonsports69
    @gameonsports69 11 місяців тому +4

    How do you find these

  • @RayTuttle-of5qd
    @RayTuttle-of5qd 2 місяці тому +1

    This is the NASCAR I fell in love with! Not so much anymore!it used to be about the men and machines and the innovations and the ability to solve problems!now it’s a cookie cutter car and a bunch of spoiled rich kids

  • @robertf4108
    @robertf4108 Рік тому +3

    That kid is not Cale Yarborough

    • @MrChristopherHaas
      @MrChristopherHaas 10 місяців тому

      Oh yes it is. He didn’t get a factory ride til 65 Rebel 400 though

  • @muddymo7641
    @muddymo7641 5 місяців тому +1

    When racing was racing

  • @user-vs4hg4og5p
    @user-vs4hg4og5p 6 місяців тому

    Finish the race , # 1, better chance of winning!

  • @Duececoupe
    @Duececoupe Рік тому +1

    My favourite number, "13"....😎

  • @MrJohnnyDistortion
    @MrJohnnyDistortion Рік тому +1

    They all make the same tire screechy sound interestingly.

  • @I.Live4oldcars.prospecting
    @I.Live4oldcars.prospecting 5 місяців тому +1

    I wasn't alive then. But Awesome times back then. America was America, cars we're cars, Stock car racing wasn't a pussy sport like now.

  • @Timmermon63
    @Timmermon63 Рік тому +1

    At 2:27 Ten leaves on the spring pac!

  • @HaiVitouSeyhaSengVanOudomOffic
    @HaiVitouSeyhaSengVanOudomOffic 11 днів тому +1

    Oh No 😨 16:45

  • @terraboundmisfit
    @terraboundmisfit Рік тому

    Born, September 18 1959.

  • @crunchie83
    @crunchie83 5 місяців тому

    19:50 "pit viper" then sunglasses. 🤔

  • @jeffmullinix7916
    @jeffmullinix7916 Рік тому +3

    This was the time when stockcars was stock cars sort of . These cars was stripped down , holes drilled . Every bit of weight cut , unbolted unscrewed . Then all the drivetrain modified as well as the engines . This was the time when they used the manufactures engine not engines from an off brand engine manufacture . Chevy had chevy engines , Dodge had dodge engines and Ford had Ford engines . Not all had the same hp or torq . This was when real men was polite and not punch each other . But threw was some men that was not men and those men cheated .

    • @markfurman4386
      @markfurman4386 Рік тому

      Everybody that were good were cheating. They had to if they wanted to be competitive, Word gets around the teams, people hear about things, do the same. Sort of a Cheater's Club, gentlemen who refused to rat anyone out because they were doing the same things.

  • @TheStraightDope857
    @TheStraightDope857 Рік тому +2

    How about young Dick Petty in the #43 car...

  • @mr.roaddogwade7107
    @mr.roaddogwade7107 Рік тому +2

    Glory days

  • @amada5966873
    @amada5966873 2 місяці тому

    5:53 just throw that trash anywhere!! 😂😂😂

  • @jeffmullinix7916
    @jeffmullinix7916 Рік тому

    LOL , He's shaken but not stirred .

  • @Camcam96
    @Camcam96 Рік тому +1

    I find it fascinating that the called out merlons measurements! Does anyone know if they still do the parade and pageant?

    • @MrChristopherHaas
      @MrChristopherHaas 10 місяців тому +1

      Too politically incorrect. They might still have the parade now but I seriously doubt it

  • @mcrow3856
    @mcrow3856 Рік тому +1

    Did they really put a heavy film camera with glass lenses in some guys car during the race?

    • @MrChristopherHaas
      @MrChristopherHaas 10 місяців тому

      They also put a large, cumbersome camera on Joe Eubanks #61 (14:32)

  • @amoruzz
    @amoruzz Рік тому

    🏁

  • @TomSmith-io9uk
    @TomSmith-io9uk Рік тому +6

    King Dick Petty almost won.

  • @J.B24
    @J.B24 5 місяців тому +1

    Wow the video quality is remarkably good. This must have been restored. I could do without the confederate flags though.

  • @robertparker6654
    @robertparker6654 4 місяці тому

    He's limp in the hands of Miss Southern 500, i kinda doubt that!'😂

  • @ravenkahne8484
    @ravenkahne8484 16 днів тому

    Win On Sunday
    Sell On Monday

  • @MrJohnnyDistortion
    @MrJohnnyDistortion Рік тому +1

    22:36 socks

  • @brianellinger6622
    @brianellinger6622 5 місяців тому

    i aint got a shot at nascar untill i can beat the go-carts,..

  • @diethersantos6404
    @diethersantos6404 Рік тому

    Sup man do you have a replay of 2012 Coke Zero 400 in HD?

  • @MrChristopherHaas
    @MrChristopherHaas 10 місяців тому

    Earl Balmer kept the #13….and never won a race aside from a Daytona qualifier in spite of many factory rides.

  • @nindraco3173
    @nindraco3173 Рік тому

    Erik Jones

  • @denjhill
    @denjhill Рік тому +2

    That voice-over dialogue is almost too much to take. What sappy sh*t and I lived thru this era never realizing how manufactured it all was till later.

    • @markfurman4386
      @markfurman4386 Рік тому

      When you're a kid, you don't know. They count on that to program good little believers. Now I'm a believer! (Monkees hit).

  • @dlbarney2
    @dlbarney2 Рік тому

    That's a big Johnson🤣

  • @JeromyBranch
    @JeromyBranch Рік тому

    These old races were so cool. Just think, if you could take 2 of the skilled well conditioned athletes from NASCAR today back in time to run this race, they would win so easy!

    • @user-Dr.
      @user-Dr. Рік тому

      Not true at all, these were far better drivers back then, these clowns today would just piss and moan and cry like babies, then go home and pout, they couldn't even drive real cars like these, you did notice Richard Petty was in this race, by far the winningest driver in NASCAR history.

    • @JeromyBranch
      @JeromyBranch Рік тому +1

      @@user-Dr. well...in all sports, the players advance. The football or basketball players of today would certainly defeat teams from the 60s. The cars of today, though much better, are also way faster. Reaction time is critical compared to long ago. Dont get me wrong, Pearson is my favorite driver, followed closely by Bobby Unser. Perhaps if you transported the old guys to today, they may adapt well. But not as easily as taking, say, Chase Elliot back to 1968. Its easier to adapt to a slower, less complex car than it is to jump from a 68 Charger into a new race car of today.

    • @user-Dr.
      @user-Dr. Рік тому +3

      @@JeromyBranch Not to argue with you and stuff, but that is not how it works in auto racing, through the 80'sand 90's the cars had nearly twice as much hp, were much harder to drive and the speeds were much higher, nothing makes a car harder to drive than lack of braking power, a whole bunch of hp, poor handling, poor tires, not to say that a couple drivers today may be able to run with Yarborough, Petty, Earnhardt and the likes, Larson, Chastain the best we have now, these cars today are referred to as momentum cars, (very low hp, very good everything else).
      Now a 17 year old can be put in a car and run right with the best with no experience at all, big problem today now that we have all of these kids out there that will never be able to learn to drive well because of situation of today, causing constant wrecks, if you try to watch a race now you get treated to watching the cars circling the track under caution all day between all of the ads, than to have the race destroyed with about 5 green white checkers, that results in somebody winning that never had a chance, the green white checker, the stages and this this pathetic point system must go, hp must be brought back or they will soon have zero fans.

    • @JeromyBranch
      @JeromyBranch Рік тому +1

      @@user-Dr. lol the racing today is nowhere near as exciting you are right. But the horsepower? Without looking it up and not trying to be precise... The cars of the 60s were 360- 450. Cars of the 70s got into the 500-600 range. 80s were running around 600-700. Today they are 800. Restrictor plate tracks bring it way down and make for terribly boring races, but that's been the case since about 1989. In 89 the restrictor plate engines ran about 400-450. They are not much more now, but are a little stronger. So the HP has gone up considerably since the 70s. All I am saying is, in all sports the competitors advance in technique and knowledge, and in their conditioning. Certainly it is obvious that a man completely dedicated to driving, who is not distracted by having to build and transport the car and pay the bills, has a large advantage over the old guys who were smoking cigarettes while driving, never worked out a day in their life, and only dedicated less than half their thoughts into actually DRIVING the race car. It really is that simple. I have always been able to drive a race car of the 60s vintage to it's mechanical limits. But today's nascar race cars? Maybe, with a great deal of coaching and practice I might be able to run within 5% under the pros. But I guarantee you I can drive a 68 Charger nascar just as hard as anyone. Even my 2020 Mustang GT can outrun those cars, with the same tires mounted. The centrifugal blower brings my power up to par with them, and the handling is superior. I know, because I have built both. I had a 63 Pontiac and a 64 Fairlane that I built to nascar specs, and this Mustang can eat them both with no trouble. Any of the newer street performance cars can beat those old cars with very little changes, and you can still drive them to work every day. Everything advances, including humans. I know its hard to take, but it's the truth.

    • @user-Dr.
      @user-Dr. Рік тому

      @@JeromyBranch I would like to carry on this conversation a little bit more, but I have got to get down to the pole barn and get the fire goin, I've been racing different things all my life, for the last 10 years we have been doing track days road course stuff, you wouldn't happen to live anywhere near Michigan per chance, I'll be back a little later, if you're interested.

  • @timothycarley7348
    @timothycarley7348 5 місяців тому

    Richard Petty Driving a White Car with a petty Blue Roof?

  • @donaldleavy4379
    @donaldleavy4379 5 місяців тому

    Fkn Funny Who Is Jim Reed?, Well He’s A Yankee, But A Good Man Just The Same……wow🙃

  • @MrChristopherHaas
    @MrChristopherHaas 10 місяців тому

    Can anyone explain to me why “Dick” Petty has “SKI-KING” on drivers door?

  • @joemartin4040
    @joemartin4040 5 місяців тому

    Well josh i guess it depends on who you are pulling for dont it? It was for real back then. Its total crap now. I was at rhe 1970 Southern 500. My first race. Itcwas for real and Busdy Baker won in a winged Dodge. But he wasnt three laps ahead. They didnt all finish like that. NASCAR isnt what it used to be

  • @stevenpine1939
    @stevenpine1939 Рік тому +4

    Dont cha just hate it when a Yankee wins? LMAO

  • @dlbarney2
    @dlbarney2 Рік тому

    Boat races

  • @Tunda2
    @Tunda2 2 місяці тому

    Jim Reed does it for Lincoln