Junior Johnson flips his car over get out of it in middle of the track with his back to the on coming cars still fling around the track on bothsides of him while taking his shirt off & tries to put the fire under the hood !!! & it all happened in less than 2 mins !!! How freaking crazy was that !!!!!
Real men? Brave? In my opinion, they were only idiots risking their lives in a sports performance doing the dirty job of intelligent men that stayed safe in the pit booth.
I was born in 1946 and I am so glad. I've seen it all. The best of times. NASCAR is a shell of itself now. If your wing is off by 1/4 inch, you're fined. If this or that is not within specs, you're fined. Let's bring back racing where the best car wins and damn the silly rules.
That driver was Junior Johnson, one of the originals. Seriously, Junior Johnson didn't stop running moonshine until the mid 1960s. He was arrested more than once as a NASCAR driver. As you can see, he was a big ole boy.
+Dallas Nyberg I went to a Golden Gloves boxing event in, oh, about '65 or '66. During the break between rounds, I watched a trainer stick a smoke in his fighters mouth, while they worked on his eye! True story.
No fire suits smoke break while your car is being serviced in the pits and no fireman needed just put this thing out with my shirt! You gotta love it thanks so much for this video! Just a few yrs before I started watching NASCAR.
Amazing! This is really the first superspeedway race. Darlington opened a couple years before but the banking was increased for 1953. Qualifying speeds were up nearly 20 mph over '52. Hudsons were the first factory sponsored stock cars.
Yes. Hornets ruled in that era. The Hudsons were ahead of their time with lowered floor pans which gave the car a lower center of gravity. It was this feature that happened to give them a handling advantage to The Big Three which didn't catch up to that design until 1955.
Hudson allowed GM to use their "Step Down" design for access to GM's Dual Range Hydra-Matic transmission. Marshal Teague, the Flock brothers Tim and Fonty, Herb Thomas and even Jim Rathman were successful Hudson drivers. It was Smokey Yunick that tuned Teague's Hornets. Sadly, Hudson was consumed by Nash and moved to Kenosha never again to be the great innovator they had been since 1909.
Now that's some trivia. Thanks! Did Hudson lend this idea to GM or did GM just copy it? I had just thought it was a natural progression whereby it took the rest of the industry a couple of years to get this designed into their new cars in.
It was a contractual agreement. Hudson obtained the GM Hydra-Matic in 1951 for the Hornet. They introduced the "Step Down" design for 1948. The Big Three didn't have new cars till `49. Cars till then were warmed-over pre-war cats. In 1929 Hudson was actually the third largest auto producer in the U.S. I grew up with Hudsons as my father's favorite cars. I have owned several including a 1954 Super Wasp convertible brougham. and 2 `54 Hornets. The Hornets did handle amazingly well, rode very nicely and had tons of torque.
Thank you for sharing! This brought back wonderful childhood memories of the mid to late 50,s and early 60,s when Dad raced in north central Ohio. Some of the best memories of my childhood were at Ashland, Mansfield, Mt. Vernon, Attica, and Sandusky raceways Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
I just loved the truly sportsmanlike gesture of that guy pushing that Hudson with the blown engine-of course, there was track equipment that would have removed the car, but then of course, he would have been out of the race-when instead, his fellow racer pushed him high-speed around the track in order to finish the laps, and, with a dead engine, finished a very respectable fifth place...those racers were not just competitors-they were off the track brotherly friends, who knew each other, went for a nip together, worked on each other's cars, and would share "fishermen's stories", which they all knew would be just boasting, but would enjoy anyway...this would be one aspect of racing that would probably be missing today-everyone would just zip by the broken-down racer-after all, that's what the Track equipment are for anyway...
Balls. These drivers had them in abundance. Miss Southern Pride or whatever was nice to look at too. Notice the winning drivers wife was by his side real quick, making sure the beauty queen didn't get too close...
I love seeing them rocket 88s tearing up that track I had one of them cars it was in my family for 37 years hard times befelled me and had to sell it still heartbroken and always will be
In the early days of Australia's biggest stock car race was held on a mountain circuit in the town of Bathurst. It was common place for competitors to drive their car to the meet, make the change to racing livery, run the race, back into civvies then drive back home again. What won on Sunday sold on Monday. Of course now the race cars are completely removed from you can buy in the show room. Pity. You used to be able to watch Fords, Holdens(GM), Minis, Jaguar, etc. Shit.... you name it, it was there all in the same race! Nothing better than watch a nimble small car like a Mini carve up a big Ford through the twisty bits and then watch that same big Ford gobble up the Mini down the big long "Conrod" straight. Great racing and sorely missed.
Les Mach I’ve seen guys rob parts off their tow rigs, batteries, water pumps, etc, bolt them in their racecar, race, then pull them back off and back onto their hauler to drive back home.
Fireball Roberts and so many other legends and pioneers of the sport. As a stock car driver who races asphalt and dirt sprints and modifieds I wish I could go back in time and race one of these cars against the greats looks like a blast driving them things
This was REAL racing. If they had a racing series with replicas of cars from the 1950s, they would have sellout crowds in my opinion. Anyway great film quality from 1953!
yeah right they would sell it out to the gills.... LOL there's many many many Strictly Stock series ran around the country and they are on the brink of being extinct
NASCAR on the other hand peaked at 18 MILLION viewers for the 2018 Daytona 500.... Averaging 4.2 million viewers in the first half of the season...... You honestly think those old cars would attract the same amount of viewers and then some??????? Please PLEASE pass me whatever your smoking cause I want some
your stupid.... Safety alone wouldn't allow that to happen.... Nascar hasen't been stock since 1966. But yeah lets take stock cars to Michigan and Daytona and Auto Club.... Sure thing man. Sponsors would leave in droves when drivers die... smh people are so stupid@@Dantheman-dv9rl
@@GOFLuvr The rollover crash looked pretty bad and it said he had minor injuries so I'm gonna say "deathtrap" is a bit of a stretch but they were less safe than modern nascars. The speeds were also a lot lower too.
Smoking inside the car in the pits at 3:54 😂 I wish I was there for this stuff. RIP to my great grandfather, jack of all trades on Herb Thomas’ pit crew. Bunch of good ol’ country boys from Lee and Harnett county NC. This is why I love the sport! ❤️🤘
Me too. Stopped watching, probably, 25 years ago. Sometimes i'll try to tune in for a couple minutes but its always caution laps. Then its restart, bunch up, crash, restart, bunch up crash not watchable.
5:27 A guy hits the wall and just ahead of him there is a still a big section of fence completely missing from when someone else ripped it down earlier in the race !!
They weren't as concerned about safety back then, you can see a hole in the fence at 6:47 from a previous accident. About Junior's fire and shirt. I remember talking to a fireman about car fires. He was telling me about a guy who burned his car. He took a walk through the bushes and found a brand new fuel can. He said if it was an accidental fire the owner would have burned up his shirt and jacket trying to put it out. I laughed because I've done the same thing. I'll be damned if I'd have turned my back to those cars on the track though.
Pretty good picture quality for a race from 1953. This is back when the Hudson Hornet was the dominant car in NASCAR. The Oldsmobile Rocket 88 and Hudson Hornet were the best early stock cars
At 4:17... car wrecks, driver gets out in the middle of the race (full speed), opens the hood while 110mph cars pass by, takes off shirt and extinguishes fire in the engine with it... huaehueha crazy old times
That was Junior Johnson, who was still running moonshine when he wasn't racing. I guarantee 90% of the money in that car was his, he saw his money burning. He was one of the greatest. He once stated that "The fastest car he ever drove was a moonshine car."
Those Hudsons were beautiful. This was a lovely era of US car design. Lower, racier, more streamlined than the 30s 40s cars. No vulgar fins and sharp edges and over-chroming of the circa '57 era cars.
3:54 - I LOVE that during the pits the driver has a smoke. 4:26 - Johnson is working on his car right on the track. Amazing. The cars were not much to look at (sorry old timers) - but they looked like actual 'stock' cars...not like today. 9:08 - Maybe car looks have improved - but women could look as attractive then (gal holding trophy) as they do now. Thanks for posting this interesting video.
This was racing, cars had hood ornaments and when your car caught fire you pulled off your shirt and beat it out like Junior Johnson did, I'd like to see Danica Patrick do that !!!
This 1953 race happened one year before I was born l look back at it and say wow those old cars what a time capsule thank you I love seeing this find more please 👍🇺🇸
This one was Before I was born I do love the stock car races. I remember going to Macon and ft Valley with my aunt and uncle and cousins racing and Jake my Dad . he raced here in ray city or morven ga with the radneys. Can't remember for sure the racetrack. But my sister her boyfriend now husband and our brother and my brother in laws brother would go on Saturdays go to the races. That was good times. Now.. my sister and her boyfriend was ready to take us home after the races so they could go on there date.. Watching all of these old and new races has brought back GREAT memories.. Loved it
In the early 1950's, the Southern "500" was not just the only 500-mile race on the NASCAR schedule, but one of only two 500-mile events in all of auto racing (the other was the Indianapolis "500" for open-wheel Indianapolis-type cars.
The first race I ever saw on TV was broad cast from Darlington, they still ran on the apron in those days. Running up top was frowned on but not illegal despite the lamantations of many.
No seatbelts, racing uniforms that may be fire resistant (and weren't in the case of Fireball Roberts), and helmets that protected a driver's hair more than their skull. The risks drivers used to take in all forms of motorsports were absolutely insane!
@@GOFLuvr They did have seat belts(lap belt) it was required in 1949 I believe. Some of them used harnesses too but it wasn't required. As far as fire protection it was basically get out of the car as fast as possible lol
@@redtra236 Wow, I had no idea that even so much as lap belts were required as far back as 1949. Forgive me for watching too much Formula One, I just figured that the safety standards were just as low in NASCAR in the old days.
Grew up not far from Darlington. Lot of great racing at this track, The Lady In Black. Don’t forget the 1/4 mile strip just down the road. Love them both at 63 years old. Thanks for the video 👍
Parabens pelo video foi ai que comecou a historia de carros preparados.e os pilotos bom porque seguravam o carro e no braco.obrigado por relembrar meus parabens
these were the days when there weren't any "super'stars" just hard racing with out all the hoopla todays drivers are spoiled and way over paid,give me the old days anytime
@@ceeinfiniti1389 I agree 100 %. They should run bone stock Challenger R/T's, Mustang GT's, and Camaro SS' against each other with racing slicks, maybe some suspension work, and full cages welded in. But bone stock other than that
Racing at its best 90% of those cars from just good old boys had a chance at taking the flag and wild we do have some hard working people in racing today who give there best racing like this was pure gold Thanks for posting
Hudson flathead 6 cylinder was real popular. I used to buy Hudson spark plugs that were real hot and put them in my 47 knucklehead cause the rings were bad. It worked.
The 7X racing engine designed by Hudson engineer's, strictly for Nascar racing had more to do with their dominance on the track than lower center of gravity, although that helped. The 7X racing engine had 75 more horsepower than a stock Hudson engine.
Me too. Since modern "stock cars" are really just silhouette cars, NASCAR should make the teams go with car bodies that look similar to what stock cars looked like in the 50's and 60's.
Junior Johnson flips his car over get out of it in middle of the track with his back to the on coming cars still fling around the track on bothsides of him while taking his shirt off & tries to put the fire under the hood !!! & it all happened in less than 2 mins !!! How freaking crazy was that !!!!!
Scott Wood that's Junior
Junior was a manly man, an ancient race of people were they all.
Johnson good guy and a democrat.
Smokin a sig in the pits those days are truly in the past
Real men? Brave? In my opinion, they were only idiots risking their lives in a sports performance doing the dirty job of intelligent men that stayed safe in the pit booth.
WOW, Look at all those Hudsons! Step downs ruled the track in those days.
I was born in 1946 and I am so glad. I've seen it all. The best of times. NASCAR is a shell of itself now. If your wing is off by 1/4 inch, you're fined. If this or that is not within specs, you're fined. Let's bring back racing where the best car wins and damn the silly rules.
And the cars are STOCK instead of bumpercars at bumper tracks
@@SomeUsernameSomeoneElseTookIt WTF?
@@SomeUsernameSomeoneElseTookIt grow up ZOOMER
Yeah it was nice to see some actual racing and passing instead of follow the leader.
You can blame the teams for all the rules..
The chain link fence in front of the grand stand was to keep food wrappers and Dixie cups from blowing onto the track.
My Dad has a ‘51 Chevy and that thing was a handful with bias ply tires. These men, doing 100mph on the same tires..it’s impressive.
@@jlloyd2004mcs Nice, My Uncle's father owned a 1950 Studebaker coupe and later traded it for a 1956 Chevy Bel Air an American classic
Love the spectators in rocking chairs on scaffolding! driver putting out his own fire on the track, shirt off. The good old days.
Lol.
shirts are cheaper than cars
That driver was Junior Johnson, one of the originals. Seriously, Junior Johnson didn't stop running moonshine until the mid 1960s. He was arrested more than once as a NASCAR driver. As you can see, he was a big ole boy.
Great stuff!... no guts - no glory style of racing.....
3:52 - Love the cigarette break in the pits..LOL
+Dallas Nyberg I went to a Golden Gloves boxing event in, oh, about '65 or '66. During the break between rounds, I watched a trainer stick a smoke in his fighters mouth, while they worked on his eye! True story.
Hell, they probably smoked in the cars during the race.
Yeah, Fireball smokin' one during pit stop
daniel stewart Dick Trickle lighted up during a race. There’s a video out there on YT
No fire suits smoke break while your car is being serviced in the pits and no fireman needed just put this thing out with my shirt! You gotta love it thanks so much for this video! Just a few yrs before I started watching NASCAR.
Those old leadsleds are works of art
I love watching these old races, that’s real racing right there
Amazing! This is really the first superspeedway race. Darlington opened a couple years before but the banking was increased for 1953. Qualifying speeds were up nearly 20 mph over '52. Hudsons were the first factory sponsored stock cars.
Nash beat them to that, actually.
@@sexyluvre same parent company, though
This was great racing, 16 different makes and models of cars awesome. I love vintage racing. “Fireball Roberts” just a great name.
He got the name "Fireball" from his baseball days. Useless fun fact.
@@clintdavis9511 And ironically he died from a firey crash on July 2 1964 in Charlotte.
If I remember correctly, Junior Johnson said that by the end of the race he had that car fixed up enough to still drive it home.
That was great. So different than today in so many ways.
Hudson Hornets powered by 308 CU F head 6 cylinders dominating V8s. NASCAR Champions 3 years straight, 1952, 53, 54.
Yes. Hornets ruled in that era. The Hudsons were ahead of their time with lowered floor pans which gave the car a lower center of gravity. It was this feature that happened to give them a handling advantage to The Big Three which didn't catch up to that design until 1955.
Hudson allowed GM to use their "Step Down" design for access to GM's Dual Range Hydra-Matic transmission. Marshal Teague, the Flock brothers Tim and Fonty, Herb Thomas and even Jim Rathman were successful Hudson drivers. It was Smokey Yunick that tuned Teague's Hornets. Sadly, Hudson was consumed by Nash and moved to Kenosha never again to be the great innovator they had been since 1909.
Now that's some trivia. Thanks! Did Hudson lend this idea to GM or did GM just copy it? I had just thought it was a natural progression whereby it took the rest of the industry a couple of years to get this designed into their new cars in.
It was a contractual agreement. Hudson obtained the GM Hydra-Matic in 1951 for the Hornet. They introduced the "Step Down" design for 1948. The Big Three didn't have new cars till `49. Cars till then were warmed-over pre-war cats. In 1929 Hudson was actually the third largest auto producer in the U.S. I grew up with Hudsons as my father's favorite cars. I have owned several including a 1954 Super Wasp convertible brougham. and 2 `54 Hornets. The Hornets did handle amazingly well, rode very nicely and had tons of torque.
A Hudson engine was not an F head it was a flat head.
Those sound effects are hilarious.....I never knew car crashes sounded like bowling balls hitting pins.
Sounds like dueling airplanes on the track dog fighting.
lol
Lol omg I totally heard bowling pins!!
This was shot in the 1950s so sound effects were actually of real crashes.
@@CrossOfBayonne Do you still believe in Santa as well?
Those images of Junior putting out the fire, epic!
Not to mention taking off his shirt, something he would think twice about 20 years later🤪.
Look at them putting those new Sears Dyna-Ply tires on the cars .... the “cutting edge” of tire technology
If I could step back in time, I'd be at the track watching all the old races. Dude gets out and walks it off.....Men were tougher back then.
what do you mean drivers nowadays still get out and walk off
Thank you for sharing! This brought back wonderful childhood memories of the mid to late 50,s and early 60,s when Dad raced in north central Ohio. Some of the best memories of my childhood were at Ashland, Mansfield, Mt. Vernon, Attica, and Sandusky raceways Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
I just loved the truly sportsmanlike gesture of that guy pushing that Hudson with the blown engine-of course, there was track equipment that would have removed the car, but then of course, he would have been out of the race-when instead, his fellow racer pushed him high-speed around the track in order to finish the laps, and, with a dead engine, finished a very respectable fifth place...those racers were not just competitors-they were off the track brotherly friends, who knew each other, went for a nip together, worked on each other's cars, and would share "fishermen's stories", which they all knew would be just boasting, but would enjoy anyway...this would be one aspect of racing that would probably be missing today-everyone would just zip by the broken-down racer-after all, that's what the Track equipment are for anyway...
36,000 fans, that about 30,000 more than today's races. 🤔
"how did lacy ever get in there in the first place. "
Fat joke
Today people would be crying fat shaming! Wah! Miss the old days before this pic bullshit.
Amazing, a guy named Lacy that's had a few too many cheeseburgers...that sounds familiar. Especially to a Green Bay Packers fan.
And the announcer only pointed it out because he knows that the big guy was getting laid by more young ladies than he's even met...because RACECAR!
Amazing how many tire failures they had. I suppose the speeds were significantly higher that the tires were really designed for.
up to the 70's flat tires were common on road cars.
Old bias ply instead of todays radials.
Balls. These drivers had them in abundance. Miss Southern Pride or whatever was nice to look at too. Notice the winning drivers wife was by his side real quick, making sure the beauty queen didn't get too close...
Burning one while getting his tire changed like a boss!!
Classic!
Fabulous Hudson Hornet ! Wow
As I watch I hear Jim Croce singing... "Rapid Roy, that stock car boy, he's too much to believe!"
Not me. I hear Haaaammmeeerdooown by Ted Nugent (Meatloaf singing)
Thanks for sharing this high quality video. Besides being one of Nascar's best drivers, Buck Baker also served in the Navy during WW2
I love seeing them rocket 88s tearing up that track I had one of them cars it was in my family for 37 years hard times befelled me and had to sell it still heartbroken and always will be
4:35 Junior Johnson, shirtless, putting out his own fire. Kids today wouldn't believe this.
Stock car racing ain't what it used to be - not even close.
Brian Dorn there's nothin stock about a stock car Cole..lol
brian dorn
I thank you right those old boys were pure Gold like the vets of WW2
pole dancers aren't going to save Nascar
...some of them probably WERE vets of WW2....@@terriecotham1567
You got that right.
Real men, real racin'! Thanks! Great video!!
Bias ply tires, driving tanks. What a race!
Darlington Too tough to tame. NASCARS first super speedway. Junior had to get that fire out. It was his only ride home.
He flipped it before it caught fire. He drove it home?
could be
In the early days of Australia's biggest stock car race was held on a mountain circuit in the town of Bathurst. It was common place for competitors to drive their car to the meet, make the change to racing livery, run the race, back into civvies then drive back home again. What won on Sunday sold on Monday.
Of course now the race cars are completely removed from you can buy in the show room. Pity.
You used to be able to watch Fords, Holdens(GM), Minis, Jaguar, etc. Shit.... you name it, it was there all in the same race! Nothing better than watch a nimble small car like a Mini carve up a big Ford through the twisty bits and then watch that same big Ford gobble up the Mini down the big long "Conrod" straight. Great racing and sorely missed.
Raymond Bosanko you can still drive some race cars on the road in SC :)
Les Mach I’ve seen guys rob parts off their tow rigs, batteries, water pumps, etc, bolt them in their racecar, race, then pull them back off and back onto their hauler to drive back home.
Wow, pretty good quality for 1953!
HairMetalBrony1016 it's probably because it was shot with film.
And it appears to be sponsored, in this case, by the motor oil industry.
Yep, very good quality.
Fireball Roberts and so many other legends and pioneers of the sport. As a stock car driver who races asphalt and dirt sprints and modifieds I wish I could go back in time and race one of these cars against the greats looks like a blast driving them things
This was REAL racing. If they had a racing series with replicas of cars from the 1950s, they would have sellout crowds in my opinion. Anyway great film quality from 1953!
yeah right they would sell it out to the gills.... LOL there's many many many Strictly Stock series ran around the country and they are on the brink of being extinct
NASCAR on the other hand peaked at 18 MILLION viewers for the 2018 Daytona 500.... Averaging 4.2 million viewers in the first half of the season...... You honestly think those old cars would attract the same amount of viewers and then some??????? Please PLEASE pass me whatever your smoking cause I want some
@@goldleaf889 yes they would sell out. All the fans that left would come back for real racing in real stock, classic cars.
your stupid.... Safety alone wouldn't allow that to happen.... Nascar hasen't been stock since 1966. But yeah lets take stock cars to Michigan and Daytona and Auto Club.... Sure thing man. Sponsors would leave in droves when drivers die... smh people are so stupid@@Dantheman-dv9rl
@@goldleaf889 no one would dare to crash their antique cars.
Man, I'd love to race in the 50's, nothing beats this.
That's something for anyone to be able to drive one of these deathtraps at racing speeds! (Especially someone from today!)
@@GOFLuvr The rollover crash looked pretty bad and it said he had minor injuries so I'm gonna say "deathtrap" is a bit of a stretch but they were less safe than modern nascars. The speeds were also a lot lower too.
Smoking inside the car in the pits at 3:54 😂 I wish I was there for this stuff. RIP to my great grandfather, jack of all trades on Herb Thomas’ pit crew. Bunch of good ol’ country boys from Lee and Harnett county NC. This is why I love the sport! ❤️🤘
I love the early 50's vibe, those days ain't comin back folks!😌
I would watch NASCAR if it was like this.
Me too. Stopped watching, probably, 25 years ago. Sometimes i'll try to tune in for a couple minutes but its always caution laps. Then its restart, bunch up, crash, restart, bunch up crash not watchable.
@@nunyabidnis5407 I totally quit watching this year I used to watch Daytona or Talladega some but not anymore.
Fireball Roberts...my God, I haven't heard that name in decades.
The sad irony is he died as a result of a fireball around 10 years later
5:27 A guy hits the wall and just ahead of him there is a still a big section of fence completely missing from when someone else ripped it down earlier in the race !!
Just gotta be careful not to drive through that part boy, that's all there is to it 🙄
They weren't as concerned about safety back then, you can see a hole in the fence at 6:47 from a previous accident.
About Junior's fire and shirt. I remember talking to a fireman about car fires. He was telling me about a guy who burned his car. He took a walk through the bushes and found a brand new fuel can. He said if it was an accidental fire the owner would have burned up his shirt and jacket trying to put it out. I laughed because I've done the same thing. I'll be damned if I'd have turned my back to those cars on the track though.
Pretty good picture quality for a race from 1953. This is back when the Hudson Hornet was the dominant car in NASCAR. The Oldsmobile Rocket 88 and Hudson Hornet were the best early stock cars
5:00 was probably that incident
At 4:17... car wrecks, driver gets out in the middle of the race (full speed), opens the hood while 110mph cars pass by, takes off shirt and extinguishes fire in the engine with it... huaehueha crazy old times
A-men, Brotha'!
That was Junior Johnson, who was still running moonshine when he wasn't racing. I guarantee 90% of the money in that car was his, he saw his money burning. He was one of the greatest. He once stated that "The fastest car he ever drove was a moonshine car."
The owners of Darlington back in '53 were so far ahead of most other tracks at that time. They were ushering in the modern age of NASCAR.
It is really something to see those old Hudsons stretching their legs and winning races!
The winning car was an Oldsmobile.
Matthew McPeek yeah mate, every dog had his day back then, skill, balls, and innovation , not bank ballance
Those Hudsons were beautiful. This was a lovely era of US car design. Lower, racier, more streamlined than the 30s 40s cars. No vulgar fins and sharp edges and over-chroming of the circa '57 era cars.
You have bumped your head.
Love this!!
Race on Sunday; buy on Monday.
3:54 - I LOVE that during the pits the driver has a smoke.
4:26 - Johnson is working on his car right on the track. Amazing.
The cars were not much to look at (sorry old timers) - but they looked like actual 'stock' cars...not like today.
9:08 - Maybe car looks have improved - but women could look as attractive then (gal holding trophy) as they do now.
Thanks for posting this interesting video.
Car looks have gone down hill
the theme of lighthearted good mannered humorous banter is always welcome lol
these dudes running on the track to see if their okay after crashes have balls of steel, i can’t imagine running out there with cars zooming past you
Having a quick smoke while they change your tire. Now thats racing!
This was racing, cars had hood ornaments and when your car caught fire you pulled off your shirt and beat it out like Junior Johnson did, I'd like to see Danica Patrick do that !!!
Stan Stuben wth
No, she would simply curse and blame someone else for her misfortune 😱 ☹️ 😩. 😂😭. 😡
Hood ornaments and shirtless dudes putting out fires. That’s racing.
just one of the boys
She won't because she'd be arrested for indecent exposure.
Junior wrecks, gets out, takes his shirt off and puts out the fire! Now that’s a racer!
Man, these ole boys were the real deal!
I pass the track everyday and always have to look at it lol..it sure is different now from this old video
This 1953 race happened one year before I was born l look back at it and say wow those old cars what a time capsule thank you I love seeing this find more please 👍🇺🇸
You win the race and get $6,000 for 1953 ,that was a good pay day back then .
This is back when mechanical skill and knowledge meant as much as driving!
Yup, if somethings not working....hit it with a hammer.
Most drivers were as good mechanics as most in their team.
It just goes go show how far Nascar has come over the years and safety is so important in this type of racing, including nhra, f1, indy car and so on.
The more I watch this old footage the more I'm beginning to think Junior Johnson was the greatest thing to ever happen to NASCAR. lol
This one was Before I was born I do love the stock car races. I remember going to Macon and ft Valley with my aunt and uncle and cousins racing and Jake my Dad . he raced here in ray city or morven ga with the radneys. Can't remember for sure the racetrack. But my sister her boyfriend now husband and our brother and my brother in laws brother would go on Saturdays go to the races. That was good times. Now.. my sister and her boyfriend was ready to take us home after the races so they could go on there date.. Watching all of these old and new races has brought back GREAT memories.. Loved it
Absolutely enjoyed the clip truly amazing what they did with what.was available .
In the early 1950's, the Southern "500" was not just the only 500-mile race on the NASCAR schedule, but one of only two 500-mile events in all of auto racing (the other was the Indianapolis "500" for open-wheel Indianapolis-type cars.
So slow but still KOOL as hell.Smoking a cigarette in the pits ....in the car in the pits . Awesome
Ladies and Gentlemen this is NASCAR racing. Whatever we have today is not. Wonderful to see this! Suddenly it's 1953!
The first race I ever saw on TV was broad cast from Darlington, they still ran on the apron in those days. Running up top was frowned on but not illegal despite the lamantations of many.
Love the sound effects! Pie cut bias plys! Yeeehaaw!
Just think it all started from moonshiners running fast cars to deliver the liquor and outrunning the cops.
1953:
Security cameras: my time has come
Darlington is still one of my favorite tracks....
And she is still one tough ol’ girl.
This is a riot !
No safety whatsoever !
Putting out engine fire while cars speeding by 😆
Smoking in the pit 😂
Pushing cars into the pit🤣
No seatbelts, racing uniforms that may be fire resistant (and weren't in the case of Fireball Roberts), and helmets that protected a driver's hair more than their skull. The risks drivers used to take in all forms of motorsports were absolutely insane!
@@GOFLuvr They did have seat belts(lap belt) it was required in 1949 I believe. Some of them used harnesses too but it wasn't required. As far as fire protection it was basically get out of the car as fast as possible lol
@@redtra236 Wow, I had no idea that even so much as lap belts were required as far back as 1949. Forgive me for watching too much Formula One, I just figured that the safety standards were just as low in NASCAR in the old days.
Firesuits? We don't need no stinkin' firesuits. ⛽🔥🚘🔥👖
T-Shirts, plastic helmets , and steel balls.
Priceless video, thank you for posting
Change the tires and gas boys ...I'm having a dart!
Now, this is a treat, thank You's.
You have to love motor and skidding sounds they plugged in later, these racing footages are priceless. 😂
Back then you had real drivers. Not walking billboards wearing sunglasses. NASCAR has turned into the WWE of sports.
No, the WWE is the WWE of sports. Kinda hard to remember that it's a sport though honestly.
@@bw-leftturnracing7779 Great fyucking comment haha
So true.
@bowdsbowds oh shut the fuck up
@@boostjunkie2320 Damn dude you sure showed him /s
Great memories from a bygone age.
Iron mike you know he got that name for surviving crazy crashes
Darlington was Nascar's Daytona back then
Crazy stuff. Getting out of your car to put out a fire, on the track, while the race is going on! You can't make this stuff up!
Grew up not far from Darlington. Lot of great racing at this track, The Lady In Black. Don’t forget the 1/4 mile strip just down the road. Love them both at 63 years old. Thanks for the video 👍
Parabens pelo video foi ai que comecou a historia de carros preparados.e os pilotos bom porque seguravam o carro e no braco.obrigado por relembrar meus parabens
This video absolutely amazes me, living in Darlington I see the track all the time.
these were the days when there weren't any "super'stars" just hard racing with out all the hoopla todays drivers are spoiled and way over paid,give me the old days anytime
They should at least create a separate Strictly Stock division.
@@ceeinfiniti1389 I agree 100 %. They should run bone stock Challenger R/T's, Mustang GT's, and Camaro SS' against each other with racing slicks, maybe some suspension work, and full cages welded in. But bone stock other than that
Agree
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There was some superstars that came out of this era no doubt
Gotta love the sound effects
Racing at its best 90% of those cars from just good old boys had a chance at taking the flag and wild we do have some hard working people in racing today who give there best racing like this was pure gold
Thanks for posting
Hudson flathead 6 cylinder was real popular. I used to buy Hudson spark plugs that were real hot and put them in my 47 knucklehead cause the rings were bad. It worked.
Hudsons had that lower center of gravity, too.
The 7X racing engine designed by Hudson engineer's, strictly for Nascar racing had more to do with their dominance on the track than lower center of gravity, although that helped. The 7X racing engine had 75 more horsepower than a stock Hudson engine.
I like old school NASCAR!!
Me too. Since modern "stock cars" are really just silhouette cars, NASCAR should make the teams go with car bodies that look similar to what stock cars looked like in the 50's and 60's.
Smoking a cigarette during the pit stop, LMFAO.
Why ?
Great racing!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😇😇😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Reminds me of American fighter pilots in the Pacific WW2..."one flick and it's lit" Ronson lighter, reference to the Betty bomber.
Hudson dominated those years. Not because of top speed but because or superior handling characteristics. Other makes couldn't out corner them.
Thanks for the video. I enjoy watching stuff that happened before I was born but it happens a lot less often now 😉
What a time to ba alive.....them good old days !
Herb Thomas! Hudson Hornets Yay!!
Fireball Roberts what a name,love this!!