Once Famous Racetrack Still Holds Relics in the Woods
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Occoneechee racetrack in North Carolina, one of the first Nascar tracks, was abandoned and forgotten for decades.
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NICE WORK !!! I watched My first Stock Car Race there in 1962 when I was 7 years old. Lee Petty was walking with a cane due to injuries from 1960 wreck, but still climbed in Richard's car to check suspension set-up. Was there about 4 years later and saw James Hilton go over the bank in turn #2 and shake some saplings on the river bank before jumping back over the bank in turn#3. Orange High School Marching Band and Stanford Jr. High Band practiced there until mid 1970's so as not to disturb housing development across from schools [ My younger brother was in the Stanford Band] .. Football was played at the track until a new field was built about 1972. My Dad raced cars in California in the 1930's and as children we were at the local dirt track almost every Saturday night near Rougemont, NC about 15 miles north of Hillsborough. It was called Tri-Co [sort for Tri - County ] Love your strange content !!! An Old Tarheel .
My grandfather, Frank Hayworth who was a car owner, a Mercury and it was driven by Jim pascal.
@@Onesixthdesignthat's when Americans were real decent people doing real American shit Trump 😢😢😂😂2024
My great-grandfather used to go there a lot. He said they met some of the drivers when they'd go by the local gas stations and fill up the race cars.
i could be dead wrong but i think i recall J iHilton entering some cup events around a decade ago
@@brewcrew5854Hilton raced 602 Cup races over 27 years, winning the crew chief of the year in 1965, and Rookie of the Year in 1966, he had two wins, the first at Richmond in 1970 and the second at Talladega in 1972, he finished 2nd in Cup series points three times. His last start was at Darlington in 1993 and he passed away in 2018 at 83 yo.
2:14 Is a 1940 Chevy Coupe Super Deluxe, driven by local driver Herbert Cates #44
Yeah, I saw his name on the car. Pretty cool.
beat me to it but yeah
Was that a straight 8 or in line 6?
@anthonycalbillo9376 chevy never made a straight 8
His friends call him jr
I'm a huge history nerd. Awesome video Chris. We gotta keep history alive.
Absolutely!
Now there is to many woke people with hurt feelings removing our history.
@@bigc8300 huh
@@bigc8300what?
@@pancakeperson1661 I fixed it.
This place is like a time capsule. All the history and the cars that are still there. So cool seeing the old signs too. Great video!
Wow! So much history. I can only imagine how much moonshine was drank there.😂
LOL You got that right!!
& pot lol
😂😂 if I said gallons, it probably wouldn't cover it 😳🤦😂
Oh hell yeah lol they probably had rooms full of the stuff
#44 is a 1940 Chevy Super Deluxe and #72 is a 1956 Dodge Coronet. 👊😎👍
yep
I was close thought the 2nd car was a '57 Desoto
@@redtra236 Good guess
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@FlagSwept A guy down the street has a 1956 300B which is Chrysler's version of the Dodge Coronet of that year.
Probably one of my favorite videos of yours to date. I’ve built essentially my entire life around racing and the racing industry, and I can speak for a lot of people that places like these are what inspire and influence our passions. I can’t even begin to imagine the stories that those cars could tell, the battles that they were in, the blood sweat and tears that went into building them.
It is incredible that once-popular entertainment venues can be overrun by trees and vegetation while nobody is looking. Great to see that locals cleaned it up and made it something to recall fond memories again. And I recall the excitement of being a kid taken to a racetrack for the first time, for me I was eight in '68 and it was a NASCAR race in Riverside, California.
Hey Chris!! Thank you so much for sharing this video, my grandfather, Frank Hayworth was a NASCAR car owner. His driver, Jim Paschal drove that track in May and Oct of 1957. Wonderful video, as always!!
Nicely put together, really like how the old clips were thrown into the video to give better perspective of the original look. It's pretty impressive of the cars and stuff that still stand there. Thanks for sharing with us.
I visited there a couple years ago. I liked the historical footage you showed and the aerial views over time.
This was back when the cars in stock car racing were actually stock.
Heh. They were actual cars for that matter. Not those plastic likenesses they have now.
Real stock cars are more fun to watch race than the fiberglass whatsits they run now. The entire enterprise is too slick and corporate to be fun to follow any more.
go out to your local dirt track. you can still see them banging around. now they call them street stock.
@@joewoodchuck3824 Drivers also died a lot more in those "actual" cars.
@@NewEnglandboy453 Drivers die in all forms of racing. Their choice to participate. I'm also thinking that driver protection in real cars would be more advanced these days than it was decades ago.
Nascar to you guys is like a Religion, which I completely understand, Watching this makes me sad how they aren't or can't be restored to remember the history that's so unbelievably important. I'm a New Zealander and I love seeing all the amazing abandoned history you have. Especially the Nascar Tracks...
The now defunct Historic Speedway Group are the ones who cleaned up the track. They cleaned up the grandstands and removed a lot of trees that had started growing there, they rebuilt the flag stand, they rebuilt all the buildings you see today, they brought the old cars in, they cleaned up the infield, they rebuilt the upper fence (and there is even some old roof top tin from our property used in that fence.) When the group got together and started the project, you could barely tell there was a track there, and the stands were incredibly over grown. The track was abandoned by NASCAR because the town didn't like it being there, and they refused to allow it to be expanded and paved. Prior to 1968, the town had already started implementing laws making it harder for the track to function, so when the town said no to improvements, NASCAR took their money and left. And to think, even as recently as the early 2000s, the town and hiway dept wanted to bulldoze this entire thing and put a bypass thru it. There are still people in town who would do that if they could get their way.
FYI, I know this because my better half was a founding member of the speedway group.
Thanks for this video. Most of us Brits aren't all that familiar with NASCAR and its prominence in US culture (especially in the south) so this video was really educational for me....interesting to see how NASCAR's popularity grew so quickly and quickly outgrew small regional tracks like this one.
What a wonderful place.
That is so awesome what a find sure brings back some memories. 🚘❤
This was a great nostalgic video. TY!
Back when this was a great and sensible world to live in.
The track was called orange speedway because it was located in orange country North Carolina.
Yes, started as Occoneechee Speedway then named changed to Orange
I really like seeing these places where nature has retaken the land, yet a few man made relics can still be found.
I used to explore abandoned places many moons ago, so your videos trigger reminiscicenses (?) for me.
I visited the track several years ago. It was a day when they held a car show at the adjacent industrial park, then an exhibition race on the old track. I loved seeing dozens of restored cars driving around in front of a thousand-plus people watching from the old stands. I've also been to the remnants of the Raleigh Speedway. All that was left was a small stretch of debris-covered asphalt in a patch of woods. And of course, the NC State Fairgrounds was a NASCAR track, too.
Wow! I LOVE old original cars! And it’s a half hour from home. Thanks!
It’s always funny to me that people move to an area with a known track then complain about the noise and subsequently get it shut down! 😮
People just suck honestly.
Right
it happens all over the world unfortunately. I live in Poland and many tracks here were closed and buldozed because of people who moved in because it was cheap. Then they start complaining and finally the track closes... Some years ago there was a plan to build F1 track in northern Poland but obviously nothing happened due to stupid laws
My local track was closed recently and probably won’t reopen b/c of the current demographic overflowing into area and the county officials that exploit that. RIP Southside Speedway and Occaneechee
I LOVE your channel! I'm born and raised here in NC, so Nascar is in my blood, especially since my dad loves it so much. I've heard of this speedway. There are also some remnants of a speedway in Greenville, SC--the channel, Slapshoes, did a good investigation in it and found it. Hickory and North Wilkesboro Speedway is in my neck of the woods, and would be great for you to check out!
Your talking about the Greenville pickens speedway a big company is building on the land now but there going to leave the speedway there because the owner respects the history
@@amandastyles-uh6zx No, it's not Greenville-Pickens, it's actually a lost speedway he found the remnants of...near an airport there? Look up Slap shoes, his channel has it! When Greenville-Pickens was still open, my favorite soap opera, As The World Turns, filmed location scenes there in 2009!
@@gmanandhislady I was talking about the one you said in Greenville 👍
Awesome vid Chris.
The first outhouse looks like a fairly recent renovation before it was trashed.
Sad when people just destroy historical places.
I love old Nascar, Lee Petty And Buck Baker are my favorites from the Early days.
Seems like that stuff would be pretty valuable to the right person. If its too deteriorated for a rebuild then it would be great parts for rat rods...
it would be a shame to rip apart pieces of history to make some butt ugly rat rod. I say they either leave them in the forest or put them in a museum somewhere
GOOD STUFF. THANKS FOR THE TOUR! CANNOT BELIEVE THAT NOBODY HAS SAVED THOSE OLD STOCK CARS JUST SITTING THERE TO WEATHER AWAY. SO PEACEFUL THERE NOW, IMAGINE THE ROAR OF THOSE BIG ENGINES WAY BACK WHEN. SUCH RACING HISTORY. INCREDIBLE!
We have visited NC a few times for the World of outlaws and we love everything about the state .
And some of the nicest people in the world .
Love the walk about !
Thank you .
That was a awesome story. Thanks so much
Thank you for sharing love story like this. Love old race cars and tracks
Nice video!
Reminds me of the Dog Track in Moyock. It started as a dog racing track, but I guess the local churches frowned on it, so it was shut down. It reopened as a NASCAR track, and run in the early sixties. I walked it, before the land was developed. I found some old concrete that was probably part of the stands and basic structure. Gotta love NC’s love for racing.
This is GREAT!! Thank you!!
This was great. thanks for bringing us along.
Hey I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to mention the original people who lived on that land. We need more of that sort of thing.
That's a great place to metal detect .
I bet it's got a hoarde of coins
Oooo
Chris, you document the most interesting places. The care and respect and research you do on these places to give us a quality video is amazing. Well done, my friend.
Man, i wish you could do some digging on this long gone oval dirt track in my home town. Salisbury NC used to have an oval dirt track called the "salisbury super speedway" (off of bringle ferry rd and chowder dixon rd, on maps, its literally beside I-85.) , it held 2 nascar races there, lee petty won one of the races. It looks to be completely taken by nature but to think this oval track is rougly 30 minutes away from kannapolis, where ralph & dale earnhardt are from makes me wonder if they ever raced there. historic areials shows that nature tooks its course and its no longer visible, but the 1965 shots, it looks besutiful, in the 1983 shot, you can see a lake of water in the middle of the oval and nature doing its thing. i actually ended up finding a picture from the lee petty race with the lake visible.
Awesome video! I love the way you supply historical information. This video got me interested in viewing other abandoned racetrack vids, like I need another subject to view videos of!
I was very surprised when you said this was moved to Talladega. I would've never guessed this was its origins.
Heres a little history for you where the Greenville Spartanburg airport is was supposed to be the original Talladega before our stupid city council passed on the idea due to the noise 🙄 instead we got a stupid airport and landfill nice work
Yes. Bill France (NASCAR Prez) owned this track (Occoneechee) at the same time he was about to open Talladega. NASCAR sells race "dates", so since Talladega needed a date on the 1969 schedule France simply moved the 1968 Oconeechee date to Talladega for 1969. No "date" for Oconeechee 1969 meant no more Oconeechee.
As a huge Nascar fan, I love anything to do with racing. A big fan of driver Martin Truex Jr. Thank you, Chris, for this very informative video on some awesome history.
I like walking this track,its good exercise along seeing the history and imagining where the cars were driving on this track. Think I'm gonna go tomorrow
Very Cool!!! Thank you Chris!
This is by far one of your coolest videos! Nice one, Chris!
Great video, as always!!❤ Welcome to NC!!!
We had a place here that was owned by the Deery Family called the Rockford Speedway. Last year was the final year for races. The family sold the property and the Matriarch passed away. They’re slowly tearing it apart to make way for a car wash, strip malls and God knows what else.
There were homes built SE of the Speedway back in the 80’s (?), and homeowners had the nerve to complain about the noise! The Rockford Speedway was in operation for just over 75 years!
So many great memories made there 😢…
Chad Knaus started out here. Now he’s a great Pit leader. Dick Trickle raced here and now he races nationally!
@@MamaJ1997 Maybe in race heaven, he's been dead since 2013!
The second car you showed looks like a 56 dodge coronet..Had the same one same 2 tone blue
That's awesome!
🐶I love NASCAR 😎 it used to be great and then got a little better and then it got a lot worse🙏 God bless America and NASCAR🍀✌️
This is why I love your channel and your videos! Love this sort of stuff :)
VERY VERY COOL CHRIS,,1 OF MY FAV...IF EVER IN MAINE,LOOK UP UNITY RACE TRACK,WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A BIG NE TRACK..SAFE TRAVELS..
This does remind me of the old Jackson International Speedway in one aspect, cars flipping over the backstretch and disappearing. Jackson had a guardrail back there, just not much of one. I remember as a kid in the 70’s-80’s watching Lake Speed race there and routinely seeing backstretch cars losing control and disappearing from view… Thx for the history!
ah the good old days when cars were made of METAL & had tail fins :)
My great grandfather, my grandfather, and my dad went there several times in the mid fifties. Wild races and wild finishes
0:14 DANG! look at that classic, i love it!
Fascinating video Chris
Wow! That is really cool. Thanks for the history lesson and for posting that.
Really awesome episode 👍
Keep 'em comin Chris! Always GREAT content!!✌
Chris never ceases to find cool subject matter for his videos.
I’ve been there before and it’s beautiful to see. Had happy vibes walking around it
Wow this is awesome and that poster at the start of the video is so cool Chris , great job
Great Video!
I love American history and early American stock car racing is America AF
Ima gearhead who loves American history
This was awesome! Really enjoyed the tour man! Thank you gor taking me along!
New subscription here!❤
Great content. Wild days seeing those cars slide down the bank towards the river.
That would be a cool place to have go cart and lawnmower racing!
you visit some cool historic places! thumbs up! Trish
My Daddy raced at Soliderfield in the Early 50's and also raced at Rockford Speedway. John A Aue is his name . RIP Daddy 😢❤
THANKS! SHARED THIS OUT. LIFE AFTER PEOPLE.
Man good work!! You need to come see Augusta international Raceway, Opened in 59 closed in 70 it’s a 3 mile track with 21 banked corners it’s a nice piece of history and a part of my city’s history I wish we still had tracks like these around
hello from a big fan of this channel from Greece
That is super duper cool😊 does signs are amazing I'm surprised that sign on the fence the Hillsborough sign is still there I bet that's where some money even if someone cut out those Pepsi Cola Roundy rounds I bet those are some money!!! Boy that'll sure put a smile on your face😊😊😊 piece of American History right there gotta love that🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It's sad to see those cars abbandoned and forgotten in the woods, I hope someone one will restore and put them in a museum.
Very cool video.. thanks for sharing 👍
Wow I didn't notice that Talladega was use to be Alabama international speedway!!
This is incredible! the history behind that place man if it could talk imagine the stories it would tell! I'd love to visit there one day! Shame that some people feel the need to destroy places they visit.
He was known as Dick Petty back then. I had a friend who raced him and Cale Yarborough in the 60's at the old VIR and won.
Hi Mobile instinct I saw your shirt that said Tucson Palo Verde something couldn't see the rest I am from Tucson but moved to Texas I thought that was so cool! Love your videos and your so cool and love your smile and laugh! Think you are so good looking! ❤
So cool to see you in NC !
Since you are in town you need to do a video on the murder of Jenna Nielson she was 22 years old pregnant with her 3rd child delivering news papers early in the morning to a gas station in Raleigh right off I 40 & was attacked
The murder is still unsolved
Happened June 14 2007
Thanks for reading
It was a Horse racing track back when gambling was legal in North Carolina. When Gambling was outlawed, the Horse racing tracks shutdown and some began a new life in Stock car racing, It was all about the television cameras. Of course, People were still Gambling on the cars under the table.
The Governor of North Carolina (Roy Cooper) just signed a law bringing sports gambling back to North Carolina. Must be why there is an interest in rebuilding a lot of the old tracks across the State. Gambling is a sign of economic problems in the State.
I live near there. My dad was part of the group that helped to preserve and clean up the track area several years ago .
It would be so cool to see someone get one of those old cars running and take it around that track one last time
Now I know how long I've been watching your videos, it's been 5 years because the Jackson International Speedway in Clinton, Mississippi video was the first video I watched of yours.
Super cool 😎 thanks for showing us.
It was named Orange Speedway because Hillsborough is in Orange county NC
Seems like this would’ve been an awesome place to hang back in the day
Very cool 😎. 🐿 🏍
Man that's fd up needs to be a museum about it right there like Great bend ks where the first NHRA championship race was held
Wow absolutely brilliant video I made a tribute car to fireball a 57 chevy 150 his favourite ❤
Nice my home track of Old Dominion in Northern Virginia is now houses and businesses.
Beautiful place
Pretty cool.
NASCAR racing was a minor regional sport in those days, nothing at all like the behemoth it's become.
for a second I thought the thumbnail pic was for a Steve Magnante Junkyard Crawl video
Cool video dude
That's the problem with people today. Don't care bout anyone else but themselves. Love seeing old like this. I grew up going to dirt races and love em.
Been there twice, pretty cool walking trail
What a cool video on America's racing Rum Runners! These drivers were former Runners for bootleggers! Look for an old movie called Thunder Road about the bootleggers and rum runners!
Loving the tour of the Carolina's,thanks Chris,hope you make it to Kitty Hawk.
Basically there are only so many weekends during the racing season where events can be held and the old dirt tracks lost out to the newer, larger paved tracks.
I grew up in Durham, NC - graduated high school in 1967 - and remember when there was still racing at Orange Speedway in Hillsborough.
The NEW Orange County Motor Speedway is a 3/8 mile oval up near Rougemont, NC