1959 Darlington Southern 500
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- Опубликовано: 29 дек 2022
- 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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The cars, the girls, love it all. What a time.
Jim Reed...."He's a Yankee, but a good man just the same!" LOL!
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.
@@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.
@@jimeditorial ..yeah, for me, it's those tires they are using that would be scary at 140 mph speeds!
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.
I agree, they are the BEST Bob!!!
What a find man! You're basically the king on finding all of these Southern 500 highlight races.
making Rory Calhoun judge a beauty pageant is like asking a wolf to herd sheep
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.
I saw Gordon Johncock win Indy race at Milwaukee Mile in mid-sixties with #7 Does that count lol
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
I agree Christopher!
Man
..Back in the hayday. Love it!
Now is the hay day
Would be amazing to attend a race with those vintage cars
The "Skipper" from Gilligans island before Gilligans island is in the parade
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
How do you find these
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.
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.
@@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!,,’
@@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.
@@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.
@@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?
"Number 13 stays unlucky, starts an uncontrollable smoke orgy" 😂 what!?
Right?! Funny commentating back then too lol
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. :)
What a great life back then…
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!
Gotta love how Smokey Yunick was right there to help Cotton Owens at15:53
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.
Connie Hines only movie, then big career in tv as Mr. Ed' owner's wife. Also, 'stoogie' should have gotten best actor oscar!!!🏆
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.
Thank you for the video. As an old gye, you bring back fond memories. 😊
🏁Really enjoyed!!!!🏁
Wow! THANKS!
Awesome video
Hey...its Skipper from Gilligan's Island......🏝....lol
LOOK OUT, that announcer is Golden! ;-)
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!
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.
And he has “SKI KING” on his door. Wonder what that meant
SKI KING was an old TV show, but don't know what the connection was @MrChristopherHaas
Good to see a 348 chevy win the race
11:56
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.
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.
Excellent watch!!... I love the dude with the confederate civil war hat... I guess he came in second best!!!...😜🇺🇸🗽👍...
Finish the race , # 1, better chance of winning!
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.
As a kid who was born in 2009, i can confirm that this is NEED FOR SPEED (SOME LIKE IT HOT )PURSUIT
Sup man do you have a replay of 2012 Coke Zero 400 in HD?
That kid is not Cale Yarborough
Oh yes it is. He didn’t get a factory ride til 65 Rebel 400 though
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My favourite number, "13"....😎
I find it fascinating that the called out merlons measurements! Does anyone know if they still do the parade and pageant?
Too politically incorrect. They might still have the parade now but I seriously doubt it
Glory days
19:50 "pit viper" then sunglasses. 🤔
At 2:27 Ten leaves on the spring pac!
Born, September 18 1959.
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.
They all make the same tire screechy sound interestingly.
Entire audio dubbed at a studio.
@@markfurman4386
My post was intended as a joke.
Earl Balmer kept the #13….and never won a race aside from a Daytona qualifier in spite of many factory rides.
King Dick Petty almost won.
LOL , He's shaken but not stirred .
When racing was racing
Did they really put a heavy film camera with glass lenses in some guys car during the race?
They also put a large, cumbersome camera on Joe Eubanks #61 (14:32)
He's limp in the hands of Miss Southern 500, i kinda doubt that!'😂
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 .
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.
How about young Dick Petty in the #43 car...
Erik Jones
22:36 socks
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.
i aint got a shot at nascar untill i can beat the go-carts,..
That's a big Johnson🤣
Wow the video quality is remarkably good. This must have been restored. I could do without the confederate flags though.
Can anyone explain to me why “Dick” Petty has “SKI-KING” on drivers door?
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.
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).
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!
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
Fkn Funny Who Is Jim Reed?, Well He’s A Yankee, But A Good Man Just The Same……wow🙃
Richard Petty Driving a White Car with a petty Blue Roof?
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
Dont cha just hate it when a Yankee wins? LMAO
Especially when it was Kulwicki.
Boat races
Bunch of cheaters