1956 Darlington Southern 500 (in color)
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- Опубликовано: 30 мар 2020
- Relive the spectacle that was the 1956 Darlington Southern 500. The race was won by Curtis Turner with pole winner Speedy Thompson finishing 2nd.
NASCAR Grand National race number 44 of 56
Monday, September 3, 1956 at Darlington Raceway, Darlington, SC
364 laps on a 1.375 mile paved track (500.5 miles)
Time of race: 5:15:33
Average speed: 95.167 mph
Pole speed: 119.659 mph Cautions: 7 for 68 laps
Margin of victory: 2 laps +
Attendance: 70,000
Lead changes: 13
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My old man used to race a 56 chevy in New England around this time. My mom wasn't real happy about this. It was our brand new family car.
badass.
where in new england?
Yeah and probably lost
@@pyrodon5773 damn thats harsh
@@robertraft because it was a Chevy back then they were stock and didn't last long.
@@pyrodon5773 lol.
These men were fearless. There was virtually no safety equipment and these old sleds handled like a covered wagon. How can you not love it!
You got the handling part right. I got a little taste once, was at Pahrump, NV for a motorcycle track day and it rained during the night so the track was wet. At the riders meeting the event director asked us to take our vehicles out on the track and do a few laps to dry the track. Took my regular old GMC C1500 pickup out and pushed it around the track a few laps, it was like driving a bathtub full of Jell-O around a race track. It handled fine on the street, race track different story.
@robbie G HAHA aint you funny Cletus. Pushing it around a track is Southern California racing slang.
@robbie G What's your point Cletus? I used to own a Ford, good car.
Question: What does robbie G's daughter say during sex?
Answer: "Get off of me Paw, you're crushin my smokes!"
What do you mean no safety equipment, they are wearing safety t-shirts and jockey helmets.
@robbie G You are too stupid to know you got owned, Cooter. Now why don't you sit down and drink a nice hot cup of Shut The fuck Up.
There is no way it could get any better than what you have presented. WOW! Never in my life would I have thought that I would be able to watch something like this and I am 65 years old.
I thought I recognized that cowboy hat, Smokey Yunick! How many of us grew up reading Smokey's columns in Popular Science, etc. in the 60s? Drum vs disc brakes, carburetor vs fuel injection, radial vs bias ply tires, oh the memories. _Thank you so much for getting this on RUclips!_
I now live not far from where his shop was. Passed by it many times but didn’t realize what it was till some meth head burnt it down. I heard the dude was cooking in there and poof🌬 it was gone🎼. AM NOT SURE how true. Local talk and press releases sometime differ (bet you didn’t know that, huh?)
New RPM
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Lots of brand new cars there!......beautiful chrome bumpers!....much more interesting than the boring races of today.
I couldn't agree more
watch Lada Rally
Miss Southern 500 is now 86 years old.
Party pooper❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
These are REAL Stock Cars. Never to be forgotten. Pioneers.
The comedy in these old races is priceless
The old 312 (ECZ) w/ a Dempsey Wilson Cam & a High Top Holley, damn good show !
Surprised to see the old Y block so competitive, for 500 miles flat out, no less !!
It all depends on who built the engine. Probably Holman Moody in this case. @@arkhsm
My dad was at this race with my grandmother, grandad and my uncle. So glad to see it in color. They were in the infield in turn 3 area. Drove all the way from West Tennessee, in a '55 FORD...This was before interstate system was built.
thats cool
Where did they place in that race?
I'm impressed that the driver was "okay" after spinning at 120mph, smashing through a steel barrier, dropping down a 26 foot bank, and landing his car upside down. All while wearing nothing more than a t shirt and a cork helmet.
Well called 👍
Yah, he was alright. Now what do you have to say. Maybe you'll have something nice to say on how well a car can hold up, and how that does save you, especially when the crumple zone is useless in the event of a roll anyway.
Back when you could race it today and buy one tomorrow. A manufacturers race.
Win on Sunday, sell on Monday!
Back when it was all about racing you couldn't pay me to watch Nascar now
The races of today are so scripted. Boring drivers with boring cars. The drivers all look alike with the same decals on their fire suit. The cars are identical. Having your wing 1/4 of an inch off gets you in trouble. Let ‘em race damnit. If you can get something past the judges, so be it. Maybe the next time you won’t. May the best team win without all the F’en rules.
That ain't no s*#t.
The sight of the scaffolds at 9:49 reminded me of the 1960 Indy 500 scaffold accident where 2 people died and 50 people were injured when a 30' tower collapsed just before the race. Sometimes just being there was more scary than the race. Curtis Turner's car handled so well that he could pass above and below the white line. All in all, this was a great video!
Yup, many potential disasters waiting to happen, on and off the track
Everything before the late 70s in racing was the Wild West. And 50s and60s were a whole level. Men just standing on the track with cars racing by 😂😂
@@icey2203 5:33 well there's your wild west people who don't know anything having more to say that's useful than a 5 minute sentence with a mechanic today.
Imagine a stock car that's actually a "stock car". What a great idea
Better watching than 2023
This was the Birth of my Nascar. Just AMAZING Footage. THANK YOU SO MUCH
There's not much better than old school NASCAR races!
Gotta love the sound effects 🤣
The tires sliding ?? I thought slicks had no tread and didn't make that kind of sound !!
117 mph in a 1950s vehicle is really moving
..yeah..especially with 7.00x15 cotton or rayon bias ply tires(probably tube-type)...
117 mph is moving no matter what.
I love watching this it brings back so many memories. My father and his friend Fritz had the 301 garage on Dixie Highway in Hallandale Florida. My dad worked at Don Allen Chevrolet when he wasn't racing stock cars with Fritz they ran Oldsmobile and a Henry J. I went to a lot of races on the dirt track as a boy good memories.
Turner always ran his FORDS pedal to the metal and balls out!
I'm biased, Fords and Mercs also the best looking cars.
@@robertparker6654: I totally agree. On the most part, Ford and Mercury cars/trucks are the best looking.
This is what a throwback video should be. Superb! Thanks for the look into the past!
Amazing cars and engines... racers having fun ... ao are
All of us enjoying it after so many years... those girls miss southern 500... NO WORDs... wow...
This was great racing in front of a packed house. Those were the days. True racers. True men. True characters.
Time stamp 12:15 onward: Check out that bold move by Paul Goldsmith driving Smokey Yunick's #3 Chevy, going into the turn to snatch 2nd place. Damn, that took some major balls to pull off, especially at Darlington, and in those days when these cars didn't handle so well. Not all, but most young guys today have no idea just how difficult it was to run these cars balls out. It took a mixture of incredible courage and talent to race back then. And Smokey was the first to admit that where he excelled at building some of the strongest engines on a consistent basis, he sorely lacked in chassis set up.
Love the 50s cars and plenty fast enough. The lack of safety equipment is a huge difference from today's racing events. These cars had style and grace. Today's are cookie cutters.
That is what I like about the old days , the cars looked much more street .
@@Jay-vr9ir They were basically. Hopped up engines and roll cages were added for the go fast part and for the crashing. My dad had a 55 Ford Vicky all hopped up. It would pass anything but a gas station. It was turquoise and white.
@@craigpennington1251 Cool so they were stock cars .
@@Jay-vr9ir Yep. All stripped out but the necessary items needed. Hence the name Stock Car Racing. There were no specific engine building outside of the manufactures casting of block & heads like todays are which is practically every part.
RUN WHAT YA BRUNG!!!! REAL RACING GOOD TIMES
I just love how Herb Thomas kept racing after that wreck.
Curtis Turner was the best there ever was on dirt. ANd i mean the big dirt tracks. He would have his car crossed up sideways hundreds of yards befor a turn. Was great to see.
Damn.... in 1956 there wasn't even a pit wall separating pits from race track !
Improvements never stop with humanity, in all areas of life.
I'd like to give us all a pat on the back.
No pit box.Just a space marked on the wall.
Smokey Yunick was a legend for many years among the NASCAR community since he helped many racers get their head starts.
You know what gets me is the first time I went to Darlington was 37 years ago. At that time this race was only 27 years before. I don't feel that old. I witnessed the Petty's, Pearson's, Parsons, Waltrips, Earnhardt Sr., and Yarborough (half the stands appeared to leave when he dropped out) run there before I left the Carolinas in 1994. I miss the east coast.
Last year my dad raced super stock dirt track. I was born mid-year and mom wasn't having any more of it. 16 years later she signed the papers so I could start racing 2 years early. I'd already raced 2 years for a factory team in amateur motocross, my reasoning a roll cage would protect me worked.
Priceless old school racing. Thanks ...amazing. Love those 56 automobiles
Pit crews, and mechanics servicing multiple cars of the same race team. Evolution is a wonderful thing.
This was Nascars hay days....Stock cars as it should be....Thanks much...!
Nascar all Out YOU ARE THE MAN! One of the most comprehensive old vids out there. There are others that ive seen from 50s, full half hour vids like this, that are still not on you tube
What, real cars. Now that is original. Best ever...
19:13....now THAT is a jack.They did have air guns.
Back when a car was made of metal, and supported two men, the race queen, and a trophy! Great video, thanks for sharing.
Good to hear names of NASCAR legends that I heard or thought of in years. Nice trip back on memory lane.
Fireball Robots.
I CAN REMEMBER SITTING IN SMOKEY EUNUCH OFFICE WITH THE OLD MAN LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY HE HAD A SHOP in Daytona beach just a stone through from the Halifax river good things don't last
Sounds cool man
My sister's husband worked in Smokey's garage. Their logo was "Best Damn Garage In Town".
I doubt you worked for Smokey considering you cant even fucking spell his name.
These cars sound like my two uncle's cars flying by my grandma's house back in the 60's on a Saturday night in WVa. They'd hit all the taverns in their neck of the woods but always made it home alive by Sunday morning.
ok
When stock cars had working taillights chrome bumpers and grills.
That’s crazy no wall between pit road and the track 😂
Love the dubbed-in cartoon sound effects
Just love the '50's racin'. And ole Paul Goldsmith is 97 years old right now at the beginning of 2023. Amazing he lived so long when racing was his life. My first visit to Indy as a kid was in 1959 with my dad and his brother and for some reason I gravitated to the #99 car. I liked the number. (I was just a kid) He finished up towards the front that day too, can't remember where. That seems like eons ago and it's great to know he's still among us. These guys didn't just have balls back then.....they had a bucket of balls!!
98 now
Curtis Turner is one of my personal favorites😎
The fact that there is no outer pit wall in this video just raises my anxiety
Its only 115 mph not 200+
Gee C
Even @ 115 mph, should one of them cars lose it coming off a corner & hits the inside wall..It doesn’t make it safer because their going “115”..😫 Geez some of y’all lack common sense..
@@the_road__warrior6185 true but the metal in those cars was stronger than now, but the newer cars are safer due to better stress points.
Gee C
But take into consideration the pit crews... Getting hit by a car with “stronger metal”... I rest my case..
@@the_road__warrior6185 for sure, times have changed to protect drivers, pit crews, and audience. I go to New Hampshire speedway every year since 2014, i have 4th row seats 35ft from finish line and i love it.
Gladiators of another time and space, their kind is sadly missed, but they were all champions in the 1950s. Life and death hanging by a thread.
Back when they truly raced stock cars.
It wouldn’t be long, though, before that would start to change.
By the way, brilliant observation. Did you think of that yourself?
Thanks for the compliment. Most of what I learned of auto racing came from family friend, Wally Booth.
@@mga2899 sludge, take your IGNORANT punk ass back in the other room , out of your moms basement and plsy with your stupid toy train set.😂
Oh, mikey, that was so, so, so, manly!!!!!
If you had a penis, I bet it would be 15 inches long.
By the way, in regard to the mother’s basement comment; did you really think that ancient insult, that’s been used by about two trillion village idiots before you, was clever?
BAHAHAHA.
Vent windows!!!! Gotta Love it!!!!
I'm really surprised the tires held up as good as did, especially with all that heat. Marvelous presentation.
Speeds overtook tire technology for a few years. By 1959 tire chunking was a problem.
Incredible!! Thanks for posting!!
Man...Tim Flock a legend in Winston Cup racing.
Yeah until nascar banned them flock boys for trying to unionize the drivers.
Curtis was the man.
"These cars are completely stock." That was the last time that phrase was ever used in Nascar.
Highly doubt they were “stock” I’m sure those cars would blow something from the showroom floor away.
That's a lie even in 1956 lol
Chrysler's kicking butt! Today's Chrysler wouldn't even make it a half lap with out breaking down!
The sound effects... excellent!
And there he goes,Curtis Turner running around like clock work,TICK,TICK,TICK! man you could see his engine was still running strong at the end of the race!! These guys were something to see,noyhing at all like todays racing
People keep saying the old Ford y-block was slow. It dominated nasca in 56-57. Chev was always way behind
24:06 thats some damn good driving right there.
Looks like 5 o'clock traffic on the 285.
This was so entertaining. Crazy how far we’ve come as a sport.
Really!
"we"? Which race team are you on?
100x more entertaining than today
True of all motorsport
Man seeing a Chrysler 300 D streaming around is cool. Thing is that a BIG car, curb weight around 6,000 lbs. I own a '56 Imperial C70 so I know how big it is, and how fast it can move. I love these old races. Wind wings and sun glasses. Great!
More like about 4400 pounds, einstein.
Gee I'm sorry. I happen to own a '56 Imperial C70. It is a full frame car and it even has 7/8th lug bolts. A new yorker might weigh a little less, not much less.
1956 imperial c70 lists at 5200 pounds. A 1956 300 lists at less than 4400 pounds.
I would love to see that imperial, though. What a car!!!!
I checked my title and it does not show the GVW. I have to use a 3 ton floor jack to raise it and it takes a bit of muscle. I'd be happy to send you a couple pics but I don't know how. It has the solex glass, the instant heat conditionair, and the radio you can control with your foot. It also has a 3 speed push button trans which was not in the sales brochure.
I had a 1956 Ford in high school. It was a faded blue. 292 with a two speed Ford-o-matic transmission. Lots of fun. Got about 10 MPG.
I had a ‘56 Chevy Bel-Air 2 dr hard top, you remember, the one that had the drip rail flip up when the doors opened?-and the gas cap was behind the left rear taillight? 2 over 283 3spd with truck leaf springs, rode like a truck, imagine that. I made some easy money betting people they couldn’t find the gas cap, and at that time, the car was only 13 yrs old.
Liked the Miss Southern 500
Real stock cars
Real men driving the cars.
Would like to see how many of the best driver's in the world today would drive one of those cars at that speed ?
Real stock cars
Real men driving the cars.
...also applies for F1, Indy, etc etc
The women kept their clothes on 😂😂
Adam, the answer, old fart, is ALL OF THEM.
Now go take your nap.
they will have to practice
@@sludge4125 Hey Sludgeo I know you are an expert because you have watched racing on TV for two years but the correct answer is probably none of them. Most of the 110-pound sawed-off wheel holders that they call race drivers theses days couldn't see over the steering wheel of one of those older cars. Without wearing cool suits the men who muscled that old iron had to have arms as big around as today's racer's legs because there was no power steering. Before you tell someone that has probably forgotten more than you will ever know about racing to go take a nap you may want to learn some real facts about racing instead of spending so much time with your wife Douglas looking on amazon for the latest kiester toys.
Pretty cool that the pace car literally looks like any other car on the track
Notice the guy in the passenger seat holding a yellow flag out the window. And when the green flag would drop these guys would blow right by the pace car if he hadn't gotten off the track fast enough
Back in the 1910s and 1920s the stripped down no fender racer bodies were accompanied by a pace car that was inevitably a 1910s/1920s factory roadster that you could buy at a dealership. The comparison is very neet.
Love the race Queen standing on the hood with the winner.
I love seeing your video with these cars I always wanted a 56 Ford or a 56 mercy thought that they were really good looking cars and now to see them race I now know I was definitely born in the rong time
I am an old codger of 80 ...I remember my Dad's cousin came by with a brand new 55 Crown Victoria ...made me a Ford guy right then. My Dad had a auto repair and I started building those Y Block Fords and Mercs and putting them in Older 54 Fords good times back in the late 50s early 60s. Nothing sounds like a big cammed Y Block.
Goldsmith is still doing well at age 92. Runs an airport in Indiana
Christopher Haas what airport?? I live in Indiana
I read that on USAC stock Facebook site. They did NOT specify. Especially under current environment.
Griffith. Also one of the top aircraft engine shops in the country, G&N.
Griffith-Merrillville.
THANK YOU
My dad had a 56 plymouth fury just like the pace car. Only came in shell white. Limited production experimental 303 engine. Fastest car around Hermann Mo for quite awhile. 56 plymouth fury was the first factory muscle car.
It's amazing anyone survived these races back then lol
Some didn't. Same with Spectators. Your only safety devices were Rollcages & Seatbelts.
@@GigaTechWolf And before that they still survived. In 1949 on the Daytona raceway a 1949 hudson going 120 miles per hour flipped horizontally 6 times before hitting the ground hard. The driver got out, completely unharmed and EVEN in an event that someone is going to bleed out right after and die, it's bullshit, because someone who is injured wouldn't be able to get out of that car. He did, and they went to the hospital and he had twisted his ankle, so there. There's your proof at the harsh reality of how you can get lucky in these vehicles too.
Enjoyed the footage and the funny dubbed in sound track. Amazing how the low tech tires held up.
There was nothing low tech about them but I'm glad you find it unbelievable.
No fence wow that's awesome
Thank you, my father had a 56 fairlane, he bought brand new for 2100 dollars.
My Dad and Mom bought their first car together 56' Bel Air.
Gold and cream color 😍
yeah i worked at gm for +$1.40 hr
Great to see Curtis win this race, he was always one of mine and my father's favorite drivers along with Fireball Roberts. And as a history buff of early Nascar racing, it was so pleasureable to see Fireball, Joe Weatherly, Buck Baker, Goldsmith, Pascal, Herb Thomas, and the Flock boys. This is REAL racing and drivers, not some corporate whine asses like they have today. Also good to see Smoky in this video too, went to his garage in 1969 and 1970 with our father.
Smokey's Best Damn Garage ln Town! ;-)
As a "NASCAR historian" perhaps you could answer a question for me (I was 10 years old when this race was run). Did the cars have to run their stock displacement, i.e., did the Chevys have to run 265 c.i. when the Chrysler could run (I believe but was it a 330 c.i. ?) a 392 c.i. hemi? Were the Fords 292? I figure the only way a '56 Ford could beat a '56 300B was because it probably weighed 1,000 lbs. less. Those guys had huevos. Drum brakes (fortunately hardly used), bias ply tires, flexy flyer chassis, no safety equipment to speak of and I'd bet half didn't wear their seatbelts (if they even had them)! Today's NASCAR is basically "spec" racing as the cars are light years away from their "stock" brethren and virtually the same. Same for Indy cars. At least Formula 1 still has a Constructors Championship as the teams have to design and build their own cars.
No spotters or caution lights. 🏁
True legends these dudes set the bar for stock car racing
Back when Nascar racing was real and worth watching.
Uh, oh, another smelly old fart dreaming of the glory days that never were.
Sludge
How do you know ?
Bruce Ass, who da fuq are you? Junk’s butt buddy? Hey, nothing wrong with that. But at least identify yourself as such.
Sludge
It’s a simple question - answer it troll.
Junk Yard, you better watch your asshole, because brucey the shower bandit certainly is. And the sheriff tells me he hates to use vaseline.
Real cars, real men, no power steering, gotta love it
Yeah, I guess Louise Smith couldn’t get a ride.
it's too slow
NOBODY goes to a NASCAR race today and watches a Camaro/Mustang/Toyota win on Sunday and then rushes down to the winning make's dealer on Monday to see what's available on the lot. Noth😢ing is available except something that may share the same name and only the slightest resemblance in the profile. None of the body and none of the chassis and very little of the drivetrain. Just enough to attract a solid fan base to that manufacturer & generate $$ for them. 😢
Too bad for the Chevy folks, the CAMARO is no more, leaving the corvette for the well heeled.
Fabulous many thanks for posting............Fireball Roberts now that is a proper name for a race driver!
He got his nickname because he could throw a baseball fast.
@@sludge4125 Damn you know everything you're as smart as 💩!
For people that yearn for ‘stock car racing’, support your local track when everything opens back up. They need it under best of times. Though the faster classes aren’t stock, there are plenty of other classes that resembles stock cars, with great racing to boot! Even vintage classes! Pay extra and get a pit pass. You can interact with the drivers and inspect the equipment!
They are going to keep the world in this stupid lockdown nonsense forever.
In my area,our little 3/8's track is now a housing development, too much noise you know. I miss it. Good times,especially the late models, track was small but high banks.
Standard highway guard rail, no safer barriers, wow!
3 WIDE,70 cars...OH My!
1956年のアメリカのフィルム映像ですね。楽しい！V8の乾いたサウンドと青空、ボディーに描かれたフォント、いいね～、腹が減ってきた！・
I second that.
I emailed Nascar they probably don't like me ATM. These men are fearless and have bigger nuts than any Nascar driver these days. I mean pool noodles ziptied to the roll cage on a convertible. What's better than that.
At least the 1959 Daytona had the pool noodles lol
Wauw, 119 miles per hour! Thought we’d never see the day!
Keep in mind these were basically Stock production cars. That is Fast for a 1956 car, That 354. Crysler was the first American production engine to have more than 1 hp per CI at 355 hp.
@@mylanmiller9656
I feel you fellas have a constant hold back on admitting how impressive this is. Cars today are not cars back then, cars today weigh less, are less lengthy, are smaller, ride close to the wheels, have no outside features and added bulk, and have a bumpy suspension system. Cars then were flowy which meant a lot of wind upkeep, heavy, lengthh, embellished, and the stock engine could go 119 miles per hour. I can't find a world where that isn't immensely impressive and extremely deserving of congratulations and merits well earned. Factory cars have always been fast, big whoop that the 1932 Ford had a top speed of 60 miles per hour, The Auburn full sized sedan, a vehicle twice the size in 1927 had a top speed of 84. The roadster was 95. What more do you need? Can modern cars even reach 100 today? Some small hatchback going 95 will all it's might whilst the Chrysler 500 sedan cruises at 120 miles per hour down the highway.
Got to love the pits that look like a shade tree mechanics garage parking.
Chrysler clearly had the most powerful vehicle on the track.
This is back when the speeds were set by courage not a long list of rules. I think that as the cars get faster the race needs to be longer. This will help keep the speeds down with them trying to make them last.
That was too cool!
This is the best ad ever
Roswell "Roz" Howard and his sons had a macine shop in my hometown and did excellent stock and race quality work!! Was nice to hear his name, even on the spinout, which he handily dealt with. May he rest in peace!! RB
I was hoping it was the legion from millegville ga
@@harrymiller3986 Yes, before that, Macon Georgia. That's where Roz Sr. had his tune-up shop.
From 1950 to the mid '60s Darlington used a a three wide start.
Speedy Thompson! There's always a Thompson!
woua it's great in color fantastique really good job
Man, imagine there being 13 makes of cars in a race nowadays.
There are 35 makes of cars today, but only three race in nascar.
This color is better than today!
With the rudimentary systems you see here this was a very dangerous business!🔥