1958 Daytona Beach Race (Grand National)
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2019
- Paul Goldsmith wins the final Nascar race ran at the famous Daytona Beach Road Course.
NASCAR Grand National race number 2 of 51
Sunday, February 23, 1958 at Beach & Road Course, Daytona Beach, FL
39 laps on a 4.100 mile road course (159.9 miles)
Time of race: 1:34:53
Average speed: 101.113 mph
Pole speed: 140.57 mph Cautions: none
Margin of victory: 5 cl
Attendance: 35,000
Lead changes: 0
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I have been around racing for 70 of my 73 years. In that time I have seen or been involved in every form of racing -- land, sea, and air -- that's ever been invented. There was a time when I knew many of the greats (and some not so great) on a first name basis.
Though I never met him (but would love to), Paul Goldsmith has been a life-long hero of mine. He was a quiet, soft-spoken, individual who let his right foot do his talking. I was 12 years old in 1959 when I listened to the radio broadcast of the Indianapolis 500 for the first time. He was the driver who caught my attention that day. He is one of only a few racers I could ever say that about.
In the 1950s & '60s he went back & forth between NASCAR and their then rival USAC Stock Car Series where his record was much stronger. In winning the USAC championship two years in a row, he first year, in 19 races on both pavement and dirt, drove to seven poles, 10 wins, and 16 top fives. In the following year's 20 race series he won six poles, eight races, and scored 15 top five finishes. He was series runner-up two more years as well. He stands fifth in all-time series wins and was recently inducted into their Hall of fame..
NASCAR in that era was running 50+ races a year, the majority on short & dirt tracks. He drove in 127 races over 13 years scoring 10 wins (his first came in the short-lived convertible division). He also won three Daytona qualifying races. His nine poles include the first-ever for a Chrysler Hemi when he qualified on top at the 1964 Daytona 500 by a record-shattering 15 mph! As well, he had 44 top fives and 59 top ten finishes. His best year was 1966 when he won three races, finished second three times, and was fifth in points. His last NASCAR win came that year at Bristol.
But, what really makes Paul Goldsmith one of the greatest racers ever, and gives me my respect and appreciation for him, is his versatility. He started off riding dirt track motorcycles and was so good he was personally chosen by company co-founder Walter Davidson to be backed by the Harley-Davidson factory.
In 1952, on the then dirt Milwaukee one mile oval, he recorded his first of 27 AMA two-wheel victories. In 1953 he "iron man" won a gruelling 100-miler at Langhorne on the extremely dangerous, near circular, rough one-mile "cinders" track. It was pretty much taken the entire distance with left foot down, throttle on, & sliding!
That same year he won the 200 mile beach race at Daytona, setting a new record in Harley's first victory there since 1940. In 1954 he finished second in the very first AMA national points series to his former racing pupil Joe Leonard.
What makes all of this over the top is that in 1958 (five years after his motorcycle win on the sands) Goldsmith drove a Pontiac to victory in the very last beach race (the Speedway opened the following year). And during this time he also won USAC Stock Car races on the now paved Milwaukee mile, and both USAC and NASCAR Stock Car races at Langhorne. He won the 300 miler there by seven laps over Lee Petty for his first Grand National victory. Paul Goldsmith remains the only person in history to win at all three of these tracks on two-wheels & four!
He was also versatile in his ability to go back & forth between different series & tracks, short or long, dirt or pavement, and never miss a beat. He showed that well in early 1961 when he won a 100 mile USAC Stock Car race on the Ascot half-mile dirt in Los Angeles. Four days later he was 3,000 miles away, driving a NASCAR stocker at Daytona for the first time, where he finished third in his very first try at the 500. And he was third again three years later in only his third Daytona 500!
He as well scored wins in several USAC Stock Car road races, including at Riverside two years before NASCAR first raced there. At Indianapolis Raceway Park (10 miles from the Speedway) he won on both the 5/8 mile oval and 1.8 mile road course. In 1965 he first-time raced Pikes Peak in the USAC Stock Car Division, breaking the qualifying record. He was also a good enough road racer to drive & win sports car races.
And, in the days of big, front-engined roadsters, Goldsmith drove in six Indy 500s. In his second try in 1959 he finished fifth, the following year third. He ran near the front in both, leading some laps. However, he walked away, saying it was the only kind of racing where he never felt comfortable. But that's where he met legendary mechanic & car builder Ray Nichels.
Goldsmith had a long relationship with Nichels whose Stock Cars he drove to his two USAC titles. At that time Nichels was the Pontiac factory's go to guy and Goldsmith drove lengthy development miles for them. He did same testing for Firestone racing tires.
In the fall of 1961 Pontiac & Nichels went after one lap, 500 mile and 24 hour speed and endurance records at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. A pair of new '62 Pontiac Catalinas were used, one improved production, the other a police model. Along with a stellar list of name car builders and mechanics, Pontiac racers Goldsmith, Len Sutton, and Roger Ward from USAC, and Fireball Roberts, Joe Weatherly, and Marvin Panch from NASCAR; joined forces to, despite rain, totally destroy the record book. Both cars went the entire distance.
When Pontiac pulled out of racing Nichels & Goldsmith began the same program for Chrysler. They did testing & development on the new Hemi engine and later Chrysler's Plymouth Superbird & Dodge Daytona winged race cars. Goldsmith by that point was Vice President of Nichels Engineering.
Today's big money didn't exist in racing back then. Having grown up poor during the Great Depression of the 1920s & '30s, followed by the Second World War in the '40s (in which he was a merchant seaman), Goldsmith was smart and invested his money wisely. Because of his early on taking up flying his own plane to keep his busy and expanding schedule, it's not surprising his buying an airport and he & Nichels it's aircraft engine rebuilding business. He also owned other businesses including a dozen Burger King restaurants.
The two thoroughbred horse breeding farms he owned in Florida briefly brought him out of racing retirement. Taking the reins, he nearly won the first sulky race he entered at the legendery Meadowdale horse track across the river from New York City. There he was leading before the horse threw a shoe and finished third.
Paul Goldsmith, the oldest living Indy 500 veteran, is still going and will be 95 this coming October 2nd. He deserves to be in every Hall of Fame there is. He is already in a number of them, two-wheel & four, so we can only hope he will be in NASCAR's. However, they only seem interested in the early legends and "marketable" name drivers of recent years, not those with an excellent racing record. He, like many others, are largely forgotten. That's sad.
LegendsofNASCAR.com has a great tribute to him. It includes a two-wheel section in which he and other NASCAR racers, like two-time Grand National champion Joe Weatherly, who started out on bikes are honored.
The Motor Sports Hall of Fame of America, which he is already in, to me is the best one honoring Goldsmith. Simply, they honor greats from every form of racing and have no vested interest to protect.
Thank you Paul for some great memories from racing's golden age.
He's had quite a life!
Great commentary!
@@jerrywillis5585
Thank You.
Excellent rundown of a great legendary driver. Thank you.
Man I had no clue about goldsmith, even horse racing? He would race anything lol. That was an outstanding job you did educating me about him ,my grandfather was a usac driver and his brother my uncle a mechanic. His son my father drove stock cars and finally me ,I drove and was so so I guess but becoming a single father of three small children had to step away ,sure I'll never regret it but I never stop thinking about driving ,I loved it and the competition in auto racing is always heavy no matter so I miss that the most. My kids are grown and graduated and have their own families and at 43 yr old(I know I started young) I'm thinking of making a go at it I think about it daily
Smokey should be in NASCAR Hall of Fame!!!!!!
Because of all of his high-level "run-ins" with NASCAR that's doubtful.
If you haven't read his biography (which I'm doing right now), what he had to say & suggested about the Frances & NASCAR, it's an affirmative no way in hell.
It is so sad he isn't, without him in it, it is just a sham.
@@joestephan11113:15 l
I agree with you!!!😁😁😁
2:32 Smokey's Best Damn Garage In Town
Dale might have made it famous but he wasn't the first black #3. Much respect to all that have driven before today though.
What about Paul Goldsmith 1958 and pontiac
@@jerrydavis9700he was talking about that number 3 :/
thanks you for this gift....from hampton virginia thanks
Smokey Yunick wrote probably the best autobiography in
American motorsports before his death in addition to his
great acheivements in racing....(His take on the 1960 Indy 500
is both sad and funny)
Back when America was America
Only for white middle class men.
Seriously tf do ppl like u even mean with comments like this, can’t you just enjoy a race without bitching
Seeing 'Ole Smoke' working under the car knowingly in front of the camera is something rare to see.
Goldsmith paired up with Yunick was a force to be reckoned with.
Goldsmith with his talent could drive the wheels off of anything, and Yunick the King of engine/car building innovators (some might say cheaters) made a team that when contracted to race for an automaker was nearly a guaranteed success.
Truly the age of fearless Ironman drivers, running wide open for miles and miles on the ragged edge on tracks little better than dirt country roads, in cars with handling not much better than a modern 5yard dump truck had the epitome of car control.
Of course Yunick knew no bounds in his search for more horsepower, a brilliant mind obsessed with his craft, developed ways of building horsepower unheard of before - and often questionable by the rules of any given racing association - gave gifts of engine developments still in use today and likely tomorrow.
These the kind of men that made the automobile the love of an entire nation.
A master car engine builder. I still can't believe they tore down his shop and built a crappy park nobody uses, and condos. A piece of racing history lost.
❤ aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh😊😊😢😊😊
Paul Goldsmith was one of the best
Iif anyone had skill and guts it was Goldsmith and Smokey
8:08 JEEZUM LORD MERCY!! Ya think you got close enough to the camera crew there, bud?
He came aggressively close and fast 😂
If they die, they die.
A day out in the sun, watching souped-up jukeboxes scream past at full chat. What a time
9:14 tires squealing on sand lol
Absolutely Awesome love every second of it
Back before the Hurricanes washed away the massive flat beach and the build up of hotels and condos lining the beach. We would drag race on the beach from the Ponce Inlet approach north along the beach at speeds of 120+ routinely. It didn't feel unsafe, (except for watching for the cops). Not much happening down that way yet, even in the late 70s. Good times for mostly fearless teenagers.
I pulled for Curtis Turner back then or in the mid to late 60's and Smokey was the best mechanic of his time invented alotta stuff while building race cars..Fireball Roberts was something else too..wish they would let people stand that near to the track nowadays...!!! it was dangerous but it was fun dangerous..??
Well I never knew it started off as a beach race and then went into that little backroad รักIPHONEใช้ Australia and I never knew that ever happened. Thanks for sharing.
The song at the start is great I could imagine it playing while locomotion is chaffing around
Hard to believe that there's still 55 and 57 Chevys on the road, looking at how old this filming is
hard to imagine a 58 Pontiac on the sand, but there you have it, wonder if the Ford had the 430 or 352
This is awesome!
It is a miracle that no fans were killed.
Man, at 8:08 the pack passed the cameraman too close for comfort!
smokey said that paul goldsmith was the best natural driver he ever had he should be in the hall of fame
Obviously Smokey hadn't seen AJ Foyt drive. ;)
When I was a teenager I was fortunate to go to the Daytona Beach NASCAR races and also a couple of motorcycle races. It was a crazy place and a part of the excitement and something not to be forgotten was the lack of crowd control. We were able to stand within 3 feet or so of the cars on the blacktop road passing us at well over 100 MPH and Mr. Goldsmith said upwards of 140 MPH. Dangerous? You bet and we did the same thing for motorcycles. I consider myself lucky not to have been killed, but that's what some teenagers do. Would I do it today? Hell no.
Nice. Haven't seen this before.
Holy shit....I just went around the original Daytona beach course! Damn!
That was a pretty good ol race...Smokey was a bad ass, way ahead of time with his skills. That Ford made him earn it too
Richard Petty's first race.
That’s pretty sweet !
My dad was at this race.
Wow now that’s racing! Almost like what you “win with on Sunday, then buy on Monday”!
Absolutely 🍎 pie all American people having an all American time . Been finding old automotive stuff on beach , tools , parts , lead wheel weights , spark plugs after blitzing hurricanes rolled us it's all underneath sand now as natural beach renourishment in full swing.
Smokeys car sounded like it had it a little somethin special under the hood. Go figure!
The tempest pontiac engine
I love the videos and fo ro daytona a few times a year. does anyone know where the turns are or what is there now. better to ask where exactly was this race on the beach.
My Dad was a pioneer. So was my Uncle Paul McDuffie.
I'm happy I own a 58 Pontiac.
That song at the beginning lol
Would be extremely cool if they ran a cup race now days on this course but probably won't ever happen
Curtis Turner's car had superior handling, but hard to beat The Best Damn Shop in Town..
Real men had to drive those badass machines!!!!
okd smokey putting in work
The last American stock car race!
My schools filter blocks legendary videos like this. Curse them
8:40 deja vu
58 Chevy used the w348. Pontiac and Buick had larger engines too. Older Chevys ran the 283, fords 312’s did not see many Chryslers
aj never drove for smokeey i thought fireball was his favorite but smokey said he did not like fireball they were too much alike read smokeys interview very intresting
Does anyone know of a comment size limit? Because of a couple of enquiries I have put together a post about Paul Goldsmith that has proven larger than first envisioned. Thanks to anyone who can help.
Joe Stephen I read the whole post about Paul, If someone doesn't want to read it they will move on, so don't worry! it was a great post,TY!
@@billythekid3234 Thank you
And if anyone believes that the #3 was "Stock" with Smokey working under the hood? I've got a nice bridge to sell you.... LOL
They should put horns on all the race cars, so the other drivers know when they want to pass
7:38 Boogity Boogity Boogity! Let's go racing, boys!
Gimme a break with that!
@@stolte95 I'm sorry, truly I am, but I just can't imagine a NASCAR race without hearing or saying that.
I’m shocked that Smokey allowed a camera crew anywhere near his garage.
Me too. Smokey even painted all his garage windows black so nobody could look in and see what he was up to. No fucking idea how Smokey Yunick is not in the Hall of Fame. What a joke. Can't stand the France family. I refuse to watch NASCAR anymore because of them
7:38
Oh
Jesus these cars were fabulous this is when Stock Cars had class
As I like to describe all racing in that era: Real Men Driving Real Cars. Btw, my mother's maiden name was Monaco.
@@joestephan1111 Oh okay
I'm a NASCAR fan who's center-left on the political spectrum. Weird, right? I believe that NASCAR can actually use this same spirit of innovation to pioneer clean fuels and more efficient engines.
Ahhh good times
Who else thinks that all beaches should allow car races?
I get a giggle out of how fake the sound effects were back then.
See, people? Cheesy and cringey intros to auto races are nothing new.
My Daddy raced on that Beach.
What the hell do you mean being a pure smartass like that? I guess you are so cool. I think you are just a little kid.
@@NativeSon60 What? The intro was cheesy and corny? Why are you mad?
They just don't make testosterone like they used to.