1950's Historical Footage Of Stock Car Races
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In the 1920s, moonshine runners during the Prohibition era would often have to outrun the authorities. To do so, they had to upgrade their vehicles-while leaving them looking ordinary, so as not to attract attention. Eventually, runners started getting together with fellow runners and making runs together. They would challenge one another and eventually progressed to organized events in the early 1930s. The main problem racing faced was the lack of a unified set of rules among the different tracks. When Bill France, Sr. saw this problem, he set up a meeting at the Streamline Hotel in order to form an organization that would unify the rules.
When NASCAR was first formed by France in 1948 to regulate stock car racing in the U.S, there was a requirement that any car entered be made entirely of parts available to the general public through automobile dealers. Additionally, the cars had to be models that had sold more than 500 units to the public. This is referred to as "homologation". In NASCAR's early years, the cars were so "stock" that it was commonplace for the drivers to drive themselves to the competitions in the car that they were going to run in the race. While automobile engine technology had remained fairly stagnant in World War II, advanced aircraft piston engine development had provided a great deal of available data, and NASCAR was formed just as some of the improved technology was about to become available in production cars.[citation needed] Until the advent of the Trans-Am Series in 1967, NASCAR homologation cars were the closest thing that the public could buy that was actually very similar to the cars that were winning national races.
The 1949 Oldsmobile Rocket V-8 with a displacement of 303 cu in (5.0 L) is widely recognized as the first postwar modern overhead valve (OHV) engine to become available to the public.[14] The Oldsmobile was an immediate success in 1949 and 1950, and all the automobile manufacturers could not help noticing the higher sales of the Oldsmobile 88 to the buying public.[citation needed] The motto of the day became "win on Sunday, sell on Monday". However, in spite of the fact that several competing engines were more advanced, the aerodynamic and low-slung Hudson Hornet managed to win in 1951, 1952, and 1953 with a 308 cu in (5.0 L) inline six-cylinder that used an old-style flathead engine, proving there was more to winning than just a more powerful engine.[citation needed]
At the time, it typically took three years for a new design of car body or engine to end up in production and be available for NASCAR racing.[citation needed] Most cars sold to the public did not have a wide variety of engine choices, and the majority of the buying public at the time was not interested in the large displacement special edition engine options that would soon become popular. However, the end of the Korean War in 1953 started an economic boom, and then car buyers immediately began demanding more powerful engines.
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My dad was a racer in the 60s. We kids went to every race. Miss you, Dad.
@DuddleBug5
Жыл бұрын
Cool that your dad was a racer in the 60s
@pardus5045
Жыл бұрын
Do you miss the girls in the audience too?
@AlanRoberts0427
4 ай бұрын
My father was born in 1921 in Chicago and loved the stock car races in Chicago. We moved to Arizona and continued to be entertained by these brave men.
Rather see these cars instead of the one's nowadays! 💯
Started getting taken to dirt track events by the Old Man in 1964.. Pretty similar feels. Love these old reels !
That is awesome brings back alot of memories how bad ass my dad was to race those cars.
7:43 Cleaning the windshield around the hole..........Epic.
When I see all that potential street rod material, it makes me sad that most of these cars ended up as scrap.
What a cool find on the internet. Thanks for sharing this is a treasure
Thanks for the memories I saw those stockies at westmead and Windsor speedways.
@Trackratz-zl9di
2 ай бұрын
Is that Windsor Speedway as in Checkered Flag Speedway ?
@robertcameron2808
2 ай бұрын
@@Trackratz-zl9di don't think so
@Trackratz-zl9di
2 ай бұрын
@@robertcameron2808 Where was Windsor Speedway ?
@robertcameron2808
2 ай бұрын
@@Trackratz-zl9di behind Windsor rsl club not far from Richmond used to have stock cars speedcars and old hot rods on the program
Loved this race...in color to boot! Lotsa old worn-out Ford coupes, all trying to win $5 for finishing the race. I can smell the oil from the motors, and the noise from all the screaming flatheads during a race was deafining...WOW, I miss those days....when you could get in for 50 cents and get a hot dog and a soda for a quarter!
My dad did race back then
This vid is epic am I right?
I wonder if these guys knew just how utterly cool they were. The cars were works of art, the paint on their cars were works of art. The only other group of people that were as awesome, were the WWII pilots.
Proper racer back then 👍 good tunes aswell 👍🇬🇧
I ran a 37 Plymouth with a ford flat head. We took out one quarter inch and had three and three quarter pistons. Try boring one quarter inch out of todays blocks. Canadian blocks were thicker.
This is totally awesome good 👍😊 job
where is this ?
Men wore different under shorts back then.
@johngaller278
4 ай бұрын
Largo Testico Knit .... Available at Sears and Roebuck or your local Montgomery Wards.
@Trackratz-zl9di
2 ай бұрын
The kind you can roll your pack of smokes up in the sleeve .
I hate to think how many 40 Ford coupes were chopped up for stock cars and then discarded. They were just old cars back them.
What track was where most of this filmed? I see a NJ on some cars J
Where was this race?....looks like Langhorne Speedway in Pennsylvania...doesnt appear to have straightaways...and Langhorne was an actual circle track or close to a circle anyway....great vid!!
@Johia_Mapping_2
3 жыл бұрын
@Kylen Gerardo du bist ein stupid
@granddad-mv5ef
3 жыл бұрын
Greag, that was EXACTLY my guess. My memory of it is not so good---I was five the last time there.
@jonharrington4454
2 жыл бұрын
It’s langhorne speedway my grandfather raced there from 49-54
Love it ❤