Fireball was always my favorite driver. Hated to wear firesuit and hated fires, interesting that is the way he went, but his love of racing is the way he went. RIP Fireball. I am 77 and will always remember you.
@jimhediger89003 жыл бұрын
Fireball was allergic to the fire-proofing chemicals used back then. He had a medical waiver because of his extreme allergic reaction to the liquid solution used. He was our hometown hero and we Daytonans will NEVER forget Edward Glen Roberts, our beloved driver…..
@billyrayvalentine79724 жыл бұрын
Oh my. The cars are real cars with chrome bumpers and they are huge. Awesome .
@KK-ex5zu4 жыл бұрын
God bless you and youtube! The TV was boring me to tears, fired up the laptop and here I am! I love these old races!
@Theel254 жыл бұрын
I first heard of this specific race in an old book about the best NASCAR drivers. It talked about Fireball Robert's 1958 domination and how Eddie Pagan went flying out of the track. Cool to see this race in color.
@davidmc14894 жыл бұрын
Awsome to see the pagentry parade at the week long pre race...also cool to see all old cars n trucks..
@steveng16244 жыл бұрын
*1958 Darlington Stock Car Race. Just an awesome experience*
@thefossillcave4 жыл бұрын
Perfect timing to upload this video because Darlington is here!!!!
@hectorboneuoropeza2744 Жыл бұрын
Que estupendo poder vivir estos eventos ,es como viajar en el tiempo 🕧🕤🕓🧐
@searchers4 жыл бұрын
This was a time when Stock Cars really looked like the cars you drove on the streets, not like today's Stock Cars. People could relate to the cars much better than today, despite the fantastic increases in speed.
@THROTTLEPOWER3 жыл бұрын
Super cool, really enjoyed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍
@user-hb8be5wb4q4 жыл бұрын
I passed by the track in 1974 and didn’t realize it until I looked to my left and I was right behind some stands. And those beauty queens still put today’s to shame, they are real. Could you what would happen if they put the flag of the south in the race show!
@holoholohaolenokaoi22993 ай бұрын
yes NASCAR committed suicide on june 10, 2020 banning that flag tradition.
@MrDastardly4 ай бұрын
A wonderful film. 👏👏👏👏
@jimknowlton3422 жыл бұрын
This was the last Southern 500 before the Daytona speedway opened. This was the end of an era of sorts.
@terrygugel38034 жыл бұрын
Back when they were stock cars not like today, like they say all good things come to an end
@simoneburini40363 жыл бұрын
NASCAR Cup cars stopped being stock in 1967. The transition from dirt tracks to long paved speedways demanded higher speeds and higher safety standards, and strictly stock cars could not do the job anymore. Still, it would be cool if the bodies were still stock looking, but the arrival of the Gen 4 in 1992 brought an end to that for marketing reasons.
@af4od02 Жыл бұрын
At 4:15 , looks like me trying to make it to work in morning rush hour traffic in my late model Toyota Rav!
@miketurbeville19618 ай бұрын
This made me laugh!!
@erfanfarhan799756 ай бұрын
4:24 Bobby Myers Fatal Crash 17:56 Eddie Pagen Crash 20:06 Eddie Gray Crash 21:13 Jack Smith Crash
@mikemullay5622 Жыл бұрын
I can't even imagine driving one of these cars for 500 miles at 115 miles per hour. I own a stock '56 Buick and I am not comfortable driving it much over 65 although it will do it. These guys are driving with basically a helmet, and a rudimentary roll cage. They are wearing shirts pants, and leather shoes. No real restraints of any kind but a lap belt.
@skipstalforce4 жыл бұрын
I remember watching these early races on a black and white set when they still raced on the apron.
@armyretired28 Жыл бұрын
Don't mind the missing guard rail...just keep racing! If the walls or fense didn't hold up under a crash today they stop the race until fixed! These were some brave men back then unlike today...lol
@ditto19584 жыл бұрын
This is awesome- a parade with clowns, a guy shooting a rifle, Confederate battle flag. Then a beauty pageant with James Arness judging, tobacco companies as sponsors, cars flying all over the place, starting on fire, flipping over... why did those 1950’s cars roll over so easily?
@feellucky271 Жыл бұрын
A very high center of gravity and almost no drag or downforce on the body to keep it on the ground they are going so fast. They handled like bags of meat...and no power steering Awesome Bill from Dawsonville 35 years later more than doubled the speed of over 200 miles an hour. That track looks like it has bad pitted acne
@bigblockjalopy6 ай бұрын
@@feellucky271what a nonsense. "High Center of gravity". Way better than todays cars. Back then, the engine was placed low behind the front axle. I race one of those on German streets, yes modded, but basically stock, since 1988 til today. I still smoke about any regular pass car on the road.
@dlm425 Жыл бұрын
I love how they just going flying off the track though the guard rail
@robertanderson40283 жыл бұрын
America was such a nice country back then.
@holoholohaolenokaoi22993 ай бұрын
yes we Americans had free will to do cool stuff.
@anthonysmith65584 жыл бұрын
Very cool !
@durn2106 ай бұрын
It's amazing of the quality of video if this time..
@darrellludlow6 ай бұрын
Love these classic races. Just get tired of the artificial sound effects of squealing tires and crashing cars.
@lifelongbachelor36513 жыл бұрын
good days...
@saragrant97494 жыл бұрын
It's incredible to think back to the days when guardrail was used, catch fences were barely there and the cars were basically street legal.
@noviranger2393 жыл бұрын
This was part of NASCAR’s “dark past” as Darian puts it.
@holoholohaolenokaoi22993 ай бұрын
yes NASCAR is gone
@randomreviewsrebooted51564 жыл бұрын
Darlington hype, baby!
@bennyparsons14354 жыл бұрын
Are you still gonna post more full races?
@yojoeski4 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know the name of the narrator? This voice is all over tons and tons of highlight films of races from the 50's-70's but I've never heard a name mentioned.
@dngnascar4 жыл бұрын
His name was Bud Palmer
@robertstaley50499 ай бұрын
Lol it is NOT Bud Palmer.
@robertstaley50499 ай бұрын
Ralph Camargo was the announcer on this and many other classic NASCAR films.
@yojoeski9 ай бұрын
@@robertstaley5049 Who was the other more southern voice you’d hear on race videos of this time? The one I’m thinking of did Southern 500’s from roughly 1965-1969.
@KKBundy123454 жыл бұрын
5:35 Hey Virginia's Governor Northam crashes the Parade!
@davidmc14894 жыл бұрын
The rack and pinion show from way back is pretty cool too...them aughta be saggin and baggin by now@ 8:34
@garyleach5034 Жыл бұрын
Fireball roberts a true american bad ass . Chevys rule
@JRCinKY4 жыл бұрын
How the Hell did anyone make it out alive anyway?
@Theel254 жыл бұрын
Luck, and the fact that these cars were going much slower than today. Surprises me how 40 cars can race on one track but make it out today.
@BRZkomarov4 жыл бұрын
@@Theel25 40 but ok i got what u mean lol
@Theel254 жыл бұрын
@@BRZkomarov There was around 70 cars back then, but I worded it wrong.
@dean71189 ай бұрын
Good old days, run what you brung as long they sold 500 cars to the public
@craigpennington12515 ай бұрын
Yep, this ain't template racing.
@HarrierMan993 жыл бұрын
Who is this narrator? He did some of the Indy 500 films around that time frame.
@billythekid32343 жыл бұрын
I think it was Bud collins,, I know his first name is Bud.
@veraroquete46983 ай бұрын
How fast were they running?
@joewebb4836 Жыл бұрын
58, first year of the BB chevy....wonder if they dominated?
@robertstaley50499 ай бұрын
Fireball won six races out of eight starts in the Chevy seen in this video.
@erikchoungFoods Жыл бұрын
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰👍💛💛💛
@user-oh3ur2kv8h Жыл бұрын
А где все негры?
@bigblockjalopy6 ай бұрын
6:41
@noviranger2395 ай бұрын
11:51 Ross Chastain?
@jaredbrooks44024 жыл бұрын
#NASCAR you have forgotten where you come from, much like the rest of the United States.
@thomasfan22144 жыл бұрын
17:58
@cliffjones40 Жыл бұрын
i road that track in 1958
@thomasfan22144 жыл бұрын
20:05
@42lookc4 жыл бұрын
How far racing and women have fallen.
@gary24fan2 жыл бұрын
Don't worry. People like you and the right-wing fascists you support are sending us back there. But I better be able to buy a car for $1500 if we're going back to the 1950's. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@RCAFTailWind4 жыл бұрын
62 years later and they are still only turning left.....
@patrickderp1044 Жыл бұрын
actually this takes place after buddy bakers 1957 win at watkins glen, a tricky road course that is featured in NASCAR along with the sonoma road course, plenty of right turns happen at those races
@bigyodatheman Жыл бұрын
It's not who can do it, it's who can do it the best. Anyone can throw a football, too.
@MorganProductionsYT6 ай бұрын
Bruh this joke needs to die and replace it with follow the leader joke for F1
@robertparker66545 ай бұрын
Don't want turn right on an oval track unless you're feeling a death wish.
@briantaylor9285 Жыл бұрын
4:24 pretty sure that driver died.
@seang.2360 Жыл бұрын
Yes, that's correct
@tagnut1952 Жыл бұрын
It's a wonder all three of them didn't get killed. Man that was a bad collision.
@Sensatokiko2 ай бұрын
The person who was killed was in the white car (Bobby Myers), but the other two, Fonty Flock and Paul Goldmisth survived
@rafaelallenblock Жыл бұрын
06:41 There's your good old southern manners for you.
@patrickderp1044 Жыл бұрын
when i turn on a modern rap video the performers are making the exact same mannerisms
@rafaelallenblock Жыл бұрын
@@patrickderp1044 That's because you're a racist POS.
@asd36f4 жыл бұрын
Stock cars 3 - Armco fence 0!
@davidmc14894 жыл бұрын
24:55 funny how announcer says after 4.5 hrs the race car is a year old...only 500 miles...amazing to see how we travel 10. To 15k a year or more now...
@bigblockjalopy6 ай бұрын
Non Stop at full throttle?
@davidmc14896 ай бұрын
Hell yeah....thats how i drive
@bigblockjalopy6 ай бұрын
@@davidmc1489 so you live in Germany, or do you use only the 1rst gear?
@74Spirit14 жыл бұрын
😲
@patrickderp1044 Жыл бұрын
i will restore this country to its former glory and i know i am not alone
@tomgunn8004 Жыл бұрын
Sorry to say it but, America is going down. Sodom and Gemorah.
@arobloxgamerthatplaysaothe3993 жыл бұрын
This is the oldest stock car ive ever seen
@jamesparks2242 Жыл бұрын
I remember when Fireball Roberts was killed. Me and my dads favorite driver. I had the pictures in my scrapbook. When he died Nascar came to a halt until new safety equipment could be created and utilized. The cars of that year were the last of the STOCK cars. They became race cars after his death. Greatest advance was the implementation of the fuel cell. If I remember correctly the first race at AIR was in 1960. Were the Atlanta International Raceway paint schemes and coveralls just advertisement for the upcoming track? Please reply if anyone knows.