The History of Nascar Winston Cup: 1948-1987

[@MrChristopherHaas]

WOW, every time I think I’ve seen all of the footage there is to see in NASCAR history along comes a documentary like this one that shows footage of JACKSONVILLE and the like that’s not on you tube. Hopefully some day…

[@noezrider6361]

Spend more time watching vintage racing KZbin that today's BIG 3 series combined. I've been buying old Stock Car Racing magazines from the 60s up to 1981's down sizing Hang on every word. I was 13 when I bought my first one in May 1980 with paperroute/mowing money. Now I'm spending hundreds of dollars reliving the best of NASCAR. WORTH every dollar I've spent. Just got my complete 74 & 76's today.

[@Drewsky840]

That actually sounds super fun! I hope you collection is still going strong!

[@KB125able]

I truly enjoy the history though I've been involved in the sport as a car owner at times. My main job was lettering many cars since 1952 and the old American Legion Bowl in Nashville, Tennessee. I lettered Darrell Waltrip's very first Grand National car in 1972, th Terminal transport Mercury. There has never been nor will there ever be a sport to match stock car racing.

[@jeremythompson9122]

NASCAR was great at one time...was

[@seanburbank5657]

I love when these cars bounce around in those turn banks.

[@stevievonjames]

7:25 RIP Frank Luptow; he died a year after this (1952) at Atlanta Lakewood Speedway when the axle of his car broke and he somersaulted a number of times. He was 36.

[@laurieteters8911]

What an incredibly GREAT collection of vintage NASCAR footage !!! WOW ~~~~thank you for this video!!

[@DavidSmith-ze2wi]

I'm a Brit and I used to follow NASCAR reports in good old HOT ROD magazine in the 60s and 70s. Is HOT ROD still published I haven't seen a copy in years. Those years were the best real stock cars big powerful and looked a million dollars. Only downside was safety perhaps wasn't as good as today. Still there was some awesome crashes and they survived. Today's NASCAR racing is faster but like modern cars the race cars have no character and as I'm 75 now perhaps nostalgia is my thing. Anyway thanks America for NASCAR and Drag racing the two ultimate motor sports in my opinion.

[@acerosstine49]

Now we deinvation in 2022

[@roywinchel3620]

Thanks, but I think BTCC Racing is really great myself. I love road racing, especially when it's with production based cars.

[@kg0173]

The best NASCAR documentary

[@aricsnyder5882]

39:01 Junior Johnson knocking a Winston Cup official on his ass with Jack.. Classic

[@alfonsopreciadogonzalez]

To me is great watching the 1942---2022 memories if nadcar from USA to the world N A S CA R RACE CARS sport 😃😃😃❤️❤️❤️

[@Brian.Senecal]

Best intro ever. Great vid for a Grand National fan like myself. 👍🍻 🐒The best copilot.

[@staffy73]

24:30 boy that starter was waving the ever loving shit out of those flags!!!! 🏁. I bet he weight trained, did some cardio and even some dance lessons. They could feel the woosh woosh woosh of the flags back at the grandstands!

[@alfonsopreciadogonzalez]

I was born in 1958 on december 21 today I am 64 yearsold retired man loving memories of nascar race cars since 1940----2000❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Tails_the_Gamer]

thanx 4 uploading! Love those old footage!!!

[@roywinchel3620]

Good God Darryl was so good !!! Just awsome !!!

[@roywinchel3620]

Wow Waltrop in 78 at Talladega managed to break up the draft of the cars behind him by moving out from in front of the cars directly behind him then back in front of again etc... AMAZING

[@ChristopherWHerbert]

the song is called "Run to the Front". I don't know the artist, but I am told it had 2 versions. One for Wrangler, and one for Goodwrench

[@wakeupamericaandresist2413]

Thank you my friend, when the sport was a real sport

[@claytonbigsby423]

thank you for this video....damn good!!!

[@MrMiD.Life.Crisis]

Great upload, and love the stories from Ken Squier (eg Buck Baker or Curtis Turner's autopilot flying, it seems like they all flew their own planes! And Pearson 'relaxing' while driving is incredible). Even tho this was made so long ago and certain parts show its age, like the music and the crash sound effects, its not just one of the best Nascar documentaries, its one of the best racing documentaries ive ever seen. At 24:20 - Love the flag man, wonder what the drivers thought of seeing him?!? Thank you for uploading, is this from an old VHS and when/where did you get it?

[@DE3and88RULE]

I "used" to own a copy of this video. Loaned it to somebody. Wish I could remember who.....so I could get it back. Hey, oldschool......you sure I didn't loan this to you? ;-) Seriously, thanks for posting it. For some reason, I remembered this video the today and decided to see if I could find it on here. Glad I did!

[@McCall72]

Thanks for uploading this!

[@BSNFabricating]

I got this tape back in '88 and just saw it on the shelf earlier this evening...It cost something like $42...woulda been about half that, but I'd have to smoke about two cartons of Winstons.

[@alfonsopreciado5895]

Dears friend nascar race car I FEEL me in nascar race car & racer watching yours videos I am hotwheels toy car collector since 1968-2018 I was born in 1958 in 1959 I went to Houston tx to my family Dr Benton Cooley in these time my father Dr Benton Cooley bought to me 20 hotwheels red line & the hotwheels box today 2018 I conserv my 1968 hotwheels red line I have 2,000 hotwheels today thanks for showme yours videos

[@caseycallahan8767]

And with all that you never learned to use punctuation?

[@Reddaytonadog3]

I know that, it was the instrumental in the background with Bill France Jr.

[@RC.41]

I have a sealed VHS tape from 1987. Don’t think it’s worth anything but I like it

[@PanosDCC]

@PanosDCC Never mind, I just saw it at the end credits. Wonderful song and very good upload.

[@jasonvogue4487]

39:00 Junior Johnson wipes out Winston Cup official with jack get out of my way boy

[@RacingRulz]

Cool upload! I have this VHS laying around somewhere back home.

[@RaulMeatFactory1975]

4.36 in is Brooklands Race Track UK, the first banked race track built in the world, pre World War One, built in 1909 I believe. Research Brooklands museum , ...... Tom Cobb in his Napier Railton 1935, it's here on KZbin. 2/3 of the original banked track still remain today. You're Welcome.

[@PanosDCC]

"American Trilogy" by Mickey Newbury

[@The420esham]

56:40 Ron Bouchard superspeedway man

[@flipflopsguy8868]

I would rather remember how racing was than tune into what racing has become. 🇺🇸🏁🏆🍾

[@mrskarizma69]

Yes that is Dale Jr. at 1:26:31. His daddy forced him to go to military school.

[@arttrombley7385]

Jr. was going to be expelled from the school He was in so Sr. pulled him out and enrolled him in Military school instead. Jr. was a bit of a troubled child, probably from being ignored by His Dad, like the saying goes, "even negative attention is still attention."

[@tuttoruote]

Spiendido film grazie

[@aricsnyder5882]

Good to see Richard Brooks in this..

[@garynewcomb8649]

It was not Winston Cup until the early 70’s, so you need to change the name of this to, this history of grand national!!

[@TheFarmerfitz]

@ 13:23... Anyone know if Johnny Beauchamp made it in that crash? They said Lee Petty did, but didn't say if the other guy did....

[@ecardona53]

He survived with injuries but not as severe as Lee

[@TheFarmerfitz]

***** thanks for the info.

[@ecardona53]

No problem, it's awkward that I know this but I'm 14.

[@dchaffin6219]

Is that Dale Earnhardt Jr at 1:26:31? I thought I heard where Jr went to some kind of military school.

[@marycornett3165]

Yes that was Jr

[@williamkin5232]

NASCAR 70 years old

[@SomeUsernameSomeoneElseTookIt]

no

[@Grizzlydipper6901]

Thefarmerfit both of them survived

[@TheFarmerfitz]

thanks..

[@geraldswain3259]

I love them good ol'e southern boy's,not one iota of racial prejudice in em!.

[@jeremythompson9895]

In the old days they would actually buy a car right off the showroom floor and prep it for race day besides the factory backed teams who were provided cars by the manufacturer they represented but still had to get the car race ready. There is literally not one single part that is stock anymore on a Nascar stock car

[@PanosDCC]

Does someone know what's the song at the beginning? Thanks in advance.

[@csrobertssr]

Dixie. Confederate National Anthem

[@beanbagvevo]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/epzafIN8Z7qqrK8 I know this is 7 years late but if you still want to know/never found it, here you go.

[@gpdude22]

Couldn't stop laughing at 1:07:26.

[@kevangunn7163]

I prefer the old races, beg, steal, or borrow a car and race. Great drivers and mechanics all.

[@davidimrie6916]

Serious innovation back than.

[@chuckiefinster544]

For some reason people here in Wilkes County, NC call junior johnson a cheater and a fake but i guess they're just jealous

[@Reddaytonadog3]

I just wish I knew what this music is called at 1:25:45

[@alfonsopreciadogonzalez]

To run only on hotwheels race track by mattell. 1968 hotwheels red line on racetrack speed way by mattel usa

[@johndavids8720]

It's amazing how bad video quality, music, and production technology was in 1987.

[@Markko122L]

American Trilogy, Mickey Newbury.

[@GetBenched2010]

Not bad, but we all know NASCAR didn't really get big until Ricky Bobby came along.

[@Andrew17206]

what is it i didnt see it?

[@jeremythompson9895]

Nascar was infinitely better in the glory days of the late 50's all through the 60s into the mid 70s. Now there is no real creativity or ingenuity involved. They run Electronic Fuel Injection now so they just tune the air-fuel mix on a laptop computer. Once Toyota began racing in NASCAR I knew it was over

[@drivin379]

Wait till BMW and Nissan come in

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

Toyota's just a car manufacture, you crybaby. Their plant is in Kentucky. Oh, and remember when Jaguar was in NASCAR back in 1954? Did NASCAR die when Jaguar won a race in '54?

[@acerosstine49]

@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT yeah we already knew there were German cars and Porsches back then but I was super rare Toyota made nascar go down on hp and the trash ass next gen car

[@butchknouse8316]

Cup didn't start until 1949.

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

1948

[@butchknouse8316]

@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT No. NASCAR started in 1948 with the Modifieds, but waited until 1949 because no new cars were produced during WWII and they were still hard to get in 1948.

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

@@butchknouse8316 yeah but the series was sanctionally created in 1948

[@butchknouse8316]

@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT First race was in June of 1949.

[@oskarwow]

thats four words.

[@BulletSpawn]

anyone notice the blooper at 1:07:31 ?? lmao so cheesy

[@johnnyx9892]

Try to sing "Dixie" on a modern NASCAR broadcast. You will be called racist. A big proud middle finger to all of them.

[@richardcarr6493]

l love all the footage but sound needs work

[@aricsnyder5882]

Buddy.. " they were runnin a hunnard milanhour back ennn "

[@cecillyles2678]

At 44:38 you see the Tiger in your tank lady with the one piece swimsuit! I might be a little old fashioned but she looks sexier than any woman in a thong bikini! looks more classy too! In my opinion, a woman in a thong bikini looks trashy! I know a lot of men that feel the same way, and not all of them are as old as I am too!

[@hrwildem4993]

what the hells up with this music? it isn't even bad 80's music, it's like weird japanese kid show music - seems out of place

[@grahamkeeton6643]

Recording is dreadful Music is dreadful in this video Yes I know its old but with the technology of today it could of been remastered

[@rodneydockins3485]

It's too bad what is happening to NASCAR I was excited when they were the first sport to open back up and then they had to go and piss in their fans faces. I will never watch another commie Nascar race. Someone with a set of balls and money has got a great opportunity right now.

[@vernwilson2355]

car crashes

[@davidbradley3957]

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[@brucefisher4025]

Uh.....it wasn't Winston Cup until 1972..... That alone shows that this isn't exactly an authoritative video... It's more like someone editing together someone else's work... You seem to think that the Winston Cup and NASCAR are interchangable terms... For history, you fail...😎 By the way... Darryl Waltrip is the winningest driver in Winston Cup history with 86 wins.... Petty has the most wins in NASCAR's top division with 200...

[@aricsnyder5882]

Bruce Fisher you fail Winston started in Grand National in 71 became Winston Cup.. Check your facts before you make a complete arse of yourself

[@aricsnyder5882]

Bruce Fisher what you are staying is the " modern era " started in 72

[@howabouthetruth2157]

I've been a NASCAR fan for nearly 50 years, and this is one of the WORST documentaries ever made about the sport. It's totally unorganized, just jumps all over the place back & forth through time, and omits many of NASCAR's greatest moments. Extremely cheesy to boot. VERY POORLY DONE. Any time the term "HISTORY" is used in a title, the program SHOULD BE in chronological order, from the earliest to the more recent. That does not happen at all in this one. It's nothing but fudged together chaos. I don't care whether you're a long-time fan of auto racing, or a newbie: DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS VIDEO. TRUST ME. There are many others that are FAR BETTER.

[@russianboss0378]

what are some better docs that i'd be able to find on youtube?

[@tsmcbride06]

It was a free item from RJ Reynolds back in the 80's for saving wrappers, what do you want for free ?

[@howabouthetruth2157]

"Free" doesn't have anything to do with how LOUSY this show is. How could any organization set out to produce "the history of NASCAR" and wind up with this dud. Go watch THE OTHER "History of the Golden Era of NASCAR" to see AND learn what I'm talking about. It's here on youtube, and it's also "free". It's posted in 3 parts. It goes into the details better than any I've ever seen, and covers EVERY owner, driver, mechanic, etc with so much passion & effort, that it makes this version absolutely pitiful. If you're gonna do something.........DO IT RIGHT.

[@jasonvogue4487]

Why the fuck is Toyota junk in NASCAR makes me sick

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

it's literally just a foreign manufacture that supports American racing, crybaby. The Toyota plant is in Kentucky, so cry about it. Imagine getting offended over a car lmao

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

also, remember when Jaguar was in NASCAR back in 1954? Does that offend you?

[@jasonvogue4487]

@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT nothing offends me.

[@jasonvogue4487]

@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT ok Bato…. Only cry baby is Kyle fucking Busch…

[@kg0173]

@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT The money goes to Japan and their brand. Replace Toyota with Dodge already and I don't care if chrysler has FIAT ownership.

[@mwoldin]

What a bore -- no tech, no strategy, no tactics. This is a 90-min. commercial.

[@laurieteters8911]

Mark Woldin you are brain dead!! This is outstanding vintage Nascar footage !!

[@markwoldin2770]

+Laurie Teters Yes, Laurie, I must have been brain dead. This stuff is fun. I think I must have written the comment for another vid and vids had jumped before I realized it. I promise to be more careful in the future. Don't want to upset you.

[@cloverhill1947]

Very Poorly Done

[@howabouthetruth2157]

I agree. Of all the NASCAR documentaries, this is by far the worst. No chronological order, and totally omits many of the sport's greatest moments, and cheesy to boot........like one long TV commercial.

[@bizzy24100]

not 2 mention Earnhardt wasn't even a big legend as of yet he was working his way up

[@tsmcbride06]

Have this on VHS, received it thru RJ Reynolds by keeping wrappers. Yes it's old and has a lot of history on it..... poorly done, NOT !! Love the Dixie song at the start !

[@judithwedemeier1418]

Bill C. Blair . .

[@lesmach6495]

You might as well omit the " Dixie" part. NASCAR has been stolen from us. They have forgotten the roots of NASCAR and who made it what it is. Tracks now lay in ruin and they want to close more , like Darlington. If the France family sells it will be all over.