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·I ran across these two videos.
They're not going to be to everyone’s taste, but some of you will get a real kick out of them.
First is a six year old video tour of an estate sale of somebody’s 40 year collection of 50’s cars, mostly parts cars I suppose. Like our watch collections, I’m sure every car there seemed like a good idea at the time. It made me sad for all us collectors, but I loved being able to spot all sorts of cool old Detroit iron.
Second is a film of NASCAR’s Southern 500 at the notorious Darlington Racetrack in South Carolina. There’s some 50’s stuff (like the night before beauty contests — more than one NASCAR driver married a Darlington Queen, as I recall), but the car stuff is precious. Quite a contrast to what passes for NASCAR today.
Darlington was the first ‘super speedway track’, built in 1953. You could only pass in a couple of places, the groove was so narrow; it was considered the most dangerous track in NASCAR for a very long time.
(The link for the 56 race in my second post is probably a better video.)
I love those first year Chrysler 300s.
Enjoy!
They're not going to be to everyone’s taste, but some of you will get a real kick out of them.
First is a six year old video tour of an estate sale of somebody’s 40 year collection of 50’s cars, mostly parts cars I suppose. Like our watch collections, I’m sure every car there seemed like a good idea at the time. It made me sad for all us collectors, but I loved being able to spot all sorts of cool old Detroit iron.
Second is a film of NASCAR’s Southern 500 at the notorious Darlington Racetrack in South Carolina. There’s some 50’s stuff (like the night before beauty contests — more than one NASCAR driver married a Darlington Queen, as I recall), but the car stuff is precious. Quite a contrast to what passes for NASCAR today.
Darlington was the first ‘super speedway track’, built in 1953. You could only pass in a couple of places, the groove was so narrow; it was considered the most dangerous track in NASCAR for a very long time.
(The link for the 56 race in my second post is probably a better video.)
Enjoy!
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