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Film - RR's Rex White Takes Little Joe Weatherly at Martinsville 9/25/1960 - Check Those Petty Tailfins!

Stock Car Racing History

The date was September 25, 1960 at Martinsville Speedway. The cameras of WSLS Television catch RR member Rex White looking very shy and demure in victory lane with Miss Virginia after his #4 1960 Chevy beat Norfolk, Virginia's Little Joe Weatherly in the #12 Holman-Moody Ford.

Check out those huge tailfins on the Petty Plymouths!

From the University of Virginia archive of WSLS-TV sports and news footage.

Link below to film followed by sports anchor copy:

http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2238550

updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM

Racing History Minute - October 4, 1970

Stock Car Racing History

Associated Press coverage from Spartanburg and United Press International coverage from Palm Beach of the death of Curtis Turner:

Promo for 1960 Firecracker 250 Featuring 1959 & 1960 Daytona Race Footage

Stock Car Racing History

Tim, as time permits, I'm trying to look year by year through the archive which runs 1951-1971. Most of the racing footage is Martinsville, but I''ve found a little Rockingham, Daytona and Charlotte.

Promo for 1960 Firecracker 250 Featuring 1959 & 1960 Daytona Race Footage

Stock Car Racing History

From the archives of Raoanoke, Virginia's WSLS Television stored at the University of Virginia Library, a promo for the 1960 4th of July Firecracker 250 at Daytona using footage from 1959.

The footage of the #25 Thunderbird being ripped apart by Daytona's Armco guard rail sending the engine and front wheels into the air is the #25 Thunderbird of Tommy Herbert in the 1960 Daytona 500. When you watch this footage you can see why Tiger Tom Pistone wanted a life jacket and breathing gear in case he landed in Lake Lloyd!

Link below to film footage followed by sportscaster script:

http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2238650

updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM

The Schaefer Hall of Fame Goes Big Time

Current NASCAR

Really cool. Can I drop your name over at BOA for an interest rate reduction?!

The Schaefer Hall of Fame Goes Big Time

Current NASCAR

Poor Ron!

The Schaefer Hall of Fame Goes Big Time

Current NASCAR

The Schaefer hat.

The Schaefer Hall of Fame Goes Big Time

Current NASCAR

Now, Chase will truly be infamous! Do we need to cover the eyes and ears of the women and children, or is NASCAR Media Group capturing only G rated stuff these days?!

Curtis Turner (with help from Bruton Smith) Tries Out Charlotte Track for 1st Time - June 1960 Film

Stock Car Racing History

On June 14, 1960, entrepreneur and track promoter, Bruton Smith staged one of the first of many stunts to promote the new Charlotte Motor Speedway.

With the inaugural World 600 race scheduled just 5 days away on June 19, 1960, Bruton held a media day and had Curtis Turner try out the new track in a 1960 Ford for the assembled press corps.

From the sports film archives of Roanoke, Virginia television station WSLS as digitized and categorized by the University of Virginia Library, we have access to the 16mm film footage shot that day.

Link below to film archive footage, followed by sports anchor copy:

http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2221404

updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM

Bobby Isaac in the K&K #71 Dodge Charger Daytona at Bonneville Salt Flats - 1971 - 16mm Color Film

Stock Car Racing History

In 1971, NASCAR banned Chrysler Corporation's winged Plymouth Superbirds and Dodge Charger Daytonas.

In September 1971, Harry Hyde, along with son, Harry Lee Hyde, Buddy Parrott and a number of other volunteers headed to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah with one of those beautiful orange #71 K&K Insurance Dodge Charger Daytonas to see how it might fare.

It fared pretty darned good. With NASCAR champ, Bobby Isaac at the wheel, the group set 28 certified world speed records for stock cars.

Jalopnik

Now from the digitized 16mm sports film archives of Roanoke, Virginia television station WSLS as preserved at the University of Virginia Library in Charlottesville, Virginia, we can watch some of the Bonneville action.

Link below to film, followed by sports anchor copy:

http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2237748

updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM