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“One of the greatest vintage NASCAR racing films ever made” is how Rare Sportsfilms President Doak Ewing refers to this restored video of the 1956 Southern 500 at Darlington! This is pure nostalgia – mid-1950’s stock car racing at famed Darlington Raceway! On this video, all the colorful action of the 7th Annual “Southern 500...  Show Full Details

“One of the greatest vintage NASCAR racing films ever made” is how Rare Sportsfilms President Doak Ewing refers to this restored video of the 1956 Southern 500 at Darlington! This is pure nostalgia – mid-1950’s stock car racing at famed Darlington Raceway! On this video, all the colorful action of the 7th Annual “Southern 500” can once again be seen as the action took place – over 50 years ago! Sit in on the official qualifications, inspection and work in the garage area. See the annual beauty pageant held the night before the race, and of course, all the great drivers of those days gone by: Paul Goldsmith, Herb Thomas, Marvin Panch, Speedy Thompson, Buck Baker, Tim and Fonty Flock, Lil’ Joe Weatherly, Jim Paschal, Fireball Roberts and Curtis Turner, all driving the cars that made them famous and all in gorgeous COLOR!

Back in the days when cars went racing right off the showroom floor, and before anyone had ever dreamed of Daytona International Speedway, AIMS, AIR or MIS, Darlington was THE superspeedway – the fastest stock car track in the world! For ten years, the Labor Day race at Darlington was the World Series of stock car racing, where asphalt speed records were set and broken again and again. This DVD takes you back to 1950’s Grand National Racing at its best and most exciting!

Thrill as you watch the pace lap and see the field of 70 1956 stock cars take the green flag and head into turn one at 100 MPH, each driver striving for the richest purse ever offered to that time! You’ll see plenty of spins and crashes (70 cars at 110 MPH on a 1.4 mile track?), and even a spectacular fire in turn one as a gas tank is ripped from a car and ignites! Three-time winner Herb Thomas hits the guardrail and spins twice, but there’s plenty of pit action, too, as famed mechanic Smokey Yunick installs a new radiator in Herb’s familiar orange #92 so Thomas can go back racing! Hard-driving Curtis Turner in his #99 purple and white Ford