1959 Darlington Southern 500

Watch the running of the 10th annual Darlington Southern 500 held on September 7th, 1959. This was the inaugural Darlington race for a young Richard Petty.

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[josephg]

The cars, the girls, love it all. What a time.

[bobk]

I truly enjoy these old films. As a 6 year old in 62 I remember waiting each month for the newest edition of Stock Car Magazine to hit the stands. It and Hot Rod were about our only way to follow NASCAR from north of the 49th. Big thanks to the people posting(?) these films.

[AustinLaPlante]

What a find man! You're basically the king on finding all of these Southern 500 highlight races.

[MrChristopherHaas]

This is the BEST version of 59’ race on you tube. The only version that shows Junior Johnson qualifying wreck aftermath, just awful. Only version that shows “bad boy” Cale/Petty early race wreck. Gabriel shocks sponsored racing videos are the best, FULL coverage, great camera angles. THANK YOU NASCAR ALL OUT, cannot WAIT to see what comes next. I KNOW you have MORE, hoping Bristol 61’ is next

[jimeditorial]

Jim Reed...."He's a Yankee, but a good man just the same!" LOL!

[neuromanglers]

Would be amazing to attend a race with those vintage cars

[johnhennery]

It's really cool seeing those old body styles running in a race and seeing the tires that they used I remember these cars on the road when I was a kid born in 55 I only wish I could have saved some of those cool cars so I built model cars and made them look like race cars I wish my parents hadn't thrown them out wen I was 12 o well it's good to see this race brought back memories I had forgotten awasom video thanks

[cjs]

Here's an interesting note regarding the winning car in this race. As far as I know, this is the only time a crown jewel race in NASCAR's top series has ever been won by car #7, which has usually been a bad luck number in big time racing. I know Alan Kulwicki used that number to win a NASCAR championship in 1992, but he never won any big races with it, with his closest brush being the 1989 Daytona 500, when a cut tire took him out of the lead with four laps remaining. And it isn't just in NASCAR where the #7 seems to be a cursed car number. The last time that the #7 car won the Indianapolis 500 was back in 1949, ten years before this race, with Bill Holland.

[CudaRebelsAutoModeling]

Wow another great race! Two Darlington southern 500s I thought were lost to the sands of time have been surfaced in less than 2 weeks. very impressed by the work of Nascarallout getting both the this and the 1961 race back for all to see, Well done!

[shanew.williams]

Thank You so much for posting this race ! I've waited many years for someone to post the full race highlights of this 1959 Southern 500.

[ArthurPeters-hg]

Thank you for the video. As an old gye, you bring back fond memories. 😊

[Applekrate]

The "Skipper" from Gilligans island before Gilligans island is in the parade

[AgentZ]

The Actors & Actresses mentioned at 5:08 were all here for the filming of "Thunder in Carolina" Starring Rory Calhoun & everyone else seen here. You can watch the movie here on YT. :)

[TheAwmoody]

Thunder in Carolina used footage from this race and parade for their movie. You see star of the movie Alan "Skipper" Hale judging some beauties here.

[joshward]

Fans always complain and whine about wanting racing how it was in the old days, but fail to remember that races, like the 1959 Southern 500, were won by the leader lapping the field multiple times.

[tsholts]

"Number 13 stays unlucky, starts an uncontrollable smoke orgy" 😂 what!?

[mattthacker]

That 10 year old boy is the same age my dad was back then. Crazy how long ago this was.

[EddieDawkins-oz]

That little boy is now atleast 70 years old

[crazyaces]

when I was a kid, I got to see the US marine Band and I'm SO glad I did! It was a school class field trip - when life was so much better. I didn't really understand the significance of it then, but I do now. It was a great concert I know that much. Wow how so many things have changed and yes including Nascar - the races and the cars.. no fun to even watch anymore.

[philippbehrend]

making Rory Calhoun judge a beauty pageant is like asking a wolf to herd sheep