Bill loaned me a couple videos... of the 1st Daytona 500, and the 1961 Indy 500, here are some things I found interesting

 here's the coverage that showed how hard ot was for fans to watch the Daytona race when it was on sand

 not very fun

 the #59 was a T Bird, and that is why I enjoy old Nascar, the cars were identifiable as something you could buy at a dealership or used car lot, and take racing yourself

 Helicopters over the corners

 Smokey Yunicks team was in the pits crewing on Firebalkl Roberts' Pontiac

 And these windscreen / airfoils are something I've not seen or noticed before

and in this old film, he wasn't called Richard Petty, he was call Dick Petty. More interesting than that is the nickname painted on the door, "Squirrel Jr". Richard was 22 years old

 He was in the pit row watching other cars race because he'd damaged the engine trying to keep up with the  sedans... they had a 10 mph advantage over his convertible

In the Darlington / Southern 500 he drove this Plymouth

 Dual shocks, and 9 plus leave springs

 above is a kids pedal car from the pre race parade, and it's telling t-birds to get out of it's way

and fueling was very dangerous, on the left of the screen are TWO guys with 50 pound CO2 extinguishers while the guys on the right are holding the fuel nozzle on the gas tank

 and at Indy, helmets were not boring, they had flying eyeballs, or sponsor stickers, or Dean Jeffries pinstriping

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past winners of the Rolex24 for the 50th anniversary, the parade from beachside to the track

John, the olelongrooffan at http://oleragtop.blogspot.com/ lives at or near Daytona Beach, and is heavily covering events at the Daytona raceway, both Nascar and whatever else they do. Great blog, good writer, and he now also adds to Hooniverse

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Winged warrior on the high banks of a speedway, beautiful thing

I don't know where I got this from, probably 5 window, or Swissstache, or onthelonghighway tumblrs

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Pro Touring Chargers, eye magnets and track terrors no doubt, a 69 Daytona and a 68 Charger

 This is Bill Goldberg's car, Mr Angry http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3100151/1969-dodge-daytona
You may know of Goldberg from his tv wrestling career, or his tv shows Garagemahal and Bullrun http://whosnews.usaweekend.com/2010/03/car-freak-bill-goldberg-talks-garage-mahal-celebrity-apprentice/

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Daytona A100 van from Problem Child Studios... very cool video of a single drawing, and making it animated

Innovative, inventive, and awesome. http://www.problemchildkustoms.com/think_fast.html

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Charles has two new photos of the Doodlebug! One of it on Daytona Beach getting it's speed measured on Feb 25th, 1934

Thanks Charles! http://reservatory6.blogspot.com/  is his blog

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21 Studs, you awe me, this incredible artwork is made by, Nik, the guy I've admired for all his work on Carros Antigos!

These pinups are based on Gil Evgren's pin up girl paintings http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/01/pinups-by-gil-elvgren.html and that post has the original of this 3rd piece









tell me these aren't the coolest thing you've seen all day. Click on them to get the full size version, and thank http://21studs.tumblr.com for creating them.

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