Early Stock Car Racing

A friend of a friend had a couple albums of old stock car racing photos that I was able to copy. Most, if not all of the shots, are from the old Fort...

The history of stock car racing is quite fascinating. Learn more about the history of stock car caring at HowStuffWorks.

In the earliest days of stock car racing, horsepower was king. The bigger and badder the engine, the better the driver's chances were of winning and dominating races...

Stock car racing was born in the Southern Appalachians and has a colorful past. True stories abound of “good old boys” transporting loads of illegal moonshine in their souped up ‘34 Fords, trying to elude the revenue agents as they drove without headlights along dark, twisting dirt roads at speeds exceeding 120 miles per hour.

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Blood and sand…and oil

Nowhere in the Commonwealth has auto racing been more deeply woven into the fabric of the Virginia landscape than in Southwest Virginia. Forty-five of the state’s nearly 110 auto racing sites have been located in the region. Racing—stock car racing in particular—continues to have a strong presence in the Virginia highlands with seven of the state’s 18 active car racing venues located in Southwest Virginia.

The Early Laps of Stock Car Racing: A History of the Sport and Business Through 1974 [Betty Boles Ellison] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The book begins with the nation's first organized, sanctioned stock car road race over the Briarcliff, New York

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Red Dirt Tracks is the story of early stockcar race drivers in the Southeastern U.S., before the advent of NASCAR. They drove with passion and zeal, using streetcars belonging to their fathers, with no safety equipment and no prize money.

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Johnson talks about what it was like to be a stock car racer during the 1950s, before NASCAR became a huge commercial industry in the South. He explains that there were very few sponsors, that racetracks tended to be made from dirt, and that drivers were driven by competitive spirit.

Darlington Raceway Stock Car Museum and NMPA Hall of Fame

NASCAR's acronym - the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing - hasn't truly fit in decades. Could new car, slated for a 2013 debut, be their opportunity to put the "stock" back in "stock car racing?"