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A Chrysler goes through the speed traps during the 1957 performance trials...
Date: 10/20/2015
Views: 508
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Bob Pemberton of Air Lift won the Flying Mile and Economy Run in 1959 with this Pontiac...
Date: 02/02/2016
Views: 631
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Herb Thomas ran this Packard in the '55 GN race - car was owned by Walt Chapman...
Date: 01/26/2016
Views: 1190
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This 1934 Ford Special ran 115 mph in the measured mile in the early-1950s...
Date: 11/18/2015
Views: 650
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1958 Convertible race - Wilbur Rakestraw leading Glen Wood... both in 1957 model Fords...
Date: 12/01/2015
Views: 471
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St. Augustine's Bill Snowden (George Collins Collection)
Date: 12/02/2015
Views: 658
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Fans getting set for the start ot a race (Steve Leavitt Photo)
Date: 12/09/2015
Views: 460
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Convertible Race action in the North Turn from 1957...
Date: 12/17/2015
Views: 484
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KY driver Bob Reuther set a record of 150.25 mph on the Measured Mile in 1957 in this tricked-out '38 Plymouth/'57 Chrysler V-8.
Date: 12/22/2015
Views: 737
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Pure Gas trucks made great grandstands in 1957 (Steve Leavitt Photo)
Date: 12/22/2015
Views: 473
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Banjo Matthews drove this '58 Chevy in the 1958 GN race - Car was owned by Jim Rathmann...
Date: 12/30/2015
Views: 632
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1956 Modified race - Eventual winner Tim Flock leads Joe Lee Johnson and Bunk Moore...
Date: 01/01/2016
Views: 876
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Bill Blair accepts the trophy for winning the 1953 GN race from NASCAR President Bill France...
Date: 01/05/2016
Views: 557
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Marvin Panch leads eventual winner Curtis Turner during the 1958 Convertible race...
Date: 01/01/2016
Views: 1304
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John Fitch had an added fin to his Corvette for the Speed Trials in 1956 (GM Media Photo)
Date: 01/05/2016
Views: 488
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The car Orlando's Dick Joslin used when he won the Sportsman race in 1954 (Courtesy Jimmy Joslin)
Date: 01/09/2016
Views: 481
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1957 GN race - Fireball Roberts' Ford leads the Plymouth of Detroit, MI driver Lem Svajian - the only NASCAR race Svajian ran...
Date: 01/09/2016
Views: 493
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Roy Hall was one of the early stars on the Beach driving for owner Raymond Parks and mechanic Red Vogt...
Date: 01/05/2016
Views: 506
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Bill Blair in an Oldsmobile dives under the Studebaker of Dick Linder during the 1951 GN race...
Date: 01/12/2016
Views: 720
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Darel Dieringer qualifying for the 1957 GN race driving a Pontiac for owner John Zink of Indy Car fame...
Date: 01/19/2016
Views: 597
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Orlando driver Wilbur "Rosebud" Flower drove this car in the 1955 Sportsman race (Courtesy Lewis Trammell)
Date: 01/09/2016
Views: 845
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Eddie Pagan's '57 Ford is unloaded before the 1958 GN race - Pagan took 8th place in the race (Courtesy Bud Layton)
Date: 02/02/2016
Views: 601
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Milt Hartlauf took 4th in the 1955 Modified race driving one of several Bob Fish-owned cars that were in the race...
Date: 01/26/2016
Views: 527
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Lee Petty went on to win the 1954 GN race in this Chrysler New Yorker Deluxe (Courtesy Tony Cooper)
Date: 01/19/2016
Views: 622
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Bill Champion ran this 1940 Ford in the 1953 Modified race...
Date: 01/26/2016
Views: 387
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Iowa's Johnny Beuchamp finished second in the 1957 GN race driving this Chevy called the SEDCO Black Widow owned by Hugh Babb...
Date: 01/20/2016
Views: 498
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Air Lift photo of their '57 Olds J-2 Rocket & drivers Herb Thomas, Buck Baker, Jim Paschal, Lee Petty & Speedy Thompson.
Date: 02/02/2016
Views: 469
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Jack Bowsher ran this car in the 1954 and 1955 Modified and Sportsman races...
Date: 01/26/2016
Views: 664
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Convertible race pace lap in 1957 - Bob Welborn is in #49 (Courtesy Scott Peterson)
Date: 12/26/2016
Views: 771
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1956 Convertible race - Gene Blain leads Jack Lawrence and John Schipper (Courtesy Bud Layton)
Date: 02/02/2016
Views: 765
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1955 GN race - Axel Anderson leading Curtis Turner...
Date: 01/26/2016
Views: 389
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Buck Baker took 4th place in the 1957 GN race in Hugh Babb's Chevy and went on to win the '57 NASCAR GN title...
Date: 02/02/2016
Views: 455
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