Orlando's Dick Joslin won the Sportsman race with this car in 1954 (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
The Kiekhaefer cars lead the pack in 1956. Tim Flock (300A) won, Fonty Floock (500) was 10th (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
A view from the stands as the cars race down A1A (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
Paul Goldsmith won the final race on the Beach in 1958 driving this Smokey Yunick-prepared Pontiac...
Date: 06/09/2009
Beach action in 1955 or 56 (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
Cotton Owens hits a turn in 1957...
Date: 06/09/2009
1956 - Speedy Thompson (500B), Charlie Scott (300) and Bob Welborn (49) lead the pack (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Rex White - 1958 Modified-Sportsman race...
Date: 04/16/2008
Jimmy Thompson - 1958
Date: 06/09/2009
Pace lap to the 1952 Modified-Sportsman race (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
This may be Bill Stroppe posing next to Billy Myers' Mercury before the 1958 GN race (Orr Family Collection)
Date: 04/20/2012
Fireball Roberts (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
1955 - Speedy Thomson #M-1, Bill Tanner #3, Vince Conrad #27X and James Bennett (Speedy Spiers Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
Dick Joslin's NASCAR GN Buick in 1955 ready to go from the street to the beach (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
1952 - Jack Smith (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Dick Joslin hard on it through turn 1 in 1956 (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
Modified-Sportsman cars work through turn one in 1952 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Curtis Turner in 1958...
Date: 06/09/2009
1956 Modified-Sportsman race...
Date: 04/16/2008
The M-1 Fish Carburetor Buick driven by Fireball Roberts (fireball22.com)
Date: 10/03/2006
Tight action in 1955 (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
Exiting off turn two in 1947 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Aerial View of the old Beach and Highway A1A course (Courtesy Carl Mobley)
Date: 06/09/2008
NJ Modified star Al Tasnady took his shot at the big time here on the beach in 1957 with a new Plymouth (Marty Little)
Date: 12/09/2008
Pace lap - 1952 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
1955 - Fireball Roberts (M1) Bill Tanner (3) Sonny Black (86) Hooker Hood (158) Jim Paschal (80) (Walt Wimer)
Date: 12/09/2008
1952 - Herb Thomas avoids a stalled car (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
1952 - Spectators at the fence watch proceedings in the pit area (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Russ Truelove's Mercury in 1956...
Date: 06/09/2009
1956 - Pace laps heads down A1A (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
1952 race winner Marshall Teague (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
1956 Speedy Thompson (500B) in front of Ralph Moody (12) and Curtis Turner (99) (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Oliver Michaels and Buster Burt co-drove this car in the 1954 Modified-Sportsman race finishing 25th (Burt Collection)
Date: 06/03/2010
A car begins to roll headed into turn one - 1956 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Fireball Roberts with a few of his trophies - 1958 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Ray Platte's car ready to go in 1955 (Walt Wimer Photo)
Date: 03/09/2011
A car speeds through turn one in 1947 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Tim Flock's Hudson Hornet in 1952...
Date: 06/03/2009
Action from 1947 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Al Keller during the GN race in 1956...
Date: 06/09/2009
Cars await the start in 1952 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Paul Goldsmith #3 and Jimmy Thompson #55 in 1958...
Date: 06/09/2009
First turn action from 1952 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Herb Thomas - 1952 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
1950 Modified race (Al Powell Collection via Marty Little)
Date: 03/06/2010
Marshall Teague's Hudson Hornet hits turn one in 1952 on his way to winning the race (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Fireball Roberts leading Tim Flock in 1955 (timflock.com)
Date: 06/03/2009
Billy Myers - 1956
Date: 06/09/2009
More action from 1947 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Dick Joslin - February 1957 (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
Pat Kirkwood (99) and Fonty Flock (14) split Buck Baker's stalled car - 1952 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Red Byron in 1947 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Pit area - 1952 - Al Keller's Studebaker is #23 Buddy Shuman is #17 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Some action headed onto A1A from 1956 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Fireball Roberts qualifying for the 1955 Modified race (fireball22.com)
Date: 10/03/2006
Spectator cars parked on the beach - 1952 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Spectators await the start (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
1955 - Dick Joslin hits a rut (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
Fireball Roberts ready to go in 1956 (fireball22.com)
Date: 10/03/2006
Spectators crowd the turn one hill in 1947 (State Archives of Florida)
Date: 12/10/2008
Curtis Turner wins the NASCAR Grand National Convertible Championship race - 1956
Date: 06/09/2009
It wasn't a very good day for these racers in 1955...
Date: 05/14/2009
Dick Rathman - 1953
Date: 06/22/2009
Fish Carburetor teammates Tommie Elliott #8 and Tony Battle #55 get set to take on the measured mile (Kevin Newman Collection)
Date: 05/21/2009
A shot before a race in 1957...
Date: 06/02/2009
Crowds packed every available spot when the cars raced on the beach...
Date: 06/02/2009
Elton Hildreth, a Nash dealer from NJ, hauled his #1 Nash Ambassador down to Daytona with an identical Nash passenger car...
Date: 06/26/2007
Joe Weatherly gets ready for a timed run in 1956...
Date: 06/02/2009
Tim Flock with his Oldsmobile "Rocket 88" in 1954...
Date: 06/02/2009
1953 - Fireball Roberts (fireball22.com)
Date: 10/03/2006
1957 Convertible Race - Lee Petty and Tim Flock lead the field for the start (timflock.com)
Date: 06/03/2009
Big Bill France, Sr. on the beach in the late '40s...
Date: 06/03/2009
1955 Fish Carburetor Modified for Fireball Roberts (Walt Wimer Photo)
Date: 03/09/2011
Junior Johnson - 1955
Date: 06/09/2009
1955 - Milt Hartlauf in the #M-2
Date: 03/06/2010
Bill Snowden of St. Augustine gets set for an early Beach race...
Date: 06/03/2009
Three-wheeling in 1953...
Date: 06/09/2009
Buck Baker and Joe Guide, Jr. churn up the sand as they plow through the north turn during the 1954 Grand National.
Date: 06/03/2009
1958 - A mechanic works on Phil Orr's 1958 Ford before the GN race (Orr Family Collection)
Date: 04/20/2012
Carnage off turn three - 1952 Modified race...
Date: 06/03/2009
Crazy Cy Clark, a youngster out of Miami, kick ups the sand in turn one...
Date: 06/03/2009
Curtis Turner - 1957
Date: 06/03/2009
Fireball Roberts - 1950 (fireball22.com)
Date: 10/03/2006
In the July 27, 1941 race, Lloyd Seay flipped his car twice and yet still wound up finishing fourth...
Date: 06/03/2009
Paul Goldsmith - 1958
Date: 06/09/2009
Modifieds fan out in 1952...
Date: 06/03/2009
Rapid Roy Hall was another colorful driver in the charasmatic early years of Beach-Road racing...
Date: 06/03/2009
Tim Flock leads the way in 1956 (timflock.com)
Date: 06/03/2009
Pole-sitter Fred Thompson leads the field of 104 cars on the pace lap moments before the start of the 1954 Modified race...
Date: 06/03/2009
The M-1 Buick of Fireball Roberts leads the 1955 GN race (fireball 22.com)
Date: 10/03/2006
Red Farmer #C-97 nearly goes over the retaining barrier in the North Turn after an pile up in the 1956 Modified-Sportsman race..
Date: 06/03/2009
Speedy Thompson pitches his #M-5 Fish Carburetor Ford into the North Turn en route to victory in the 1955 Sportsman race...
Date: 06/03/2009
1958 - Curtis Turner #26 & Jack Smith doing some close racing....
Date: 06/09/2009
The 100-mile 1954 NASCAR Sportsman race was held on a rainy day that caused plenty of problems...
Date: 06/03/2009
Tim Flock's Olds in '54. This was the first car in NASCAR history to carry a two-way radio, allowing Flock to talk to his crew..
Date: 10/10/2006
!957 Ford run by Bill Wimble in 1958...
Date: 06/09/2009
Fireball Roberts #M-3 and Banjo Matthews #49Jr. in the North Turn in the 1955 Modified-Sportsman race.
Date: 06/09/2009
1955 Grand Nationals...
Date: 01/31/2009
Dink Widenhouse spins as Don Bailey goes wide to miss him - 1956...
Date: 06/09/2009
Smokey Purser was the first super-star in Daytona Beach-Road racing. Winning three races...
Date: 06/03/2009
Glen Wood - 1958
Date: 06/09/2009
A driver climbs out of his overturned machine in turn two as a flagman keeps watch...
Date: 06/09/2009
1953 - Tom Cherry at the wheel of this Lincoln finished the GN race in 9th place...
Date: 06/22/2009
Cam Gagliardi's Buick after a big-time crash...
Date: 06/22/2009
Wild action in the 1953 Modified-Sportsman race - A NASCAR-record 136 cars started the race...
Date: 06/22/2009
1956 - Buzz Wilson
Date: 07/02/2009
Early '50s photo of Gober Sosebee #50 and Fireball Roberts #11...
Date: 07/02/2009
Frankie Schneider - Early '50s....
Date: 07/02/2009
Roy Hall
Date: 07/02/2009
Lee Petty - 1954
Date: 07/14/2009
1958 Convertible race...
Date: 07/14/2009
Bub King of Kentucky in 1954...
Date: 07/14/2009
Tim Flock in victory lane...
Date: 07/14/2009
Bob Flock - 1950 Beach Modified race (Al Powell Collection via Marty Little)
Date: 03/06/2010
Milt Hartlauf's Ford Modified outside the Fish Carburator shop in Daytona.
Date: 03/06/2010
Start of the 1958 Convertible race.
Date: 03/15/2010
Bill Tanner - 1955 (Walt Wimer Photo)
Date: 03/09/2011
Buster Burt - took over this car from Oliver Michaels in the '54 Modified-Sportsman race. They finished 25th (Burt Collection)
Date: 06/03/2010
Wilbur Rakestraw leads Glen Wood - 1957 Convertible race...
Date: 03/09/2011
Ray Fox poses with one of the early Fish Carburetor Modifieds...
Date: 04/20/2011
A mechanic works on Joe Weatherly's Holman-Moody Ford before the 1958 GN race (Orr Family Collection)
Date: 04/20/2012
