1952 NASCAR Beach Racing Stock Cars

[Mechknight73]

Much closer to "clay" speedway than modern NASCAR will ever be. This kind of racing will always be more interesting than even Formula One. England still does something similar called Rallycross. Part of the track is blacktop, part of it is dirt, but it's done with factory built cars modified for racing. Australia was never big on oval tarmac racing. The current series is called V8 Supercars, and they all have curves that differ from each other

[supxtra2]

Hornets FTW Baby!

[reddnec]

Thanks!!!

[MSNAdventure]

I was there 52-59 every year. Truly awesome. Yeah there were some surprises with the Hudsons, twin-H power, The Hornets, My favorites, Goldsmith, the Flock brothers, Lee Petty. many of which came out of backgrounds as moonshine runners. You really learned to drive runnin from the revenuers.

[MSNAdventure]

I was there 52-59 every year. Truly awesome.

[breathholdchamp]

the Hudsons were 308 cubic inch 6 cylinders and when Marshall Teague got done tuning one it sported 350 ci with 220 horsepower but massive torque that made the Hudson Hornet with its step down knock the socks off any Chrysler hemi or Olds 88 I have a twin H power setup my dad had

[breathholdchamp]

oh those hudsons were awesome

[NitlasTV]

are they all hornets 

[frankisfunny2007]

@NitlasTV no, there were Chevys, Fords, Plymouths, Dodges, Pontiacs.... In fact, there were others, but I don't remember them

[frankisfunny2007]

@NitlasTV sorry to leave you 2 posts, but most of the cars were Hornets, because at the time, people thaught if they had a Hornet, they'd finally get to win a race

[NitlasTV]

lol the guy holding up the bord saying DICK :P

[Designandrew]

this is so fucking awesome.. why dont we have beach races these days? Everyone seems so fixated on 2 sec speed increases per year that we dont seem to care about FUN of enjoying a proper car race!

[opelmadness]

Have to try and race my friends '48 Hudson on a dirt track. :-)

[crossfire043]

Ahhhh.... it is great to relieve the days of actual STOCKcar days...

[OzzInter]

@crossfire043

Totally agree!

Today's NASCAR "stock cars" are only modified production car body-shells filled with special full racing component and are nothing like to cars coming off the assembly line.

[ZcottStamper]

thank you for sharing