Historical Race Cars from the 50s and 60s

about this racetrack is the drivers have to, you know, you say it, you hear it all the time. Drivers have to drive the racetrack. And that's exactly right. I mean, you know, if you look at this and you look at this, you see, you can just rub your hand on that and you can see, you know, we're we're not too far from the sand hills. We're not too far from Myrtle Beach where there's a lot of sand there. Combine that with a lot of some bad weather that we may have during the winter and asphalt. It's got rocks in it and heck, sometimes you might even find a little shell in there. Johnny Mance won our first race, the Southern 500 back in 1950. Entered this race and he was the slowest qualifier out of all the cars. It was 75 cars that made that race. It was the first time NASCAR had been on a big time super speedway, you know, made of asphalt. They didn't really understand what was going to happen with the tire wear. So Johnny Mance, he basically he outsmarted them. He put big hard truck tires on the car that would last the entire race while everybody else, all the hot shots were out there. They were popping tires and having to come in and change tires. He was sort of the story of the tortoise in the hair. And so Johnny Mance won the first race, led what over 300 miles of it. And um history is made. He's a first Southern 500 winner. Wasn't he an indie guy? He was an indie guy. That's exactly right. Exactly right. But uh still today, you got to be smart whenever you race this place. The fabulous Hudson Hornet. Uh Herb Thomas won three Southern 500s in a Hornet here, which is just really unheard of. U he got hurt in a wreck. Um he only competed in five Southern 500s, but he won three of them. So that just shows you how talented he was. Uh, and again, these were unbelievable race cars, you know, back in the day. Uh, and you can see they they would paint the, you know, the a sponsor or they'd paint the number on the side. A lot of times when they would come to the racetrack, you can see these have headlights. Mhm. So they would put tape across that to make the headlights not break while they're out there racing because they drove the car to the racetrack and they drove it home after the race or at least they hoped to drive it home after the race. That was the plan. That that was the plan. But but that was the way it was back then. You know, you can see it's it's got door handles on it. They got in the race car, wherever they were, wherever they were from, whether it…