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328 Nascar 1961 Stock Photos and High-res Pictures

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February 24, 1961: Lee Petty starts to crash through the guard railing after tangling with Johnny Beauchamp on lap 37 of the second qualifier for the...

Petty/Beauchamp Crash - NASCAR Daytona 1961

Early 1960s: Bowman-Gray Stadium 1950s regular Fred Harb of High Point, NC, campaigned this 1959 Ford on the NASCAR Cup circuit during both the 1960...

Fred Harb - NASCAR Driver 1950s

Crews pave the banked turns of the new Bristol International Speedway during the construction phase. The track hosted its first NASCAR Cup race on...

Paving of Bristol International Speedway

S first two African-American drivers, Charlie Scott and Wendell Scott, who were not related, pose together at the Daytona Beach-Road Course. Charlie...

Charlie Scott And Wendell Scott

Mid-1950s: Gus Linder looks out the side window of his Modified stock car after the hood flew up, blocking his vision during a race at Heidelberg...

Gus Linder - Heidelberg, PA 1950s

Driver Fred Lorenzen and his crew check tire temperatures on their Ford at a NASCAR Cup race. Lorenzen owned the car and ran 10 Cup races during the...

Fred Lorenzen - NASCAR 1960

The half-mile Bristol International Speedway opened in 1961 as an asphalt oval. The track's very first event was a NASCAR Cup Series race. Since...

Bristol International Speedway

February 19, 1961: Glen “Fireball” Roberts leads Junior Johnson during the special American Challenge Cup race for NASCAR Cup cars at Daytona...

NASCAR American Challenge Cup 1961 - Fireball Roberts/Junior Johnson

February 25, 1961: Red Hollingsworth in a 1960 Chevrolet leads the 1961 Ford of Harlan Richardson and Ernie Gahan’s 1959 Chevrolet during a...

1961 NASCAR Daytona 500 Consolation Race - Action

February 24, 1961: Lee Petty and Johnny Beauchamp sail over the turn four railing of Daytona International Speedway after tangling on lap 37 of the...

Petty/Beauchamp Crash - Daytona NASCAR 1961

Early-1970s: Bobby Isaac of Catawba, NC, earned 37 NASCAR Cup wins during his career and won the 1970 Cup championship. Isaac competed at NASCAR’s...

Bobby Isaac - 1970 NASCAR Cup Champion

Bobby Isaac of Catawba, NC, ran the Modified stock car circuits of the Southeastern United States for several years before making the move to NASCAR...

Bobby Isaac - NASCAR Modified Driver

Ned Jarrett won the NASCAR Cup championship by being incredibly consistent during the season. He won just one race, but finished in the top 10 in 34...

Ned Jarrett - 1961 NASCAR Cup Champion

Ned Jarrett interviews Cale Yarborough after Yarborough won a NASCAR Cup race. Jarrett, a two-time NASCAR Cup champion turned to broadcasting and...

Cale Yarborough/Ned Jarrett - NASCAR VL

July 30, 1961: Action during the first race to be held at the new Bristol International Raceway, the Volunteer 500 NASCAR Cup race. Curtis Crider ,...

Bristol - 1961 Volunteer 500 Action

David Pearson had his first career NASCAR Cup Series win at the 600 at Charlotte in 1961, making his first start for car owner/builder Ray Fox....

Davey Allison driver of the Robert Yates Racing Texaco-Havoline Ford celebrates with his dad Bobby and mom Judy after winning the 1992 NASCAR Winston...

1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Daytona 500

October 22, 1961: Joe Lee Johnson of Chattanooga, TN drove this Chevrolet in the Southeastern 500 NASCAR Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Joe Lee Johnson - NASCAR Bristol 1961

July 29, 1961: The driver’s door falls off of Junior Johnson’s Pontiac as he battles Fred Lorenzen during the Volunteer 500 NASCAR Cup race at...

Junior Johnson - NASCAR Door-less Bristol 1961

Bobby Allison of Hueytown, AL, ran 718 NASCAR Cup races between 1961 and 1988, and scored 84 victories. He finished in the top ten 446 times and...

Bobby Allison - NASCAR 1960s

Tim Flock ran 187 NASCAR Cup races from 1949 through 1961, scoring 39 wins along with Cup championships in 1952 and 1955. His 18 wins in 1955 stood...

Junior Johnson wrecked his primary car, a 1961 Pontiac, in his qualifying race and was forced to run a back-up 1960 model in the Daytona 500, where...

Ned Jarrett won the NASCAR Cup Series title in 1961 and 1965, and was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers.

Ned Jarrett drove this unofficially backed factory Chevrolet to his first NASCAR Cup Series championship in 1961. His driving career spanned from...

February 19, 1961: At Daytona International Speedway, Lee Petty is shown on his way to victory in the Cannonball Compact race driving a Plymouth...

NASCAR Daytona 1961 Cannonball Compact Race - Winner Lee Petty

February 19, 1961: Joe Weatherly ended up in this predicament with his Ford Falcon during the NASCAR Cannonball Compact race held at Daytona...

NASCAR Cannonball Compact Race Daytona 1961 - Joe Weatherly

February 19, 1961: Jocco Maggiacomo spins his Studebaker Lark during the NASCAR Cannonball Compact race at Daytona International Speedway.

NASCAR Cannonball Compact Race 1961 - Jocco Maggiacomo

February 8, 1961: 1960 NASCAR Cup champion Rex White of Spartanburg, SC, sits in his brand new 1961 Chevrolet just after unloading it from the...

NASCAR 1961 Daytona 500 - Rex White

February 1961: Driving a Pontiac for car owner Bud Moore at Daytona International Speedway, Joe Weatherly won his qualifying race then finished...

NASCAR 1961 Daytona - Joe Weatherly

February 24, 1961: Lee Petty’s Plymouth rests against a chain-link fence near the turn four tunnel entrance outside Daytona International Speedway...

Lee Petty Wreck - NASCAR Daytona 1961

February 26, 1966: LeeRoy Yarbrough driving a 1959 Chevrolet leads the 1961 Ford of Marvin Panch during the Permatex 300 NASCAR Late Model Sportsman...

NASCAR 1966 Permatex 300 Daytona - Yarbrough/Panch

Frank Warren ran just two NASCAR Cup races during the year in this 1961 Pontiac, at Augusta International Raceway in his hometown of Augusta, GA, and...

Frank Warren - NASCAR 1964

July 9, 1961: Roy Tyner gets set for the start of the Festival 250 NASCAR Cup race at Atlanta International Raceway. Tyner drove Matt DeMatthews’...

Roy Tyner - NASCAR Atlanta 1961

July 30, 1961: Drivers Jack Smith and Johnny Allen in victory lane at Bristol Motor Speedway after they combined to win the Volunteer 500 NASCAR Cup...

1961 Bristol NASCAR - Volunteer 500 VL

February 1961: Buzz McCann of St. Paul, MN, ran this Ford in the second qualifying race for the Daytona 500 NASCAR Cup event at Daytona International...

Buzz McCann - 1961 NASCAR Daytona 500

April 2, 1961: Cotton Owens in a Pontiac leads the Chevrolet of Harry Leake , Junior Johnson’s Pontiac and the Chevrolet of G. C. Spencer during a...

NASCAR 1961 - Orange Speedway NC

February 24, 1961: Junior Johnson drove this 1961 Pontiac for car owner Rex Lovette in the first qualifying race for the Daytona 500 NASCAR Cup race....

Junior Johnson - NASCAR Daytona 1961

Joe Lee Johnson of Chattanooga, TN, drove this self-owned Chevrolet in six NASCAR Cup races during the season.

Joe Lee Johnson - NASCAR 1961

February 1967: Ray Hendrick of Richmond, VA, ran this 1961 Ford owned by Junie Donlavey in the Permatex 300 NASCAR Late Model Sportsman race at...

Ray Hendrick - NASCAR - Daytona 1967

Ernie Gahan of Dover NH, with one of his Modified stock cars during the racing season. Gahan raced from 1948 through 1975 and won over 300 feature...

Ernie Gahan - NASCAR 1961

Rex White , Glen Wood and Jim Reed all competed as drivers on the NASCAR Cup circuit in the 1950s and 1960s. Between them, the trio took home 39...

Rex White/Glen Wood/Jim Reed - NASCAR 1960s

April 2, 1961: Wendell Scott leads Maurice Petty and Rex White during a NASCAR Cup race at Orange Speedway.

1961 NASCAR - Orange Speedway

Elmhurst, IL, driver Fred Lorenzen first got a taste of NASCAR Cup racing in 1956, but abandoned his effort to run on the United States Auto Club’s...

Fred Lorenzen - 1960s NASCAR Star

February 1961: Paul Goldsmith’s only NASCAR Cup race of the year was the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. He drove this Ray...

Paul Goldsmith - Daytona 1961

April 16, 1961: Driver Rex White and his crew chief Lewis Clements hold their trophies in victory lane at North Wilkesboro Speedway after White won...

Gwyn Staley Memorial VL - North Wilkesboro 1961

March 26, 1961: Bob Burdick’s only NASCAR Cup win came in the Atlanta 500 at Atlanta International Raceway. Burdick was driving a Pontiac for his...

Bob Burdick - 1961 Atlanta 500 VL

February 1961: Bobby Allison sits in the first car he raced at Daytona International Speedway. The Chevrolet was owned by his father-in-law, Ralph...

Bobby Allison - Daytona 1961

Members of Rex White’s pit crew are decked out in bib overalls as they pit White’s Chevrolet during the running of the Rebel 300 NASCAR Cup race at...

Rex White's pit crew

Bobby Isaac ran on the NASCAR Cup circuit from 1961 through 1976, winning 37 Cup races, 28 of which came during the 1969 and 1970 seasons. Isaac was...

Nelson Stacy raises his arm in the air as he takes the checkered flag to win the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.

Richard Petty waves from the seat of his Plymouth NASCAR Cup machine. Petty scored two wins during the year and finished eighth in Cup points.

Jimmy PardueÕs 1960 Chevrolet on pit road prior to the 1961 Daytona 500 NASCAR Cup race at Daytona International Speedway. Pardue would finish 30th...

Joe Weatherly in victory lane with car owner Bud Moore at the National 400 in Charlotte. Weatherly drove a 1961 Pontiac. The following season Moore...

Nashville music legend Brenda Lee was just beginning her career when she gave a concert at the brand new Bristol International Speedway the night...

Herb Tillman spins his car as L.D. Austin drives by above him during the running of the Volunteer 500 at Bristol International Speedway.

Herb Tillman and L.D. Austin

Cotton Owens wins a 110-lapper at Orange Speedway in a '60 Pontiac.

Lee Petty ran a Dodge during the '56 season. In all, he competed in the NASCAR Cup Series from 1949-64, with very limited participation from 1961-64...

Marvin Panch driver of the Pontiac celebrates in victory lane after winning the Daytona 500 on February 26, 1961 at the Daytona International...

The 1964 Richmond 250 turned into a two-day affair as the first 100 laps were run on Sunday, then the event was delayed by rain. The remainder of the...

1964 Richmond 250

David Pearson won the World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1961 driving the Ray Fox Pontiac. Pearson was also fast qualifier.

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