Founded in 1946 in Atlanta, Georgia by Sam Nunis and Weyman Milam,[1] the NSCRA was one of many small sanctioning bodies that appeared following the end of World War II to promote the fledgling sport of stock car racing.
[4] Smith announced that the sanction would operate a "Strictly Stock" championship starting in 1949;[4] he offered lucrative purse money in an attempt to cherry-pick the stars of France's NASCAR, which had been founded in 1947 to replace the NCSCC and was running its first modified season in 1948.
[7] The NSCRA Strictly Stock Championship ran for two years, with Ed Samples, a former moonshiner, winning the series title in 1949; Buddy Shuman, who had won the NSCRA modified title in 1948, took the series' stock car championship trophy in 1950.
[9] However, Smith was drafted in January 1951 to fight in the Korean War as a paratrooper;[10] in his absence, NSCRA's management, dominated by drivers, proved incapable of keeping the organization afloat amongst internal disputes,[11] and Milam was forced to close down the sanctioning body during the summer of 1951.
[13] The circuit's premier drivers, such as Cotton Owens, and tracks, such as Lakewood Speedway, joined NASCAR following NSCRA's closure.