| Teams for 1956 Southern 500 |
|---|
| Car | Team | Driver | Mfg |
|---|---|---|---|
| B-29 | Dink Widenhouse | Dink Widenhouse |  |
| 1 | Vel Miletich | Parnelli Jones | |
| 2 | Hubert Westmorland | Gwyn Staley |  |
| 3 | Smokey Yunick | Paul Goldsmith | |
| 5 | Joe Blair | Pee Wee Jones |  |
| 6 | Pat Grogan | Pat Grogan |  |
| 7 | Jim Reed | Jim Reed | |
| 8 | Pete DePaolo | Marvin Panch | |
| 9 | Charlie Schwam | Joe Weatherly | |
| 10 | Max Welborn | Rex White | |
| 11 | Emanual Zervakis | Emanuel Zervakis | |
| 12 | Pete DePaolo | Ralph Moody | |
| 13 | Jesse James Taylor | Jesse James Taylor | |
| 14 | Bill Stroppe | Billy Myers | |
| 15 | Bill Stroppe | Fonty Flock | |
| 16 | Gus Holzmueller | Tiny Lund | |
| 17 | Earl Wright | Russ Graham | |
| 18 | Arden Mounts | Arden Mounts |  |
| 19 | Charlie Schwam | Billy Carden | |
| 21 | Malcolm Barlow | Gene Bergin | |
| 22 | Pete DePaolo | Fireball Roberts | |
| 24 | Richard Gallup | Ken Love | |
| 25 | Leland Colvin | Doug Yates | |
| 26 | Bill Stroppe | Jim Paschal | |
| 27 | Kiekhaefer Racing | Frank Mundy | |
| 30 | Jack Chatenay | Clyde Palmer |  |
| 31 | John Whitford | Bill Champion | |
| 32 | Smokey Yunick | Junior Johnson | |
| 34 | Ike Kiser | Dick Beaty | |
| 35 | Fred Frazier | Lee Petty | |
| 38 | H.B. Ranier | Johnny Patterson | |
| 40 | Don Oldenberg | Don Oldenberg | |
| 47 | J.M. Fitzgibbons | Bobby Johns | |
| 48 | Don Holcomb | Allen Adkins | |
| 50 | Cox Racing | Roy Bentley | |
| 51 | Nace Mattingly | Nace Mattingly | |
| 52 | Bob Widenhouse | Bill Widenhouse | |
| 54 | Leland Colvin | Bill Brown |  |
| 57 | Kiekhaefer Racing | Speedy Thompson | Chrysler |
| 59 | Brownie Pitt | Blackie Pitt | |
| 60 | Brownie King | Brownie King | |
| 61 | Roz Howard | Roz Howard | |
| 63 | Robert McReynolds | Sherman Utsman | |
| 64 | Spook Crawford | Johnny Allen | |
| 65 | Matt Gowan | Lou Spears | |
| 66 | Harvey Henderson | Harvey Henderson | |
| 69 | Warren Lee | Possum Jones | |
| 72 | Peck Peckham | Peck Peckham | |
| 73 | B.B. Morris | Larry Flynn | |
| 75 | Frank Hayworth | Bill Blair | |
| 76 | Bill Stroppe | Bobby Myers | |
| 80 | Beryl Jackson | Harold Hardesty |  |
| 81 | Langley Racing | Elmo Langley | |
| 82 | James Satcher | Joe Eubanks | |
| 83 | Johnny Dodson | Johnny Dodson | |
| 84 | Lawson & Netti | Judge Rider | |
| 86 | John Fostor Motors | Tim Flock | |
| 87 | Kiekhaefer Racing | Buck Baker | Chrysler |
| 88 | Ernest Woods | Ralph Liguori | |
| 91 | Ted Chester | Jack Smith | |
| 92 | Thomas Racing (Herb Thomas) | Herb Thomas | |
| 93 | Howard Moore | Pat Kirkwood | |
| 95 | Julian Buesink | Bob Duell | |
| 97 | Pete DePaolo | Bill Amick | |
| 98 | Tom Harbison | Danny Letner | |
| 99 | Charlie Schwam | Curtis Turner | |
