1970's Banger Racing (World of Sport with Dickie Davies)

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  • @JimmyJAD
    @JimmyJAD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Incredible to see this. Proper nostalgia seeing my grandad Dick Dawkins racing

  • @shaunatkinson22
    @shaunatkinson22 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This brings back a few memories. I used to love watching World Of Sport if I hadn't gone to a football match. Thank you for posting

    • @Hotrodngaz
      @Hotrodngaz  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Glad you enjoyed it

  • @collick100
    @collick100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Surprisingly High Definition photography for that time. Watching those old bangers was a delight.

  • @tommotom7324
    @tommotom7324 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Loved World Of Sport when I was a kid. And this stock car racing: driving through downtown Vancouver is a similar experience.

  • @ashleynaylor9531
    @ashleynaylor9531 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    World Of Sport used to show some cool stuff, thanks for posting this.

  • @Stickleback
    @Stickleback ปีที่แล้ว +5

    All this is apart of my childhood, R.I.P Dickie Davis

  • @garrywitcomb2334
    @garrywitcomb2334 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Better days,sadly passed. Great retro Banger footage brilliant 😆

    • @dvidclapperton
      @dvidclapperton 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ok World of sport wssn't all the top notch sport that Grandstand used to have. But it was a lot more fun. Used to enjoy the Double decker bus racing.

  • @guitarlover302
    @guitarlover302 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Remember this like yesterday ! The smells the sounds at Crayford stadium
    Used to do a figure of 8 race 😱

    • @Hotrodngaz
      @Hotrodngaz  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sadly I remember it as yesterday too.........when I recorded it off TV :(

  • @nfelvis68
    @nfelvis68 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love the car with R-Send on the back. Quality!

  • @WAYNE1977100
    @WAYNE1977100 11 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I used to watch W.O.S. when i was 5 years old and look forward to the banger racing part of the show, also i think they showed truck racing too. I would love ITV to show banger racing again, racing brand new ugly cars like the Nissan Juke and anything made in Korea, now that would be fun

  • @Rayfaedundee
    @Rayfaedundee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When Saturday afternoons were the best. As a youngster watching this...

  • @chunder27
    @chunder27 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nigel King, what a legend on the mike, fabulous

    • @raynewman7349
      @raynewman7349 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He was also a very good Superstox driver before he took over the mike.

  • @andrewrcmadwilkinson6999
    @andrewrcmadwilkinson6999 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    RIP DICKIE

  • @Richie978
    @Richie978 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great footage Thanks for sharing

  • @Pripph
    @Pripph 12 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Watching this today, really got tears in my eyes. Destroying all those nice Farina BMC,s is really tragic. But back in those days, these car weren't worth anything. They were all scrapped.

    • @freddieparrydrums
      @freddieparrydrums 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was horrible to see. They also race P5’s on other races

    • @geoffreymurphy3845
      @geoffreymurphy3845 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They would be worth a fortune these days if they had been looked after

  • @nfelvis68
    @nfelvis68 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I used to love this and the wrestling before the footy results. Good times.

  • @andrewrcmadwilkinson6999
    @andrewrcmadwilkinson6999 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    NEVER SEEN A LONDON TAXI MOVE SO FAST

  • @graemew7001
    @graemew7001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Couldn't do this in a modern car.....they'd all drop into limp mode!!! Definitely a race for Farina's judging by the number of them, gutted to see a 2 door Corsair in the mix though cos they never made many of them and imo they look class

  • @radio53
    @radio53 13 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Check out the taxi cab shunting Dawkins just like a modern cabbie :-)

  • @denobud1
    @denobud1 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    great video thanks for sharing. great to see some old school action.

  • @ronterry5401
    @ronterry5401 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That is wot you call banger racing no stupid crash trains

  • @uk285
    @uk285 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    look how safe banger racing was as the cars didn't crumple now it extremely dagerous because of the crumple zones on cars today

    • @georgejacob3162
      @georgejacob3162 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They didn't need cages back then by the looks of it!

    • @nigethetyke3286
      @nigethetyke3286 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And they was probably all on drum brakes as well👍👍. Brilliant. My dad used to do the old Mike parker hell drivers at Nelson, rochdale & white city in manchester. Dog track back then. Rochdale been his favourite track. He used to be the only driver from yorkshire. The bangers or wreckers used to be on the same meets as f2s & hell drivers and think the f1s as well. Good old days would be nice to see any footage of the hell drivers if any body has any that has survived. Great footage though thanks

  • @marksawyer3876
    @marksawyer3876 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Arlington Stadium. Wolseys, Austins, Cortina P4 Rovers...... Happy Days :)

    • @georgejacob3162
      @georgejacob3162 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      2:12. Ford Corsair!

    • @TeddyBoy1962
      @TeddyBoy1962 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Vauxhall PC Crestas!

  • @jagman211
    @jagman211 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi! I think you'll find the commentator is Nigel King. Spedeworth and World of Sport, back in the day !

  • @peetey249
    @peetey249 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    i also wish you had more of these. brilliant. thanks for sharing

  • @ukpropaganda
    @ukpropaganda 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Richard 'Dick' Dawkins can be seen driving his banger @ 0:10 , long before he became famous as a scientist.

  • @Beatlefan67
    @Beatlefan67 8 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I'm not a banger racing fan but I'd rather watch this that effing football!

    • @MadGeeza69
      @MadGeeza69 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      cudnt agrea more man, y cant they put footie on the bbc2-4 or itv 2-4 instead of main 5 chanels ?????

  • @dvidclapperton
    @dvidclapperton 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It wss a lot more fun wstching World of sport than Grandstand.

  • @vixtro
    @vixtro 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1:31 look at the spectators back away as the car goes into the post, don't see people budge an inch these days even when cars are being followed in, flat out. Different times.

  • @Hotrodngaz
    @Hotrodngaz  12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No problem, glad you like it, and your right about most of today's commentators. :)

  • @johnfellows2867
    @johnfellows2867 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Expensive, quality cars when they were new !

    • @mikemartin2957
      @mikemartin2957 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, but by the early 70s those cars would be around 6 to 10 years old MOT failure or perhaps a few months ticket left to run , probably needing welding & a lot of mechanical work as well, they'd be bought for well under £80. The latest car I saw in that race was a FD Victor , which had come to a halt, there were a few early Corsair's one a rare 2 door Consul Corsair circa 1963/4!

  • @richjl73
    @richjl73 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If anyone knows of any footage from the Banger scene in Reading from the late 70s I’d love to see it.

  • @RazSux
    @RazSux 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Many thanks for posting this. Hopefully you've got more like this, great stuff!

  • @Biffo720
    @Biffo720 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thats Classic Banger Racing for you with the great Nigel King doing all the talking.......

  • @chrisdstard5644
    @chrisdstard5644 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I stopped watching World of Sport when they stopped showing this.

  • @Hotrodngaz
    @Hotrodngaz  12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My pleasure, just wish I had more :(

  • @Del350K4
    @Del350K4 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I found that race absolutely gripping!

  • @BangersBernie
    @BangersBernie 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It was 1978 or early 1979, because Dicky was the reignining World Champion that year

  • @neill4133
    @neill4133 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Slower back then but the cars were so cool,modern cars aren’t the same

  • @paulcade3727
    @paulcade3727 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember a caravan banger race and a double decker bus race as well. My parents lived round the corner from Wimbledon Stadium so knew when it was on WOS as the ITV sport vans used to drive past early in the morning!

    • @mikemartin2957
      @mikemartin2957 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes they had a LWT outside broadcast Bedford truck which was F registered & was probably new when LWT started in 1967/8, it was used at numerous events like Horse racing & Football. They had slightly smaller Bedford& Ford D series as well.

  • @alanhipwood9523
    @alanhipwood9523 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    my wife used to race corsair and 3l victors on speedworth

  • @douglasgreen437
    @douglasgreen437 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Farina body cars dominated 60's & 70's Banger racing..

  • @Littlealan1959
    @Littlealan1959 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    800 numbers were temp drivers numbers raced on the day

  • @NJPurling
    @NJPurling 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The only hint of current banger practice is that they DID use steam tanks.
    Other than that it looks like all they did was kick the glass out & remove the seats. Maybe they are all running from motorcycle tanks?
    No real wrecking. It was a honest race. if they were using old shitboxes. What would they have reckoned if you told them that in thirty years time people will think nothing of smashing up a Rolls-Royce.

  • @Hotrodngaz
    @Hotrodngaz  13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @jagman211 ......Thanks for that, I always thought it was Dickie Davies, but then when you listen again, it's not him. Thanks again.

  • @Hotrodngaz
    @Hotrodngaz  12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yeah, very true. Bit like what I used to do years back when I raced a Granada MKII, Cortina MIV and a MKII XR2. They were all rot boxes and weren't worth anything.

    • @bigjohnfury5662
      @bigjohnfury5662 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      *looks 7 years into the future and see's xr2's for £15000 easy top end*

  • @georgejacob3162
    @georgejacob3162 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Back when you could just buy a car take out the glass and interior and then take it to the track.

  • @pattersonpogo
    @pattersonpogo 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @chunder27 Looks like Ipswich, Foxhall stadium.

  • @paulmasson3524
    @paulmasson3524 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's like a Monty Python take on F1. Utter chaos and no one sure if Dick or Roger is in the lead.

  • @freddieparrydrums
    @freddieparrydrums 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I cried

  • @Hotrodngaz
    @Hotrodngaz  12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you :)

  • @richardbrown1189
    @richardbrown1189 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I haven't seen banger racing for about fifty years. Great entertainment. Much more interesting than the rule-ridden bore fest that F1 has become. Hard to know how it worked economically. The takings on the gate couldn't possibly have paid for the event.

  • @Hotrodngaz
    @Hotrodngaz  12 ปีที่แล้ว

    It was my dads VCR. I'm sure it was the Phillips N1500 VCR we had at the time.

  • @Unbuda.
    @Unbuda. 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6 or 4 cilinder engine?

  • @darren2514fv
    @darren2514fv 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Refering to the footage being 35 years old this race was in 1976

  • @MrJpbmusic2005
    @MrJpbmusic2005 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember this
    Every saturday afternoon and it would be the first Saturday after Christmas when world of world would have the

  • @Littlealan1959
    @Littlealan1959 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    168 malcolm girling as red cross on roof which means he was English champion

  • @hoppinonabronzeleg
    @hoppinonabronzeleg 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thankyou so much for this did you have a Panasonic VCR back in the late 70s?

  • @rockypupoxo
    @rockypupoxo 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What track was this ?

  • @stevebatt1211
    @stevebatt1211 ปีที่แล้ว

    239 you fuckin legend!

  • @chunder27
    @chunder27 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    What track is this guys? Haringay?

  • @huggy176
    @huggy176 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ipswich is a brilliant track for stock cars, cowdenbeath racewalls the best though

  • @Hotrodngaz
    @Hotrodngaz  12 ปีที่แล้ว

    No problem, just a shame I don't have any more :(

  • @Hotrodngaz
    @Hotrodngaz  13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @RazSux ....Sorry, this is the only one I have :(

  • @007bondspy
    @007bondspy 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pat Rhodes was one of the best

  • @darren2514fv
    @darren2514fv 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1970s ex bank robbers getaway cars

  • @laugesteffensen3189
    @laugesteffensen3189 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    that mk3 cortina :( makes me sad

    • @georgejacob3162
      @georgejacob3162 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't see a MkIII Cortina but I do see a Ford Corsair (number 130 at 5:38). This is the first time that I have seen a Ford Corsair on a banger track!

    • @johnusher7628
      @johnusher7628 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Toad Rage i think he meant the vauxhall victor 2000

    • @richardbird5689
      @richardbird5689 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@georgejacob3162 I raced a Corsair at Wimbledon in the 1970's. Fitted the full harness seat belt at home, drove it to the stadium and as stated by others kicked the glass out, removed other glass like headlights etc.cooling fan blade, all seats, apart from drivers, raced it all night and left it there for Blondie Melbourne and his Dad to clear away. Ahh, the good old days!!! Dickie Bird 233.

  • @50YearOldTeenager
    @50YearOldTeenager 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Agree, but cars were not built for the banger track. Most of these crash fairly slow and in everyone goes relatively in the same direction. A head on at a reasonable speed and the car could kill you.
    A55s ruled the banger track Yea!

  • @breadman2983
    @breadman2983 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    you can buy one of these for under 500