Lyon 2014 - 1000 mile road trip in Edwardian racers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ธ.ค. 2020
- Firstly, all you armchair directors... don't leave a comment telling me I should have left the music off so you can hear the cars. With no bodywork to shield the mic it's just wind noise once you start moving at speed :)
One of the most exciting - and hilarious trips of my life. Driving all the way from the UK to Lyon in 100 year old cars to revisit the site of the 1914 Grand Prix. The cars were the 1904 200hp Darracq (an original land speed record car!), the JAP GN (a beautiful wooden chassis GN with an exceedingly rare V8 JAP aero engine), the Monarch (a special powered by a Curtiss Aero engine) and the De Dion special - also Curtiss powered. These are just a few silly clips which I managed to grab while clinging onto the car. For a fuller picture of the trip please visit the flickr gallery... flic.kr/s/aHsk2fWcsA - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
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The coolest Brits abroad - lovely video, but needed to be an hour longer !
It's always a dilemma - do I take a photo, shoot some video or just soak it all in without a camera :)
The dilemma! If it was me I’d be totally selfish and just soak up the experience. There again, it isn’t me! So, more filming please, could watch this for hours. Well done chaps and chapesses!
Two hours!!!!
Absolutely brilliant. Makes me feel like a complete lightweight in comparison touring Europe in a mid-thirties saloon!!
That sounds pretty impressive to me. I'm in awe of people touring in any vintage car (or TVR) :)
Absolutely glorious! Beautiful, atmospheric filming and a lovely musical backing track. Thank you for this production.
Thanks so much Sid! Glad you enjoyed it.
This without a doubt is my favorite video on TH-cam.
Thanks - that made me very happy :)
still puts a huge smile on my face every time i watch it...
Mine too :)
This must surely be one of the finest ways to appreciate life. (That said, I'm pretty exhausted after an afternoon in my '63 Beetle, so 1000 miles is truly physically taxing.)
It was definitely one of the highlights of my life - and not too taxing if you stop for a coffee and bun at every patisserie you pass :)
Beautiful and the young lady on the piano made the video!
That's so nice of you to say. So many people complain they can't hear the engines - but wind noise would have drowned them out anyway. The piano was a nice (and also very helpful) way to include another part of the trip :)
Stefan Marjoram’s Lyon 2014 - 1000 mile road trip in Edwardian racers and Hughie Walkers’ Light car holiday to the Dales. The VERY VERY BEST OF 2020 Many thanks to both for putting them on TH-cam.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Hughie and his family are truly fearless when it comes to road trips :)
Many thanks or posting this video! People often forget even very old cars are for driving and not for standing to death in a museum!
Absolutely. So many special cars meet that sad end of being polished whilst their internals seize.
What a gorgeous video! And what a group of people to have this much Fun, and to have this sense of wild-hearted adventure. THANK YOU for sharing this!
Thank you for the lovely comment! Here's hoping we can all have fun like this again some time soon!
You're so lucky having those cars. Forget all of this modern stuff - what you have there are wonderful machines that I can only dream of ever owning.
Thanks for sharing.
I don't own any of them of course - I'm just lucky enough to get invited along :)
Fabulous video, great editing and a perfect sound track. I love the section, when one of the cars is started scaring two kids, who then run and hide behind their Dad. That is the difference between modern and Edwardian motoring!
Thanks for the nice comments - glad you liked it. I've got quite a few clips of people being startled by the Darracq - I'll have to piece them all together one day :)
@@StefanMarjoram well it was a pleasant and interesting distraction from a working at home day!
‘Vintage’ seems to be the wrong word but I hope you get some ‘Extreme Vintage’ motoring done this year!
Effing beautiful.... seen this multiple times 👍
Thanks! It certainly was an epic trip :)
Absolutely love this. The passion of the owners (evidenced on the race track also!) and the commitment of the families. Such fun! The spirit each participant brings to the video and their obvious joyfulness in being present, well. And Charlie - loved the piano - thank you! Stefan, invited you may have been - but through your eyes, ears, and enjoyment I also vicariously participated. Such a great adventure, I wish I were there!!
Thanks for the lovely comment Ian! So glad you felt my enjoyment showed through - every trip has been fantastically good fun - even on the rare occasions when something broke :) Here's hoping we can do it all again soon!
Amazing video. This is one of the reasons why I love cars. The sound, smell of oil and petrol...
This video should have gone on for hours! The very best Utube I have seen for ages! Chris B.
Haha, thanks very much Chris. It was a fab trip.
the background music is the cherry on top of the whole video
That's lovely to hear- thank you! I needed something to cover the wind noise and I think it ended up making it extra special. (Mostly people complain because they can't hear the cars :)
What a wonderful film ! Brings back happy memories of driving our 3 wheeler down to Puy Notre-Dame. As others have said , far far too short , i could happily watch this for an hour
and the soundtrack is sublime . Thank you Charlie !
Wow - that's a fair old trip too! Glad you enjoyed it. Here's hopping we can all do it again one day soon!
Surely the coolest road trip ever. Thank you for sharing.
The trip of a lifetime :)
This was just glorious! And I loved the piano...
Fantastic - thanks so much!
Came for the cars, stayed for the music ! !
Why not all of it :)
@@u-9952the music ruins it always some assholes adding music
Thank you for making tis video, I truly enjoyed it! BRAVO!
Thanks very much indeed!
Awesome vid. Thanks for sharing! All the best in 2021!
Thanks very much! A happy new year to you too :)
One of the best clips I've seen, such a joyous glorious time. Makes me want to build a car!
haha, do it! It doesn't have to have a 25 litre v8 - a little Austin can be just as fun :)
Amazing video, makes me so happy.
That's great! Me too. We need a bit of joy at the moment :)
the more i look the more i see Stefan. The idea of using charlie's piece (music) to structure the video is brilliant. A great counterpoint to the raw, brutal forces that we witness from the off (the two kids covering their ears give it away), yet the structure and relaxed tone of the music belies the brutal realities of war (WW1 engines, fighter planes, castles etc) .... and of course just as in war, the magic of humanity re-emerges, the humour, good will, camaraderie, daring do... the warp and weft of life! ... lovely stuff, bravo!
Thanks for the kind words Chris! Sometimes having to find a way to fix a problem (wind noise in this case) results in a more interesting outcome. Glad you appreciated it :)
Wonderful video. It really captures the spirit. Hope to see you at Montlhery next spring. Keep up the great work!
That would be wonderful - but I fear it's going to take a little while longer to get over this mess. Fingers crossed though :)
What a wonderful video. thanks, stefan, beautiful content as always!
Thanks very much! The on-car stuff is rather shaky and there's a lot of wind noise - but that's what it's like!
@@StefanMarjoram but that's what is amazing! These cars are chaotic, and you captured that perfectly!
Super video. Beautifully shot and the music suits it perfectly. Thank you.
Thanks! So glad you enjoyed it. A lot of people complain about the music because they want to hear the engine but once you're at speed you just hear the wind :)
The music was magical ❤
Fantastic! Thank you for sharing
Who knew The Boulevade of Broken Dreams would make such a great soundtrack to this!
So glad you like it! It came in very handy to hide the wind noise :)
beautiful shot, beautiful car, and i love that greenday song!
So glad you liked it - thanks for letting me know!
Thanks beautifully played
I love the ride along shots on Darracq.
It’s a unique, thrilling and bizarre experience :)
Good video. Thank you. A nice semi-crazy experience, by the look of it😁! Cheers from NZ🇳🇿.
Thanks! So glad you liked it. It was pretty crazy - but after a few days it seemed perfectly normal :)
Beautiful cars, beautiful France. I need to go back soon.
Fingers crossed I will be this week :)
What great fun! Happiness on wheels.
Definitely some of the funniest times I've had :)
Wonderful! stuff,. You just can't beat a French road trip!
The fantastic Darracq is the oldest V8 car in the world - but still a really fast car. What a high quality in modern plastic days....
It feels stupidly fast from the passenger seat - like horizontal skydiving :)
that looked like fun, lovely film...nicely done sir 👍
It was the trip of a lifetime. One of several :)
Most amazing, and inspiring! Thank you, and I canNOT wait to get ourselves over to England and start partaking in some of your wonderful Zany Motoring!
There are some awesome events and fabulous vintage car nuts in the UK - but the empty roads and pastries are in France :)
@@StefanMarjoram Well, we may have to seek you out for a long lunch and a swapping of motoring tales when we finally get our stuff all shifted over your way...Thanks!
@@michaelmstevenson Sounds like a plan. Good luck with the move!
Muy bueno, buena musica piano.! Desde colonia Uruguay.
Thanks for posting this . Enjoyed it from the other side of this world ( NZ ) and all I can think of is that song "Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun ' . Love Duncan Pittaway and his tie . Keep Calm and Carry On .
Haha, thanks Alan. Duncan is a special kind of special :)
Well mate ......you are a very very close second to Duncan. 😀@@StefanMarjoram
What a gorgeous video, Wonderfull 👍
Thanks very much!
Magnificent stuff
Did you guys just edit this together yourselves? It is so, SO GOOD!!! The music, the cuts, the content -- just fantastic!! Great job!
Thanks very much Steve - glad you enjoyed it. I do a fair bit of film stuff alongside the drawing and photography. The tricky thing on these trips is that without any bodywork there's a lot of wind noise - and the old suspension makes for quite shaky footage :)
gotta love a fuel tank mounted directly on top of the roasting hot engine - not only does it ensure a nice gravity feed, it also ensures in the event of a crash that there will almost certainly be a nice toasty fire to warm the cockles of your heart in your final, agonising moments. Pure nostalgia, feels just like WW1.
seriously though absolute madlads driving these on modern roads, hats off to 'em.
Haha, in this case it’s not fuel but scalding hot water :) (The fuel tank is just behind the seats. The tank is pressurised with a hand pump)
@@StefanMarjoram oh well then the water will extinguish any fire risk. while it boils your face. big improvement! thanks for the explanation. love these beautiful old cars.
Brilliant film. Those cars look so 'right' on the French N-roads.
Those empty French roads with regularly spaced patisseries and cafes are a road trippers dream :)
gooooood i love this channel
A great video... beautiful music for this old cars friends
Absolute respect from France
Thanks! So glad you liked it :)
Just amazing, makes my skin goosebumps
haha, mine too :)
The video was put together very well. Thank you for sharing.
Us crazy cyclekarters (well at least me) are planning a 4000 mile trip across America in the summer 2025
Thanks very much for commenting!
@@bonnevillegarage Wow, now that is a hardcore adventure! I wish you the best of luck (especially with the weather) :)
What did you use to edit the film? I find myself showing to anyone that stops long enough, as I talk about my 4000mile trip.
@@bonnevillegarage I used Adobe Premiere - but any basic editor would do.
That is such a wonderful video... beautifully edited and very atmospheric with the soft piano music. I have a technical question please- I would like to know what RPM more or less the darracq is running when on country roads. 600, 700? That is such a magnificent engine... incredibly compact for 25 liters
Glad you enjoyed it - thanks for the comment! The Darracq will cruise at 84mph at 1000rpm. I think full power is at 1200rpm - but a lot of the time when pootling through villages (or waiting for people to catch up) the car is turning over much more slowly. If you're running low on fuel you can even switch off one bank, making it an economical in-line 4 cylinder 12.5 litre :)
Great stuff !!💥
What an absolutely brilliant vid,looked an absolute hoot as only brits can do it
loved the musical accompliment.
Thanks! So glad you liked it :)
The funny thing about having "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" as your background music for this is its' clear no dreams were broken in the making of this video.
Haha, you're right - it never occurred to me before. 'Dripping oil on the Boulevard of dreams' or 'Boulevard of broken eardrums' would be much more suitable :)
Amazing. Serious speed from some of those cars, and couldn't see much in the way of BRAKES on them.
No front brakes on these early cars. You have to look a long way down the road :)
Looks like a fun time . Those cars are great .
It was enormous fun :)
Fantastic !!!
Maravilloso, no tiene precio. Invaluable. ❤️
It certainly was the trip of a lifetime :)
Wow! I'm very envious.
I am indeed a lucky chap :)
What a beautiful video. Just sweet. Everyone would be happier with a pre-war car.
Everyone should get to experience it at least once :)
I like it wenn old cars are beeing used. That‘s what they are made for!
Absolutely! It would be a crime to let them sit and slowly seize in a museum :)
You lucky bastards! :-) Wonderful Wunderful, from the cars, the country to the pianist.
I still can't get over how lucky I am to have experienced this nonsense :)
Very cool road trip, really enjoyed this video. I have figured out 3 of the cars, but there is 2 others I haven’t seen before. There is what looks to be a white car and a light blue one, could you tell us a bit about them. Thanks.
They're both specials. The blue one is a 912 De Dion Bouton with a Curtiss OX5 aero engine (same as in the green Monarch). The white one is inspired by the Mercedes cars that raced at Lyon and uses vintage Daimler/Mercedes parts - I think from 1913.
Brilliant!
Awesome, beautiful… make it a full length movie.
haha, thanks - I'll see if I can hitch a ride again :)
Stefan, What camera were you using for that early footage as Mark accelerates and lifts-off on that long straight ? You can almost feel the surge acceleration. Watching that is a great way to escape lock-down.
I shot everything (stills too) with a little Canon Eos M. For the video I used the kit lens which has some stabilisation - but it's still pretty shaky. Being on the Darracq I really didn't have a lot of luggage space and reluctantly had to leave my usual DSLR at home. I have to say, while it's reasonable for video, the little EOS M takes great photos (especially with the 22m lens). Definitely a good choice if space is limited.
Bloody fantastic
haha, thanks!
Cracking Stefan
pure magic! ... time to get the 1956 2CV out for a run!
Cor that's an early one! We had a 2CV as a support vehicle on one of our French trips. Being on UK plates and right hand drive it got almost as much attention as the Edwardians :)
@@StefanMarjoram WOW what a wicked support vehicle! Here's a wee vid of mine getting some fettling ...
th-cam.com/video/UGwi9ghhltg/w-d-xo.html
outstanding short video, loved all of it, well done and thanks for sharing !
how did the cars do on the trip? any mechanical issue?
Glad you liked it! All the cars in our little group made it there and back. They usually do as they're owned by people who use and fettle the cars all the time - that way they usually get an early warning of any looming issues. A lot of them have built the cars themselves too - so they literally know them inside and out :)
Combinação perfeita boa música cenário e uma lenda o carro .
Thanks very much :)
Charming.
Man the piano piece is very nice fitting for this video
Although the engine is music 😂
Thank you! I would have had more engine noise but once the cars are moving you just get wind noise :)
@@StefanMarjoram fair enough
Beyond cool!
It was definitely a special trip :)
Excellent fun.
Am I mistaken or is the young lady playing Boulevard Of Broken Dreams? The car ride looks like great fun though!
That’s the one :)
Glad I found your question. The tune was driving me nuts. I knew that I knew it but just couldn't think of the title. Mental torture over😂
you can make a video of driving on this road in under an hour. it's great to relax
These things make you smile from ear to ear so fuel consumption should not be the main concern, though I am very curious for that. What does an old beast like that consume on average?
I haven't got the exact figures - but it's not as horrendous as you might imagine as the engines turn so ridiculously slowly.
Epic.
Definitely Charlie, Sebastian, Henry, Hugo in that group.
Yes, it's funny looking back at some of the early films when there were still ickle :)
I know this song and can’t think of the title.
I know it can be frustrating to have music on a car video sometimes but once you’re at speed on these open vehicles all you get is wind noise - which is REALLY unpleasant to listen to. Charlie playing the piano was a really memorable moment of the trip and I’m so glad I got it on camera - it holds the whole film together. Have a watch of the Beast of Turin trailer for some pure unadulterated engine noise :)
Unobtainable experiences. Thanks to the few that are able.
I am a very lucky chap indeed :)
@@StefanMarjoram Indeed
0:54 wetted my eyes. This is freedom.
jenial, grandioso
I just now found this wonderful video! I have no problem with the music, and it sounded very familiar. What is the name of it? And who performed it in the past few years? A nice balance of the music, which was very appropriate, and the cars - did they go the whole distance there and back? Simply wonderful!
So glad you enjoyed it - music and all! I think the track is originally by a band called Green Day. Usually all of the cars would drive to the location - but on this occasion, with it being such a big distance, only 4 of us drove the whole 1000 miles. I'm so glad we did though - it made it an epic adventure :)
‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ by Green Day.
@@MrGrahamxyz Its part two or follow on of the song Holiday, play Holiday then Broken Dreams they flow.
Living the high life, fantastic.
Thanks Dave. I don't know if you can call it a high life if you come home covered in oil and flies - but it is an amazing life :)
@@StefanMarjoram I could put up with the oil and flies, what a ride ! & great to see 😀
That was lovely. I totally understand having Charlie’s musical backdrop. What was she playing?
So glad you liked it. I think it's a song by a band the youngsters listen to called Green Day :)
@@StefanMarjoram thank you. I have heard of them.
Solid music! What is the name of the tune?
Thanks Pablo! - it's Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day... th-cam.com/video/Soa3gO7tL-c/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Nt0z-iXonGhc6C8X
What was the piece of music please
It's Charlie's cover of 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' by Green Day :)
Nice job!
Thanks!
@@StefanMarjoram can I come next time!
Was this shot on the way to (or from) making the film about the Targa Florio?
I went to see the VSCC boys and girls yesterday at Mallory Park. One meeting I make sure I attend every year!
I've only been to Mallory once, but really enjoyed it. This was a trip to Lyon, just to revisit the site of the GP 100 years earlier. We made such trips every year - to Dieppe and Amiens etc - but this was by far the longest one :)
@@StefanMarjoram Ah, I was wondering if the two trips had been combined. I did really love Scicilian Dream.
I've been to the VSCC race at Mallory pretty much every year since i was 10 or so in 96. Always loved the big Aero cars. My first job when I was 14 was working on pre-war Austins and I did a small amount on a De Dion Bouton from 1898 for the London to Brighton.
@@1959BB Awesome! Do say hello if you spot me sketching somewhere :)
@@StefanMarjoram rather than just saying hello, I've bought 5 of your prints this evening instead. I love your drawings, I decided to get a few of my favourite VSCC cars.
@@1959BB Wow! That was a nice surprise to come home to - thanks very much! Will add a little original sketch in with them :)
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As great as this is. Have you footage of the cars without music?
Sorry Kevin. As I mentioned above - in a car like this it’s just hideously distorted wind noise over 30mph :)
@@StefanMarjoram ah! Fair enough.
Absolutely fabulous footage
damn , i want to do this in my car now.
Having a goal like visiting the site of the Grand Prix is really good. It gives the trip a purpose. The bonus with the early GPs is that they were held on public roads so you can seek them out and drive them again. It really puts the efforts of the drivers into perspective too.
Iv sat in that, Mark Walker is so nice
He is indeed. He took my young son up the road in the Darracq - cured him of his obsession with modern supercars - now he likes old cars too :)
..... und das Klavier mag ich auch!
Das freut mich sehr :)
Sais quoi comme marqie de voiture ?😊
Darracq 25l V8 - le voiture du plus grand vitesse en 1905. Aussi, Monarch avec moteur d'avion OX5 de 1913 et JAP GN de 1914. Apologies for my bad French :)
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