Oulton park was a wonderful little circuit, went as a kid 1964, saw jimmy and jack sears, Galaxie, minis, Cortinas, still remember the day vividly. Birthday treat, id just had my first Scalextric set. And being sick after a second milkshake.
@@HamishRacing and before hailwood /ago /read/minter /tait/ shepard /ivy plus all the great sidecar racers who were faves and heroes,espesailly pip harris and george auerbacher
I shudder when I watch these old films, the cavalier and amateurish approach is really refreshing but the lack of safety is such a contrast to nowadays. These old circuits really were shoestring affairs when one looks back on it, patchy, unkempt and all very amateurish but an enthusiast’s delight! To see F1, Rally and Endurance World Champions taking part is brilliant!
and that is why I could afford to race then. Now at 75, it costs a lot more. Now I have race tyres, wet tyres, hillclimb tyres, short sprint hot day and long sprint cold day. Sure, the safety aspect was not there, but now it takes me ages to get into my fireproof suit, balaclava, special gloves, 6 point harness. race shoes and socks. I miss the simplicity of racing of the early 1960's. It was when skill played an important part of where you were at the end of a race. And then money took over and we no longer had a majority of competitors driving their race car to a meeting.
I hate to sound like a boring old man, but these days were better - whatever branch of motorsport one was in - from Grands Prix, to hillclimbs, to rallying. The the circuits were more fun too - and spectators didn't need a 24" reflector to see the cars either!
Aerodynamic downforce is what makes F1 extremely tedious and not worth watching. Instead of those futile attempts limiting engine size or tyre width they should have limited downforce instead.
Hamish - from what I remember, James was given a massive prison sentence and locked away in a squalid cell. Eventually, he was released early and tried a racing comeback - but failed.
A real true golden era. Just a different world too how things are today. I am off now to invent a time machine so I can go back too this wonderful era. See you there.
@@richardcolton4125 Sadly, my little brother took a claw hammer to the whole collection somewhere around 1975. Little Brothers, ya gotta keep loving them, cause Mom says YOU CAN'T KILL THEM.
"I just washed my Mini and I can't do a thing with it!" Brilliant! And the entire video is brilliant. Do events like this still exist? What a special era this was in motor racing. 👍👏
Fabulous film Hamish, thank you for uploading it. It was particularly interesting to see the footage of Roy James near the end, back in his pre-train robbing days!
Thanks for that info. I recall dad saying he had to supply the BBC news with film of a Great Train Robbery getaway driver. Could have been this or other race film he had👍
@@HamishRacing I think it might well have been this bit of film that your dad supplied to the BBC Hamish. Do you have the exact date of the Cadwell race? The Great Train Robbery was in August '63, so this must have been just a few weeks or months earlier. That would mean that he was probably already involved in the planning of the robbery when your dad shot this film.
@@OffMyCloud appears to either by 23 June or 18 August, if this forum is to be believed (see post #24) tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126088&page=2&styleid=2
I was watching FF back in the 70's with friends at Paddock Hill - Brands, when Roy James had a flat out big off into the sleepers, sliding along on its side with the top of the roll bar making contact with them in succession, BRRRRRR! it went and we jumped back from the fence. We thought he'd probably been decapitated. Fortunately for him he was OK. He was a very lucky man that day for sure.
@@Rodewerksahed It was the Autumn/winter series at Brands just before the Formula Ford Festival, and the reason for Roy James’s accident was his over-optimistic/ill advised attempt to get past the leader on the second lap of the FF1600 race, Donald MacLeod in a Van Diemen. I was engineering MacLeod’s car and was in the pits. The leading bunch had just gone out of sight when a car (Roy James’s) shot up in the air, tumbling as it disappeared from view, and the red flags went out immediately. Roy James had to be cut out of his car. All four corners had come off and the gearbox had been knocked off the engine. It was the most violent prang I ever saw in Formula Ford, and how Roy James wasn’t badly hurt was a miracle. He retired shortly after that.
It’s impressive to see how much the trees have grown up around Sawbench and along Castle Straight at Wiscombe. It’s a lot darker along there these days.
Great film once again. The smooth driving style of Jim Clark not only beat Jack Sears in the similar car but also made the tyres last the race. Caught a glimpse of an MG1100 racing, well known car at the time.
It's the Harry Ratcliffe MG 1100 regarding 4216DK. A tribute car appeared at the Goodwood Revival a couple of years ago with mini legend John Rhodes at the wheel.
Fun to watch video! Thanks for sharing this. My first car is a '63 Galaxie...and, I still have it. I happen to have been born that same year. Cheers, mate. You are doing fantastic with your TR3 as well.
Dave, thank you, there are other period racing films on my channel that my late dad made if you are interested. I enjoy your racing videos and was very impressed with your TR3a build video of your race car. I enjoy my sprints and hill climbs 2nd overall in the club championship again this year behind the same champion in his full race (on slicks tyres)TR4. I still drive mine on the roads to club meetings and the pub etc.
I have fond memories of these types of vehicles racing. I went to a race at Sandown in Victoria, Australia. Mini Coopers ,Ford Anglias and other cars of the early 60’s racing around the circuit. It was completely different to today’s racing. I love this era. 😁🇦🇺👍🏻
Share the news Down under Michael 👍 Last time I was at sandown must have been 1989 with a mate on a bike track day. Love Oz Happy memories of Melbourne and my 1973 Ford Falcon. ( the six not the v8 ☹️)
@@HamishRacing They we’re the days when they raced big American Chevies, Studibakers with Austin’s, Minis, Ford Cortinas and Ford Anglias. There was a lot of skill in manoeuvring around the smaller vehicles and quite often some of the smaller cars kept up with the bigger cars in the corners. It was a completely different racing time and I miss them. It would be great to bring back that style of racing. 😁👍🏻🇦🇺
Grew up a yank in the U.S. in the late 1960's getting my licence in 1969 or 70 and was into Euro cars big time, my first car being a 1959 Volvo PV544. As a high schooler there was little chance of me finding a true sports car in drivable condition with my finances. I will always remember fondly the aggressive tune and gearing of british and italian sports cars. Which did absolutely nothing to dampen my enthusiasm for such cars. I owned a couple of Triumph GT6+ fastbacks and later a cherished '66 Alfa Romeo roadster with a '67 427 Corvette removable hard top between those others. All cars designed to keep the courts and justice system well financed.
Love your comment thanks. I think very many of us have contributed to our home country legal system finances in our youth. I find race entry fees more economical 🤣
@12:12 luv the pit stop with "only 2 blokes permitted at once to service the auto"... Ha ha, I thought they'd serve tea and pass out napkins at any moment... Brilliant
Roy James, "The Weasel", made a splendid start in the Formula Junior race at Cadwell Park and went on to win. He is rather better known for doing a long stretch at Her Majesty's pleasure for his part in the Great Train Robbery, a caper that hit the headlines later in the summer of 1963.
Thanks for your added info. I thought the great train robbery was more than a “caper” ! It was an armed robbery where victims later died I thought ? The racing is genuine and posted as a period film for interest.
@@HamishRacing You're quite correct. The engine driver or his assistant (in the days of steam) was very badly beaten about the head. He never really recovered from his injuries and died some years later. I do like Roscoe films and the amusing commentary by David Roscoe. I see his broader work as an important historical record of motorsport at its best in postwar Britain of the 1950s and '60s.
ha , things have changed a wee bit now , great ti see them old cars flying round , funny ti hear a mini being called a saloon car too , yeah great vid , aye !
I loved this. My dad used to have the same humor when he spoke of the races he was in. I'm figuring he was influenced by David Roscoe himself. We also have an Elva that was raced in the UK in this period. We already found it in one video. Keep them coming so we can see if we can find more!
@@HamishRacing If you were so inclined, I'm happy to pay for your time to look through the movies from the 1962-1963 timeframe, for you to see if any of the have more of our car, and then get them in a modern format. I can even give you a list of the specific races if that helps. Here is another film with our car multiple times: th-cam.com/video/qYfEO6yCWPA/w-d-xo.html. If you have a better quality version of this, we'd love to get it too.
OMG!! I am now hooked on the golden oldie days of motor racing. I hardly recognise Brands, and all those multi million pound Ferrari GTOs and E-type lightweights. Awesome stuff, just a pity film quality is 1960s, but still great stuff indeed! I'm sub'd for more!
Plus, the cars at GWood are all out race car versions, £100K in mods, cheated up special made tyres, suspension, fibreglass bumpers etc etc, that's why they are so fast., ....which is the correct way?...back in the day of course IMO. Fantastic films.
@@markholroyde9412 While that is true, you can also see them at Donington, Brands Hatch, Oulton Park, Cadwell Park, and some at Spa, Nurburgring, Paul Ricard; the list goes on. The Masters organisation puts on some great pan-European races, and the VSCC and HSCC in the UK. Some of the cars are far more period-correct, and while many of the cars in the Masters series are new-builds; as you would see almost exclusively among the cars at Goodwood revivial these days; this isn't the case among the HSCC and VSCC races (because budgets are lower, of course...). Irony being that while the true 'genuine' exotics and classics from the likes of Monteverde and Nick Mason are rarely seen outside of the big events (Spa/Le Mans/Silverstone/Monaco Classics) these days, many of the 'cheaper' old cars like the E-Types, Coopers, Listers, Cobras, do show up at many of the UK's historic races - yet aside from the F1 cars and bikes, by contrast most of the cars at the Goodwood Revival are at most 4 years old - and many types never even raced in period!!
@@OsellaSquadraCorse I know mate, my job sometimes puts me around the folk who do the "better" (lower budget) series, I love watching the realistic stuff and own quite a few myself, . That "cheated up to death" 356 Porsche that went from last to first at GoodWood beating e types was a prime example, I offered £5K to race that BTCC driver round Oulton, me in a stock e type, him in a stock 356 with 36hp....not 250 like he had, a stock 356 gets railroaded the fk over down the straights by an Aston or E type, ...that Porker passed them down the straights ...Goodwood removed my comments LOL
4:40 that self-knitted hill climber is powered by a supercharged Vincent Rapide engine which at the time was 20 years old. Today they fetch several tens of thousands of pounds and well over 100k if still attached to a motorcycle.
I love the way they can go off and come straight back on at Lodge, steel chassis, steel bodies, none of your modern "cobwebs and pritt-stik" construction. And the guy uncorking his lunch. and 18:06, an ANGLIA winning anything!!
@@steveberry1331 tell me what year he was racing it and i'll see if dad covered that year in VSCC- check out the VSCC 1961 film on my channel you may be pleasantly surprised....
Absolutely amazing, and to see all those cracking cars burning 🔥 rubber…..literally, 😝 lol , imagine owning a Mini Cooper or a lotus Cortina, you’d be scared to take it out of the garage, and that goes for every car racing in this video. Keep er lit 🔥 guys. 😎👍👍👍🇬🇧☮️
Super memories, particularly Mallory Park, an 'I was there' moment. Missed the bit ( think it was this race) when Christabel Carlisle went off on the left hander following down from the hairpin. Quote "Roy James will be hard to catch" --well they caught up with him for his part in the Great Train Robbery.
Back: When racing was done like no one could get hurt When anyone could afford to race When you could drive your race car to the track and back When sponsor names on cars and race suits weren't When you could walk into the pits and talk to any driver When proper attire was a shirt, vest, tie, and dress pants When life was so much simpler...
Great footage. I hope you don't mind me using this thread to ask if anyone has 1960s BBC (or maybe ITV?) black & white footage of trials competition between various vehicles. It used to be broadcast on Saturday afternoons. The vehicles included a military truck, a Haflinger and various smaller vehicles which would tackle rough, often muddy courses. Does anyone else remember this and can point me to footage? Many thanks in advance!
It was called 'Autopoint' and I think it was between the Army Motoring Association and the Thames Estuary Motor Cub. Thanks for reminding me, I'll Google it.
My, how racing has changed. A 'highly modified' saloon car of those days would seem out-of-box stock today. Imagine, today's top formula one drivers getting into such cars and running at regional SCCA or NASA events.
Is that a Vincent v twin in one of the hill climb specials at Wiscombe? You would get lynched for that these days. I've been to Wiscombe a lot. The course record is 33.13 now from 2019 and I think I heard the commentator say the best time of the day was 50 odd seconds!!! I was born in '65 and dad liked his motorsport and drove TR's so I have fond memories of a lot of these cars. Oh, and he flew with Graham Hill from Elstree once.
This is great! Ford sticks its nose out -- and gets it bloodied. A Galaxie! What were they thinking? Then there's Jim Clark, apparently he can make boats fly! Let's just pack everybody in on the grid!
@@HamishRacing The fiberglass body was ex Ginetta and we put a hard top on it with gull wing doors which was a mistake as it made it very noisy when driving. The frame I designed as a multi tubed with independent suspension all around. I sold it in 1962 and saw it later at Brands Hatch but not since. I guess it went for scrap.
Oulton Park and Wiscombe which I v'e raced many times but didn't look like that! And I beat the FTD on he film at Wiscombe a few months ago by 5 seconds!!
Oulton park was a wonderful little circuit, went as a kid 1964, saw jimmy and jack sears, Galaxie, minis, Cortinas, still remember the day vividly.
Birthday treat, id just had my first Scalextric set.
And being sick after a second milkshake.
@@tangerinedream7211 lovely memories. Thanks for sharing.
yes this how oulton was when i was kid when we went to the international motorcycle meetings on bank holiday mondays in the 60s and early 70s
@@iainbailey-p2y then the Sheene years and the Transatlantic Trophy races 😁
@@HamishRacing and before hailwood /ago /read/minter /tait/ shepard /ivy plus all the great sidecar racers who were faves and heroes,espesailly pip harris and george auerbacher
Dudes have no roll bar, no crash protection of any sort, and are wearing a T Shirt and Jeans in the car... The 1960's had to be something to see...
I shudder when I watch these old films, the cavalier and amateurish approach is really refreshing but the lack of safety is such a contrast to nowadays. These old circuits really were shoestring affairs when one looks back on it, patchy, unkempt and all very amateurish but an enthusiast’s delight! To see F1, Rally and Endurance World Champions taking part is brilliant!
and that is why I could afford to race then. Now at 75, it costs a lot more. Now I have race tyres, wet tyres, hillclimb tyres, short sprint hot day and long sprint cold day. Sure, the safety aspect was not there, but now it takes me ages to get into my fireproof suit, balaclava, special gloves, 6 point harness. race shoes and socks. I miss the simplicity of racing of the early 1960's. It was when skill played an important part of where you were at the end of a race. And then money took over and we no longer had a majority of competitors driving their race car to a meeting.
I hate to sound like a boring old man, but these days were better - whatever branch of motorsport one was in - from Grands Prix, to hillclimbs, to rallying. The the circuits were more fun too - and spectators didn't need a 24" reflector to see the cars either!
Fantastic film. No downforce. Low power, but BETTER RACING. Wonderful to see Jim Clark with his already established effortless talent.
Aerodynamic downforce is what makes F1 extremely tedious and not worth watching.
Instead of those futile attempts limiting engine size or tyre width they should have limited downforce instead.
"And so we say farewell to Roy James." I thought that was the judge in the trial of the Great Train Robbers. A fine racing career thrown away.
Hamish - from what I remember, James was given a massive prison sentence and locked away in a squalid cell. Eventually, he was released early and tried a racing comeback - but failed.
Superb footage! The 'Tongue in Cheek' commentary is the icing on the cake....
Please continue adding these wonderful films. I wish I could have been there.
thanks Mike dad would have loved the fact that they are being enjoyed.
What a gem this film is, and the commentator? a real racing enthusiast ;-)
A real true golden era. Just a different world too how things are today. I am off now to invent a time machine so I can go back too this wonderful era. See you there.
It's like they're racing in the Matchbox cars of my youth! 🏆🏁
Thanks for this video.
i still have my Berlinetta, Ford gt40, jaguar sedan, but never found my favorite, the candy apple red xke--u still have yours?
@@richardcolton4125 Sadly, my little brother took a claw hammer to the whole collection somewhere around 1975.
Little Brothers, ya gotta keep loving them, cause Mom says YOU CAN'T KILL THEM.
I wish cars were still this pretty.
"I just washed my Mini and I can't do a thing with it!" Brilliant! And the entire video is brilliant. Do events like this still exist? What a special era this was in motor racing. 👍👏
Thanks Dad would be 😀 I think the closest thing to this now is a British VSCC club race or trial or Goodwood.
Love the supercharged Vincent powered car at 4.40!
Absolutely brilliant. Cheers
Thanks Trevor. Dad would really appreciate your comment and pleased folks still enjoying his films.
What a fantastic upload, thanks for sharing 👌👌
The legendary 4WPD with Graham at Mallory Park, literally taking the chequered flag. Wonderful footage.
Loved it and love those great customs I'd never seen before...
Thank you for uploading a classic race movie like this
Fabulous film Hamish, thank you for uploading it. It was particularly interesting to see the footage of Roy James near the end, back in his pre-train robbing days!
Thanks for that info. I recall dad saying he had to supply the BBC news with film of a Great Train Robbery getaway driver. Could have been this or other race film he had👍
@@HamishRacing I think it might well have been this bit of film that your dad supplied to the BBC Hamish. Do you have the exact date of the Cadwell race? The Great Train Robbery was in August '63, so this must have been just a few weeks or months earlier. That would mean that he was probably already involved in the planning of the robbery when your dad shot this film.
@@OffMyCloud appears to either by 23 June or 18 August, if this forum is to be believed (see post #24) tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126088&page=2&styleid=2
I was watching FF back in the 70's with friends at Paddock Hill - Brands, when Roy James had a flat out big off into the sleepers, sliding along on its side with the top of the roll bar making contact with them in succession, BRRRRRR! it went and we jumped back from the fence. We thought he'd probably been decapitated. Fortunately for him he was OK. He was a very lucky man that day for sure.
@@Rodewerksahed It was the Autumn/winter series at Brands just before the Formula Ford Festival, and the reason for Roy James’s accident was his over-optimistic/ill advised attempt to get past the leader on the second lap of the FF1600 race, Donald MacLeod in a Van Diemen. I was engineering MacLeod’s car and was in the pits. The leading bunch had just gone out of sight when a car (Roy James’s) shot up in the air, tumbling as it disappeared from view, and the red flags went out immediately. Roy James had to be cut out of his car. All four corners had come off and the gearbox had been knocked off the engine. It was the most violent prang I ever saw in Formula Ford, and how Roy James wasn’t badly hurt was a miracle. He retired shortly after that.
Wonderful film! Thank goodness they were filmed and thank you very much for posting it.
Hopefully more to share once in the right format
It’s impressive to see how much the trees have grown up around Sawbench and along Castle Straight at Wiscombe. It’s a lot darker along there these days.
A fantastic nostalgic film, thanks for sharing it.
This is fabulous! Nice to see that what we experience at Goodwood etc these days is in fact highly authentic!
Great film once again. The smooth driving style of Jim Clark not only beat Jack Sears in the similar car but also made the tyres last the race.
Caught a glimpse of an MG1100 racing, well known car at the time.
It's the Harry Ratcliffe MG 1100 regarding 4216DK. A tribute car appeared at the Goodwood Revival a couple of years ago with mini legend John Rhodes at the wheel.
wonderful stuff, the pit stops are hilrious. racing looks more like a leisurely sunday drive.
Fun to watch video! Thanks for sharing this. My first car is a '63 Galaxie...and, I still have it. I happen to have been born that same year. Cheers, mate. You are doing fantastic with your TR3 as well.
Dave, thank you, there are other period racing films on my channel that my late dad made if you are interested.
I enjoy your racing videos and was very impressed with your TR3a build video of your race car. I enjoy my sprints and hill climbs 2nd overall in the club championship again this year behind the same champion in his full race (on slicks tyres)TR4. I still drive mine on the roads to club meetings and the pub etc.
I have fond memories of these types of vehicles racing. I went to a race at Sandown in Victoria, Australia. Mini Coopers ,Ford Anglias and other cars of the early 60’s racing around the circuit. It was completely different to today’s racing. I love this era. 😁🇦🇺👍🏻
Share the news Down under Michael 👍
Last time I was at sandown must have been 1989 with a mate on a bike track day.
Love Oz Happy memories of Melbourne and my 1973 Ford Falcon. ( the six not the v8 ☹️)
@@HamishRacing They we’re the days when they raced big American Chevies, Studibakers with Austin’s, Minis, Ford Cortinas and Ford Anglias. There was a lot of skill in manoeuvring around the smaller vehicles and quite often some of the smaller cars kept up with the bigger cars in the corners. It was a completely different racing time and I miss them. It would be great to bring back that style of racing. 😁👍🏻🇦🇺
Check out the Goodwood TH-cam channel they have a fantastic variety including the big Ford Galaxy’s
@@HamishRacing 👍🏻
Grew up a yank in the U.S. in the late 1960's getting my licence in 1969 or 70 and was into Euro cars big time, my first car being a 1959 Volvo PV544. As a high schooler there was little chance of me finding a true sports car in drivable condition with my finances. I will always remember fondly the aggressive tune and gearing of british and italian sports cars. Which did absolutely nothing to dampen my enthusiasm for such cars. I owned a couple of Triumph GT6+ fastbacks and later a cherished '66 Alfa Romeo roadster with a '67 427 Corvette removable hard top between those others. All cars designed to keep the courts and justice system well financed.
Love your comment thanks.
I think very many of us have contributed to our home country legal system finances in our youth. I find race entry fees more economical 🤣
You were not looking hard enough. While in High School (1963) i bought a 1955 Austin Healy 100-4 for $600.
@12:12 luv the pit stop with "only 2 blokes permitted at once to service the auto"...
Ha ha, I thought they'd serve tea and pass out napkins at any moment...
Brilliant
In the days when a racer would drive anything with 4 wheels (and sometimes 2) and an engine. Jim Clark and Graham Hill. Legends both. Wonderful stuff.
Roy James, "The Weasel", made a splendid start in the Formula Junior race at Cadwell Park and went on to win. He is rather better known for doing a long stretch at Her Majesty's pleasure for his part in the Great Train Robbery, a caper that hit the headlines later in the summer of 1963.
Thanks for your added info. I thought the great train robbery was more than a “caper” !
It was an armed robbery where victims later died I thought ?
The racing is genuine and posted as a period film for interest.
@@HamishRacing You're quite correct. The engine driver or his assistant (in the days of steam) was very badly beaten about the head. He never really recovered from his injuries and died some years later. I do like Roscoe films and the amusing commentary by David Roscoe. I see his broader work as an important historical record of motorsport at its best in postwar Britain of the 1950s and '60s.
Priceless! Just love the commentary. Great footage.
ha , things have changed a wee bit now , great ti see them old cars flying round , funny ti hear a mini being called a saloon car too , yeah great vid , aye !
Great footage 👏 Thank you for posting! Gotta Love the old cars!
This all took place a year before I was born but what a fab film, great channel..subscribed!
Welcome @Ratty383 hope you enjoy all the current and historic films. the 1960's seems to be THE decade.
Great stuff! Thanks.
wonderful video! thank you.
Went to Oulton Park many times in the 1960's, fabulous day's !!
@@johnfellows2867 yes wonderful circuit. I got Graham Hills auto graph there 🤩
these days youd be lucky to see one Ferrrari GTO, but in that Hill race there were maybe 8 or 9. beautiful car!
Commentary by Noel Coward!
Great to see these - Thanks for Sharing
Thanks Garry and welcome to TH-cam
I loved this. My dad used to have the same humor when he spoke of the races he was in. I'm figuring he was influenced by David Roscoe himself. We also have an Elva that was raced in the UK in this period. We already found it in one video. Keep them coming so we can see if we can find more!
Jay I am pleased this brought back fond memories. I have many more films that dad made that I need to convert to a more modern format.
@@HamishRacing If you were so inclined, I'm happy to pay for your time to look through the movies from the 1962-1963 timeframe, for you to see if any of the have more of our car, and then get them in a modern format. I can even give you a list of the specific races if that helps. Here is another film with our car multiple times: th-cam.com/video/qYfEO6yCWPA/w-d-xo.html. If you have a better quality version of this, we'd love to get it too.
@Jay
have you seen Ace of clubs ?
th-cam.com/video/oKXcFVRnsMo/w-d-xo.html
Just wonderful stuff!
Awesome, makes feel like a kid again i saw lots of races..
OMG!! I am now hooked on the golden oldie days of motor racing. I hardly recognise Brands, and all those multi million pound Ferrari GTOs and E-type lightweights. Awesome stuff, just a pity film quality is 1960s, but still great stuff indeed! I'm sub'd for more!
Still better quality than later years VHS video
@@corvanha1 Absolutely👍🏻
You can see these cars at Goodwood today, but there is nothing like seeing them in their original environment and time.
Goodwood does a fantastic job of recreating those halcyon days. But I have yet to visit a revival.
Plus, the cars at GWood are all out race car versions, £100K in mods, cheated up special made tyres, suspension, fibreglass bumpers etc etc, that's why they are so fast., ....which is the correct way?...back in the day of course IMO.
Fantastic films.
@@markholroyde9412 While that is true, you can also see them at Donington, Brands Hatch, Oulton Park, Cadwell Park, and some at Spa, Nurburgring, Paul Ricard; the list goes on.
The Masters organisation puts on some great pan-European races, and the VSCC and HSCC in the UK.
Some of the cars are far more period-correct, and while many of the cars in the Masters series are new-builds; as you would see almost exclusively among the cars at Goodwood revivial these days; this isn't the case among the HSCC and VSCC races (because budgets are lower, of course...).
Irony being that while the true 'genuine' exotics and classics from the likes of Monteverde and Nick Mason are rarely seen outside of the big events (Spa/Le Mans/Silverstone/Monaco Classics) these days, many of the 'cheaper' old cars like the E-Types, Coopers, Listers, Cobras, do show up at many of the UK's historic races - yet aside from the F1 cars and bikes, by contrast most of the cars at the Goodwood Revival are at most 4 years old - and many types never even raced in period!!
@@OsellaSquadraCorse I know mate, my job sometimes puts me around the folk who do the "better" (lower budget) series, I love watching the realistic stuff and own quite a few myself, .
That "cheated up to death" 356 Porsche that went from last to first at GoodWood beating e types was a prime example, I offered £5K to race that BTCC driver round Oulton, me in a stock e type, him in a stock 356 with 36hp....not 250 like he had, a stock 356 gets railroaded the fk over down the straights by an Aston or E type, ...that Porker passed them down the straights ...Goodwood removed my comments LOL
Awesome vid, earned a sub from me. When motorsport was dangerous AND fun.
4:40 that self-knitted hill climber is powered by a supercharged Vincent Rapide engine which at the time was 20 years old.
Today they fetch several tens of thousands of pounds and well over 100k if still attached to a motorcycle.
I love the way they can go off and come straight back on at Lodge, steel chassis, steel bodies, none of your modern "cobwebs and pritt-stik" construction.
And the guy uncorking his lunch.
and 18:06, an ANGLIA winning anything!!
Love the innovation back then.
1:29 Berry in the 750 Class Wins - My Grandad!
that's ace that this is recorded for the family to see
@@HamishRacing Just need to find him in his 1932 Type 55 Bugatti! Thanks for sharing the video
@@steveberry1331 tell me what year he was racing it and i'll see if dad covered that year in VSCC- check out the VSCC 1961 film on my channel you may be pleasantly surprised....
Amazing to see! Guardrails? What's that?! It's incredible not more people died in those days! And the cars! Boy, those were some cars!
Racing was never cheap.
Absolutely amazing, and to see all those cracking cars burning 🔥 rubber…..literally, 😝 lol , imagine owning a Mini Cooper or a lotus Cortina, you’d be scared to take it out of the garage, and that goes for every car racing in this video. Keep er lit 🔥 guys. 😎👍👍👍🇬🇧☮️
Nice Rochdale Olympic Phase I at 2:44. Possibly one of the Lincoln Racing Team Olympics run by George S Dixon? Riley 1.5 BMC B Series engine.
Fantastic! Merci!
Je vous en prie
Love the humour by the commentator
Supercharged Vincent. Legend
Super memories, particularly Mallory Park, an 'I was there' moment. Missed the bit ( think it was this race) when Christabel Carlisle went off on the left hander following down from the hairpin.
Quote "Roy James will be hard to catch" --well they caught up with him for his part in the Great Train Robbery.
Racing the way it should be... cheap and cheery...
It's seldom cheap.
It wasn't cheap then, but it was very dangerous.
Jolly good show old bean.
14:48 The most beautiful car in this whole video: Aston-Martin DB4 GT Zagato 22XKX.
Seen it at Goodwood not that long ago.
Hilarious commentary. "Can you chaps at least get your cars pointed in the right direction?"
It looks like Dan Gurney has a quiet joke with a watching Jack Brabham at around 9.24. Cheers!
Rick.
Back:
When racing was done like no one could get hurt
When anyone could afford to race
When you could drive your race car to the track and back
When sponsor names on cars and race suits weren't
When you could walk into the pits and talk to any driver
When proper attire was a shirt, vest, tie, and dress pants
When life was so much simpler...
life is simple, you just need to change your perception.
rubbish ... most folk couldnt afford a car let alone race it !!
These videos are great!
Here were a lot of old and nice cars to see, and of course drivers with fire in their eyes.
The shear number of minis is amazing.
Yes. A “swarm” of minis. 🤣
21:38 Roy James. One of the great tarin robbers I believe!
Ya gotta love how even in 1963 they still hadn't worked out that a roll cage might help in a crash?
Great names and great cars, when racing was the Wild West.
12:20 love that 'safety first' during refueling
Surprised they weren’t smoking at the same time in those days !!!!😳
22:00 guy smoking while waving the flag, priceless
If it's a Roscoe film it's a good one..
Love the minis, so much faster around the corners than those big ass heavy whales.
And just look at all the safety features, pudding bowl helmets and lots of guts
excellent
Great footage. I hope you don't mind me using this thread to ask if anyone has 1960s BBC (or maybe ITV?) black & white footage of trials competition between various vehicles. It used to be broadcast on Saturday afternoons. The vehicles included a military truck, a Haflinger and various smaller vehicles which would tackle rough, often muddy courses. Does anyone else remember this and can point me to footage? Many thanks in advance!
It was called 'Autopoint' and I think it was between the Army Motoring Association and the Thames Estuary Motor Cub. Thanks for reminding me, I'll Google it.
AWESOME!
12:22 !!!!!! fuel from a milk ern ? love it, goes every where and nobody runs out with any safety foam etc....
this is really boss, if Sophia Loren was turned into a machine she'd probably become a 63 XKE
Ahhhhh curves.
She was Italian, right? I’d assume something like a Maserati 250F
@@RichMander1 well she sure could make meatballs
Real cars, real men, real races !!
Thanks
11:24 BMW 700 rear engine, powered from their R67 motorcycle.
Saw a mk 2 Lotus Cortina. A little late for 1963. Fun video though
My, how racing has changed. A 'highly modified' saloon car of those days would seem out-of-box stock today. Imagine, today's top formula one drivers getting into such cars and running at regional SCCA or NASA events.
GPs on two and four wheels were much sparcer then and professional drivers and riders were always looking for extra drives.
good memories...
the puns in the commentary are so bad theyre good lol
Funny but a bit alarming to see the mini being over fueled. That part got better for good reason.
And as always, safety is paramount!😆 I'm surprised they were wearing helmets.
Safety-conscious drivers wore long-sleeve shirts.
I would love to see some of these cars at Goodwood
A lot of them are probably there !!!
@@HamishRacing yeah, we've had the galaxies, the bentleys, the minnies and the saabs, but I really wanna see those little hillclimb cars
Buy 12 the Jag is there regularly (whether it's the same car or not....)
ahhh, 1963, when cars could smoke openly and freely. My God, minute 4:42, a Vincent Engine with a supercharger in a rare Clap Trap
Is that a Vincent v twin in one of the hill climb specials at Wiscombe?
You would get lynched for that these days.
I've been to Wiscombe a lot.
The course record is 33.13 now from 2019 and I think I heard the commentator say the best time of the day was 50 odd seconds!!!
I was born in '65 and dad liked his motorsport and drove TR's so I have fond memories of a lot of these cars.
Oh, and he flew with Graham Hill from Elstree once.
Looked like it, plumbed into a Rootes type blower....Would have melted the tread off those cheese cutter tyres!!
Wonderful dry British wit.
16:03 Real race bro, amz
Mini’s are great
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yes the British touring cars are good - but a bit too much contact racing to risk the now classic cars i think.
I wonder if those Galaxies are some that run at Goodwood
Jack Brabham at 9:21?
Yup sure is - many famous people in these classic films my dad made subscribe and check out the other films on my channel
This is great!
Ford sticks its nose out -- and gets it bloodied. A Galaxie! What were they thinking?
Then there's Jim Clark, apparently he can make boats fly!
Let's just pack everybody in on the grid!
Nooice! 😎 STOC
No 38 or 2 FLU is one I made in 1961 .
Looks Ginetta ish was this after opening the jazz bar ??!!😉
@@HamishRacing The fiberglass body was ex Ginetta and we put a hard top on it with gull wing doors which was a mistake as it made it very noisy when driving.
The frame I designed as a multi tubed with independent suspension all around.
I sold it in 1962 and saw it later at Brands Hatch but not since.
I guess it went for scrap.
Much respect to you. Great to build your own 😁👍
A different World gone forever , unfortunately.
Goodwood and VSCC still the closest to “how it was”
Oulton Park and Wiscombe which I v'e raced many times but didn't look like that! And I beat the FTD on he film at Wiscombe a few months ago by 5 seconds!!
See you at our drivers meeting 👍