Todays Quick Vid

Eccentric shaft · October 06, 2021, 03:11:27 PM

Was half toying with the idea of swapping the engine sounds in the "Bullitt" car chase with rotary engine noises, but this one got there first. Ladies and Gentlemen: here's "Bullitt with Electric Cars". Enjoy!

MattScott · October 10, 2021, 10:15:15 PM

Quote from: Eccentric shaft on October 06, 2021, 03:11:27 PM
Was half toying with the idea of swapping the engine sounds in the "Bullitt" car chase with rotary engine noises, but this one got there first. Ladies and Gentlemen: here's "Bullitt with Electric Cars". Enjoy!

well I'm not sure car chases will ever be the same again !!

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Eccentric shaft · October 12, 2021, 05:52:22 PM

More classic Mazdas heading for NZ:

Eccentric shaft · October 13, 2021, 08:01:53 AM

Introducing the world's first bridge-ported dog:

Casey · October 13, 2021, 10:57:25 AM

love that dog

clive · October 13, 2021, 08:16:22 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxWl1JnM0cs

boosted · October 13, 2021, 09:22:06 PM

That was an amazing short film.. hugely entertaining.

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jinx · October 14, 2021, 01:25:08 PM

Toe curlingly awful...but very nostalgic.

Nice to see the 'temporary' scaffolding grandstands still in place at Brands - built that year for the Grand Prix. Can't remember how many years they stayed there for!

You could stand down at ground level (still above the track) in front of them if you were poor - 'protected' by a picket fence. Shocking absence of Hi-Viz protection for marshals throughout of course - can't imagine how anybody spotted them running (or in some cases ambling) across the track to sort things out instead of, as now, obliged to summon a safety car. Anybody wondering about the minimal run off area at Paddock Bend at Brands Hatch would be horrified to know it was positively massive compared to that offered at Crystal Palace - which was also thoughtfully lined with railways sleepers!

A fine collection of forgotten names on screen: Rochdale, Diva, Fairthorpe, Elva and Turner et al, plus two Ferraris (250 and 330?) on the front row of a club race at Castle Combe with nobody too interested in their investment value. The bloke towing his mini racer with a Triumph Spitfire must have been an optimist although maybe the bonnet bulge suggested he had already swapped to a six cylinder engine long before the factory did it for the GT6

I was at that BOAC 500 the Chaparral won - it was a fantastic thing but saddled with an automatic gearbox, which often let it down. We would not have waited for the prize giving, Phil Hill or no Phil Hill. Our Dad was always impatient to get home and never really endorsed the circuit racing notion of the fastest cars starting at the front, as opposed to the back like in stock car racing in a stadium. Bah Humbug!