@MichaelKingsfordGray which is why the viewers of old have retreated from the TV scene and watch videos on youtube. I couldn't imagine a reason to turn on the TV set for other reasons than streaming a video onto it

Hear, Here ! @@daszieher. I haven't had TVeeee feed in over 22 years now,..and counting LoL!

Couldn't agree more. I still have my VHS recording of this when it was first broadcast in 84, when the BBC made quality documentaries instead of pandering to every woke lefty agenda

@@ViN-kr3ri Well said. I have this on a commercially distributed VHS as well. Wish I had it on a DVD, but am glad that it's up here on gulagtube for now.

Exactly mate. Well said

LMFAO!! Indeed... XD

Lol. I use that procedure on my lsx swapped nova....lol

What about the SS guard in the pits at 35:54

@@trentdawg2832 Yo the racer that just finished 5th in that his name is dick seaman fuckin lol

Its the same method Madam Curie measured radiation ;-)

I love old BBC documentaries.

Me Too, even Motor Trend TV doesn't come close to this quality.

Legends of Motorsport!

Yes sir!

this only sentence pretty much sums it all up, doesn't it?

@Waxel Punkt. As we should live life

after winning LeMans in 1967, Dan Gurney sprayed champagne on some of the journalists and critics that said he and AJ Foyt had no chance to win, and a new tradition was born

One of the 1930's great jazz guitarists during the time Be-Bop was coming in opined, "Boppers flat their fifths, we drink ours."

Sadly no mention of the gigantic sausage Campari was presented with on winning the Grand Prix at Lyon

Ettore Bugatti said that Bentley is the fastest truck on the track.

That's one of the Works Austin Sevens, known as Dutch Clogs.

:-O

wonderfull info. thanx

That's hilarious if they only knew they would eventually be replaced with a McDonald's😂

You know how they call a Royale with Cheese over there ?

Arno Nijssen Best comment!

I am absolutely amazed!!!

There was a lot of sliding involved. Also, with the right technique, normal cars can actually go faster around corners than most people think.

Just by listening to the sound, you know that _it can really pull..._

mrblowhard2u Indeed. Add to that brakes that, by present day standards, didn't work, narrow "bisyckle" tyres that didn't grip, non-fireproof clothing and non-existent track safety... Oh, and some of those Mercs and Auto Unions could max out at allmost 200 mph... Properly crazy stuff!

Innerspace100 in the mid 30's enzo ferrari wanted to be able to compete with the cars, but didn't have the cash to start from scratch and alfa romeo refused to give him the cash, so he takes two of kano's straight 8's and puts them into one car. this was an attempt to lure nuvolari back to scoured ferrari in the 30's, nuvolari was clocked going well over 200 mphs in the mid 30's

+mrblowhard2u Best of all, *it made you feel alive.* The bravery the drivers had to be Grand Prix racers in those days were uncanny. And when they drove with so little protection like that, they felt so alive.

...until they crashed.

Real guts that were often splashed over the spectators.

What exactly did Porsche plan for the Can-Am in 74?

Kinda how the Le Mans circuit was not fit for how fast cars had become which led to the disaster of '55

john jay Love the sound of a straight 6 engine! Especially now that they can be tuned to as much as 2,300 horsepower! (Hrsprs) love you James!

Yes, I was watching that too. There were a lot of broken thumbs back then!

I have a motoring book from around 1910 which offers advice on how to diagnose an engine that is misfiring: by putting your hand on each exhaust manifold in turn - the one that doesn't burn your hand is the faulty one!

I still have the VCR of this brilliant programme I copied it on to DVD but the quality is not up to this so glad to be able to watch it again.

Just for research purposes, can you quantify the speed of an average frog blender for the average viewer. I never learned to control my frog blender, so I wasn't able to clock the speed properly. Kept taking my kneecaps off.

@@LarryisControversial3000 Literally a frog blender RPM? 37,000 -Hamilton Beech Bar Blender and others -yummy frog legs blended not kneecapped. That's mafia and you guys aren't. Richard Ridell would run the front tires with less PSI I remember at Laguna Seca Monterrey Historic races. The one I was in was owned by a David D. From Galveston or Houston. I gotta think about it -over a decade ago. You talking about the adjustable advance, the priming pumping, the extra oil can manual pump and stuff and priming with the left hand near the fire wall? I know there is some parkay flooring in them too. There's a clock too on the pretty engine turned fire wall and from what I remember it was quite a production just to make it go much less drive it. You constantly adjust the advance. Worse than a High Maintenance woman who is French and Italian and very pretty so it's worth it. I think I was in the finger lakes. Been a while. Oh and the emergency brake right hand with a chain sprocket is an interesting way to do it. Also hiding the drums inside the wheels is rather impractical but would really work well thinking about that now -much easier to use a larger sprocket to get leverage for the brakes just like big rotors. No wonder why these were so fast in the 1920's. They are today! I'm sure i would get lost in a rental car chasing as I did, even with my 911 3.2 it would be about the same performance. Lots of trivia I haven't thought about in 10+ years. Cool experience.

Tinkering on Porsches now. MG midgets.

Those Blockley Tires are the bomb! Makes steering of those cars much lighter and faster if everything in the front axle is up to snuff. Positive camber built into the axle. So I would assume that Dick runs the front tires lower in PSI to give better corning so you get a combination of good steering feel without the front end pushing really bad and you understeer the corner. Is that what you are asking? Compensating for understeer in these cars with tire pressure variations on modern race tracks. As far as I remember there are only a few left right hand turns on Laguna Seca and they are off camber (up and down hill corkscrew) so you may be able to only run the right front tire with lower pressure for that track and get away with it.

Or spin lol!

Peter Lee, stop showing you know nothing ! The time Harry Miller started struggling to get his 4cyl cars running, Etore Bugatti was well know for making VERY good cars ! The one v16 that engineer, remember, ENGINEER !!!!!....Miller did, could not complete one race ! So sorry for you !.....bragging with nothing between the ears !

+Circuits of the past I agree. It's nice to see those circuits. Oh, and thank you for providing the footage of those circuits for my Grand Prix 80th Anniversary Episodes, I can tell you've watched them because I was notified that you added me to my circles a little while ago.

I’ve done 143mph in a Volvo c70

@@CaymanIslandsCatWalks

@@GrrMeister amongst other things…. But really is Al crazy when u think about it

Imagine doing that kind of speed on a track as bumpy as that with a car the driver describes as driving it like “leaning too far out an upstairs window”. Totally bonkers

Robin Wells 👍🙂

Actually it is. And you bought it. Don`t you remember?

and drum brakes

hi

What an unfortunate name xD

steel is measured lightweight compared to the balls of those drivers =b

Two tach's? Well u know tradition, they read mostly the same. What? I don't get it

​@@MrJoeltrain the two revs counters look similar and give similar readings. No one really knows the reason why the Tipo B had two of them. One theory behind it is they reused some bits intended for the twin-engined Alfa Romeo Tipo A Formula Libre car and adapted it onto the Tipo B...

D.E.B. B no mechanical or electronic assists in those days you even had to manually pump the oil into the engines in early cars.

..... Don't

We wish !!!!!

I would love that a bunch of guys would do their own revival old school championship. Maybe with the new body-airbag technology we can race those wonders they way they were raced then, without worrying of dying.