Great video with some fantastic cars….. are you related to James Bruton by any chance?

“All this banging, stroking, and sucking” nice one mate lmao

Nice coverage and great to have you back!

That was me near the end there sitting in the cloud of steam ! See you next year hopefully.

Great video and a most excellent commentary Martin. We need more from you sir!

I had a sprint head on my 1980 TR7 convertible. Reg 777 RYA.

Damn you! Now I’m going to have to follow the links and watch some more of this vintage racing.

These races look jncredible.

Nice follow up video Martin., very well done. I oftwn think its challenging to film events like this in consecutive years without simply reoeating yourself. I still think that rhe ine you filmed last year is lrobably the besr vudeo you have produced to date.

I reached 95mph on wet sand in a 1973 Peugeot 504 automatic! It had a Webber carburettor if recall correctly. That was on Ninety mile beach at the top of Newzealand.

Great film. I used to drive on that beach many years ago - showing off to girlfriends basically. I noticed the sand saps a lot of power. You could never match your vehicle's max road speed on it. Fair play to the hot-rods, they must be developing good power to record those speeds.

As someone who owns an old Capri I too spend lots of money and time on learning to fix things myself instead of taking it to a garage who could do it better faster and cheaper haha

Comment for the algorithm. Thanks for the vid though!

Evening Martin, cracking video as ever and nice to see the Platinum Sd1 (still waiting for me invite) 😂

way better than that other show in wales today (the thumbnail made me run a mile) thanks martin - MORE OF THIS KINDA THING *ROYALE cough

Yes, a new video from Martin! Well done 👍 This is a really cool event. The Volvo is a 242GT with the later wheels of a Turbo or GLT on it. Very interesting car!

Pretty sure we didn't get 2 door Volvo GTs so i think it would of come from Australia? I could be wrong, i didn't want to cheat and Google it 😆

Great to see century old cars put to race like this. And yes, a methodical approach always works better than an emotional one. 😅

That looks great fun. Well done to every involved. I wonder how many, if any, of those vehicles are able to be driven on public roads?

Well done Martin. Yet again, you've captured the spirit of the event and that's not to mention the exemplary commentary, camera work and editing. To my way of thinking, you've scored 17 out of 10. Thanks for all your sterling efforts. Yours, Tommy the Toolbox.

I’ve never been a fan of Renault but I think that was down to our local dealership whe were very ignorant and looked down at you if you were working class. They were only interested in the business class. A funny incident happened one night when they took on the Citroen franchise, a car that I do like. It was the launch of the Xantia and there was a prize draw of a Monte Blanc pen which my wife won. The MD approached us and said, that will come in handy for writing all your cheques to which my wife replied yes but there won’t be any getting written for you!! Rather shocked he replies, why what’s the matter? To which she replied, we have been here for the last two hours like everyone else from the start and not one of you have even made an attempt to speak to us. Is it because we are still in our working clothes ( both of us had just finished work) and are not business people or your higher end customers? Oh know it’s such a busy night and so hard to get round anyone. Well she said don’t waste any more of your valuable time on us peasants and get back to your better off better dressed clients. By the way we are interested in changing our Citroen for a newer model but we will have great pleasure in using the pen for writing a cheque to another dealer.

😢 i saw allot of those in the 80s someone bought them in the USA, spitfire was everywhere and you could get them used cheap😅😂

The USA got a fuel injected version. I used this as a basis for putting fuel injections on my TR7 with a Speeduino system. Makes it a lovely daily driver.

Don't laugh I saw allot of those in California and some were cheap after a few years

My first car was an FE1800 on an "N" plate. I'll always have a soft spot for this car/brand for that reason alone. Mine was white with a black vinyl roof as well as one of those Webasto sunroofs. What a car. I enjoyed you're wee video 👍👍

I think that the warm fuzzy concept of remembering the TR7 is clouding many people's judgement. If you were around when these things were on the road, in numbers, they were pretty much universally disliked, not just for looks but for build quality etc etc etc. I will concede that the later versions were an improvement but as a whole, the car wasn't good. These days the only good TR is the TR8 and that's not because it's a better car as such, but more that people drove them less, they were mostly stored in garages, pampered and beloved low mileage cars. Think of the Marina, the Avenger etc, they have now have achieved somewhat of a collector-piece status but these were horrible basement level cars which weren't loved and scrapped as soon as conveniently possible. It's only the teary eyed collector type who casts his mind back to family holidays to Devon sitting in the back of the Marina. He selectively chooses to forget the breakdowns, overheating and Dad swearing at the car as he tries to climb "telegraph Hill". Although I have no opinion either way of the boxy TR7/8 design, I don't knock the styling of any car, it's a case of personal tastes; I'm sure that my choice of shirt offends some people but not others. No, it's more than that, they were just another British Leyland debacle thanks in no small part to the terrible attitude of the UK auto workers of the day.

That was cruel about Volvo. The Volvo 440Ti was a crazy quick car for the time. I know. I was a passenger in one being totally ragged around B-roads in Scotland. Also the 480 was a great looking car. Luv and Peace.

Tomcat! Maybe that was the turbo version. I drove a 620ti with the same turbo engine and it was crazy fast. Something like 200bhp with very minimal mods. With a boost controller it could have been a 240bhp car easy. Luv and Peace.

It looks so radically different from the rest of the TR Fam.

My first "outside a car show" SC experience was one which, I think, was owned by a Britannia Airways pilot in the early eighties. The registration, iirc, was "PRnnnn". I've always loved them, frankly nothing you could say would change that!

So nice car.That car war too ,it ' s a normal car ?

But,Jaguar we had not BB.

This car ? In Finland had Mini's Morris Marinas' .Prisses was a ?

Long ago, I had information and also read more on how they were originally going to build the now 907 as a V8 4.0 liter and put in these cars in the beginning. However, the tax penalties, fuel concerns, rising fuel costs in '70 and '71, and finally the oil embargo around 1973 had put an end to the V8. As such, they left it as half a V8 instead. But I did a search earlier today and can find nothing on the '60s V8 plan. The only thing close is the 908 and 909 V8 that were developed and explored years after the first 900 series engines were being designed and tested. Back when I got my Elite in '82, I thought they should have continued that V8 plan, as a 4 Liter V8 would have been an outrageous ride. The 907 was quick enough, letting me run about 120-125 one night along the A45, and picking up some of England's finest in my wake with those funny flashing blue lights. But a V8 would have put it in Ferrari company. Of course, it was priced high enough as is, so the V8 probably would have priced it far beyond any who were willing to put up with Lotus' quirks and characteristics. I had considered putting an aluminum head SBC in it for awhile, as it would have only been about 25 pounds heavier than the 907, but with much more road-ability and power. Chevy made an aluminum block available for a short time and I had run across a couple, and thought that would be an even better idea, but unfortunately, I got married and fun money kind of disappeared.

I never understood the rear window divider between the passenger seats and the trunk (boot). It would have been handy to access from inside and possible to put really long items, like skis, in the car. Of course, I found the rear seats almost claustrophobic, but then I didn't have to sit there, and very hard to move around in once in them. Between the rearward angle, deep seat, and the high center console covering the chassis, one was pretty much held in one position. Fine for spirited driving but a bit awkward on long trips. Not that a Lotus could do a long trip anyway. I did a 1500 mile trip in mine in '83 from Bury to Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and back to Bury one weekend. I had to work on it three times, with the last few hundred miles using scraps we found on the roadside to get the throttle linkage to work when the cable snapped. I didn't have full throttle, but at least we were able to drive home instead of walking.

I have always wondered if the Lancia 4 Doors and the Fiat 132 shared the same platform.

Please bring them back.

Wild buzz man. Princess ❤

Hey man, breathe

Good result. Well done

I bought the special valve clearance adjuster tool from Vauxhall in the early 80s , just a bendy allan key , each turn of the wedge shaped adjuster was 3 thou

I grew up in California, USA, in the small suburban town of Glendora, which is nestled up against the foothills of the San Bernardino mountains on the eastern edge of Los Angeles county. When I was in High School, there was a professor at our local University that liked his exotic performance cars. At various times, he had a Maserati Merak and two Lotus Elites of the type in this video. Later, I learned from a girl in choir that his son (her former boyfriend) had somehow rolled one of the Elites. At the time, he was wearing a yellow Lotus T-shirt with the famous logo on the front. In the accident, the shirt became saturated with some amount of his blood. The girl told me he had saved the shirt and hung it on his bedroom wall. That happened in 1976 or so. I've always admired the Elite. I've only ever seen those two and possibly one or two more when I was able to tour England and Scotland in either 1976 or 1981. Nothing has ever looked like it or had that special dynamic grace one can see as it moves through the world. Lotus was quite something, back then.

Classic Rust Bucket 😮

Saw these in the local dealers,and wished Dad would trade in his 1965 VX4/90.

This is the first vide of yours I have watched and I enjoyed your style. Subbed!

I have owned a Lotus Elite for 18 years and it has never been run yet.

I had a white one as a company car I wanted the turbo but could not convince the manager to let me have the turbo but the GSI was lovely. I then changed it for the 220GSI tourer just as good but with much more load capability

Inline sixes have a large bearing area and are very long lived and torquey engines, although getting them to pass newer emissions regulations has proven problematic for some manufacturers.

Learned to drive on one of these The lightest most precise manual gearbox I have ever driven The 2.0i felt pretty rapid I think it had around 122hp so still pretty unstressd. It survived a dip in a lake ,ending upside down in a ditch constantly having the guts revved out of it and driven down farm tracks at horrific speeds all well past 170k miles (which was alot to see a car with that many miles in the late 90s and for a late 80s car) I still remember the weight of those doors the seats that never wore old and seat belt that arrived on a arm. Still looked pretty decent until it had a argument with a landcruiser (actually not my fault) I probably got all my silliness out on this car and realised what can go wrong. Now I drive for economy. I thought it was ugly because it looked like a prelude at the front which I like and a Honda civic that had been stretched at the back. It was actually incredibly spacious for its size and very well engineered for the time.