Tony Neal winning the John Player trophy in 1973. You can have no idea what seeing that again means to me - an ex Tony Neal fan. Somewhere on that film, stood in the crowd between the grandstand and the race officials cabin, there is a 12 year old me, tearing my tonsils shouting for Tony. I was stood with my parents. My dad also filmed this race on standard 8 cine. When the film came back from the Kodac development labs, we found that he’d accidentally used the seem reel to film our holiday later that year. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for posting this. I always find these videos hugely satisfactory to watch. I am sorry you were held up by the missing parts. I like this realistic show on the assembly.
The missing parts were worrying as the purchase was from America and I was concerned there would be problems with delivery, as with the long wait for the actual Dreambox. It was resolved very quickly so I was able to continue. I hope this video is of use to others giving a true representation of an excellent product.
It is to drive a slicer as at the bottom of the picture the attached link, where is the man leaning over the engine, with the drill. i.servimg.com/u/f30/15/57/71/56/latil_28.jpg
EXCELLENT FOOTAGE Ken! You think it's Brand Hatch (I guess it's either there or Cadwell Park due to the nature of the circuit) but what year was it please? I've spotted the 70s cars of Stu Smith; Willie Harrison and Doug Cronshaw. Never heard the song before. P.S. Spotted an advertising hoarding at 2:50 advertising 'Kentish Express' so this is obviously Brands Hatch which is in Kent. Where's 244 Jim Esau - maybe he had retired? Surely not as this can't be later than mid-late 70s. I seem to recall he didn't attend as many events as others.
@@kenpics wow that must have been years ago .. i remember dad doing copies for loads of race fans.. we was only chatting about this race in garage lastweek .dad as now covnverted them to dvd ... the good old days of racing ...
@@binns515 I had most of my collection on DVDs and recently started to have problems with a few. I’ve been told home produced DVDs do not last forever and now I have had it first hand. So now all my DVDs are converted to .MP4 format and stored on a hard drive. And before anyone chips in with hard drives fail, yes I learnt that lesson years ago and now run a three copy strategy, one in the pc, one on a portable drive at home and the third on another drive well away from the house. I’ll be selling the DVDs off as a job lot very soon.
Hi Ken, I had the pleasure to know one of the Wynne's drivers Ian Trick from Newport. He was totally Prod of working for Wynnes. Did you know him? Also I believe Steve Roberts owns on of the Diamond T's Nigel James ex Snap-on dealer Newport 1995 to 2000
Hi Ken. I being looking into buying a dreambox and now that I watched your video........I noticed the daylight changed a few times. How long did it take you? And since you put it together by yourself, do you think....from your experience, to pay the extra $$$ to have it prebuilt might be worth it?
It took me just over a week but I had a couple of hold ups.... missing instructions and some screws missing. The customer care were brilliant though and resolved the issues but I just had to wait for parts delivery. I was not working solid as I had other things to attend to during the day. Realistically it could be completed in a day, starting early or easily done leisurely over a weekend on your own. For safety they recommend two people for assembly which means completion in a day is easy. I’m in the UK and was unaware of a prebuilt option but I’m comfortable with flat pack and as it goes this one was well documented and precision made. I dont know your financial circumstances or your technical ability so can’t really advise on prebuilt but building your own does give immense satisfaction. I hope that helps and if you want to know anything else just ask.
Wow, an Opico square plough! I was one of the few farmers who actually bought one of these things. What a mess it made - turning the land up in huge lumps. The nylon ( or whatever they were) mouldboards wore through in the first 50 acres and we replaced them with steel ones. I never got it to do a decent job and quickly went back to a Kverneland.
Our local Renault tractor dealer sold square ploughs too. We were also on heavy land and when I questioned the rep about one he said "Well I am not even going to try and sell you a square plough on your land." Just as an aside, they also sold a few Marshall tractors. We had already bought a Renault (A brilliant little tractor) and when I mentioned that they had also taken on The Marshall franchise he said "take it from me, stick to Renaults!"😉
