The original 1963 film started on the Edgware Road near Marble Arch. You started in Hounslow. Your film sadly shows what a bloody awful place London and England has become. The future looks even bleaker.
Rode in my Dads blue Mk2 in the 1960s from Shropshire to Sussex Air Force Base. He did same journey once with my sister in just over an hour and a half . .
Very well recreated, even down to the insipidly annoying music. I guess you didn't want to navigate your way around Marble Arch. A similar commentary would have been better than the titles.
The original 1963 journey from London to Bath is brilliant, I've watched it at least a dozen times, I'll watch it again tonight, I'm fully addicted to it.
11.22, that "overtaking opportunity" is nothing of the sort! It's illegal to cross into the hatched markings especially with the solid white lines. You CAN overtake cyclists over the solid white just after though.
Absolutely loved every second of it you wouldn’t believe how many times I’ve watched the original version and I can’t believe I missed your upload until now
Great to find this after watching the 1963 one, but I had to laugh almost as soon as you set off - the lane discipline in Greater London is something to behold. Is the inside lane taxed or something?
Indeed, the driving standard is indicative of the immigrant population across the country today. The inside lane is a figment of the imagination for most.
Agreed. And what happened to Newbury, and to the right turn to view "Box Box" station (long gone, I know), plus the detour along Lower Borough Walls in Bath just before we see the old cattle market on Walcot Street?
Nowt changed in Honslow, I remember that junction and round about, and the dual carriageway and that's from 50 odd years ago. Lovely to see its all still there.
Was the 1963 film also yours? Love these!! Amazed how you managed to get so little traffic, especially along the Bath Road.... beautiful Jag by the way. ❤
Great video 👍🏻 I saw the original a little while ago, but just found yours. What a difference, once you could spot the different car makes, now unfortunately, their all McCars, everyone the same. How boring we have become. One good thing, they got rid of the dreaded third lane.
Loved the mk 2 ever since I was a young boy, Not a big fan of modern driving, or indeed modern living, much prefer life in the 60's when these cars seemed to be everywhere,
Nice to see but, kill the music ! Other thing us around 15 minutes person walked across road from traffic island leaving couple of others hesitant, you, well I would have stopped and let them across, otherwise v good
The price of progress. No fabulous diversity of the British makes of car. Blocked drains due to lack of maintenance. Signs prohibitions, roundabouts, islands, sleeping police men ( road bumps)and pedestrianized streets. A general lack of elegance and beauty. It could have been worse though but disappointing to see how down at heel the UK is now compared to the vitality of yesteryear.
Brilliant drive, thanks so much for this lovely trip. George did this and this was just as wonderful to be able to go so far and to garp about rather than drive. Music was good as well as in George's film and how the roads have changed in places but to be expected probably, and no cretinous drivers either! Great video.
It is worth seeking out the full version of the original 1963 film. The journey actually starts in central London, and follows the A4 from it's start all the way through Kensington, Hammersmith, Chiswick etc before joining the Great West Road at about Osterley. Why the short (edited) version starts at the top of Lampton Road in Hounslow (off the A4) is a bit of a mystery. Perhaps there was a diversion in place on the day that it was filmed. Thank you for this recreation of the original. Every time I watch it I wonder how it would look today. Now I know! I think that the full version has been downloaded onto RU-vid by maxustaxus. Well worth a nostalgic wallow.
No English cars on the road though thanks to the governments that have given our once beautiful car companies away. Rolls Royce has not got a BMW Engine in it. Ffs. The country is now a third world toilet we have no car industry in one generation it’s all gone. Mind you the old Jag is still going strong so maybe our cars wasn’t so bad after all just bad management How have we allowed this to happen. Great Britain HaHa. That’s hilarious Great Shit Hole more like.
Very cool. I just found the 1963 original and immediately wondered if anyone had made a recreation... and there you were. Didn't see any vintage cars but a nice little 1960's caravan on the big roundabout at Marlborogh (though it may have been a Cheltenham Fawn but no door on RHS, so a European equivalent I guess). Cool vid through. Amazing how little it's changed aside from a couple of road layouts. P.S: hope you remembered to always keep hands at ten to two and avoid those over-revs with the double de-clutch!
Very interesting driver after seeing the 1963 one. The Go Pro image stabilization produced amazingly steady video, but from the look of the bonnet emblem going up and down all the time, the old roads have suffered from the traffic over the years..
All that's needed at the mini-roundabout @ 13:00 to make the perfect storm, is a couple of cyclists exercising their inalienable right to negotiate a busy junction . . . instead of simply dismounting and walking the bikes across.
Wonderful. BTW I refilmed the original 16mm footage tonight in the hope that it would look a bit better than my current version. A scene by scene comparison film would be best if possible!
What a fantastic recreation of a historic video. Thank you very much sir. A pity it wasn't the engine and exhaust note of that Mk2. On a separate note, on the original, I believe nearly every car other than the Isetta was a British car, how much things have changed as in this video barely 1 in 10 of the cars on the road were made or assembled in Britain.
