Rubber suspension may sound strange, today. Until you think about rubber tyres. Do you know that in a "reasonably priced car" a considerable part of the suspension is taken care of by.... the tyres?
I think Richard was misunderstood! He didn't care about politics he just loved racing! This was a little before everyone knew what kinda of monster Hitler could be. 🏁
Thank you so much for this. A bit of history I know little about. Great footage. Will there be a continuation to this? Thank you for sharing. Geat stof!
Great video. Love these style roadsters. The sound superb. Love to see more classic racing of these cars today. I just can't imagine why they didn't incorporate roll bars & or caging around the drivers. Thanks so much for posting.
all comments here referring to part 3 - the link is correct but the video won't respond even grabbing it wont work. a new link would be appreciated please.
5:40 The only thing those cars really wanted was to grow up and become Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. 🎶 Oh you pretty Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang We love you.🎵 Good luck getting the song out of your head 😂😂
During my time in the RAF I had a tour of duty at RAF Finningley. Number six flying training school. I worked in the Air Engineers & Air Loadmaster’s school, looking after the training aids. I was always a Ford fan but don’t misunderstand me, when I saw this clip for Triumph Spitfires at Le Mans, I just had to watch it & was not disappointed. Navigators were trained in the school next to ours. I can’t remember the officer’s name but when he saw my GT40 poster he told me that he had driven at Le Man’s in either a Spitfire or GT6. The image that stuck in my mind was when he said that on the Mulsanne Straight he had to take care whenever a GT40 overtook him, he had to be ready to brake, to prevent the engine from over revving as the big Fords tended to drag him along!
Richard, that is a very cool memory! I've been around and involved in selling, racing, and wrenching on various sports cars for about 50 years and I've never heard of that experience, but it makes perfect sense. I can just hear your friend's thought at that time... "Oh Crap, here he comes again! Hang On!!" 🙄😏
@@MrGaryGG48 He was an RAF officer as an instructor after tours of duty on multi engined aircraft. These guys have a habit of playing things down. Exaggerations in his line of duty is dangerous. I had no reason to disbelieve him. Like you, I could see that it was easily possible.
Seaman was the favourite driver of the mechanics. If Seaman won we also won. He gives a party. Not so the other driver. Seamans car was always ok. First Seaman then the others. I know this from an mechanic of this time who lived in my village.
This series is like stumbling over a Goldpot. Thankyou. A funny side fact to me as a german is that even the highest developed Mercedes racing machine sports their super conservative fabric pattern on the seat (8:27). Like the old southern german oak sofa under a wagon wheel lamp.
A hundred miles an hour in the dark with no seat belts, wearing T-Shirts, it's another UNIVERSE away, isn't it? Those 'shark-nosed' Ferraris were virtually unbeatable that year, in F1 and Sportscar Racing; Moss' win the little Lotus at Monaco was about their only defeat. At Rheims for the F1 race the Ecurie entered 5 cars; only one of them finished, but it did win!
I think titling it "The Nazi Grand Prix" is very unfair when less than 33% of Germans had voted for Hitler and the Nazis. Yes, the government used it as propaganda, but that should not imply that all the drivers, designers and constructors were all devotees of the Nazi party. Still, I enjoyed the video.
Standard triumph were a good company, range of products, great engineer, then when the Labour government of the late sixties Coerced/forced the merger to try and save BMC ,the rest was all downhill, a massive company, far too many products ,usually in competition with themselves, poor workforce relations, a sad end eventually with the phoenix four/asst stripping pension pot filling villains.
I know I'm late to this party, but I've got say what an incredible find this was. IMHO, this is where RU-vid excels - providing a place to make old films like this gem available for years to come. Thanks to the folks that posted it so long ago.
