Taken from "World of Sport with Dickie Davies" on TV way back in the 70's. This footage must be at least nearly 50 years old. Commentator is Nigel King Check out the lack of roll cages on most of the cars
I used to watch W.O.S. when i was 5 years old and look forward to the banger racing part of the show, also i think they showed truck racing too. I would love ITV to show banger racing again, racing brand new ugly cars like the Nissan Juke and anything made in Korea, now that would be fun
Watching this today, really got tears in my eyes. Destroying all those nice Farina BMC,s is really tragic. But back in those days, these car weren't worth anything. They were all scrapped.
Couldn't do this in a modern car.....they'd all drop into limp mode!!! Definitely a race for Farina's judging by the number of them, gutted to see a 2 door Corsair in the mix though cos they never made many of them and imo they look class
And they was probably all on drum brakes as well👍👍. Brilliant. My dad used to do the old Mike parker hell drivers at Nelson, rochdale & white city in manchester. Dog track back then. Rochdale been his favourite track. He used to be the only driver from yorkshire. The bangers or wreckers used to be on the same meets as f2s & hell drivers and think the f1s as well. Good old days would be nice to see any footage of the hell drivers if any body has any that has survived. Great footage though thanks
Yes, but by the early 70s those cars would be around 6 to 10 years old MOT failure or perhaps a few months ticket left to run , probably needing welding & a lot of mechanical work as well, they'd be bought for well under £80. The latest car I saw in that race was a FD Victor , which had come to a halt, there were a few early Corsair's one a rare 2 door Consul Corsair circa 1963/4!
I remember a caravan banger race and a double decker bus race as well. My parents lived round the corner from Wimbledon Stadium so knew when it was on WOS as the ITV sport vans used to drive past early in the morning!
Yes they had a LWT outside broadcast Bedford truck which was F registered & was probably new when LWT started in 1967/8, it was used at numerous events like Horse racing & Football. They had slightly smaller Bedford& Ford D series as well.
1:31 look at the spectators back away as the car goes into the post, don't see people budge an inch these days even when cars are being followed in, flat out. Different times.
The only hint of current banger practice is that they DID use steam tanks. Other than that it looks like all they did was kick the glass out & remove the seats. Maybe they are all running from motorcycle tanks? No real wrecking. It was a honest race. if they were using old shitboxes. What would they have reckoned if you told them that in thirty years time people will think nothing of smashing up a Rolls-Royce.
I haven't seen banger racing for about fifty years. Great entertainment. Much more interesting than the rule-ridden bore fest that F1 has become. Hard to know how it worked economically. The takings on the gate couldn't possibly have paid for the event.
Yeah, very true. Bit like what I used to do years back when I raced a Granada MKII, Cortina MIV and a MKII XR2. They were all rot boxes and weren't worth anything.
I don't see a MkIII Cortina but I do see a Ford Corsair (number 130 at 5:38). This is the first time that I have seen a Ford Corsair on a banger track!
@@georgejacob3162 I raced a Corsair at Wimbledon in the 1970's. Fitted the full harness seat belt at home, drove it to the stadium and as stated by others kicked the glass out, removed other glass like headlights etc.cooling fan blade, all seats, apart from drivers, raced it all night and left it there for Blondie Melbourne and his Dad to clear away. Ahh, the good old days!!! Dickie Bird 233.
Agree, but cars were not built for the banger track. Most of these crash fairly slow and in everyone goes relatively in the same direction. A head on at a reasonable speed and the car could kill you. A55s ruled the banger track Yea!
