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.
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.
There is a section with Poplar trees on the A4 which is from Hare Hatch to the Twyford roundabout. The trees were removed due to drivers hitting them. Another section after going through the centre of Reading is where Langley Hill joins the A4 and what is now the Sava Centre roundabout now traffic lights just before entering Theale. Thank you so much for doing this as it brought back many memories of the old and new. My wife does get fed up of me continually pointing out where old roads used to go. Happy Days.
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.
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.
I loved the 1963 film, this new version is fantastic. What I really notice is the staggering increase in signs, markings etc.....the driver in 1963 was not bombarded with this volume of information...Great video, thanks a lot.
Those provincial towns look so worn and dusty from 60 years of high volume hydro-carbon powered road traffic. Let's hope, as anticipated, that the electric revolution improves the quality of those poor buggers lives.
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 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.
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 . .
What a lovely thing to do! I loved the original and it’s good to see you added subtitles,in the style and accent of original manner. It is mildly reassuring to see that there’s still a lot of England that escaped bulldozing and the erection of those Ryvita towers, that imbricate much of our land, albeit this being a rather rarified route. Many thanks.
I watched the original, lovely to see your version. I am doing the NC 500 in April albeit in a 2006 Jaguar S Type but very much looking forward to my road trip. Cheers Jonathan and may you have many more years of enjoyment with your Jaguar .
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!
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.
Wonderful!!...i had two tabs open, one on George Eyles trip and one on yours...such a wonderful trip to make...i enjoyed every single mile of it Sir....Thank you...(and such a beautiful Jag too)
Great video, Jonathan. But what I'd like to see is a side by side version! I'd do it myself but I'm too thick. Oh, and I'd like to see this journey undertaken in 1930 as well!
Can’t fault the effort, but there hasn’t been an attempt to show the same sections of road; massive and sudden jump from Thatcham to Hungerford, for instance.
Not a criticism of the lovely Jag, but I'm getting 80mph at a touch over 2000rpm in top in my modernish (5 years old) car. Great video, as is the original.
Sad isn't it. I'm afraid that is the entire scenery of England. I'm from Windsor, and the surrounding towns are full of Opticians, One pound shop's, shop's you can sell your personal belongings when your hard up and mobile phone repair people.
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..
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!
Pretty sure, instead of turning off at junction 6 and going through the west end of Slough, he carries on to junction 9 -- now 9A of the A404(M), the Thicket Roundabout -- and turns left onto the A4 for Reading.
Interesting, but I want to hear the Jag not that awful music. Thank you for making and uploading as a biker I would feel safe sharing the road with you👍
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,
Driving on the left hand lane is a bit of novelty in the UK. Not many people realise unless they do an advanced driving course, that the left hand lane is the Driving Lane NOT the Slow Lane. The middle and outer lanes are for overtaking only and there is no such thing as the Fast Lane. The left lane is the safest place to be, apart from when they open up the hard shoulder as a "Smart" motorway extra lane. Incredibly dangerous, and a really stupid idea. The reason why many continental motorways only have two lanes is because they have lane discipline, and drivers get fined heavily for hogging the outside lane. If we had such a system of lane discipline we wouldn't need extra lanes or "Smart" motorways. We also need more George Eyles-type instructors to tell it like it is.
You have to balance that idealistic point of view in the HC and "Roadcraft" with the practical fact that if you move over into Lane 1, some joker will overtake you and then sit alongside you, preventing you ovetaking the slow lorry ahead which you had seen and assessed and planned to overtake once you got a bit closer to it (having moved briefly into Lane 1 to avoid staying in Lane 2 for too long). i tend to stay in Lane 2 when I can see lots of slower HGVs in Lane 1, if I think I can get past all of them within (for example) 15 seconds. If I'm in Lane 2, approaching an HGV in Lane 1, and I see a car behind the HGV, I anticipate that he is probably itching to overtake so I will either hang back and flash him (because a postive signal of my itent to do so is better than leaving him wondering "is he / isn't he") or else speed up slightly to get past and create a gap behind me into which he can pull out. Sometimes, if Lane 3 is clear, I will move into that lane so Lane 2 is clear for the car to accelerate from a slower speed without making me slow down for him. That sends a very clear signal "I'm letting you pull out" ;-)
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. ❤
Note number of traffic layout changes in Bath since 1963. When in '63 original clip lector says: "now coming into outskirts of Bath" he is actually very central on Lower Borough Walls (then two way traffic, today just inboud towards Stall st and closed off 10-18 by a bollard at Lamb and Lion pub). Also when on High St facing Bath Abbey he drives down passig Bridge St (following Izetta...), straight to Orange Gorve, today High St is obviously one way with bus gate , only way is to go round to the left Bridge St, than right to Grand Parade (if you went straight to Pulteney Bridge you pay 60 quid fine, another bus gate there) and right again to Orange Grove.
@@richardrichardw9520 I feel for you, bus Gates on High st and Pulteney bridge have been in place for Long as far as I know, but as we speak they make it eden more chaotic by closing off Milsom st hrs 10-18 (Social distancing nonesense) and also this week closing whole Queen Square for roadworks
Yes, when watching George's version it took a while to realise he was on Lower Borough Walls. Then a moment later he was on Walcot Street, passing the cattle market. Interesting route!
At least it wasn’t raining going through Calne. Blimey haven’t been through Chippenham since it changed the road system, no wonder everyone uses the by pass.
I'm disappointed you didn't flash your headlights and lean on your horn at any Rapiers up ahead. Do the needles on the dials wobble as much as they did in Mr Eyles' Jag?
That repeated horn-blowing and light-flashing at the Sunbeam Rapier in the 1963 film starts to stray away from "assertive" into the realms of "aggressive", even if the Rapier driver "hasn't a clue that I'm here".
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.
This was great to watch Thank you! also "watch for pedestrians......LIKE A HAWK" that made me chuckle having seen the original video as well. Of one thing this shows is the idiot drivers do not change but the car has, 1963 = triumph, 2018 = bmw
Saw that video where that idiot in a Triumph Herald gave the Jag driver the two finger salute, once common here in Aussie (as of now in Covid19Lockdown). thanks again.
Ah,Mr Important in his BMW! He certainly gets around. The difference between this and the 1963 is that all the cars in this one look exactly the same;i.e pretty boring and mostly foreign!
Some thoughts.. 0 The Original ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JE82FZpq0qM.html 1 Set to 2x speed- its jazzier and more exciting....but watch out for the speed cameras! 2 Enjoy the quaint captions 3 ( but miss the RP of the original, and the lane-hogging 'bad' driver) 4 Sad lack of White Vans
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?
