Thruxton 1970 "youtube" - Page 2

roydpg · 5 Feb 2009, 09:30 (Ref:2388773)

Yes they did. They are going to do one this year as well. They've invited me to go and they want to buy the films. Seems as if hardly anyone filmed at the time.
Did you see the latest Vallelunga film with Siffert and Parkes? Jo was already a living legend, yet there he was, tatty old overalls taking part in a third class race with a batterd old 917....Not like today, eh?

driftwood · 5 Feb 2009, 09:46 (Ref:2388821)

not yet looked will keep them for lunchtime viewing
i did pick up a video from the Mugello organiser at the historic race car show when he was doing the event promo and he had old footage of some of the mugello road race

looking forward to some of the british races being hosted
If i could afford 917 i think i would be racing it in tatty overals having been made skint by the 917 purchase!!

Gerry Taylor · 5 Feb 2009, 11:12 (Ref:2388931)

Hallo Roy, just reading your list of British circuits and racing, and this really interests me as one of the older drivers. I remember Mallory and the BRSCC with great fondness. I look forward to maybe seeing myself as a young-ish man in racing action, who knows.
Thank you Roy,
Gerry.
Ex-SWISH Racing.
ps you may not know, being fairly new to this great site, that the Anglia driven at Thruxton by Roger Williamson was the car I won many races in, and a few lap records too. So I have great memories of those times gone by.

roydpg · 5 Feb 2009, 15:19 (Ref:2389113)

I think I may have the same dvd. Does it have a proper documentary bit, then some amateur footage starting with the music from "Grand Prix" the film?

roydpg · 5 Feb 2009, 15:31 (Ref:2389119)

Gerry, I didn't know that about the Anglia. As I mentioned in an earlier reply, I "grew up" as a car nut in Italy and that's were my expertise is, so thanks for the info, I find this sort of thing very interesting.

Regarding the future English films I'll be putting on youtube, I'm not sure if I filmed you. I hope so. I think I do recall something with "swish" written on it. Could it be a Mini? What years? Some of the English films I made in 1971 should be ready towards the end of the month. Daily Express Trophy, Crystal Palace, 7.8.1971 - Mallory Park BRSCC meeting 8.81971 - Uniflo Trophy Meeting Silverstone 14.8.1971 - SCMC Meeting Brands 15.8.1971

driftwood · 5 Feb 2009, 17:35 (Ref:2389203)

the DVD I was given was old amatuer footage no sound cant recall the music will dig it out tonight and look

Dan Rear · 6 Feb 2009, 10:37 (Ref:2389651)

Roy, are you Mr Pagliacci?

driftwood · 6 Feb 2009, 13:20 (Ref:2389769)

yes he is
he did ask on earlier thread if anyone recalled him racing but ive looked back and it seems to have been edited from thread!

Dan Rear · 6 Feb 2009, 13:33 (Ref:2389775)

I recall Roy, drifty. The juxtaposition of a very 'British' first name and foreign-sounding second name was unusual, to me at least, at that time!

roydpg · 6 Feb 2009, 14:19 (Ref:2389806)

Hi Dan,
My moment of fame came when Autosport described me as "indecently quick" with my Lotus 61. This was in about 1976 or 7 when the Lotus was, by then, way by it's sell by date. I was the last driver to win with it in that era. (Just showing off a bit, sorry!)

Alan Morgan · 6 Feb 2009, 18:09 (Ref:2389926)

... and did you have a Royale RP24 after the 61?

roydpg · 7 Feb 2009, 10:26 (Ref:2390338)

Guilty... Yep, with Minister engine. Still behind the times, at the time, but soooo much easier to drive than the Lotus.

Gerry Taylor · 8 Feb 2009, 11:09 (Ref:2390974)

Hi matey, I retired from racing in 1975, and parted on really excellent terms with my sponsors Swish Curtain Tracks of Tamworth. I was approached by Denis Welch, he asked me if I would put in a word for him with my sponsor. I did, and I think they gave him some sponsorship for a season or so in a Healey.
Anyway....Yes, Roger was a close friend, and the story of the famous Anglia is well documented elsewhere on this site. Suffice to say we both collected lap records and many wins. I look forward to seeing the Mallory and Silverstone films, whether I'm in them or not, as they really are as rare as hens teeth! Thanks again.
Gerry.

roydpg · 8 Feb 2009, 17:09 (Ref:2391152)

Hi Gerry, I do hope you'll see yourself. I don't honsetly know untill I start editing the digital tape and looking closely at the film. Which car was it with the Swish sposorship?

ezwalk43 · 13 Feb 2009, 21:23 (Ref:2397109)

Brilliant racing and look forward to your other films. I was lucky enough to own three cars from this video - the Roger Williamson and John Macdonald Anglias and the Dennis Leech Boss Mustang all now sadly long gone. One car I don't recognise is the white anglia well up in the 1000cc race - do you recall who that was?

Gerry Taylor · 13 Feb 2009, 22:00 (Ref:2397140)

I suspect it was a mentor of mine, one..LAURIE HICKMAN.

thebullet · 13 Feb 2009, 22:02 (Ref:2397143)

Any more photos Gerry? Silverstone? For 70s club racers.

thanks.

roydpg · 14 Feb 2009, 18:23 (Ref:2397534)

The white Anglia was Leslie Nash. I looked up in the programme and it's definately him. From the film I can see for a split second the number on the car (202).
Regarding my other English based films, I'm jusr working on some Italian ones then it's Crystal Palace (7.8.71), Mallory (8.8.71), Silverstone (14.8.71) and Brands (15,8,71). These should be on youtube in about a month. Big thing is that they have sound. Not just random sound of cars put there as a background but the real sound of what you see. A big thing for an amateur like me at the time. Hope you all enjoy and if tears of nostalgia are shed...good..

driftwood · 14 Feb 2009, 19:44 (Ref:2397557)

Les Nash drove the flying purple people eater angliai- later he raced bevan Imp and in the late 80`s early 90`s raced lotus cortina in classic saloon series
the Thruxton race has a 2 second shot of the red rover P5 roy pierpoint car- it sits across the road from my workshop

roydpg · 14 Feb 2009, 20:34 (Ref:2397573)

i'm working on an Imola race at the moment. I urge you to see it when I put it on youtube. European F2 and sports 2000. Lots of shots in the pits with many famous drivers and the biggest pile up of F3 I've ever seen. No injurys just sheer spectacle. Please understand I don't glorify accidents but they are part of racing.

Gerry Taylor · 15 Feb 2009, 12:20 (Ref:2397795)

Quote:

Originally Posted by driftwood

Les Nash drove the flying purple people eater angliai- later he raced bevan Imp and in the late 80`s early 90`s raced lotus cortina in classic saloon series
the Thruxton race has a 2 second shot of the red rover P5 roy pierpoint car- it sits across the road from my workshop

Re: LES NASH, as many of you will remember we raced against each other many times, along with other fast Anglia mounts, TERRY McNALLY and RICHARD LONG. I saw LES a few months ago at MALLORY PARK, racing his Cortina, although he really didn't want to talk of days gone by.

driftwood · 15 Feb 2009, 12:29 (Ref:2397797)

was that cos u spanked him each time?
Roy re F3 shunt did u see brands F3 GP support race 1976 shunt?

roydpg · 15 Feb 2009, 13:39 (Ref:2397828)

Is that the one where Tetsu Ikuzawa ended upside down just before Padock? If so, then the Imola one was bigger!

driftwood · 15 Feb 2009, 14:04 (Ref:2397836)

close but its Nakajima= same difference?

roydpg · 15 Feb 2009, 14:43 (Ref:2397839)

yep you are right...sayonara...

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