"McMike" (mcmike)
06/06/2016 at 10:00 • Filed to: 8mmTheater, tutu153
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"McMike" (mcmike)
06/06/2016 at 10:00 • Filed to: 8mmTheater, tutu153 | 4
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Welcome to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . A short series (probably) of interesting things I have come across after weeding through DVDs made from old 8mm home movies.
This one comes to us from the archives of my grandfather.
I was just recently given two DVDs filled with about four hours from the 60s and 70s.
After about an hour of watching Lake Erie, snow storms, farm equipment, cookouts, wildlife, and holiday parades down Main Street, this appeared.
I have no idea where this was. Maybe it’s Mid-Ohio? They lived in Erie PA and by the looks of that RS Camaro convertible pace car, this couldn’t have been filmed earlier than 1967.
I definitely recognize Bob Tullius’ group 44 Triumphs, as well as other production class cars. I see some Formula Vee, and a Formula Atlantic, but that’s about all I can identify.
Can anyone identify the rest of the cars,
or have any idea where this was
? I
have been digging through
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for probably an hour trying to find results that reflect the winners shown in the video hoping to narrow this down.
FV winner - #9
HP winner - #40 Austin Healey Sprite
DP winner - #4 (Group 44) TR4 (or TR250)
Will share more if I find anything else interesting.
Edit: I think it was May 1969 in Georgia.
Just about everyone who took a guess thought it was Savannah International Raceway (now named
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) located 20 miles NW of Savannah, GA.
If so, it looks like Grandpa was in the infield - outside of turns 3 and 5.
After digging around a little more, I found
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of the Triumph Sports Owners Association. The results (as well as the battle with the Datsun) from this May 1969 match what I saw in the video.
Nice work, internet.
Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
> McMike
06/03/2016 at 12:13 |
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This is fantastic
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McMike
> Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
06/03/2016 at 12:16 |
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Thanks. Finding that footage totally made up for all the footage of raccoons and the new stoplight in town.
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Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
> McMike
06/03/2016 at 12:18 |
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Hey now, raccoons can be pretty entertaining.
StingrayJake
> McMike
06/03/2016 at 12:59 |
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The wings on that yellow Formula car make me think 1968 at least. Nobody was really doing wings before then. Maybe late 1967, early 1968 since nobody else has wings?
sdwarf36
> McMike
06/03/2016 at 22:12 |
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Oh man-you brought a tear to my eye. I grew up around this era of racing. Lime Rock-Bryar-Thompson-Bridgehamton-Watkins Glen-all places I’d been by age 10. My father was a corner worker.
While most cars were flat towed to the track-or if you were really flush you had an open trailer, Group 44 would show up with a car hauler with 4 or 5 cars on it!
I was recently was working building engines for a place that vintage raced all kinds of Fords. I asked if anyone was around when these cars were first raced. (No one was.) I tried to describe what the Trans am races were like. You couldn’t see them. Tracks were tar paths thru fields-unlike the golf courses of today. If there was no solid objects in the way, it was a good line. There was so much dirt in the air, all you could make out was the leader. I suppose getting rid of trees you could hit was a good step....
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sdwarf36
> McMike
06/03/2016 at 22:23 |
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Opening car-Volvo p1800. Yellow winged car-Formula 5000. Other Yellow car-Ginetta? Datsun roasters-a silver NSU chasing a bug eye-blue Lola leading near the end of the vid-saw a Morgan-a XK 140 and a Gt-350.
For Sweden
> McMike
06/06/2016 at 10:05 |
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Motorweek would love this
ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
> McMike
06/06/2016 at 11:09 |
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Can you un-ban me? Dusty as supposed to let someone know to do it last week, but he’s not been around and no one got the memo...