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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Oct 16, 2019 18:29:12 GMT
Came across this last night and found it very interesting as a visit in the time machine. Now classic car owners of a nervous disposition may want to look away, but of course in 1976, an old ropey early 60's BMC Farina Cambridge/Oxford was worth buttons. And watch the pre H & S era scrapyard - they're not like that now!! The race reminds me of the one at the opening of The Sweeney ep "Contact Breaker" with the nearly new MK3 Cortina safety/start car. (Number check on DVLA says it only lasted till 1982). Seems a bit "staged" with Barry's project with no dialogue etc. (Barry's probably in his late 60's by now if he's still alive!).
Post script! Barry the driver is still around as he posted way further down the message section below the video - he was about 23 at the time .
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Post by Cartman on Oct 24, 2019 17:00:42 GMT
It is interesting DC, thanks, although I don't like banger racing. The scrapyard is very reminiscent of what they were like when I first started going to them at about that time getting parts. I remember having to climb up a pile of cars stacked three high to get a window winder for my A40, and the stack started rocking!
The car they pulled out in the film was the early Farina bodied Cambridge with the rear fins, the A55 mark 2, which was made from 59 to 61. I remember seeing them on the road quite a bit about 76/7 ish when I started driving. At the time they would be about 15 years old, the same as an 04 plate car is now.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Oct 24, 2019 18:41:53 GMT
Wouldn't like to go bangers in a 04 plate wreck... Used to like watching bangers and ovals on Grandstand World of Sport etc but this hasn't been on for years on mainstream TV for a fair few years which is a shame. Know one of our members used to be a regular on the banger scene shame I didn't make the last bash at Wimbledon Stadium a few years back too. A wee tribute to the banger lads can't believe this is over 20 years old now too.
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Post by John Steed on Oct 24, 2019 20:41:02 GMT
Came across this last night and found it very interesting as a visit in the time machine. Now classic car owners of a nervous disposition may want to look away, but of course in 1976, an old ropey early 60's BMC Farina Cambridge/Oxford was worth buttons.
Post script! Barry the driver is still around as he posted way further down the message section below the video - he was about 23 at the time .
At Hednesford Raceway near where I live they actually still have a pre '68 Banger Race which seems criminal to me! Even if these cars are too far gone to restore and put back on the road, some of them look reasonably straight as they pass our house on the trailers and there must be a lot of usable panels that would be valuable as spares. Steed
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Post by Davy Freeth on Oct 25, 2019 22:05:08 GMT
reminds me of the 2 cars welded together banger racing lol. Would never get away with that these days.
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Post by Three Litre on Oct 26, 2019 13:38:26 GMT
Came across this last night and found it very interesting as a visit in the time machine. Now classic car owners of a nervous disposition may want to look away, but of course in 1976, an old ropey early 60's BMC Farina Cambridge/Oxford was worth buttons.
Post script! Barry the driver is still around as he posted way further down the message section below the video - he was about 23 at the time .
At Hednesford Raceway near where I live they actually still have a pre '68 Banger Race which seems criminal to me! Even if these cars are too far gone to restore and put back on the road, some of them look reasonably straight as they pass our house on the trailers and there must be a lot of usable panels that would be valuable as spares. Steed Quite right Steed, it seems a terrible waste of machinery, even back then.
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Post by Cartman on Oct 26, 2019 15:43:28 GMT
Agree with Steed and TL. Not bothered about them using late 80s/90s/early 00s dross but leave proper cars alone. There were some real classics in that film, A60s, Mark 2 and 3 Zephyr and a Humber, also what looked like an MG Magnette. A waste imo.
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Post by Three Litre on Oct 26, 2019 17:47:37 GMT
Agree with Steed and TL. Not bothered about them using late 80s/90s/early 00s dross but leave proper cars alone. There were some real classics in that film, A60s, Mark 2 and 3 Zephyr and a Humber, also what looked like an MG Magnette. A waste imo. Its fascinating just watching the scrap yard bit spotting all the old classics and wishing you could rescue them.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Oct 27, 2019 19:14:22 GMT
The cars at the time in 1976 of course were not thought of as classics then which does seem a shame, but I also would prefer not to see pre 1985 cars nowadays still being bangered - If - they are eminantly restorable and solid. But if the cars are really too far gone and are only stiched/welded up together for a few races, (and so long as all the other rare spares are passed on properly to other enthusiasts restoring the same model car - trim, seats, glass badges, lights etc and not binned) then fair enough if they were going to be scrapped anyway.
Sadly not everything gets saved - some classics that need restoring and have sat about for ages, deteriorating - and some don't even get bangered - sometimes end up being broken for parts for someone elses better condition car because the poorer condition car has had a lack of interest in it. It's happened in the owners club scene as I know myself and another mate told me regarding the Triumph clubs. This often happens also to less popular models.
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Post by B16YUG on Nov 5, 2019 22:18:41 GMT
Thanks for sharing that youtube link - wonder what millennials think when they watch a documentary like that?
ohh the days when you could go to a scrap yards and the cars were stacked 3 high!
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