1977: MOTHER of FIVE and RACECAR DRIVER | Nationwide | Retro Transport | BBC Archive
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- Опубликовано: 10 апр 2024
- When the family car was written off, mother of five Margaret McEwen-King, decided to replace it with a Formula Ford machine.
Margaret spoke to Nationwide about her dream of becoming a racecar driver and reflected on the balance between family life and time on the track.
Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, Tuesday 4 January, 1977.
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What a hero. She was a very articulate and determined person! And a great Mum.. good on her.
Not much info about her, this is all I could find:
“Margaret McEwen-King - raced a Formula Ford for at least one season in 1977. She was filmed for the BBC racing an Elden Mk8 at Brands Hatch. A mother of five, she took up motor racing fairly late. She had bought the car with an insurance payout she received after writing off her own road car. Race results are not forthcoming, but she had taken part in some races when the film was made”
Wonderful film from times past! 👏👏👏
I love watching interesting and old videos ❤❤❤
Ahhh the 70's , nothing better
The uncredited presenter was Glyn Worsnip.
And that's about as 70s as it gets..."Pretty, yes".
"Isn't it a bit irresponsible of you as a mother?" - Whilst fathers were free to race and make their wives widows without this sort of questioning.
She missed out C, rich, nothing has changed in motor racing . Over the years I have seen so much talent fail because of lack of funds, That said well done for following your heart,
Ah, the killer years. See in the shadow at 0:40 the dashcam they used to shoot in-car shots.
This was quite literally ruddy-bloody liquid motor-sport! Absolutely first class... It made me want to don my string-backs and absolutely Murder my Mundane Megane on the way to Morrisons!
Sir Alan, Gordon Partridge O.B.E 🇬🇧
Amazing how could she managed it.
Well she drives better than my wife
"On the whole, they're a pretty butch lot. But here's one who's different; pretty, yes, but by no means butch... ", was this written by Alan Partridge?
I bet you could’ve had intellectual conversation with her. Kids and cars.
there's risks in any job
Quite June
There's certainly no danger of her time travelling back to Hill Valley 1955
I clicked on this mainly to find out whether anyone in the film actually said the word "racecar" - a word that was entirely absent from my 1970s childhood. Of course they didn't. It's internet SEO again.
Nor did she wear a bra and even dared turn up st elections to cast a vote!
1977: MOTHER of FIVE and RACECAR DRIVER | Nationwide | Retro Transport | BBC Archive 1105am 11.4.25 o no it's a woman doin' stuff..."jeeeez... who let her on the motorway..!!!?" i can hear her now: "i've got the wind in my hair! get out of my way, you squares!!" there seems to lurk in every woman - short fat thin or normal to be that "loony on the motorway"... even i liked nationwide and news was allegedly boring when i was a lad..... or a nipper.
BBC Archive, you're missing you're target audience here.
No they're not. What's that supposes to mean, this was great.
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