I was driving the black cooper S, (JPP 150 C) with 19 on the side. I couldn't get past the Mustang, made a last minute effort and spun into the rails, squashing the bumper a bit. Then my wife and I packed away our tent and drove back to Hayling Island. Good times.
REAL men racing proper old school cars! Where was I when THIS magnificence was happening? Oh yes, I was two! The only thing close to this now is a track day on which you can take your normal production car onto a track with others. I've done 4 track days but NOTHING compares to THIS! I've seen footage of banger racing from the 70's and they didn't have half the safety bollocks that they do in today's banger cars. I know that quite a few banger boys stopped when safety was introduced as it got too expensive.
Oh happy days! Did my apprenticeship helping out mates with their Bangers, Stock Cars, Superstocks and Hot Rods, at Spedeworth tracks. Sunday-Matchams, Tuesday-Eastbourne, Thursday-Aldershot, Friday-Wimbledon, Saturday pist'n broke!
esv683 hi, yes there are a few old pics of the car, but they are packed away, we are moving house soon, and i do not know which box they are in. One day!
I was born in Nov 1975, wow what a time that was!!!! to see that Mustang on a track no roll bar no helmet, just 70s hair in the wind......what a time to be a alive lol
Fabulous video. Thanks for sharing. They weren't much fun when we were actually there, but in hindsight, the 1970s absolutely rocked! The geezer in the Convertible Mustang, with the luxuriant mop of hair, holding off the field.... pure class! Probably had one hand on the wheel, the other squeezing a Lambert & Butler, and Grand Funk Railroad blaring out of the cassette player.
"Well.... It's their funeral" - best quote from a race announcer I've ever heard! Anyone else feel a bit worried for the helmet-less Mustang convertible driver?
I don't know how this hasn't had a billion views! Bring this back! Drive in, race round and then try to drive home again! ...And bollocks to safety gear! Mustang man isn't even wearing a seatbelt!
The days before health and safety. I was born in the 70s and looks like I missed a lot of good racing. I remember my Dad taking me to Wimbledon Stadium in the early 80s to watch car racing. Great times.
Here in the US, we are fortunate to still have our classic muscle car rivalry going with the Mustang, the Camaro, and the Challenger and Charger still being made. We could easily have a series of production car racing with just those 4 cars. With the several engine choices, I could imagine different engine classes where base engine V6 and turbo 4 go against each other, and then mid-level V8s, and then the supercharged V8s (I think there is actually one more tier of engine in there!) all battling for production car supremacy. That is just using American cars. I know there are other exciting rivalries in other parts of the world!
I recently 'discovered' banger racing from UK and Holland...that is some GREAT racing, and fortunately, still going on! I must say, even with its corporate budget, Stadium Super Trucks is quite impressive, too!
The trucks thing sounds insane, I'll look that up! Yeah banger racing is awesome, it was really cool in previous eras due to the variety of cars, all shapes and sizes. Great memories, but I'm also pleased to hear it's still going on!
Track days is about the closest thing to this as you can do those in your own normal car but even then you HAVE to wear a helmet and abide by the track day rules.
I wonder how much that bent Chevy Impala would be worth now... Mad, just totally and utterly bonkers. I love it. I believe Barry Lee ran out of brakes in the Rolls... He did that quite a lot, apparently, mostly not on the track...
Unless Barry Lee made a habit of doing this in his Roller I remember seeing this on tv at the time, and have always thought about it ever since whenever I see stock car racing. I would've been 12 back then, and in my innocence I thought that HE was the lunatic, without it occurring to me that he was probably the only one on the track not risking cycling to work for the next few months.
As an American who knows how poor handling those passenger car skinny tired Mustangs handled, I was completely baffled by how well the Mustang did; more so being a convertible!
This had me on the edge of my seat proper racing 1970s when the normal motorist knew how to drive feel as for the Chevy the car just a bit to heavy to chuck into the corner like that but that Mustang wow and convertible and no crash helmet....bless the 1970s
I remember watching world of Sport every Saturday afternoon from 12-15 -5pm and I miss watching this every 3 months a year Wimbledon stadium and Ipswich's Foxhall health stadium and Northampton stadium and Nigel kings commentary.
As an American who has driven or been a passenger in his fair share of 60s and 70s American muscle cars, I could see this from before the race began. However, what utter surprise to me to see a Mustang on those skinny tires, a convertible, no less, lead the pack and finish in the top 3!
Culcune. Mustangs and Minis have been battling each other on the race tracks since the 60's here in Britain. Australia too. The battles in Historic Racing are always epic. Australian Historic Racing even had a Minis Vs Mustangs Race with no other cars involved! A Mustang won that race with 3 Minis behind it much like in this race!
As others pointed out, the blue Escort RS2000 is still on the road as of 2022. Celica hasn't been taxed since 1986, Rolls Royce since 1985, couldn't find anything else in the DVLA database so they're probably long gone.
This one question sums up the contrasting attitudes of forty years hence. Now, we fling our arms and yell: "Why!" Forty years ago, we shrugged our shoulders and grinned: 'Why not!"...
Imagine doing this now !!!! Modern world sucks ! Health and safety would have a shit fit ! Get at it !!! I'm game haha !!!! Brilliant . . . Now,where did I park that Datsun Laurel ! . . . . 😆😆😂😂😂
Excellent ! Imagine this happening today (2020) The lil snowflakes would wet themselves... No public liability insurance, road cars, lil/no PPE.... Looks like a good laugh !
I was driving the black cooper S, (JPP 150 C) with 19 on the side.
I couldn't get past the Mustang, made a last minute effort and spun into the rails, squashing the bumper a bit. Then my wife and I packed away our tent and drove back to Hayling Island. Good times.
I own the sister car JPP 162C 1275 S
REAL men racing proper old school cars! Where was I when THIS magnificence was happening? Oh yes, I was two! The only thing close to this now is a track day on which you can take your normal production car onto a track with others. I've done 4 track days but NOTHING compares to THIS! I've seen footage of banger racing from the 70's and they didn't have half the safety bollocks that they do in today's banger cars. I know that quite a few banger boys stopped when safety was introduced as it got too expensive.
Oh happy days!
Did my apprenticeship helping out mates with their Bangers, Stock Cars, Superstocks and Hot Rods, at Spedeworth tracks. Sunday-Matchams, Tuesday-Eastbourne, Thursday-Aldershot, Friday-Wimbledon, Saturday pist'n broke!
esv683 hi, yes there are a few old pics of the car, but they are packed away, we are moving house soon, and i do not know which box they are in. One day!
Did you get your bumper fixed. A new one wasn't that expensive.
I was born in Nov 1975, wow what a time that was!!!! to see that Mustang on a track no roll bar no helmet, just 70s hair in the wind......what a time to be a alive lol
Fabulous video. Thanks for sharing.
They weren't much fun when we were actually there, but in hindsight, the 1970s absolutely rocked!
The geezer in the Convertible Mustang, with the luxuriant mop of hair, holding off the field.... pure class! Probably had one hand on the wheel, the other squeezing a Lambert & Butler, and Grand Funk Railroad blaring out of the cassette player.
HAHA
The Celica is driven by the late John Brundle, father of Martin Brundle. I was Martin's hot rod mechanic back then....god I'm old !
In Pott Row?
That is an amazing car! Great work!
Guy in the open car has no helmet!
This was entertaining and hilarious at the same time.....the announcer added a lot of excitement to the racing.
"Well.... It's their funeral" - best quote from a race announcer I've ever heard!
Anyone else feel a bit worried for the helmet-less Mustang convertible driver?
It was in the 70's. People were tough, don't worry...
No, a shame he didn't flip his Mustang ....
@@bimbeano shame your mum didn’t spit you on the council flat floor
It was the 70's when men were men & women were glad of it!
I was driving the green Hillman Imp. I’m so excited I just turned 16 and so ready to drive again
I don't know how this hasn't had a billion views! Bring this back! Drive in, race round and then try to drive home again! ...And bollocks to safety gear! Mustang man isn't even wearing a seatbelt!
I don't even think seatbelts were mandatory back then...they might have been optional?!
The days before health and safety. I was born in the 70s and looks like I missed a lot of good racing. I remember my Dad taking me to Wimbledon Stadium in the early 80s to watch car racing. Great times.
This has to be from 1875...because the idea that people this awesome still live and breathe on this earth is unreal.
We need these Production car races back!
Here in the US, we are fortunate to still have our classic muscle car rivalry going with the Mustang, the Camaro, and the Challenger and Charger still being made. We could easily have a series of production car racing with just those 4 cars. With the several engine choices, I could imagine different engine classes where base engine V6 and turbo 4 go against each other, and then mid-level V8s, and then the supercharged V8s (I think there is actually one more tier of engine in there!) all battling for production car supremacy. That is just using American cars. I know there are other exciting rivalries in other parts of the world!
This is one of the most amusingly crazy things I've seen in motorsport, it's more like what you can find in a video game. Superb!
I recently 'discovered' banger racing from UK and Holland...that is some GREAT racing, and fortunately, still going on! I must say, even with its corporate budget, Stadium Super Trucks is quite impressive, too!
The trucks thing sounds insane, I'll look that up! Yeah banger racing is awesome, it was really cool in previous eras due to the variety of cars, all shapes and sizes. Great memories, but I'm also pleased to hear it's still going on!
Epic!!! Great video.
Regards from Portugal.
He's not even wearing a seatbelt!! What has happened to the world? absolutely f'in brilliant
It's a '66 Mustang (I think), so would have only had lap belts. Maybe he's wearing it, maybe not
Lawyers and insurance
omg the blue and blue rs2000 rmo 253m is still on the road
Holy shit man!
That was awesome! I wish you could still do things like this...
Track days is about the closest thing to this as you can do those in your own normal car but even then you HAVE to wear a helmet and abide by the track day rules.
Fantastic ! Health and safety........Feck off :-)
Look at those classics 😇
This is superb. Funny, mad, and perfectly 1970s. I grew up at that time and though lots of things are much better, life isn't so funny.
Love how the Yank Tank binned it on the first corner 😂😂😂😂
The blue mk 1 Escort is stunning.
And it’s still taxed!
The convertible mustang with nothing but a human head as a roll cage MADNESS
It's ok. His hair will save him!
It's got a windscreen.
God I miss the seventies.
Best vid I've seen in a long time, please keep them coming.
This. Was. Brilliant !!!
This is fucking hilarious. Damn I wish it was the 70s right now
The good ole days before the nanny state took over and banned everything.
I’m guessing this is from the ITV world of sport show on Saturday afternoon great stuff
And note that even when they've been racing round like idiots for however long, the winning Opel driver still indicates when he's pulling over.
haha great ain it ....
Is it me or does the RS2000 look virtually brand new ? great racing !
it is brand new it's 1975!!
what a hidden gem, love it
Saw one of these races at Mendip Raceways where a Triumph 200 came to grief big time.
I wonder how much that bent Chevy Impala would be worth now... Mad, just totally and utterly bonkers. I love it. I believe Barry Lee ran out of brakes in the Rolls... He did that quite a lot, apparently, mostly not on the track...
Unless Barry Lee made a habit of doing this in his Roller I remember seeing this on tv at the time, and have always thought about it ever since whenever I see stock car racing.
I would've been 12 back then, and in my innocence I thought that HE was the lunatic, without it occurring to me that he was probably the only one on the track not risking cycling to work for the next few months.
Wow. These are brave people to race their own cars with no safety gear and no prepared cars. That was sad when the Chevy went out
As an American who knows how poor handling those passenger car skinny tired Mustangs handled, I was completely baffled by how well the Mustang did; more so being a convertible!
It was the hair that made it go well! You can do anything with hair like that.
they just left the chevy in the middle of the track lol
This race happened 4 years before I was born it looks like a really great race
This had me on the edge of my seat proper racing 1970s when the normal motorist knew how to drive feel as for the Chevy the car just a bit to heavy to chuck into the corner like that but that Mustang wow and convertible and no crash helmet....bless the 1970s
Mustang man wasn't wearing a seatbelt either!
wow! amazing! just imagine if they did it today all the airbags going off lol
back when racing was actually fun! ( and before the track insurance threatened to take the policy and tear it up if they had another one like this)
Straight from the car park Lol
I remember watching world of Sport every Saturday afternoon from 12-15 -5pm and I miss watching this every 3 months a year Wimbledon stadium and Ipswich's Foxhall health stadium and Northampton stadium and Nigel kings commentary.
03:34 That Chevrolet looks like a whale stranded on the beach
no helmets, no insurance, no roll cages. musta been fun (and dangerous)
Saturday afternoons are not same for, 5 yr old boys today.
IN 1968 there was nothing like the Morris Copper 'S'. I went away on my honeymoon from Sydney to Brisbane in 1968.
Excellent, total madness;
great line 'if their silly enough to go into the event,it's their funeral' :):) mad racing :)
Brilliant, thanks for uploading.
1:17 almost a james may dance
In the days before ‘elf & safety ! Awesome
Chevy VS Corner, Corner Wins
As an American who has driven or been a passenger in his fair share of 60s and 70s American muscle cars, I could see this from before the race began. However, what utter surprise to me to see a Mustang on those skinny tires, a convertible, no less, lead the pack and finish in the top 3!
Culcune. Mustangs and Minis have been battling each other on the race tracks since the 60's here in Britain. Australia too. The battles in Historic Racing are always epic. Australian Historic Racing even had a Minis Vs Mustangs Race with no other cars involved! A Mustang won that race with 3 Minis behind it much like in this race!
Go Capri!
The Celica was the car to beat, I think...
Driven by John Brundle father of Formula 1 driver Martin Brundle.
Bravest (or daftest) bloke, is the one standing on the boot of a Mk3 Cortina with some sort of scaffolding poles for protection while waving flags.
I don't knew that our lovely german Opel Ascona A (black-green car) was ever sold in Great Britain......
@ecky1965 Wow.....don't knew they were sold in GB! My dad had one from 1976-79.
@ecky1965 me too!!!!!! I have two of them from ebay!!!! From Ascona A they are very rare!!!!
My God,this is mental!!
Excellent!!
Priceman141tht was commentary from Nigel king from the Foxhall health stadium
Mich Bayliss in the green Opel is my neighbour,
yank put himself away lol, crackin video!
In1975 helmets were for puffs!
Don't know which is madder the open top Mustang or the Rolls Royce
Well that was fun
#13 John Brundle, that will be F1 pundit Martin Brundles Dad then.
How much would that blue Escort be worth now lol or any of them really. 👌
The Escort's still on the road!
Probs worth 50k+!
wow top stuff , the days of naff all health and safety , and no whos suing who ?
I wonder if any of these actual cars still exist
As others pointed out, the blue Escort RS2000 is still on the road as of 2022. Celica hasn't been taxed since 1986, Rolls Royce since 1985, couldn't find anything else in the DVLA database so they're probably long gone.
James May would be proud of that Shadow!
He'd also be proud of Mustang Man's hair!
John Brundle, Martin's dad, recovering nicley from that spin there.
Martin Brundle started his career on the short ovals in some form of Hot Rods (possibly Nationals?)
I cant believe what i just watched.
LoL - I said exactly the same thing!
Brilliant...
It takes big balls to drive a big car..
OPEL rules ! :)
I'm 22 years old and am I seeing what I think I'm seeing???
See the fun they had back in the 70's!
Those were the days!
Imagine. That Mustang was just a ten year old Ford at the time... Had they only known what they had...
Whts the song called that they are playing at the beginning ? I remember it from my childhood. anyone please?
PA muzak on the parade lap was Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra's A Swingin' Safari.
I'd like to see the guy in the Mustang do a lap at Longleat.
Lawyers wont let them do this anymore.
Why on a banger circuit?
This one question sums up the contrasting attitudes of forty years hence. Now, we fling our arms and yell: "Why!" Forty years ago, we shrugged our shoulders and grinned: 'Why not!"...
Because it was the 1970's!
How safe is a convertable?
Perfectly fine as long as you don't get it upside down. :)
@@MosportRacingSchool Thanks..Hope that never happens...
Don't worry. That head of hair would have protected him on this occasion!
That's when men could be men, before the health and safety jobsworths came along!
The world is definitely getting worse! Health and Safety execs interfering with natural selection and authorities cracking down on FUN!
5:20 ... From Bracknell my home tome :D.
Minis Vs Mustangs again!
Imagine doing this now !!!! Modern world sucks ! Health and safety would have a shit fit ! Get at it !!! I'm game haha !!!! Brilliant . . . Now,where did I park that Datsun Laurel ! . . . . 😆😆😂😂😂
Excellent ! Imagine this happening today (2020) The lil snowflakes would wet themselves...
No public liability insurance, road cars, lil/no PPE.... Looks like a good laugh !
And no crash helmets.
The hair alone would have protected him here!
weres there helmuts
Yes I think the guy in the winning green Opel is wearing a helmet. Mustang Man just didn't want to ruin his hair!
So the winner had his name announced..finally.He hung it out there..and the Mustang pilot? Balls of steel,or ballbearings for brains?
Everything will be tickety-boo until there's a serious accident & someone gets hurt. Then, good-bye to this one...............
dude in the Mustang...no roll cage...no helmet...makes you cringe to think what could happen in a contact race...
Just like the sweeney.
great fun before the H. and S. shite
Utterly mad. Safety? Not even helmets!
240Z, :D
Mustang convertible driver with no helmet.
Helmets anyone?
Don't need helmets when you have hair like Mustang man!
Helmets? Do you mean sissy hats?
It's the seventies, how are you meant to smoke