Today's film clip is actually a whole series of news reels and interesting pre & post war racing film clips that I think you'll really enjoy. This is actual only part 5 in a complete 8 part series of these vintage racing compilations! This one stood ... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
Great way to spend my lunch. Thanks for the post J-B. Just curious if anyone knows why the motorcycles were following the soap box derby cars down the track (better view to see if they got out of their lane? Worried about spectators getting on track?)
Great stuff! Thanks for the look back! Yeah, you can call me FNG. Been called lot worse for better reasons!
I liked the unbuckled helmet and smoking a cig coming into the pits. Better to be called FNG than NFG.
ive been trying to collect and post old movies and clips of old cars and hot rods. you can see the ones ive found here http://srautoshow.com/category/videos/
Jive-Bomber Jay - I was spending my lunch break enjoying this great footage when I got that feeling of Déjà vu ... sure enough, the boss posted it a couple of months ago (see Ryan's Devil Drivers Blog). No worries though ... I could watch this kind of stuff again & again ... it's sorta like vintage channel surfing!!! (now where did I hear that before? ).
I posted some 8mm footage my uncle shot at Harper Dry Lake in 1940 on our shop site. Check it out: http://www.seabrighthotrods.com/
The last video clips of the jalopies sounds like Alex Xydias narrating... I thought he did that other video where they followed Dode Martin around. Anyone have that one? Sam
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