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Look at Life: Kings of Speed, Documentary, 1959

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1959 Austin-Healey Sprite

1959 Austin-Healey Sprite

1957 BRM P25

1958 BRM P25

1959 Cooper T51 Climax

1959 Cooper T51 Climax

1959 Cooper T51 Maserati

1958 Fry F2 Climax

1958 Lotus 12 Climax [Type 12]

1957 Thames 15cwt Van

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jcb ◊ 2018-05-19 09:42	Motor Racing at Aintree. Outside the horse racing course. Another Look at Life thats slipped under the IMDB net ! -- Last edit: 2018-05-19 10:04:40
dsl ◊ 2018-05-20 03:42	1959 British Grand Prix at Aintree. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQTnAtgL57U
jcb ◊ 2018-05-20 09:06	A real test , blue car with foreign plates top left ? -- Last edit: 2018-05-20 09:11:07
Ingo ◊ 2018-05-22 20:33	JCB wrote A real test , blue car with foreign plates top left ? ... The font looks somehow Kiwi-ish...
Ingo ◊ 2018-05-22 20:34	the film is named "Kings of Speed" - but none Rootes-crap is participating. Why? @cl82: do you have an idea?
cl82 ◊ 2018-05-22 21:10	Probably because they were rather the "Kings of total mechanical breakdown and self-destruction", I suppose. The only thing that they had in common with speed as such was that something always went tragically wrong very, very quickly. At least that's what JfS told me..
dsl ◊ 2018-05-22 21:18	ingo wrote the film is named "Kings of Speed" - but none Rootes-jewel is participating. Why? They could not agree licensing arrangements with Hawkwind.
dsl ◊ 2018-05-22 21:21	ingo wrote The font looks somehow Kiwi-ish... Not totally impossible - Bruce Mclaren was one of the competing drivers ....
dsl ◊ 2018-05-22 21:40	cl82 wrote .... At least that's what JfS told me.. jfs is sometimes a mischievous imp .....
cl82 ◊ 2018-05-22 22:12	Imp-ossible! What a wicked thing to say!
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2018-05-22 23:30	Alvis made a Speed Twenty and a Speed Twenty Five. Bentley made a Speed Six. Rover made a Speed Twenty. Rootes never made a Speed anything.
Ingo ◊ 2018-05-24 00:10	@johnfromstaffs: Happy Birthday!
night cub ◊ 2018-05-24 08:36	Happy Birthday JFS!!
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2018-05-24 15:32	Thank you for your good wishes. As I wobble gently into my eighth decade of life I also thank the excellent services of the N.H.S. and whatever higher being may have helped that I am still wobbling. My recent treatment must have cost about £100,000 (two multi hour operations and a total of ten weeks in hospital). Being a Brit sometimes has its good points.
Sunbar ◊ 2018-05-24 16:00	Happy Birthday jfs! Agreed about the value of the NHS jfs, it is also I think having its own 70th birthday (in July?) so celebrations all round.
cl82 ◊ 2018-06-03 16:29

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