I am going to do you all a favor and link this here. Clear an hour - it's awesome.
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Jan. 13, 2011 8:28 a.m. Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
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Jan. 13, 2011 8:47 a.m. DavidinDurango New Reader
was that before, or after, "when tires were skinny and drivers were fat?"
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Jan. 13, 2011 8:59 a.m. jlm_photo Reader
DavidinDurango wrote:
was that before, or after, "when tires were skinny and drivers were fat?"
I nearly spit my coffee on the screen. Flippin funny!
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Jan. 13, 2011 9:53 a.m. Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
In reply to DavidinDurango:
Not too many chubby folks in that flick.
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Jan. 13, 2011 11:32 a.m. emodspitfire New Reader
Great !
Who woulda guessed that James Hunt was hired to sell Chevettes...?
Rog
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Jan. 14, 2011 1:36 a.m. DWNSHFT Reader
Very interesting stuff. F1 footage was great. Rest of it was thought-provoking.
David
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Jan. 14, 2011 9:19 a.m. Tom Heath Webmaster
I loved it...nice find!
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Jan. 14, 2011 9:53 a.m. Blitzed306 Reader
That was excellent
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Jan. 14, 2011 12:40 p.m. aircooled SuperDork
Very good.
I found the comment about how safety advances are bad for racing interesting. You can see how when safety is low you will have the "on the edge" types able to pull ahead of the other, with an obvious potential cost, makes for very dramatic racing.
I could definitely see how this story could be made into a very good movie (if done right). It has all the elements, one of those movies that doesn't need to have a "message", just a story of two guys who lived in their time.
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Jan. 14, 2011 1:09 p.m. Wally SuperDork
Thanks for these videos. BEtween this and the GTP thread I may never get my garage dug out
I don't remember much before it started to change
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Jan. 14, 2011 2:42 p.m. pete240z SuperDork
I love all the cigarette smoking by everyone. Classic.
Those were the days..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c
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Jan. 14, 2011 8:53 p.m. red5_02 New Reader
Wow lots of old school stuff on GRM this week. Awesome find. Gotta agree with everyone in the flick to some degree. People deserve to have their privacy but you also can't show yourself to be one way to the public and then live differently.
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Jan. 14, 2011 9:30 p.m. Curmudgeon SuperDork
Thanks for the link!
I was following motorcycle racing in my teens, Barry Sheene won the 500 World Championship the year I graduated from high school. Motorcycle racers were my heroes. I remember Joel Robert, Gerrit Wolsink, Marty Smith, Roger DeCoster.... Joel Robert was the reigning 250 MX world champ and he was NOT PC in any way, he was a notorious party animal. At one race, he decided to pull a stunt: he had his mechanic push his bike to the start line. Robert followed a few minutes later, swigging from a bourbon bottle which had been emptied and filled with tea. This got the race promoters all wound up, it took quite a while for him to convince them it was all a joke and he wasn't really drunk.
You know what's weird? Sports figures now are expected to be squeaky clean, singers etc are expected to be booty hounds or sluts. It was pretty much the other way around back then.
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Jan. 14, 2011 10:36 p.m. Maroon92 SuperDork
I don't know ANYTHING about motorcycle racing, but some of those accidents looked like not so much fun.
That video was sensational.
The Hunt quote to the brit media on the telephone from Japan was great "I'm going to get drunk!"
I think two or three years ago, after a win, Tony Stewart made mention that his next few weeks off, he and a few friends would be venturing on a journey to find the cardboard at the bottom of a 30 pack. NASCAR fined him and made him formally apologize. WTF?
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Jan. 14, 2011 10:49 p.m. Auto ADD Dork
It is a shame that most of the sports stars today have been scrubbed clean of anything resembling a personality.
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Jan. 14, 2011 10:50 p.m. oldsaw SuperDork
GPS, thanks for an awesome find!
In the early and mid-70's I hadn't yet discovered motorcycle racing, but I was consumed by a love for road racing, F1 in particular. Hunt was a favorite and I had the pleasure and privilege of seeing him race at the USGP on three occasions.
Sheene obviously had a personality much like Hunt's; they both loved their lives and lived them to the fullest. It seemed so natural that they were compatriots off the track.
Thanks again for a wonderful, nostalgic trip to times when life was celebrated with few restraints!
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Jan. 15, 2011 12:31 a.m. friedgreencorrado SuperDork
Wally wrote:
Thanks for these videos. BEtween this and the GTP thread I may never get my garage dug out
I don't remember much before it started to change
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ-eaTa8um4
EDIT: GPS, thanks for the link. Great, great, great stuff!
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Jan. 15, 2011 2:17 a.m. Karl La Follette HalfDork
cool find
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Jan. 15, 2011 10:57 a.m. car39 Reader
Damn this link, it cost me $30 for the James Hunt biography!
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Jan. 15, 2011 11:18 a.m. Maroon92 SuperDork
Yeah, I think I am going to have to get "Shunt" soon. I have about 20 other books I need to read first.
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Jan. 15, 2011 2:06 p.m. Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
Wife just said she had to go to Borders for a gift for a friend. If its on the shelf in the bio section... I'll be out the $30 too.
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Jan. 15, 2011 2:43 p.m. Maroon92 SuperDork
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:
Wife just said she had to go to Borders for a gift for a friend. If its on the shelf in the bio section... I'll be out the $30 too.
Doubtful. Stuff like that you have to get from places like Amazon or specialty book dealers.
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Jan. 16, 2011 12:03 a.m. friedgreencorrado SuperDork
red5_02 wrote:
Wow lots of old school stuff on GRM this week.
Eh, it's the off-season. This is what we do.
red5_02 wrote: Awesome find. Gotta agree with everyone in the flick to some degree. People deserve to have their privacy but you also can't show yourself to be one way to the public and then live differently.
I just miss the days when the pros could be themselves in front of the public without worrying about losing their ride.
