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Mike Peckham
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1461
From: West Sussex, UK.
Registered: Jun 2003

posted November 15, 2008 12:21 PM

Ok Chaps, I'm taking a bit of a risk posting this here because it really has nothing to do with cine (other than perhaps that it might make a nice super 8 200fter [Wink]

), I saw this link posted on one of the VW forums I frequent and enjoyed the film so much I thought I'd share it with you guys. [Big Grin]

It's a film from the seventies showing the Rallying Career of a 1302s VW Beetle. There's some great action in there, a lot of nostalgia and a finishing sequence that, as a lover of ancient VW Beetles, brought a tear to my eye! [Roll Eyes]

http://wrcmovies.com/view/Ac96nslFOg4/The_Salzburg_Rallye_Beetle_Salzburg

If you are at all interested in rallying or old cars you should appreciate this.

Enjoy

Mike [Cool]

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Graham Ritchie
Film God

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From: New Zealand
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posted November 15, 2008 05:22 PM

Mike
Great stuff [Smile]

just the thing for Super8.

Back in the early 70s I was involved in a rally in Scotland up the west coast, I worked as a mechanic for a garage in Paisley. The car I prepared was a "Datsun 1200" one thing I do remember was that I decided to pack in the job just after pulling his engine to bits a few days before his big event, the boss was not to impressed seeing his engine spread all over the bench and me just about to walk out the door.

I did mention that I needed a pay rise and to my surpise [Eek!]

I was offered a good one to stay, [Cool]

the engine went back together and I finished the car, however there was one condition to that pay rise, [Roll Eyes]

that if the car broke down dont bother to turn up for work on Monday,... well that little car went like a rocket around the west coast and myself and the foreman following in the team van seemed to spend much of our time getting lost over those few days [Confused]

but in the end the Datsun came third in its class [Big Grin]

my boss was happy and we in the team van really enjoyed following the event.... and to top it of, I still had a job to go back to on the Monday [Wink]

Graham.

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Mike Peckham
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1461
From: West Sussex, UK.
Registered: Jun 2003

posted November 20, 2008 01:16 AM

Graham, great story! Thanks for sharing it. I would love to have been involved in those seventies ralleys, having a particular interest in cars of that era. I didn't really hit the car scene though until the early eighties, and the true glory years of rallying and endurance testing had passed by then.

A little while ago I was reading about the Peking to Paris overland trip, I think it is likely to be run every four years and entrants are mostly comprised of vintage cars. In the one I read about two 50s VWs took part, both making it all the way.

Now that I would like to do! [Big Grin]

Mike

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John Clancy
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Cornwall
Registered: Jun 2003

posted November 20, 2008 03:17 AM

When you look at rally cars now they barely resemble the road going cars. To make matters worse the mechanicals and running gear are even further removed from the road cars. It's all so boring compared to the 70's and early 80's.

I did a 250 mile road run as co-driver in a Works liveried TR7 V8 rally car in the Summer - that was something else! My hearing still hasn't recovered!

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Mike Peckham
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: West Sussex, UK.
Registered: Jun 2003

posted November 20, 2008 09:24 AM

John, you have my sympathy! Not in the same league I know, but I was once tasked with driving a 1968 VW fire truck the 150 miles plus from my home to Stanford Hall in Leicestershire to a VW meet. The truck was really only meant for short runs and had no sound insulation whatsoever and at a constant 70mph on the motor way the drumming from behind had to be heard to be believed! When we arrived at the event we made a bee line for the St Johns Ambulance tent to get some paracetomol tablets for our pounding heads. I spent the rest of the day dreading the drive home!

In terms of endurance, the closest I ever got was in about 1988 driving my 1970 1302s Beetle from Sussex across Europe to Piraeus in Greece where we put it on the ferry for Cairo and North Africa. That was quite an adventure and the old bug performed flawlessly the whole trip – and all that without so much as topping up the oil! [Roll Eyes]

I’ve made the same trip many times since in my Golf, which has always felt a sterile experience by comparison. [Frown]

Mike

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