An historically important film of one of the earliest meetings at this British drag strip. The cars look a bit tame by today's standards but the variety of machines are much greater than of latter years. Look for the old Rolls Royce with a Jag engine and the early sling shot style of the full race machines. 'Run what you brung' really meant just that. Did any viewers attend that meeting or am I the only one left? It is shot on 8mm Kadachrome film long before the miracle of digital video had been thought of. I paid £75 for that camera in 1963 and it took me two years to pay it off on hire purchase (remember hire purchase?). No credit cards in those days! As a skilled mechanic I was earning just £12 a week and drove a 1936 Morris 8 to work each day. The good old days? Some of them were!
