Tuesday 3rd April 2007

Cars on film

Old motoring films available online

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Porsche returns to air cooling for new car

Universal Motoring History is launching a new motoring film archive which can be viewed and owned by car enthusiasts across the globe. And it's stacked with interesting stuff.

The Internet-based archive contains hundreds of individual motoring films from the past 100-plus years. It includes a number of the earliest known recordings of motorised transport from the end of the 1890s, as well as films featuring the subsequent development and evolution of the motor car throughout the 20th century.

A significant number of the films, most of which are between two and 10 minutes in length, were previously thought to have been “lost” or destroyed and have largely remained unseen for more than 50 years.

The complete collection, which currently consists of more than 500 films, covers every aspect of motoring history, including the beginning of mass production, world land speed record runs, car commercials, motor shows, new car launches, the evolution of car de­sign, experimental cars, flying cars, famous drivers, stunt driving, unusual military machines and more.

There’s also extensive racing footage from Le Mans, Indianapolis, Monte Carlo and many of the other major international motor racing circuits, as well as hill climbs, street racing and stock car racing from around the world.

A selection of five random films from the archive will be available for download each week for £3.99, or the entire archive of more than 500 films can be purchased on a portable, external computer hard drive for £199.

Many of the older films have been enhanced in their quality by modern digital technology. The firm is aiming to add to the collection as time passes.

www.auto-history.tv

[bunglist]

Seems a little expensive to watch a few short old films, but then there is some great history of the automobile, (swings & roundabouts)

[hendry]

The car pictured is the only way to avoid future taxes that would make the Sheriff of Nottingham blush.

[Monza Phil]

Thought it looked like the next generation of Ford Scorpio.......

[mafioso]

Shame the link doesn't work!

[sploosh]

some people have a lot of time on their hands -

www.imcdb.org/

[scottiedog]

Opps, not good, "This account has exceeded it's bandwidth quota and has been temporarily disabled.", seems like they might have a bandwidth issue, not great for a site hosting movies, I would be pissed if I just spent 199 GBP!

[beasto]

Bandwidth problem already? Could be fun once they've sorted things out though.

[chickensoup]

God bless You Tube
£200 now or free within the week