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apologies if it's been posted elsewhere...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE82FZpq0qM
Excellent stuff.
Bert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE82FZpq0qM
Excellent stuff.
Bert
BertBert said:
apologies if it's been posted elsewhere...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE82FZpq0qM
Excellent stuff.
Bert
Yes it is lovely stuff, and it has been posted elsewhere recently. That's from the era I still prefer, and in fact I had one of those Jaguars for above 30 years: 1968 to 2000.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE82FZpq0qM
Excellent stuff.
Bert
With regard to the driving, I felt he was a bit heavy handed with the guy sitting in lane 2 of the DC, and he seemed to close up a bit too early on one or two others in slow moving traffic, instead of letting them make their turns and get out of his way. Just IMHO of course, but overall it was a very nice drive indeed.
Best wishes all,
Dave.
I actually took it with a big pinch of salt, perhaps wrongly. I assumed the commentary was put on afterwards as it didn't feel very synched with the events we could see. The driving on the motorway getting the guy to move over was astonishing. Held back, good, hounded him till he moved in, not so good! The overtake looked a little dodgy too. Quick glance up the inside and go for it! The guy coming the other way was quite close when teh Jag got back in.
The incident with the triumph looked perhaps staged! And may I say exhibited some fantastic barging in the second encounter. And I thought I was on to a new phenomenon.
Bert
The incident with the triumph looked perhaps staged! And may I say exhibited some fantastic barging in the second encounter. And I thought I was on to a new phenomenon.
Bert
BertBert said:
I actually took it with a big pinch of salt, perhaps wrongly. I assumed the commentary was put on afterwards as it didn't feel very synched with the events we could see. The driving on the motorway getting the guy to move over was astonishing. Held back, good, hounded him till he moved in, not so good! The overtake looked a little dodgy too. Quick glance up the inside and go for it! The guy coming the other way was quite close when teh Jag got back in.
The incident with the triumph looked perhaps staged! And may I say exhibited some fantastic barging in the second encounter. And I thought I was on to a new phenomenon.
Bert
Whereas these days the bad guys seem to be BMW drivers - and Audi drivers, increasingly - in the 1960s Jaguar drivers regularly came in for criticism for being generally pushy and badly behaved. Another thing I recall from that era, and the 1970s, was that whenever there was a road accident imvolving a Jaguar the Jaguar name would be mentioned in the media. Most other makes of car never got mentioned in shunts.The incident with the triumph looked perhaps staged! And may I say exhibited some fantastic barging in the second encounter. And I thought I was on to a new phenomenon.
Bert
Best wishes all,
Dave.
BertBert said:
I actually took it with a big pinch of salt, perhaps wrongly. I assumed the commentary was put on afterwards as it didn't feel very synched with the events we could see. The driving on the motorway getting the guy to move over was astonishing. Held back, good, hounded him till he moved in, not so good! The overtake looked a little dodgy too. Quick glance up the inside and go for it! The guy coming the other way was quite close when teh Jag got back in.
The incident with the triumph looked perhaps staged! And may I say exhibited some fantastic barging in the second encounter. And I thought I was on to a new phenomenon.
Bert
Agree on all points.The incident with the triumph looked perhaps staged! And may I say exhibited some fantastic barging in the second encounter. And I thought I was on to a new phenomenon.
Bert
Nice to see the world from a byegone age though.
Makes you smile, all that effort to drive safely, yet they can't be bothered to wear their seatbelts. In the fifties, many American auto makers actually refused to fit seat belts, as it implied that the cars were unsafe. As a kid in the sixties, and a teenager into the seventies, I still remember huge numbers of people who just would not wear them. When it became law in the early eighties, and I was a car salesman, folks still wouldn't wear them out on a demo, I had to insist, and they would get quite arsey over it.
Funny old mindset back then eh?
Funny old mindset back then eh?
As someone who lives in the Thames Valley and has to drive all too often on at least part of that route, it makes me yearn for 1960s levels of traffic!
Actually, while I live in the South now, my formative driving days at the end of the 60s were in Dave's neck of the woods around Whitby, driving my Dad's Hillman Hunter (winner of the London-Sydney rally, don't you know!). I return there frequently and revel in the emptiness of the roads, the variety of hills and bends and the superb visibility that the terrain and lack of hedges allow. True driving roads - as many car magazines have discovered!
Actually, while I live in the South now, my formative driving days at the end of the 60s were in Dave's neck of the woods around Whitby, driving my Dad's Hillman Hunter (winner of the London-Sydney rally, don't you know!). I return there frequently and revel in the emptiness of the roads, the variety of hills and bends and the superb visibility that the terrain and lack of hedges allow. True driving roads - as many car magazines have discovered!
I drove from Bristol to London on Friday evenings and back on Sunday evenings at weekends for a 6-month period in 1969 when I was living in Bristol and my (then) future wife was living in Earls Court. The weekends that I didn't drive I hitched. The only difference was that I used the A420 from Bristol to Chippenham and picked up the A4 there (I was living in Filton - north Bristol). The car was a 1964 Mini 850. By selective hitching I could hitch-hike the journey faster than I could drive it. The only motorway was a short stretch of M4 out of London that ended before Reading.
A couple of lifts I still remember.
A woman on the way back to London, in a MGB-GT, after finalising her divorce settlement. Insisted on telling me all the sordid details of her husband's affairs and how she caught him out.
A sales manager, in a Ford Corsair 2000E, who gave me a 'lift' provided I drove and then promptly climbed into the back and went to sleep!
A couple of lifts I still remember.
A woman on the way back to London, in a MGB-GT, after finalising her divorce settlement. Insisted on telling me all the sordid details of her husband's affairs and how she caught him out.
A sales manager, in a Ford Corsair 2000E, who gave me a 'lift' provided I drove and then promptly climbed into the back and went to sleep!
Edited by Glosphil on Friday 4th December 23:40
p1esk said:
With regard to the driving, I felt he was a bit heavy handed with the guy sitting in lane 2 of the DC, and he seemed to close up a bit too early on one or two others in slow moving traffic
No different to today, then? 
Lovely video. Some parts of it look like an alien world with the lack of traffic on the roads etc.
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