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1958 International Season - Girling Ltd. Wonderfully evocative colour footage taking us back to the 1958 Le Mans 24-Hours, the Alpine Rally, the production car race won by America's Walt Hansgen during the British Grand Prix meeting at Silverstone, and the inaugural RAC Tourist Trophy meeting...at Goodwood. (17:42) |
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1938 Tripoli Grand Prix - Daimer-Benz AG For the true connoisseur of motor sporting movie memorabilia we present this stunning-quality print of the three-pointed star's contemporary propaganda production, run complete with its dynamic German-language commentary on the original sound track. Neubauer, Caracciola, Lang, von Brauchitsch and their opposition from Alfa Romeo and Maserati, all brought into crisp focus for us today. (11:08) |
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1962 Tour de France Automobile - The Roots Group Excellent colour coverage of the Touring Car Category of the amazing week-long Tour de France, combining a series of gruelling two-hour races around such great race circuits as Le Mans, Rouen-les-Essarts, Pau, Reims and Spa-Francorchamps with hair-raising mountain climbs on the Cols de Braus and du Granier, and the giant at Mont Ventoux. Commentators include Peter Harper, Peter Riley and Rosemary Smith. (21:20) |
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1955 Tourist Trophy - Standard Triumph A team of new Triumph TR2s ran in the Golden Jubilee TT at Dundrod in Ulster, and a camera crew went along to capture the race in glorious colour. Their footage was never edited into a finished film. It has instead lain forgotten on the shelf for 50 years until unearthed for MFQ! Now edited to reflect the core of that historic race - Mercedes-Benz SLRs against Jaguar D-Types - we present the finest colour coverage of Dundrod's last motor race. (26:18) |
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1961 Monte Carlo Rally - The Rootes Group An off-beat alternative view of the great winter rally classic, color coverage of that memorable year's event, in which no fewer than 110 of the 346 entries were British. While Panhard finished 1-2-3, Sunbeam Rapiers also excelled and Anne Hall / Val Domleo clinched the Coupe des Dames. (26:11) |
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An Audience with W.B. - MFQ Exclusive Interview Now in his 90s, the great William Boddy - renowned long-term Editor of 'Motor Sport' magazine - relates his unique entry into motoring journalism in the 1930's and recalls the realities of Brooklands racing and halcyon days at Weybridge's historic Motor Course. (15:43) |
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Wheelspin 61 - 1961 BRSCC Racing Season - David Roscoe Amazingly avant garde, zany, Milliganesque club movie made for the British Racing & Sports Car Club, the most go-ahead and dynamic of all contemporary UK race organisers. Enthusiastic movie maker David Roscoe does for motor racing what Monty Python would make commonplace years later. (28:31) |
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1929 Monaco Grand Prix Winning Bugatti Type 35B - MFQ's Private View Chassis '4914' driven by 'Williams' to win the inaugural Monaco GP stars in the Bonhams Revival Meeting auction sale, September 2005. Preserved untouched for over 50 years, we provide your viewing of motor racing's ultimate 'time machine'. (15:05) |
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PLUS: Stock Car Strife at Langhorne You know when a racing car spins or crashes how the yellow caution flag goes out, enabling following runners to take avoiding action? You know how the yellow and red oil flag indicates further danger? You know how the red flag stops a race? Well, at the 'Home' the stock car boys were taking little notice. (2:00) |
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High Speed - The 1952 Motor Sporting Season (27:47) A very rare mystery film recording an unusually broad selection of that season's motor sporting activity, including - amongst other delights - outrageous coverage of a Brands Hatch 500cc race, a from-the-cockpit lap of Boreham in a works Aston Martin DB3, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone and behind-the-scenes visits to Cooper Cars at Surbiton and to Mike and Leslie Hawthorn's TT Garage in Farnham. |
| The 'Prince Bira Project' - Exclusive (4:31) A sneak preview of a project on which David Weguelin has been working for only 30 years. Very much still 'work in progress' but here's your chance to view extracts from a unique 1976 interview with 'B. Bira' in Bangkok, and another with 'Lofty' England discussing the role played by 'Bira's' mentor, cousin, car owner and racing manager of the White Mouse Stable, Prince Chula Chakrabongse. | |
| An Audience with W.B. - Part Two - MFQ Exclusive Interview (7:23) The great William Boddy - legendary long-term Editor of 'Motor Sport' magazine - continues his memories of Brooklands and his stewardship of the magazine in the run-up to World War II. | |
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Acropolis Rally 1960 - The Rootes Group (20:18) Rare colour film of this famously tough event won by Schock and Moll for Mercedes-Benz. See Peter Harper and his Rootes Group team-mates shine in their Sunbeam Rapiers, early International rallying by the then-new BMC Minis, and rough-road antics by Volvo, Porsche and even Chevrolet Corvette - all culminating in some hairy aerodrome racing in the final flat-out half-hour 'blind' at Tatoi.World-class rallying as it was. |
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| The Charge of the Fright Brigade - 1967 BRSCC Racing Season - David Roscoe (23:55) Another of enthusiast movie maker David Roscoe's highly entertaining British Racing & Sports Car Club films made for their annual midnight filmshow. Jewel in the crown amongst hilarious club racing coverage is this film's very rare footage of the 1967 World Championship-deciding BOAC 1,000 at Brands Hatch - Ferrari P4s versus Porsche's finest, described by Doug Nye as the greatest -ever British sports car race... | |
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1961 Monte Carlo Rally - The Rootes Group An off-beat alternative view of the great winter rally classic, color coverage of that memorable year's event, in which no fewer than 110 of the 346 entries were British. While Panhard finished 1-2-3, Sunbeam Rapiers also excelled and Anne Hall / Val Domleo clinched the Coupe des Dames. (26:11) |
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An Audience with W.B. - MFQ Exclusive Interview Now in his 90s, the great William Boddy - renowned long-term Editor of 'Motor Sport' magazine - relates his unique entry into motoring journalism in the 1930's and recalls the realities of Brooklands racing and halcyon days at Weybridge's historic Motor Course. (15:43) |
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Wheelspin 61 - 1961 BRSCC Racing Season - David Roscoe Amazingly avant garde, zany, Milliganesque club movie made for the British Racing & Sports Car Club, the most go-ahead and dynamic of all contemporary UK race organisers. Enthusiastic movie maker David Roscoe does for motor racing what Monty Python would make commonplace years later. (28:31) |
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1929 Monaco Grand Prix Winning Bugatti Type 35B - MFQ's Private View Chassis '4914' driven by 'Williams' to win the inaugural Monaco GP stars in the Bonhams Revival Meeting auction sale, September 2005. Preserved untouched for over 50 years, we provide your viewing of motor racing's ultimate 'time machine'. (15:05) |
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PLUS: Stock Car Strife at Langhorne You know when a racing car spins or crashes how the yellow caution flag goes out, enabling following runners to take avoiding action? You know how the yellow and red oil flag indicates further danger? You know how the red flag stops a race? Well, at the 'Home' the stock car boys were taking little notice. (2:00) |
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Formula Junior 1960 - David Roscoe (16:32) Beautiful quality, typically tongue-in-cheek Roscoe survey of that historic season's schoolroom-class racing - top pupils Jim Clark and Trevor Taylor star in this wonderfully nostalgic full-colour footage. |
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1905 200h.p. Darracq - MFQ (4:34) After 52 long years the Firkins family ownership has restored this Land Speed Record-breaking monster to thunderous life - one hundred years ago this pioneering 25.4-litre V8 broke records at up to 120mph! |
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A Great Year for Girling (Part Two) - Girling (22:01) A colourful glimpse of John Surtees and 'Bob Mac' 1959 Isle of Man TT - the Monte Carlo, Safari and Alpine Rallies - and Jack Brabham's Cooper victory in the British Grand Prix. |
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An Audience with WB (Part Four) - MFQ exclusive interview (9:36) The irrepressible Bill Boddy, veteran Editor of 'Motor Sport' magazine, recalls how his motoring life really was through the1940s-1970s. |
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Austin-Healey at Bonneville - 1953 - The Austin Motor Company (11:24) Flat-out on the Utah Salt Flats; an American colour movie view of very British record-breaking with Donald Healey, Geoffrey Healey, Capt. George Eyston and their stock Austin-Healey 100. Grand Prix Racing 1938 - German Archive (9:53) Just as contemporary German enthusiasts would have seen it, covering the 1938 French, German and Swiss GPs, Pescara's Coppa Acerbo and Livorno's Coppa Ciano. PLUS: Hear it straight from the winner, Kelly Petillo, 1935 Indy '500' - an American view of the Monte Carlo Rally '59 - Mercedes-Benz W154 at Indy 1947 - Colour commercials from Austin-Healey, MG and Triumph. |
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Look North (1963) David Roscoe (7:00) The typically light-hearted last in our popular series of David Roscoe films. 1963 BRSCC club racing at Yorkshire's Elvington aerodrome. |
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Grand Prix Racing 1939 - German Archive (13:30) Final part of MFQ's fabulous-quality Mercedes-Benz propaganda movie, uncut and complete with its pre-war German commentary follow the W154s from the Dessau Rekordstrecke to Pau, the Nürburgring, Tripoli, Spa and the Bremgarten |
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Raymond Baxter Tribute MFQ offers two period-piece movies recalling the voice of British motor sport at his most Britannic best Stirling Moss and the XK120 (1951) (9:20) A lovely period piece featuring ex-RAF Spitfire pilot Baxter in bar-stool discussion with young superstar Stirling Moss Special Section (1965) Rootes Group (20:12) Baxter excels in this ground-breaking coverage of the 1965 Monte Carlo Rally full-colour footage onboard Peter Harper/Ian Hall's Sunbeam Tiger V8, complete with intercom audio |
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Three Into One (1976) British Leyland (13:49) Unusual full-colour view of the 1976 Monaco Grand Prix weekend, F1 Ferraris, Tyrrells and JPS-Lotuses provide the backdrop for the Formula 3 race, featuring Tony Dron and Bruno Giacomelli. |
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British Grand Prix 1951 (19:35) Truly sensational, staggering-quality colour coverage of paddock, pits and race at Silverstone as José Froilàn Gonzàlez and Ferrari plot the downfall of Juan-Manuel Fangio, Nino Farina and the fabulous Alfa Romeo Alfetta fleet - material absolutely NOT TO BE MISSED! |
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