isle of man TT 1979

[tilley441]

I have some old slides of the TT in 1979 and I am trying to find some info on the bike/rider numbers, any idea where they could be found?

i have checked the TT website but it doesn't show the numbers just finish times

[Pixel Pusher]

Maybe try contact somebody at MCN in the picture library?

MCN is nearly 60 years old so 1979 should be no problem.

[Wacky Racer]

Google images shows a few riders

[tilley441]

That's not a bad idea with the MCN I have found some more some from 1958/9 as well

[condor]

There's a motorcycle nostalgia forum on autosport.com
you could ask there as well

[tilley441]

Cheers, Ill put a post up later tonight. just found some from santa pod in 1968

[tilley441]

I have started to upload the scans, the photos are all unedited and are uploaded as scanned, I will slowly go through and update the colour corrected versions etc as and when I get time (still have another 10,000 slides to scan!) click the link if you want to look


https://www.flickr.com/photos/tilley441/albums

[graham22]

Just had a quick look, a couple of riders are recognisable - Charlie Williams and Tony Rutter. Charlie still does the commentary on Manx Radio, Tony is current racer Michael Rutter's dad.

Looks like a typical TT holiday, race days watching the racing from a hedge and days off doing normal touristy things - there's a few shots of Ned's home in the film Waking Ned.

There's a pic of Marine Drive (Castle type bridge over the coast road) - the road collapsed many years ago but I'd like to know if it was still complete when the photos were taken.

Just a HU, quite a few of the slides are reversed, obvious in some with car registrations/wipers etc but not so obvious in the scenery ones - such as the CBX1000 with Ramsey in the back ground - unless you've been there you wouldn't know the water's on the wrong side.

Thanks for sharing.