When Touring Cars were great - video treat...

[roop]

As a huge fan of 'real' Touring Cars (ie: not 2-litre tinpots), particularly Gp.A in the 1980's I thought I'd post this little video clip showing some of the cars in action. It's the intro to a video called ETC produced for Austin Rover back in the 1980's. For all those fans of the SD1's, particularly the PMG/Fleet/Sanyo/Bastos cars I hope you like it...!

There's loads more action on the tapes including lots of behind the scenes stuff. It gives a real insight into the Austin Rover / TWR team.

The video (VHS only I am afraid) is available as a twin pack with Magnificent Seven from Duke Video for about £15. Excellent stuff if you are an ETC/SD1/M635/240T fan.

http://movies.fastasfunk.co.uk/etc_hq.wmv

Roop

[williamp]

roop said:

As a huge fan of 'real' Touring Cars (ie: not 2-litre tinpots), particularly Gp.A in the 1980's I thought I'd post this little video clip showing some of the cars in action. It's the intro to a video called ETC produced for Austin Rover back in the 1980's. For all those fans of the SD1's, particularly the PMG/Fleet/Sanyo/Bastos cars I hope you like it...! There's loads more action on the tapes including lots of behind the scenes stuff. It gives a real insight into the Austin Rover / TWR team. The video (VHS only I am afraid) is available as a twin pack with Magnificent Seven from Duke Video for about £15. Excellent stuff if you are an ETC/SD1/M635/240T fan. http://movies.fastasfunk.co.uk/etc_hq.wmv Roop

Sounds good. Thanks for the heads-up. A short while ago I found a vifdeo in a charity shop of the 92 BTCC series- great racing. The best 50p I ever spent!

[spnracing]

Alternatively watch some of the same cars for real in the 2005 BARC Classic Group One Touring Car Championship - starting on 3rd March at Silverstone.

[tuffer]

Or you could just pop along to the Andover overflow carpark most weeknights!!!!! Pesky little 5h1ts keep me awake all night....

[Simon Pullan]

Follow this link to watch a complete video of the 1989 Birmingham Superprix BTCC race. Not only is it set back when Touring Cars were good, but it's a good bit of nostalgia on a forgotten track too.

www.birmingham101.com/101superprixVIDEO.html

Read around the rest of the site and you see that they tried to resurrect the superprix but sadly that will not happen.

[Don]

Simon Pullan said:

Follow this link to watch a complete video of the 1989 Birmingham Superprix BTCC race. Not only is it set back when Touring Cars were good, but it's a good bit of nostalgia on a forgotten track too. www.birmingham101.com/101superprixVIDEO.html Read around the rest of the site and you see that they tried to resurrect the superprix but sadly that will not happen.

What a GREAT race! Nail biting!

[vrooom]

What a ACE video. good racing. ahhhh i miss those RS500 cosworth.