Brighton Speed Trials 1963 - Mooneyes Dragster

[geepee]

What a find!

No health & safety.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=43640

[SuperHangOn]

geepee said:

What a find!

No health & safety.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=43640

Miss Vivienne Lewis crashed and burned to death in agony in her Jaguar, but other than that it was a jolly fine morning, pimms o'clock

Edited by SuperHangOn on Wednesday 2nd November 18:04

[fuzzymonkey]

Lets leave her corpse in the kiddy's play ground over the weekend. What what. Toddle pip etc etc.

[Streetrod]

What a great clip, sorry about Viv but the great British stiff upper lip to the rescue

[david kipling]

SuperHangOn said:

Miss Vivienne Lewis crashed and burned to death in agony in her Jaguar, but other than that it was a jolly fine morning, pimms o'clock

Edited by SuperHangOn on Wednesday 2nd November 18:04

Yukk. This Tojeiro-Jaguar chassis was repaired and rebodied, and has since been raced and restored and is today on an auction website in the USA:
http://www.rmauctions.com/lots/lot.cfm?lot_id=4514...
Ironic jokes aside, I could not bring myself to drive a car in which a driver had been killed.

[anonymous-user]

Wow, amazing that it was only about 50 years ago! There also seems to be someone competing in what looks to be a motorised skate board at the 25sec mark! ;-)