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A friend of mine stumbled upon a series of 8mm film reels that his father (Now deceased) had shot back in the 1960's. They were in amazing condition so he had them converted to digital video for preservation.
The films were mainly just the family bouncing around all of France, Germany, and Italy. My friend asked me to go through the footage to put together a montage DVD that he can distribute to the rest of the family as a Memoir of their earlier lives together.
I'm going through the footage while editing, and low and behold... I run across racing footage, complete with a traditional "Le Mans" type start (Drivers running to their cars from across the track to their cars, and tearing-ass down the track).
I was unable to identify where or when the footage was shot. My buddy was too young to remember. So, I posted this snippet on YouTube and asked "Where and when was this race run?".
Here is the clip:
Nurburgring 1966
Action starts at 2:04 into the film (The traditional "Le Mans" running start)
To my surprise, several automotive historians and buffs started emailing me and one even posted comments on YouTube itself.
A gentleman from the Formula 1 world identified the clip providing a very definitive run down of his research. His emails were backed up with what was posted in the comments section of the video. The email is as follows, unedited, so pardon the typos and grammos(Hey! A new word!):
"Chaparral 2D (#7, white car with distinctive engine intake on top) is there, saw a Ford GT40, #83 and #31 are Abarth 1300 OTs, #14 is a Ferrari Dino 206S...this is Nurburgring 1966. The Chaparral 2D would win overall. I could ID the Chaparral and then looked up its active years, 1966, saw the guess it was Nurburgring and noted the Chaparall won there in '66, then dug out Janos Wimppfen's "Time and Two Seats" and looked up Nurburgring '66 and began to ID the cars based on the car numbers and the results list to see if that made sense, Googling the car to see if it looked like what the entry list said it should and sure enough, viola, Nurburgring 1966."
To me, a true little gem of film.
The films were mainly just the family bouncing around all of France, Germany, and Italy. My friend asked me to go through the footage to put together a montage DVD that he can distribute to the rest of the family as a Memoir of their earlier lives together.
I'm going through the footage while editing, and low and behold... I run across racing footage, complete with a traditional "Le Mans" type start (Drivers running to their cars from across the track to their cars, and tearing-ass down the track).
I was unable to identify where or when the footage was shot. My buddy was too young to remember. So, I posted this snippet on YouTube and asked "Where and when was this race run?".
Here is the clip:
Nurburgring 1966
Action starts at 2:04 into the film (The traditional "Le Mans" running start)
To my surprise, several automotive historians and buffs started emailing me and one even posted comments on YouTube itself.
A gentleman from the Formula 1 world identified the clip providing a very definitive run down of his research. His emails were backed up with what was posted in the comments section of the video. The email is as follows, unedited, so pardon the typos and grammos(Hey! A new word!):
"Chaparral 2D (#7, white car with distinctive engine intake on top) is there, saw a Ford GT40, #83 and #31 are Abarth 1300 OTs, #14 is a Ferrari Dino 206S...this is Nurburgring 1966. The Chaparral 2D would win overall. I could ID the Chaparral and then looked up its active years, 1966, saw the guess it was Nurburgring and noted the Chaparall won there in '66, then dug out Janos Wimppfen's "Time and Two Seats" and looked up Nurburgring '66 and began to ID the cars based on the car numbers and the results list to see if that made sense, Googling the car to see if it looked like what the entry list said it should and sure enough, viola, Nurburgring 1966."
To me, a true little gem of film.
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