1970s Hot Rod Racing | Hot Rod | 1970s Racing cars | Drive in | 1976

[@grandadgamer8390]

Saw Barry Lee many a Sunday night at Wimbledon back in the day. Great days ☺

[@S7EVE_P]

That very cool green jacket makes an appearance again. What a fun time to be alive

[@asd36f]

Does pale in comparison with Barry Lee's turtleneck and spangled driving suit LOL

[@Cheezwizzz]

Incredibly well spoken guys!!!

[@lisybubbles]

138 ... that's my dad talking posh 💙😉😁

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Dave Thompson!!

[@stevepearce6689]

Hi Dad !

[@tonyhancock3912]

Seems like a jolly nice chap 😃

[@billybellend1155]

Barry what a legend. 😎

[@angelsone-five7912]

Love hot rods in the early 70s, spent many a saturday evening at Wimbledon.

[@JK-eb5li]

We're all people from the 70s skinny and tall lol

[@adamhibbert9750]

That’s my mum’s boyfriend at the time in the red and white mk1 escort with the Union Jack on the back (504) TERRY SELBY

[@peng9179]

Barry Lee such a legend

[@kevinhopkins8355]

What decent bunch of chaps ...

[@Mod-rw9cw]

Newcastle Brough park me and my Dad used to go the racing every time it was on they used to call it stock car racing then in 1975

[@richardawrhodes6965]

I remember watching ford anglias with 3.8 jag engines shoe horned into them race.

[@trevorrandom]

Barry Lee's shirt!

[@Witheredgoogie]

The video cameras and all their associated gear were so large in those days they couldn't get them in the cars.

[@stevepearce6689]

I want to go Hot Rodding !

[@paddy1437]

Barry is a cool dood :)

[@ronmccullock1407]

That tweed cap

[@michaelmatthews8171]

Great video that. I would guess those mk2 escort were still production cars when the video was shot. Does anyone know which track this was????

[@PaulabJohnson]

Michael Matthews spedeworth Foxham Rd Ipswich.

[@beefy2804]

@@PaulabJohnson No, that was Aldershot.

[@georgejacob3162]

Definitely Aldershot.

[@byronmills5952]

The Mark 2 Escort had only been in production 12months when this was filmed.

[@michaelmatthews8171]

Didn't see 1976 on there LOL....

[@joerlee454]

Nice

[@appalachiahiker853]

Tony Bastable ?! Where is he

[@georgejacob3162]

Sat in the car at 1:45 and going by the name of Dave Thompson by the look of it!

[@therealbettyswollocks]

Tony would have ragged the hell out of a hot rod

[@philipcurnow7990]

Used go to the stock cars in New Brighton in the 70's. They didn't call them hot rods! Was that Tony Bastable moonlighting as a driver camouflaging his voice. Barry Lee .. I remember him, Belle Vue perhaps.

[@andrewrcmadwilkinson6999]

I AM AMAZED THAT THE DOORS AEN'T WELDED THOUGHT THAT THEY WOULD BE FOR SAFETY

[@fidelcatsro6948]

they all need a haircut!

[@tonyhancock3912]

Bastaple wouldn't have put up with any of that bollocks

[@johnstairs]

Where was it filmed Chernobyl

[@nigelbaldwin752]

Brilliant Aldershot, my dad took me their in early 70's and was so special. Pleased to be alive then, not now though, but i was lucky and so many memories when life was so much better.

[@pit_stop77]

First 🤟🤟 But all those classic cars wasted 😳😳

[@Thecrazyvaclav]

The Officer they weren't classics then,just rusty worthless MOT failures on one last blast

[@grahamstanton6500]

Escort mk2 Could only be 2 years old at the Max in 1976

[@Thecrazyvaclav]

Graham Stanton yea,but still could be a rusty heap by then,all cars rusted quick in the 70s,not just the BL stuff

[@joolsfreeman4359]

I used to to scrap cars in the 90,s weighed in loads of escorts, transits, cortinas, mk1 and 2 granadas, they were everywhere around then 2 a penny almost, who knew what silly money people pay now for crapped out old bodyshells!

[@glpilpi6209]

The Mark 2 Escort would not have rusted away inside 14 months , it was probably built from an accident write off shell or possibly a new blank shell bought off Ford.

[@gstree]

How much hair have you got now John ?

[@johnnyguitar5222]

Everybody is so white......

[@kenneth2656]

yeah now look around you.

[@dreamon220]

Shame how times change.

[@carolmcguirk9195]

That's because everyone worked back then no time for sitting out in the sun unless you was on a weeks holiday at Blackpool

[@BPJJohn]

pfft this is not hot rodding, its banger racing, 130hp? 😆

[@richardrees3378]

it was 1977 . you must be some kind of idiot