300 M.P.H. Road (1961)

[@wagglycloth4547]

I like how when they’re passing the bridges it sounds like someone is doing the sound effect by just blowing lol

[@yeh.80]

Probably blowing on his hot cup of tea

[@roadreg1820]

I think that’s exactly what they did. Genius 🤣

[@dronespace]

@@yeh.80 😂

[@TDGCmote]

@@roadreg1820 yeah, sounds like sound was added back in after it was sped up.

[@subhamjha6562]

0:45 yes lol😂😂

[@Mariazellerbahn]

1:32 That awkward moment when you are doing 300mph and a Ford Consul passes you as if you are standing still.

[@pauricboylan3571]

He stated that they weren't actually going 300mph just camera sped up trickery.

[@B.A.P_Golden_Eagle.]

He’s doing, what, 400, 450 mph. Damn, that little ford engine is certainly getting a workout.

[@ian_b]

@@B.A.P_Golden_Eagle. Underestimated car, the Ford Consul.

[@Goldenrod01]

@@pauricboylan3571 thanks for clarifying, I really thought that consul was driving at 400mph

[@Endidixknsej]

@@Goldenrod01 🤣🤣🤣

[@oddities-whatnot]

The emptiness of the motorway is unreal compared to todays nightmare of enduring them.

[@benwilliams6081]

Jackie Tearie : and thre kids - one each.

[@schweizerd6303]

our motorways are even more empty today

[@markhenley3097]

This was when motorways were new, and the trains actually ran. Notice how you only see trucks on the motorway too.

[@rockinnathan]

and then came the first uk lockdown. empty

[@carsandstuff365]

Looks cleaner too

[@CB-RADIO-UK]

Even at 300 MPH he got overtaken :-)

[@khafidzainulyaqien5996]

Njir ngakak

[@tobityp2]

Naaah, i assume he only drove about 200 mph at this particular moment..

[@28YorkshireRose12]

Aye, bloody fast, them old Fords!

[@tjteknik1]

Sorry about that... I was in a hurry.

[@billsticker]

My Dad's old Ford Zodiac by the look of things.

[@v52gc]

So people have been hogging the middle lane for over half a century.

Here, in Portugal, the middle lane must have some kind of chocolate smell, people don't keep to the right... almost never. On the other hand, the right lane has a real cool asphalt, because it's much more less used. xD

[@Karmy.]

I always use the right lane so I don't have to try to change lanes when I need to exit

[@User-1543]

Middle lane should always be used if you’re commuting down the interstate. Left lane for passing slower traffic ahead of you IN THE MIDDLE LANE. And the right lane is to be used to get over to exit off the interstate. The middle lane isn’t meant to be the go fast lane.

[@dreww47]

v52gc it’s ok to do that .... lol

[@ianlehman8342]

They've also been passing in the wrong lane like always. ( for left-hand drive; People often pass in the right lane instead of the left lane designed for passing, vice-versa for right-hand drive it seems)

[@MrBcraze513]

0:43 someone is literally dubbed themselves making a swooshing noise with their mouth

[@chfsunf1ower296]

Lmao

[@glenquagmire4232]

Hahahahaha

[@staravs360]

Yes

[@Red_Dusk]

Yeet

[@SCUMMY4205]

vrooooommmm

[@Dan23_7]

Fast and furious vintage edition

[@markwright3161]

Fast and Furious 100, speeding ticket down memory lane :)

[@sp4msolo724]

@@markwright3161 it's better than F9. More realistic

[@grantmitchell9034]

There was a movie called fast and furious made in the 50s

[@OverdriveCz]

Yes

[@eriksantoso1741]

@@grantmitchell9034 1970s also

[@huepix]

Even 100mph in an Austin A40 would be terrifying.

[@dschonsie]

100 mph in a wheelchair....that's really scary

[@joeking8028]

Had a 1956 Austin top speed was 90 mph not scary at all at that speed. Very stable,

[@malibu188]

Down hill with a strong tail wind 🤔

[@joeking8028]

@@malibu188 that's about right

[@joeking8028]

@Dacia Sandero guys had one no problem with brakes

[@robertkingston6164]

You can almost forgive them for tearing up all the railways when early motorways were that empty. If only they could see the motor dystopia they were condemning us to.

[@kingprone7846]

indeed. i think it was just a different time and hence people could still with what would be considered very unsafe cars drive 120mph+ and get away with it.

[@jayswarrow1196]

No, in fact - you can't. The motor dystopia we've got today is a *result* of their lightheaded approach to the public transport. They just thought "hey, the roads are empty, we don't need trains to travel"... In simple words: you can't treat cattle like a horse and hope it'll find it's own way home - you got to transport one with a _leading head._ (the engineer, or a bus driver in this case.)

[@theamazingempiricist]

They knew exactly what they were doing, watch "taken for a ride" to see how this was done in the US

[@OffGridInvestor]

If only you could see Australian freeways at midnight. They're far emptier than this. Good when you work nights. And it's extremely rare to see cops out then. Unless someone has crashed.

[@kingprone7846]

@@OffGridInvestor indeed, i moved to Aus, i usually leave at 0300 in the morning on long distance journeys. no speed cameras, no cops, no idiots.

[@roddydykes7053]

Imagine if highways were this open now

[@1000guy1]

If the automatic transmission was never invited

[@tegrqbruh4158]

I mean they are

[@benwilliams6081]

droid4D : Bedfordshire, England actually - the first British motorway - the M1.

[@fluffii5601]

Well I think on AutoBahn

[@101Volts]

Not gonna kid you, I once drove I-80 for 8 miles at 55 MPH in Pennsylvania in 2014 or 2015 and literally nobody passed me the whole time. I'm guessing traffic was held up that day.

[@ivanbima5877]

I like how they reach "300 MPH" while some truck in front of them probably doing 270 MPH

[@Wanking_wanker]

“We are not trying to set the land speed record” ha...if only they knew...

[@SCHRANZ3040]

Nicky h225 I’m sure they’d be most delighted knowing that we made and hold the land speed record. :):):)

[@Tyron95]

I love how his left foot is literally smashed on the floor

[@jrjr9908]

Well you're not supposed to rest your foot on the clutch pedal when driving.

[@ITSJustAGame-ro5ut]

@@jrjr9908 facts.......... well u can just youre clutch plate doesnt recomend it

[@MrUnder30seconds]

@@ITSJustAGame-ro5ut he didn't say you can't

[@ITSJustAGame-ro5ut]

@@MrUnder30seconds r/wooossshhh

[@MrUnder30seconds]

@@ITSJustAGame-ro5ut ZZZZoooommm

[@ssss-df5qz]

"We must ask you not to do 300mph.... we've only sped the footage up"

[@flutter8712]

"We cheated with the camera! 🤭" Oh no we didn't noticed

[@loveplane737]

using speed motion in 1961?? cool camera in the past

[@colinmoreillon5970]

@@loveplane737 its just sped up film, nothing special.

[@alessandromoretti9495]

@@colinmoreillon5970 in 1960s it was like magic I suppose lol

[@numbereightyseven]

​@@colinmoreillon5970 Well you're fun to be around....

[@josef596]

Look at those clear motorways. Bliss.

[@andrzejzborowski4920]

1 gallon of petrol costed 4 shilligs 8 pences in 1961. For the current money with inflation is around 5.43£ per gallon now :)

[@justsomeasshole7388]

Thats still alot

[@simonramsay6080]

That's interesting!

[@roddydykes7053]

Proud Republican not compared to what it is currently over there. Lot for America maybe

[@daveycmusic]

Cool fact, technically then, it's about the same price now. A gallon today (1.22 per litre) is £5.53

[@AgentSmith911]

In Texas it's $2 a gal

[@sicks6six]

The "ton-up" boys heaven. Motorways with no speed limits. Longest skidmarks ever was an E-Type on the M1 .estimated speed when brakes locked was 125mph..and the marks were nearly 1000 foot long.. (if my memory serves me well)

[@Astrix_Jaeger]

I like how they did a acapella "sheeewwwp" sound effect as the car swoops through under a bridge

[@soundseeker63]

Even 60 years later you can tell its the M1 from the style of those concrete over-bridges. And the style of the signposts are virtually unchanged! It must have seemed ultra modern back then! Just a shame you can't say the same about the volumes of traffic!!

[@grahammace5060]

How rich Ernie Marples (Transport Minister) got out of all those fat motorway contracts.

[@k.r.99]

_After 7 years in the deepest depths of KZbin, it was time to get recommended._ - this video

[@matthewjamesshovlin3136]

Piccadilly looks amazing in the 60s!

[@madwatermelon1316]

London was at it's coolest back then but it's slowly lost it's charm.

[@wildanh7806]

So this is 100 mph with 3time faster speed?😅

[@kingofrandom4816]

No its 30mph with 10x speed

[@hitop2365]

I would hazard a guess at 60-70mph speeded up x5.

[@mikebarber1480]

He actually says it is 75mph so speeded up 4 times = 300mph

[@uweschollmeyer9409]

I recommend to put the KZbin-setting to double speed.

[@brandon2kn]

This guy just went and got a full tank for 60p... and now you can’t even buy anything in the shop for that

[@kyushamx5114]

Yeah but 60p back then was alot more then it is now

[@JetsetMiner]

A freddo?

[@danw1374]

@@kyushamx5114 I can remember when a packet of 20 cigarettes cost just £1.20.

[@matthewvwuk]

I like it how the pumps measured the fuel in good old fashioned gallons instead of litres nowadays. Now that we have left the EU I think we should go back to imperial measurements like gallons etc.

[@givemeahi5857]

The fact that roads were so good back in 60s is what developing nations like India just had in recent past

[@VespaT5]

It's hard to believe that the M1 was built without a central crash barrier, the head-ons must have been terrifying. 🚗💥☠️

[@stuartd9741]

And 3 trucks side by side in all lanes.

[@Derek_S]

My friend bought a second hand E Type in the late 1960's and wanted to see how fast it would go. We joined the M1 at the southern end and he got it up to around 150 mph on the clock, which surprisingly didn't feel very stable, so we slowed down but then realised we had to go miles before reaching a turn off for our return. There was very little traffic in those days so we simply did a u-turn across the central reservation and went back the way we'd come. It wasn't many years after that the Armco was installed on the central reservation as a safety improvement.

[@Brommear]

We had an Austen A50 - I think this was one in the video. Never mind 300mph, it would never have done 75 either!

[@mylifeinvictus]

These older videos are so awesome! Love it!

[@firedell1031]

I WISH traffic in the middle of the day was still this easy.

[@waynetetley584]

The Consul overtake really cracked me up. Hilarious 😁😂

[@nitrorory]

Those empty roads must have been such a joy

[@dhruvgarg7194]

*BEAUTIFUL FOOTAGE! PURE GOLD*

[@David-uq6yb]

My Grampa had an Austin Cambridge in the 60’s. I loved going for a ride with him in his Cambridge as a 4-5 year old. But it didn’t do 0-60 in 10 seconds... rather 0-10 in 60 seconds. Life was a lot less hectic then.

[@jemsncrystals]

1:32 *When you think you are fast and this happens...*

[@maryhinge128]

This is the dashcam footage on Dominic Cummings car when he went up to Barnard Castle last year with the covid, while we were all stuck at home.

[@nicholasbell9017]

He he!

[@ercopi9534]

Considering that the footage is sixty years old, it's surprisingly good quality.

[@waifuracer6516]

75mph in 1961. 50mph in 2021. Improved a lot 👍

[@Dodo-nb3yc]

Thanks, recommendations

[@michaeldesilvio9980]

my old pickup truck feels like you're going three hundred miles an hour when you're actually only going seventy five.

[@nigelclark7360]

Might be only 60 mls an HR.

[@nigelclark7360]

They weren't very fast those 1200 cc Austin's.

[@Burns11112]

Why would you lower a truck

[@alessandro.calzavara]

Love it, the humor and all and this is from my mom's year of birth!

[@WILLIAM1690WALES]

First time joining motorway at Birmingham to travel to St Albans on the M1 1967 in a Vauxhall Viva one thing I do remember is listening to the Beatles on the radio, those were the days?

[@mnd1955]

I learned to drive in a Viva. Good cars for the time.

[@yuyyes7929]

KZbin recommending me this I was like it sounds cool

[@paulbroderick8438]

Love the vintage two tone paint job! Seems the only colors available now are either white or grey. Greetings from a Brit residing in the USA.

[@phillipecook3227]

We had an Austin Cambridge - MAROON with a stripe!

[@Thomas-lu7dn]

I'm amazed by how British infrastructure was so advanced even in the early 1960s. Truly impressive!

[@1978rharris]

Withnail making some serious time. If he gets caught he’ll have to get right in the back of the van

[@victorymansions]

He only had a few ales.

[@alexarango6677]

Man speeding back in the day looked fun af

[@blowduke]

I would love to take my superbike back in time to those roads ..

[@t16205]

Those Zephyrs and Consuls whould whip your ass

[@landhopper4296]

300mph in the Austin. Sweet. This is why we love old cars.

[@brianfearn4246]

Motorways, middle lane for overtaking. Third lane for overtaking. The problem of lane hogging has never changed.

[@maxmustermann5353]

1:31 The moment when you're driving 300MPH and someone rushes by.

[@satpxl]

The clips speeded

[@Lightning2011]

0:21 when you realize school starts in 2 minutes and you JUST got into your car:

[@whatif4942]

I could have believed it was 300mph but the Austin badge on the front gave the game away.

[@sidecarbod1441]

I agree, everyone knows that they were only good for about 250 MPH

[@garfield2279]

My dads old Bedford dormobile van would probably just about reach 70 mph, on a good day, with a 3 mile run up, and with a following wind, trouble was at that speed it sounded like an old gas cooker, full of pots and pans, being rolled down a marble staircase. Today’s cars do it in virtual silence, completely understressed, you don’t even know you’re doing it

[@denys2776]

I would love to live in that time and own a car, look how empty the roads are.

[@96serpendityyouarelostnotm87]

Uploaded 5 years ago and just now I’m watching it

[@batmanlives6456]

Who would have thought... 300 mph in an old Austin Sounds feasible

[@southwest3671]

Nice to see all my Dinky Toys come to life.

[@marklittler784]

Bonnet mascot adds to a cars character 😊

[@ccityplanner1217]

No sensation of speed is just how I felt on the motorway as a child. 0:45: Luton & Dunstable railway line

[@tobaccorich]

Beautiful So Clean !

[@JohnSmith-pd1fz]

300 MPH Austin Cambridge? Must have that new Ingenium engine in it!

[@robinburn4974]

The two tones always went faster

[@JohnSmith-pd1fz]

++@@robinburn4974++ Yes I remember them. I had a two tone green one for a while. Wish I had it now!

[@vishalkrishan8988]

I am very much happy to see this video 👍

[@mandywithell]

And no armco barriers in the central reservation :)

[@Nbomber]

Love the sound effects, clearly a guy making those noises into a mic

[@markhenley3097]

You also get to see a bit of historical London in the end.

[@ituber09]

Wow, person writing the description redefining the word 'dedicated'

[@BurtonsAttic]

Vintage sped up video!

[@benwilliams6081]

Burton's Attic to speed up the footage on a film cine camera, you SLOWED DOWN the speed at which the camera took the frames. This speeded up the result to the viewers.

[@fenleyjones]

Oh how they love the shot of the foot pressing the gas

[@AbandonEarth911]

No central reservation barrier. Gallon of petrol 4shillings and 8pennies in old money.

[@jxg1652]

A average day on the Autobahn... but who is this madman passing on the right?!?

[@greenman1411]

Petrol: 4 shillings and eightpence per gallon! That's about 23 pence! Or a litre for about 5 pence!!!

[@derekth71]

Yeah, the fuel price was the bit that made me sigh… 😆

[@jamesbedford7327]

Its roughly equivalent to 107.5p/litre today

[@Dman1998]

I love the Tom & Jerry background music

[@JBinthesticks]

I want one of those 150 mph Bedfords.

[@drdavidstr]

wow at 1961, also people are as fast as cars. loved it

[@tina5203]

Great video !!!! 😁

[@heythisisminenotyours]

The lack of trees and plants that block out the sounds makes everything look so... vast!

[@johnadams-wp2yb]

Great days, when you could be proud of your country.

[@fidan2fast]

I love the woosh sound when it passes an overpass

[@markholroyde9412]

Ha ha ha fkn hilarious, love it, see the old Austin got smoked by the "new" 350mph..... Mk 11 Zodiac, wonderful vid. ....needs to press the brown brouge shoe down a bit harder LOL

[@andywright8803]

There's a film like this with a train going from London to Edinburgh (I think) at something like 500mph. I must have last seen it about 40 years ago on TV 😂

[@sbcap3809]

Those were the days of traffic never to be seen again. Wow, I lived through something that no one will ever again experience.

[@Tom_YouTube_stole_my_handle]

You might see it again. I suspect the era of affordable private car ownership is coming to an end.

[@sbcap3809]

You may have a point there, as most freedoms are now beginning to be refused. Didn’t take more than 75 years to go back to serfdom. If you have heard old Charlie Swabyee, you will own nothing, so private cars are not the only thing you will no longer be deprived of.

[@dingo137]

It was like that (maybe even less traffic) about a year ago in the first lockdown. It was a weird feeling to drive on an empty M6.

[@mauricecalvillo8486]

Gotta love the music, man... It's so jazzy, crazy and delightful, just like the commentator's voice itself, and fits really well with driving back in those times... Btw, I could've sworn at 1:50 that car was about to kill a pedestrian and crash like 4 times.

[@theoilandgasresourceportal2132]

The impact of mass immigration and uncontrolled population growth isn't evident in this film. People must have been so unhappy back then

[@keithdukes5990]

Yeah, what a miserable time it must have been!!! Lol!

[@seltaeb9691]

I'm misty eyed..

[@EenGamer.]

Im gonna do whats called a pro gamer move Me: *sets speed to 2x *600mph*

[@brackcycle9056]

4 Shillings 8 pence per gallon ....WOW !... 5.1p per Litre ! With an attendant to fill it for you. .... But the average wage in 1961 was £750 & now 2021 , is £ 31,000 .. So £ in your Pocket equal to £2.12 per Litre !, & cars then got about about 20MPG to 40 MPG , making motoring about 2x or 3x more expensive per mile.

[@broccoliface4501]

Thanks for the maths

[@TonyAquino2023]

4 shillings is equivalent to 20 new pence (20p) in decimal money. 8 old pence is 3½ new pence (3½p) in decimal money. However, ½p was demonetised in December 1984 which means 4 shillings and 8 old pence (4/8) would be 24p in decimal money. Since 1 imperial gallon = 4.54609 litres, one litre of petrol at that time would be approximately 5.28p (in 24p / gallon) or 5.17p (in 23.5p / gallon). So, your conversion is correct.

[@adamrichardson7758]

Proof we should be able to max our cars on the motorways

[@BillyNoMates1974]

No speed limits back then because hardly anything could hit 70mph without breaking down

[@ToyKingWonder]

I don't know about British cars on British Roads. However, in the US, in the 60s to the 80s, we would take cross country trips, from LA to Chicago, Denver to LA, etc, about once a year. Our first car was a 1961 Pontiac Bonneville Wagon. That was replaced with a 1966 Buick. Finally, a 1969 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham. We never broke down, and yes, all drum brakes, non-radial tires. One time in Denver the Cadillac got some bad fuel and started hesitating, a shop visit resulted in a new fuel filter. Another time we came out of a restaurant and we had a flat tire. That was about it. Back then all the interstates were 75mph and my dad would cruise at 80+. The reality is that since the late 50s, most cars were extremely reliable and we had well-traveled interstate freeways to prove it.

[@BillyNoMates1974]

@@ToyKingWonder probably because in the USA most engine sizes are quite a bit larger than in the UK. Back then an Austin 3 Litre was considered a large engine. Most engines were of the 1.8L to 2.0L sizes

[@t16205]

@@BillyNoMates1974 Come on! Most engines were 1.0L to 1.6 liter.. High end cars could have a 2.0L, but not most cars. On the other hand they were effective

[@zlatanmorrison8182]

Crazy to think that there are some modern cars that can now actually ACHIEVE 300mph for real:) Chiron Supersport etc.

[@rjones6219]

The days when you could get 4 gals/£1. I recall my father being outraged that before long petrol would soon be £1/gal.

[@jennifernicholas523]

I remember driving from North London to Beverley in Yorkshire and refilling the tank in my Consul for £2.50

[@blankroomsoup666]

But you’d also earn about £5 a week?

[@Tom_YouTube_stole_my_handle]

I remember my father saying people would take their cars off the road if petrol reached £1 per gallon. I can just about remember it being 80p.

[@gavcom4060]

did you forget about inflation?

[@andy199121]

You wanna see the M1 today, you’d do well to do 30mph. It’s got more in common with a car park

[@Reverend-ek6kt]

back when media and corporate made informative adverts for adults instead of dumbing everything down to make all adverts sound like childrens

[@metrez4537]

The good old days when the roads didnt have traffic :D

[@LilaKuhJunge]

...and today affluent brits still come to germany to try it for real...

[@tomp7847]

Love how little certain things have changed

[@savedbygodsgrace.9058]

M1 Birmingham?

[@marklittler784]

Suppose slowing the video speed gives greater prolonged pleasure watching

[@brianfoster7794]

I remember the motorways before they imposed the 70mph speed limits, whatever you’re car could do flat out that was fine, problem was when you came back down to 50/60 it feels like 5mph and even with the little traffic around then there were some horrific accidents leaving the motorways and crossovers with no central barrier that was always a mess two metal lumps into one mangled red stained lump not nice

[@stuartd9741]

Always wonder if there's wasn't a fuel crisis in 73, would there of been an actual national speed limit of 70mph?

[@SiVlog1989]

Of course, the M1 goes a lot further than 75 miles from London, reaching as far as Leeds. It could have been even longer if the Ringways scheme hadn't been abandoned, reaching Ringway 1 at West Hampstead. That said, it was probably a double edged sword that it didn't happen

[@christophertucker8031]

No Austen would do 300mph

[@xboxcontroller4811]

Christopher Tucker that car would be shaking at 65 MPH

[@simonramsay6080]

*it's Austin (not Austen)! I think that model would have had a top speed of 80mph. It looks an A50/55. Obviously the film was sped up.

[@SillyGoose778]

@@simonramsay6080 That's what they said in the video iirc

[@grahamstanton6500]

Christopher Tucker Austin did 192.62mph in 1954 in bonneville

[@andrewallen9993]

The Lancaster bombers Austin made would go faster than 300mph :) And in the 1940's too!

[@nileshsharma244]

This is far better then current Indian and Pakistani roads