Oh, what a treat. Meins was masterful in the A40, and watching him dice it up with the Jaguars was great fun. And the Metropolitan made a surprisingly strong showing! Never thought I’d see one racing.
@Brommear
2 жыл бұрын
Why does anyone still watch modern car racing when this is at hand?
@mattcollier5957
2 жыл бұрын
im here every year, as an owner of 3 Metropolitans, you know who im cheering for.....
@manfacilitymetalworks1296
3 жыл бұрын
Stick your F1 and touring cars. This is real balls out racing. Love it. More please
@MrSaemichlaus
4 жыл бұрын
Remarkable pace for the fact that they are all sitting in the passenger seat! Greetings from Switzerland, hehe
@reouvenz
3 жыл бұрын
I see what you did there :)
@briankelvindiffey3006
5 жыл бұрын
Real cars, awesome racing, real drivers with steel balls....Those were the days- :-)
@the5thmusketeer215
5 жыл бұрын
No... The most aggressive drivers actually had their steel balls removed... so as to save weight. ✌️😎
@geraldswain3259
7 жыл бұрын
What a fabulously soughted little car the A40 is ,and a great pilot to boot !!!.
@PatrickCurrie1
6 жыл бұрын
A Farina battling for first place and a Nash Metropolitan in the top 6! Who'd-a-thunk-it?! Amazing stuff
@sidscrote2006
5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! Much better than an F1 "procession".
@fiveowaf454
5 жыл бұрын
Agreed, not hat it's hard to improve on F1 when it comes to excitement on the track.
@fiveowaf454
5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic race, the most entertaining car race I've seen for some time. My Primary school teacher had a red A40 like the on that came second, so there was some nostalgia at play too.
@byronpink9061
4 жыл бұрын
Superb driving in these vintage automobiles. Love it!!
@leslieaustin151
3 жыл бұрын
Err, ‘Vintage’ - in UK at least - means 1921 - 1930. These are way too late for that. But some might qualify as PVT (post-vintage thoroughbred), but not many of them. Still, its all good fun and stuff from my younger days. Les
@joshuarosen6242
4 жыл бұрын
That was a great race and it was fascinating to see the small light cars head to head with the big powerful ones.
@spikespa5208
2 жыл бұрын
4:20 So ya think horsepower is all ya need? Nope.
@bikesqump
4 жыл бұрын
I've never seen so many drum brakes and leaf springs in 1 place in my life! so cool
@flamingfrancis
Жыл бұрын
You need to visit the scrap dealers more often.
@blxtothis
5 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of my families weekly runs from London to Brighton to visit grandma, in my pop’s 1956 Morris Oxford!
@brycenew
4 жыл бұрын
So SO much fun in 2020 to see these old girls being given what for on a track. And a wee A40 leading the charge!! What value this recording is :D
@regsparkes6507
5 жыл бұрын
What nostalgia, terrific! Well done all.
@jayc3110
4 жыл бұрын
That was wonderful to watch... Thanks!
@taketimeout2share
5 жыл бұрын
Austin Metropolitan? Racing? And doing well? I must have eaten the wrong mushrooms. Waiter!!
@markfortin421
4 жыл бұрын
And in a bloody awful color no less!!! 😂
@TheGel69
4 жыл бұрын
Nash metropolitan on the other side of the pond, indeed very strange, having had a 1959 convertible model for a while it never occur to me that I could race it.....
@blxtothis
4 жыл бұрын
taketimeout2 - as a kid in the 50s we always knew it an Austin Nash Metropolitan, a joint venture with the American company. Austin had many models specifically aimed at the American market in the day.
@deltavee2
4 жыл бұрын
A Nash (Austin) Metropolitan running in the top six for so long! My grandmother had one of those back in the '60s. Never ever even contemplated that one could race in it. Too bad it DNF'd, but wow.
@Collateralcoffee
4 жыл бұрын
This is awesome!!!! What a great piece of driving!
@clanrobertson7200
6 жыл бұрын
I love seeing the Anglo’s Prefect 100e red and gold. My first car was a 1957 Anglin Prefect 100e which I bought for $100 and had to rebuild the flat head 4 cylinder. While waiting for parts from England,I sanded the baby blue body and painted it Corvette Candy Apple Metal flake Red, put oversized tires on the rear, jacked up the front springs and put white racing stripes down the drivers side. I put s few personal touches on the interior: surplus jet fighter seatbelts in front, a Buick tube type radio in the glove box with a single speaker wedged between the shifter and the firewall, I used a Stant radiator cap tester gage as a tachometer. I mounted it on the dash, ran a copper hose to the water pump. As the engine revved, the water pressure went up . It made a clicking sound as it flopped back and forth. I drove the car hard for three years and never had a problem with anything!
@HITHEREFOLKS
8 жыл бұрын
almost like being there !!!!! so much fun !!!!!! oh...top marks for commentators too !!
@duncanwalker1347
5 жыл бұрын
How wonderful to think there are still plenty of men wealthy enough and utterly mad enough to do this on a weekend for what is basically a hobby
@lsmith6378
4 жыл бұрын
I used to be an enthusiast when you could buy a road going XK for fifty quid. A friend of mine bought a Jag MK7 from Green Lane breakers put another engine in went to Silverstone and won his race and then drove the car home. Those were the days.
@davidskeeterskeeter1835
5 жыл бұрын
This is real motor racing,👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍👍🇬🇧
@markfortin421
4 жыл бұрын
And, if I may say....fantastic video, with cameras placed perfectly to catch the action, although we need a tad more coverage for the boys in the back....they're in the race too!!
@hydorah
4 жыл бұрын
Crikey that was surprisingly riveting. That black Jag looks tremendous. I was really surprised to see an A40 with so much pace!
@stewartw.9151
5 жыл бұрын
I raced a 998cc Mini and a Lotus Cortina, both much hotted-up, in the 1960s and early 1970s. But I would never have thought of many of these cars as suitable for any kind of racing! The lap record at Goodwood is 1:18.217 set by Nick Padmore in a Lola T70 Spyder in 2015. So these are going at a relatively leisurely pace of course but I expect they are pedalling hard though. As the saying goes when one considers a Jag Mk VII or a Ford Zephyr or a Nash Metropolitan and any possibility of great success, "you can't get there from here!"
@williamcharles9480
4 жыл бұрын
I love seeing that Austin(Nash)Metropolitan running in the front pack. Never seen a Metro race before or just about anything else here for that matter. A completely surreal experience. Who supplies the parts for these vintage cars? Those spoke wheels on the Jaguars must be a real challenge to keep in racing tune. Great stuff.
@robertp.wainman4094
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I'd like to know too - especially tuning, uprated suspension and brake parts.
@AndrewArjoon
7 жыл бұрын
Getting motivation to finish my Jag restoration :)
@gizmothewytchdoktor1049
7 жыл бұрын
so it! my xjs facelift gets driven every day :-) wonderful feeling and driving piece of kit :->
@TheHairyHound
4 жыл бұрын
Saturdays with Grandstand or World of Sport showing this kind of programming made tv worth tuning in to And by tuning that's exactly what we had to do lol 😂 Bring back real racing like this!!!!!
@markjohnson8352
5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant race!
@Roger.Coleman1949
7 жыл бұрын
I learnt to drive in a ' 64 Austin A40, didn't go like No 46 - great exciting stuff !
@ST-jq
3 жыл бұрын
What made me laugh, was the little Nash trying to keep up with the big boys. My school teacher back in the early 60's had one, even then it made me smile just to see such a bizarre motor car.
@TERRYB0688
4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, all skill, surprised no cars overheated , boy in the A40 will need a change of underwear after this race 👍
@nor0845
4 жыл бұрын
Don’t know what they’re feeding these things....... Good stuff. Thanks for posting.
@mr-wx3lv
4 жыл бұрын
That was some race... I rooted for the A40... But the old Jag just had a bit more grunt..
@michaelcatto8323
2 жыл бұрын
MK1 3.4. and 2. 4 Probably my favourite cars of all time. In my life I have owned many cars Rover Mercs XJs I currently run E46, E38, Z3 2.2 and 2.8s, still would love a MK1. E46 in same league.
@chrisvilavelha
5 жыл бұрын
....................... Glorious !!! .... Thank you so much !!! :-)
@stevedriver1476
2 жыл бұрын
The Nash had an english motor that was in many british cars. sold through rambler, mayflower, AMC,
@jesuseduardostahlleija8986
5 жыл бұрын
Muy buena carrera..muy buena la última vuelta, me gustó el desempeño del Hudson Metropolitan, aunque abandonó, yo tenía uno..pero éste estaba más bajo de la suspensión..los Jaguar ya deberían estar en un Museo..y TODOS.. Salud2
@Evilroco
4 жыл бұрын
Es genial que estos autos clásicos sigan compitiendo , lo siento por mi pobre español
@markfortin421
4 жыл бұрын
Goodwood beats NASCAR hands down. This is what racing is SUPPOSED to be!!!! ✌😄
@a1ar127
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing that these sportsmen risk their vintage cars... I always thought they were just out for exhibitions but from these Goodwood videos they’re seriously risking a lot of valuable hardware for the fun of the race.
@UberLummox
5 жыл бұрын
English announcer says (car gets) "a little bit *naughty* up the inside". Very quaint! :)
@colindebourg3884
5 жыл бұрын
I used to race against Les Ely at Braintree Auto Club many years ago.
4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant race but let's face it a Jaguar should beat an Austin A40.
@mrofnocnon
4 жыл бұрын
yes but only just!
@garrygreen4814
Жыл бұрын
Thse cars look like they are enjoying it
@robertp.wainman4094
3 жыл бұрын
Who transforms these cars into such racing machines?
@jamesblonde2271
Жыл бұрын
Great race, the Nash was hilarious, sorry it DNFd
@realnutteruk1
5 жыл бұрын
I miss my A40... APA931A (not its original number) bought Bracknell about 1988... kept running by much welding, and replacement of the original 948cc engine with a 1098 Morris Minor lump.... would climb multi-storey car parks in top gear.... Sadly met its maker at A1 breakers in Wokingham about 1993.... Rust in Peace little car....
@INDIGOBLUE555
4 жыл бұрын
Well,despite its size that huge Mk VII does unexpectedly keep up brilliantly with the more sporty Mk II....A good set up and what a good driver.
@andymcneil7085
Жыл бұрын
Proper racing.
@kabukiwookie
6 жыл бұрын
What?? Is that a Nash Metropolitan I see there?? People road race Nash Metropolitans??? I guess it makes sense.... The only thing that would blow my mind more is seeing a 1950's Chrysler New Yorker in that race...
@ianjohnson4052
6 жыл бұрын
kabukiwookie thats a little Austin Metropolitan, they were made here in Great Britain, Nash must have imported them and put their badge on them.
@jonathanshelly5014
6 жыл бұрын
Actually, Nash designed the Metropolitan, had Austin build it, and then sold it as a Nash. Pretty confusing, but the car was originally designed in the U.S., it just wasn't built there due to tooling costs. Nash decided that they could contract it out to Austin for less money.
@disvillage
5 жыл бұрын
kabukiwookie Lololololol too funny.
@taooflovepassionandcomedy8722
4 жыл бұрын
best race I have ever seen
@dobermanpac1064
4 жыл бұрын
Fabulously Brilliant! Very entertaining 😎 Who needs F1...LOLLL
@loripearce3942
5 жыл бұрын
was at goodwood last year one check for bucketlist. Best racing in the world barnone
@michaelcostigan4864
9 жыл бұрын
UK market Metropolitans were badged as Austins, but this one is left hand drive so, yes, it's a Nash
@Hot80s
5 жыл бұрын
Even if they were sold to the rest of the left-hand Europe?
@cyberdansken
5 жыл бұрын
Left hand drives Austin's here in Europe.
@ernestogasulla7763
5 жыл бұрын
I wanted to see a little more of the Falcon. Still a great video.
@jacktheripoff1888
2 жыл бұрын
When the chauffeur tells his employer he's going to take the Mark-VII for the day out to get it serviced.
@luisvillarrealheredero1326
4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!
@west_adv
5 жыл бұрын
Great race!
@garrygreen4814
Жыл бұрын
This is better than F1
@flamingfrancis
Жыл бұрын
The bridal car (#29) did extremely well considering it had wedding bookings before the race.
@claudiosironi7591
4 жыл бұрын
What a race .
@Kandi-tg
9 жыл бұрын
Wow what a great race, i though the jag would eat the A40
@David-ki6jq
8 ай бұрын
It's no surprise all the best bank robbers drove a mk1 Jag 😂
@englishmaninfrance661
2 жыл бұрын
I had a Riley 1.5 , even stock , it wa pretty quick
@specialized29er86
5 жыл бұрын
Would the cars have the original suspension, if so you'd need balls of steel.
4 жыл бұрын
Can't see how that is possible.
@alistairriggs5911
2 ай бұрын
nooooo the A40 piped at the post
5 жыл бұрын
These are REAL cars.
@MrSaemichlaus
4 жыл бұрын
Metropolitan is running some serious negative camber on the front! There should be a grayscale version of this video!
@garymanis6305
4 жыл бұрын
Looked like that Mk-VII had more than a few suspension modifications. I'm not sure what the rules allow. Good race, though.
@thomasb1889
4 жыл бұрын
It is weird as an American hearing the names of the models. To me a Zephyr of that era is a Lincoln. The Metropolitan was from Nash and while a good small car the US was not ready for cars that small yet.
@shoutykat
6 жыл бұрын
So much negative camber on the MkVII! It looks broken until it gets into a coner and suddenly the outside wheel is perfectly upright.
@fiveowaf454
5 жыл бұрын
I noticed the same, thought he had something broken on the first couple of laps.
@pb6198
4 жыл бұрын
Mk7 jag is impressive
@mrofnocnon
4 жыл бұрын
An A40 came second! Hard to believe!
@andyhigs6150
4 жыл бұрын
I owned an A40 ,many moons ago. It didn’t go like this one.
@JohnSmith-zv8km
4 жыл бұрын
wonderfully british
@infledermaus
2 жыл бұрын
Why are there so few Triumph TR-4s racing at Goodwood? TRs, MGs, Spitfires, 1960s small sports cars, etc.
@acptelford1307
5 ай бұрын
There’s loads racing. This is a different class
@stevestegman2066
4 ай бұрын
I like watching races at GoodWood but what i dont understand is why do they race different model of cars in the same race. Seems like you would know who is going to have a better chance of winning.
@borromeo50
6 жыл бұрын
great race... though quite disappointed the Falcon couldn't do better than a 9th place :(
@DSRQ1
Ай бұрын
I'm betting none of those euro cars make it to the last lap.
@steinwaygrande3971
8 жыл бұрын
Great racing. Wonderful to see these classic cars doing battle on the track. One has to wonder what was lurking under the bonnet of the A40 that Gave the Jag a hard time
Goodwood has very tight rules about modifications. It has to have an Austin A-series engine
@AndyWontTakeItAnymore
9 жыл бұрын
Peter Clements in the Standard 10..Also known as Isle of Wight Pete :)
@gizmothewytchdoktor1049
7 жыл бұрын
good race!
@saltzen961
5 жыл бұрын
Yawn . A bunch of weird looking , gutless little cars . how fun could this be ?? Half way through I'm standing in my chair !!!!! Now THAT'S racing . More Goodwood please !!!!!!!!!!
@barrymedd6859
5 жыл бұрын
Interested to know what modifications allowed.
@INDIGOBLUE555
4 жыл бұрын
What about the average budget needed to join such amateurish racing ? Let's say,to run a midfield car just to have fun amongst these enthusiasts ...?
@tomohawk5567
6 жыл бұрын
What modifications were made to these cars? Great video thanks for sharing
@mitchb2305
4 жыл бұрын
The tires look like they're the original equipment (at least their size is OE), but I'm betting they're allowed some sort of stickier compound. Clutch and other drivetrain parts are definitely allowed modification. Suspensions too, otherwise there'd be a lot more leaning and diving and sliding. Roll cages. Fuel cells? Maybe.
@paultaylor701
4 жыл бұрын
Why didn’t bank robbers use an A40 instead of Jags in all those films in the 50s and 60s?
@markadrianalancaster567
4 жыл бұрын
4 doors..unless it's a Transit!
@briancritchley5295
4 жыл бұрын
Nash Metropolitan is a Austin A40 with a US style body .
@nickjervis8123
4 жыл бұрын
No different engine. A40 A series. Met B series
@briancritchley5295
Жыл бұрын
@@nickjervis8123 I did not know this, thanks.
@paulnicholls8683
5 жыл бұрын
The only way this could be a bit better would be a bit of onboard video.
@danb.3397
5 жыл бұрын
IT'S NOT EASY RACING AND FLIPPING A CREPE AT THE SAME TIME !!
@austinwagoncompany
5 жыл бұрын
Start at 2:55
@brucemoxon3771
7 жыл бұрын
Who the hell races a Mk VII Jaguar? Must have muscles on his muscles to steer the bloody thing.
@garthlundquist8316
6 жыл бұрын
2manysecrets I raced mine in high school. The real problem is the ridiculous weak brakes. They were bad enough on the 120.
@orangecrush5862
4 жыл бұрын
No stands to sit in?
@blkpig6664
4 жыл бұрын
Proper!
@Sibbe2560
4 жыл бұрын
Compared to this, F1 is just child’s play...😂👍
@Hotrodngaz
5 жыл бұрын
PISS OFF WITH THE ADDS!!!!!!!
@douglasdixon524
23 күн бұрын
Great racing! 15:05... S L I D E W A Y S!
@danielroth8738
2 жыл бұрын
24:01 I be seeing where my brother could legit drop a couple tenths a lap with a little effort.
@bobeden5027
5 жыл бұрын
My A40 never went that fast!
@tomsvenkesen2476
5 жыл бұрын
Bob Eden but it can be ,ewerything is posible.
@stewartw.9151
5 жыл бұрын
40 was about the number of horses it had whereas these racers apparently pump out about 130 hp!
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