1:42:08 A film from George Lucas and Pete Brock

[scannon]

[slomove]

Barely recognizable at times and I don't know why there is some green visible in the middle of the clip but that looks like our "home track" Willow Springs. Does it say somewhere?

 

Gert

[scannon]

I'm pretty sure that is Willow, filmed in the 60s or 70s? The course looks the same but the signage is different.

 

Skip

[11Budlite]

That Lotus 23 has a similar paint scheme to the Allen Grant Cobra that raced in the 60's and that George Lucas did the paintwork design for. I think it had a similar yellow color with black stripes going across the fenders/hood. I also noticed Ole Oleson's name on the credits, who was also involved with the Grant Cobra team. Pete Brock also had a "little" involvement with Cobras over the years if I remember correctly!

 

Cool video!

 

Bruce :7drive:

[Kitcat]

Wow: speed, beauty, art, sound, danger. I guess we can all put away our lipstick cams, etc., since the best track video was made some 30-40 years ago.

[Ian7]

but that looks like our "home track" Willow Springs. Does it say somewhere?

 

Gert

 

saw a link on another site to this same video, said it was indeed Willow.

[lowflyer]

How time flies!!!

 

I'm old enough to remember when the Lotus 23 was THE car in under 2 litre modified class.

 

And while some remember that Pete Brock had some involvement with Cobra (he designed the Daytona Coupe, among other things), he was also quite famous for making Datsun a winner on the race tracks.

 

With both the 240Z and the 510 sedans, his team BRE won just about everything that there was to win.

 

I found the comments of the viewers of this film (on the film's website) quite interesting. Talk about a generation gap!

They were more interested in the present day "ricers" than this, without knowing that if Brock and Datsun hadn't hooked up "back in the day", there might not have been any Japanese tuner cars now.