Racing film (color) from Kahuku, Hawaii - 1958

[2long]

Pretty grainy, but some nice cars and lots of TRs, including the checkered flag treatment at 1:36! I think my car is somewhere in this mix.

 

Dan

 

 

[Don H.]

There are some serious cars there!

 

300SLs, D-types, Ferraris, open-wheel cars. Looks like one of Max Balchowsky's Ol' Yellers at 3:55, 4:28, 4:53, and especially at 5:09.

 

Great video.

[2long]

If you think 58 had some serious iron, you should see what came over in 57 for the first "Speed Week" - drivers like Carrol Shelby, Phil Hill, John Von Neumann, and so on, with an array of cars you would not believe. That was the zenith though, as the 57 Speed Week ended in tragedy when Lou Brero crashed a magnesium-bodied Maserati A6GCS that burst into flames, killing the famous driver.

 

Dan

[Norfolkjohn]

Interesting bit of film but why did someone have to go and add that awful plinky-plonky guitar music that drowns out the fantastic engine sounds

[Don H.]

I'm sure the original handheld film had NO sound at all -- it was amateur film from 1958, after all. That said, I thought the music was kinda irritating, too. I did like the PA announcer in the distance late in the clip -- that was pretty authentic.

[Dave Ashworth]

Loved it!

 

Thanks for posting it and it makes me wonder what cars are still stored away half a century later in Hawaii.

 

All the best.

 

Dave.

Edited October 4, 2013 by Dave Ashworth

[somefrenchTr3guy]

It's fun, fortunately, the track was wide.

 

Guy