This is Awesome!... I don't know how I can be 61 years old and have never seen this I'm a huge racing fan and a huge Garner fan. Thank you for posting. And thank you CZcams for putting this on my feed
@@lukeasacherThat would have been a noteworthy experience at the age of six , I'm sixty and I was somehow unaware of Grand Prix until about 2001 , it's been pretty much my favourite movie ever since, I think it's beautiful. My father took me to see" Bullitt" though when I was seven ish ( here in New Zealand), but it was a double feature, and the first film was Bonnie and Clyde , so by the time the second movie was playing I was getting sleepy , and missed the car chase , about all I remember seeing was a man blasted against a wall with a shotgun, much like Bonnie and Clyde , not really kids movie's . 😅
Those broncos set no limits on the race speed. The actual aerial shots of the broncos are legendary. Just priceless. Yeah James garner I am a fan. He mixed it with the best of the best in his career. Great narrator. He's a natural.Another world war hero James garner. Were ever you are i hope you're making a mile .😅😅
As a racer from that period (although at a much lower level) I can very much identify with this film. I recall vividly the Hobbs/Posey rivalry in F5000 (including playing liars dice in a bar with Posey's car owner Doug Champlin in Monterey) and flagging those races in the late 60s, early 70s. Great times!
Back in 1969, a man growing a full beard was making a statement about himself. Garner's racing time beard established that he was cut from a different cloth than many of his peers. DItto McQueen and Newman. They lived lives.
Hell yes! His role in Grand Prix presented him as an arrogant entitled guy, when in reality he’s a guy with a real love for racing. He’d help out his rivals when there’s a broken part, just like it was back then in racing! It was a brotherhood with a code of honor that everyone respected. Boy do I miss this kind of racing!
@@RichardMcLaren I´ve read somewhere on the web that he did all car stunts himself on the Rockford Files TV series, my favorite in the seventies although they didn´t air all seasons on swedish state TV (catching up now by digital :)). One of the great american screen/TV actors of his generation imho. That golden Firebird in the series looks like the entry level Esprit but it´s been said that Garner thought it was better to use a disguised Trans Am due to his low brow PI character´s financial situation (always living from paycheck to paycheck it seems) but the Trans Am was better suited for the hard driving action scenes.
Man O Man, seeing this again for the first time since I first watched it when it premiered, I was 8yrs old & my Father had just got me my first go-kart & I've loved James Garner ever since, and of course my Dad ☺️Garner, McQueen, Newman & a few other's made famous by Hollywood, all were rabid racer's once bitten by the racing bug & that's a feeling i know oh so well, because I too was bitten & never to be the same again 😉 Thank you for posting this great old racing flick, I can't tell you how much I enjoyed watching it again 💪😎
It's 1969-70, and I'm loving it! A whole lot of really exciting things were going on and as a 13 year old the world was one heck of a thrill to be in. I sure miss those days, but at least for the past hour and a half we were back then. Thank you.
How times have changed: the instrument panel with four gauges, a three spoke steering wheel -- with NO lights or graphs, that there were cars competing without wings and being competitive. A different time in the sport. I used to love working those events. When the driver meant as much, if not more than the car!
Great upload, ty. As BMW 2002 fan i loved the scene where the ladies driving a 2002 were shown. It was insane when one of them ran out of gas and ran across the track with a gallon in hand while cars were flying by.
Thank you so much for sharing this with us... Truly appreciate it ... Discovered this film a few years back.. I dont own my own copy... Cheers from Southern California 🇺🇸..
No wonder that the famous driver from Torrance, California: Parnelli Jones is still around at 90 (as of 3-1-2024)...The long endurance races like "The Baja" makes many strength up over the years. This is an interesting film...Don't think I've seen it before. Garner was great to listen to...just like P.L. Newman was.
When Formula A became F5000 I got to see Dick Smothers race in Seattle. I forget who won, but DS was a competent driver and brought his car home in one piece. I'm thinking it was '72 as they still had the tall wings.
J'étais présent en direct en bas de la côte virage un j'ai tout vu l'accident en direct James Gardner avait offert 25K dollars pour celui qui aurais filmer l'accident mais je n'avais pas filmé en direct🥲j'ai tout vu l'accident comme dans ce film, j'ai maintenant 79 ans😅😂je courais en Formule Ford a ce moment la🖕
Watch Adam Corolla’s “The Racing Life of Paul Newman”. You’ll get to know the real Paul Newman. He was a race car driver that did movies on the side. He was very humble.
I had no words... Now I've watched it, I can comment... WHAT AN EPIC FILM!!!!!!!!!!! This puts Grand Prix AND Le Mans to shame. I am 59 and never knew of it. The most telling feature is the state of the art, just a bunch of Guys with fast cars on a ribbon of Tarmac. The incar at 1:16:00 is second to none.
@@DeanRicci1 I looked that up , but didn't see anything about a street legal T70 , only his team race car , however, having seen what passes as street legal in California , maybe he just took his race car out ,and didn't give a damn about legality??
This was great. Thank you. Ford would go on to close the decade of the 1960s by denying Porsche their first win in the greatest finish in Lemans history in June. David Hobbs was part of that team finishing third. Great film.
Thanks for posting! Never seen this film before and have really enjoyed watching it! Don’t watch Formula One any more - too much politics and it’s full of A’holes. This is my era and I’ll stick with the classic scene, thank you.
Real Men .Real Cars, Real Racing,.......Real Life......................Today motor racing isn't motor racing , its just ......merry go rounds with over inflated egos
@@aureliobrighton1871 O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart!
At 61 I was 9 in 69 I knew it was a cool year even at 9. It felt modern in color everything was new and Apollo 11 too. I'd made enough cutting lawns to actually buy a color tv for my family. As an adult I can confirm my childhood intuition 917 waiting to make history Can Am Hendrix Miles Davis Quintet and Bill Evans trio too bad about Vietnam and the dastardly CIA 🤦♂️etc.
I was 27 in 69 and remember Apollo 11 and flagging F5000, CanAm, and TransAm races that year. It was a special time for racing, music, and everything else for a recent Vietnam vet.
David Hobbs was a successful racer all through the 60’ in the UK and Europe before making the jump to the US. His career slowed down in the 70’s and 80’s as he became a talking head. He lived to tell the story, unlike a lot of his friends…. He was a versatile and quick Driver and won a Trans-Am championship as well as the Continental F5000 series.
@@robmahoney2181 well aware, owns a car dealership in my city. Im glad you added this, he deserves it. What i meant is that he, like the NASCAR guys and oh so many more talented, proven, grown men drivers, never caught that Indy car ridethat would make him a contender
Garner's Lola T70 (?) was not too pretty here but I am pretty sure it shows up again in George Lucas first and best film, THX 1138 (1971 though the film was supposedly shot in 1969). The car was sold. Repainted white with some cool Lucas mods and looks fantastic. Driven by Robert Duval's character. Filmed in the BART tunnels before they were operational. czcams.com/video/J5nmxHjPuvY/video.html Lucas already had the sounds he would use in Star Wars.
Great movie starring James Garner but I'd like to know who it was that sang the theme song at the end? If someone knows or has a copy from the soundtrack I'd love to hear it in it's entirety! Thanks!
Its a shame he bankrupted a racing giants company over not paying for the cars he ordered. Sir John Surtees car company, he took them to cleaners did Mr Garner. He slipped down the road when l found this out.
For one, I am and always will be a James Garner fan. But, ...I can't help but think the purpose of him making this documentary was to recoup ,at least some of the money, he had to have lost in this racing venture of his. Race cars, mechanics, drivers on payroll travel,etc etc etc and no big wins. Just disappointment after disappointment. RIP James
It's truly shocking how much freedom we've lost in only one lifetime. We no longer control our own lives, we are monitored by our government at all times, and our racing men are women, like Lewis Hamilton.
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This is Awesome!... I don't know how I can be 61 years old and have never seen this I'm a huge racing fan and a huge Garner fan. Thank you for posting. And thank you CZcams for putting this on my feed
YAYAYA! I'm 64 and saw Grand Prix in Cinerama when I was 6 in Times Square. It was a religious experience.
🥲
I'm 69 and I never heard of it.
@@lukeasacherThat would have been a noteworthy experience at the age of six , I'm sixty and I was somehow unaware of Grand Prix until about 2001 , it's been pretty much my favourite movie ever since, I think it's beautiful. My father took me to see" Bullitt" though when I was seven ish ( here in New Zealand), but it was a double feature, and the first film was Bonnie and Clyde , so by the time the second movie was playing I was getting sleepy , and missed the car chase , about all I remember seeing was a man blasted against a wall with a shotgun, much like Bonnie and Clyde , not really kids movie's . 😅
Those broncos set no limits on the race speed. The actual aerial shots of the broncos are legendary. Just priceless. Yeah James garner I am a fan. He mixed it with the best of the best in his career. Great narrator. He's a natural.Another world war hero James garner. Were ever you are i hope you're making a mile .😅😅
As a racer from that period (although at a much lower level) I can very much identify with this film. I recall vividly the Hobbs/Posey rivalry in F5000 (including playing liars dice in a bar with Posey's car owner Doug Champlin in Monterey) and flagging those races in the late 60s, early 70s. Great times!
Back in 1969, a man growing a full beard was making a statement about himself. Garner's racing time beard established that he was cut from a different cloth than many of his peers. DItto McQueen and Newman. They lived lives.
Hell yes!
His role in Grand Prix presented him as an arrogant entitled guy, when in reality he’s a guy with a real love for racing.
He’d help out his rivals when there’s a broken part, just like it was back then in racing!
It was a brotherhood with a code of honor that everyone respected.
Boy do I miss this kind of racing!
Great comment about the beard. Nowadays everybody and his brother has a beard.
And sister if you are Greek ..
McQueen was considered unlikeable by several of his peers. Two were already named above.
Add Dick Smothers to that list too.
James was in the 1960s movie GRAND PRIX! A great car flick too!
Yeah, and did quite a bit of the driving too. Graham Hill said he was pretty good!
@@RichardMcLaren I´ve read somewhere on the web that he did all car stunts himself on the Rockford Files TV series, my favorite in the seventies although they didn´t air all seasons on swedish state TV (catching up now by digital :)). One of the great american screen/TV actors of his generation imho. That golden Firebird in the series looks like the entry level Esprit but it´s been said that Garner thought it was better to use a disguised Trans Am due to his low brow PI character´s financial situation (always living from paycheck to paycheck it seems) but the Trans Am was better suited for the hard driving action scenes.
James Garner was one of those rare guys who are at the same time the coolest dude around and incredibly on earth. Legend
Man O Man, seeing this again for the first time since I first watched it when it premiered, I was 8yrs old & my Father had just got me my first go-kart & I've loved James Garner ever since, and of course my Dad ☺️Garner, McQueen, Newman & a few other's made famous by Hollywood, all were rabid racer's once bitten by the racing bug & that's a feeling i know oh so well, because I too was bitten & never to be the same again 😉 Thank you for posting this great old racing flick, I can't tell you how much I enjoyed watching it again 💪😎
It's 1969-70, and I'm loving it! A whole lot of really exciting things were going on and as a 13 year old the world was one heck of a thrill to be in. I sure miss those days, but at least for the past hour and a half we were back then.
Thank you.
How times have changed: the instrument panel with four gauges, a three spoke steering wheel -- with NO lights or graphs, that there were cars competing without wings and being competitive. A different time in the sport. I used to love working those events. When the driver meant as much, if not more than the car!
And no small changes to Silverstone in the last 55years. (Or David Hobbs.)
39:30 Dick Smothers?
Great upload, ty. As BMW 2002 fan i loved the scene where the ladies driving a 2002 were shown. It was insane when one of them ran out of gas and ran across the track with a gallon in hand while cars were flying by.
Cinematography was amazing! Way ahead of its time. Thanks for posting!
Thanks for this, James Garner had a big heart.
More like big pockets.. At 5k for blown engine blocks, these guys chewed them up like bubble gum.
A total best dude ever.
Thank you for uploading this.
Thank you so much for sharing this with us...
Truly appreciate it ...
Discovered this film a few years back..
I dont own my own copy...
Cheers from Southern California 🇺🇸..
Thank you very much for uploading this 👍🏻🔥
No wonder that the famous driver from Torrance, California: Parnelli Jones is still around at 90 (as of 3-1-2024)...The long endurance races like "The Baja" makes many strength up over the years.
This is an interesting film...Don't think I've seen it before.
Garner was great to listen to...just like P.L. Newman was.
Gosh,I did enjoy that. No idea jg was so involved . Those Lola T70 just brilliant. Thank you for posting. Really felt the reality of racing.
James Garner was amazing.
just plain awesome, thank you for sharing this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
always enjoyed Garner's movies, and like McQueen, Newman and Dempsey, a real racer. Nice.
I thoroughly enjoyed this film. Thank you Dean!
I was at that Sebring race. We went every year from '61 to '71.
When Formula A became F5000 I got to see Dick Smothers race in Seattle. I forget who won, but DS was a competent driver and brought his car home in one piece. I'm thinking it was '72 as they still had the tall wings.
Thank you very much! Fantastic period piece.
Holy Mama thank you so much for this treasure.
Very good video, thanks for sharing it with all the lovers of these great cars!!
J'étais présent en direct en bas de la côte virage un j'ai tout vu l'accident en direct James Gardner avait offert 25K dollars pour celui qui aurais filmer l'accident mais je n'avais pas filmé en direct🥲j'ai tout vu l'accident comme dans ce film, j'ai maintenant 79 ans😅😂je courais en Formule Ford a ce moment la🖕
This is fantastic to watch. Just in case somebody missed it, Newman make one similar called Once upon the wheel, absolutelly fantastic too
Watch Adam Corolla’s “The Racing Life of Paul Newman”. You’ll get to know the real Paul Newman. He was a race car driver that did movies on the side. He was very humble.
Love the Cinéma vérité style 👍
I had no words... Now I've watched it, I can comment... WHAT AN EPIC FILM!!!!!!!!!!! This puts Grand Prix AND Le Mans to shame. I am 59 and never knew of it. The most telling feature is the state of the art, just a bunch of Guys with fast cars on a ribbon of Tarmac. The incar at 1:16:00 is second to none.
Scooter's little mini is actually an Austin 1800.
WOW!!!! Thanks for making this available.
I heard somewhere recently , that James Garner had a street legal Lola T70 coupe, and drove it around his area of Los Angeles .
yes
You can find pictures of it by "Google James Garner's Lola"
@@DeanRicci1 I looked that up , but didn't see anything about a street legal T70 , only his team race car , however, having seen what passes as street legal in California , maybe he just took his race car out ,and didn't give a damn about legality??
Fabulous. What a treat. So edifying too boot. More please.
This was great. Thank you. Ford would go on to close the decade of the 1960s by denying Porsche their first win in the greatest finish in Lemans history in June. David Hobbs was part of that team finishing third. Great film.
thank you RICCI, thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thanks for posting! Never seen this film before and have really enjoyed watching it! Don’t watch Formula One any more - too much politics and it’s full of A’holes. This is my era and I’ll stick with the classic scene, thank you.
Part IV at Mont-Tremblant or Ste-Jovite. Dangerous track.
Real Men .Real Cars, Real Racing,.......Real Life......................Today motor racing isn't motor racing , its just ......merry go rounds with over inflated egos
Oh do be quiet.
Remember don't underestimate James....he keeps a 38 in the cookie jar of his trailer...lol
THX A LOT !!! ♥
Awesome
Troy Tempest goes racing!
He was a drag racing fan also.
One of the best racing movies.
The german titel is :
" Heiße Reifen, schöne Mädchen"
😂
What would Walt Whitman say to that poetic masterpiece ... 😅
@@aureliobrighton1871 O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
10:38 That's an Austin 1800, not a Mini.
Land crabs, the rally ones were red and constantly going sideways
Well that was fun!
At 61 I was 9 in 69 I knew it was a cool year even at 9. It felt modern in color everything was new and Apollo 11 too. I'd made enough cutting lawns to actually buy a color tv for my family. As an adult I can confirm my childhood intuition 917 waiting to make history Can Am Hendrix Miles Davis Quintet and Bill Evans trio too bad about Vietnam and the dastardly CIA 🤦♂️etc.
I was 27 in 69 and remember Apollo 11 and flagging F5000, CanAm, and TransAm races that year. It was a special time for racing, music, and everything else for a recent Vietnam vet.
First time I’ve seen David Hobbs actually WIN lol.
David Hobbs was a successful racer all through the 60’ in the UK and Europe before making the jump to the US. His career slowed down in the 70’s and 80’s as he became a talking head. He lived to tell the story, unlike a lot of his friends…. He was a versatile and quick Driver and won a Trans-Am championship as well as the Continental F5000 series.
@@robmahoney2181 well aware, owns a car dealership in my city. Im glad you added this, he deserves it. What i meant is that he, like the NASCAR guys and oh so many more talented, proven, grown men drivers, never caught that Indy car ridethat would make him a contender
@@MrChristopherHaasDavid Hobbs Honda?
@@steveprestegard5151 yes. in glendale wi.
It is a good thing he didn't borrow Rocky's Pickup ...
Endlich....Danke
Thanks for sharing, I have the DVD but is poor shape.
Garner's Lola T70 (?) was not too pretty here but I am pretty sure it shows up again in George Lucas first and best film, THX 1138 (1971 though the film was supposedly shot in 1969). The car was sold. Repainted white with some cool Lucas mods and looks fantastic. Driven by Robert Duval's character. Filmed in the BART tunnels before they were operational. czcams.com/video/J5nmxHjPuvY/video.html Lucas already had the sounds he would use in Star Wars.
Cool, thanks for the information
That looks like the road tunnel between Alameda and Oakland. I walked through that tunnel when I was stationed at NAS Alameda in the '80s.
11:53 Silverstone was a bomber training base, not a fighter base.
That roll cage design was responsible for many deaths and injuries.
Great movie starring James Garner but I'd like to know who it was that sang the theme song at the end? If someone knows or has a copy from the soundtrack I'd love to hear it in it's entirety! Thanks!
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James Garner was a Joe South fan and he asked Joe to do this song for this movie. Joe did not write the song though.
Don't blow off beginning or ending credits.
12:51 LOL yeah, gearboxes aren't supposed to sound like that. Probably the soundFX man put that in.
That was bugging me too.
WOW!!!!!
Cool👍
1:05:01 sounds like Mason Williams.
What was the name of the race queen at Ste-Jovite? She was a keeper.
4:30 That poor bastard, how long did he last I wonder?
Must be great being millionaire movie stars!
Was Smo others running a FB
Por-sha
Does Scooter Patrick, have any relation to blabber mouth dana?
Whut
Its a shame he bankrupted a racing giants company over not paying for the cars he ordered.
Sir John Surtees car company, he took them to cleaners did Mr Garner.
He slipped down the road when l found this out.
please explain ......
He did not bankrupt Surtees
Haha. That shitty song at the end. Haha!!
That's the legendary Joe South you sack of sh*t!!
Good video ruined by the music
rubish,and Garners acting is crap
For one, I am and always will be a James Garner fan. But, ...I can't help but think the purpose of him making this documentary was to recoup ,at least some of the money, he had to have lost in this racing venture of his. Race cars, mechanics, drivers on payroll travel,etc etc etc and no big wins. Just disappointment after disappointment. RIP James
He was Enjoying living life to it's Fullest, few of us can actually say we have lived life on the " Edge " 🤔
It's truly shocking how much freedom we've lost in only one lifetime. We no longer control our own lives, we are monitored by our government at all times, and our racing men are women, like Lewis Hamilton.