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Author:  johnnyZ [ Fri Feb 17, 2023 7:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Lime Rock Park: The Secret Valley of Racing (video)
I recently discovered this video which I had never seen before. I've watched other similar videos about Lime Rock but must have missed this one, so I thought I would share this one with you folks. If you have seen it before, I'm sure it's worth watching again.
Skip through the commercials if you can and enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwBw8s7e9b0


Cheers!
Author:  jp260z [ Sat Feb 18, 2023 5:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Lime Rock Park: The Secret Valley of Racing (video)
Really cool video John! Loved hearing about how LRP came to be and all who were involved. The flood of 1955 wiped out whole towns here by me...people still talk about it. Seems Connecticut suffered similarly in that one.
Author:  Frank T [ Sat Feb 18, 2023 6:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Lime Rock Park: The Secret Valley of Racing (video)
When I was a kid we used to drive back and forth thru CT for our summer vacations on Cape Cod. In 1959 we passed thru New Haven on the shoreline and I saw large numbers of huge factory machines sitting along the beach, some of them larger than the cabin we rented each year. Some of the industrial buildings along the shore had water marks up to the 3d floor windows. My father explained that the flood had tumbled some of those machines down to the shore all the way from Vermont and Massachusetts. Some remained there for years until they were carved up and scrapped. Big flood.
Author:  jp260z [ Sun Feb 19, 2023 10:16 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Lime Rock Park: The Secret Valley of Racing (video)
That had to be unreal.
Author:  johnnyZ [ Sun Feb 19, 2023 7:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Lime Rock Park: The Secret Valley of Racing (video)
Yep, the great flood of 1955 devastated many CT towns, especially those with major rivers running through them. Back then, I was just a kid living in Long Island and I don't think we had much damage. Many of my "senior" friends living here in CT however remember those terrible days, and they told me that the town I currently live in got hit very hard.

Here is a video clip of those terrible floods.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TLXFE98pUo


Jay, if you go to YouTube, you can just enter a search for "The Flood of 1955" and you can also find videos of the flooding in 1955 that took place in PA.

Hopefully we are all on high ground now.
Author:  Frank T [ Mon Feb 20, 2023 2:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Lime Rock Park: The Secret Valley of Racing (video)
:lol: Pretty cheerful music for such a destructive disaster! :lol:
Author:  tr3hardtop [ Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Lime Rock Park: The Secret Valley of Racing (video)
Another great video, 1971 SCCA National Championships (highlights)....Dave Despain, commentary.
Our Man Bob Sharp shows them a few tricks learned at Lime Rock.
6:44 C/Production. 9:36 B/Sedan
https://youtu.be/kJNGVb3ZFkE

Colin
the older one
Author:  jp260z [ Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:28 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Lime Rock Park: The Secret Valley of Racing (video)
Thanks John! Some good footage in that video, and yes Frank decent music for watching a natural disaster to. I do have to say that overall film production has improved since 1958.

Jay
Author:  johnnyZ [ Tue Feb 21, 2023 10:37 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Lime Rock Park: The Secret Valley of Racing (video)
Thanks for that video clip Colin. Great classic vintage racing history captured on film. :thumbs_up:
Author:  jp260z [ Tue Feb 21, 2023 11:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Lime Rock Park: The Secret Valley of Racing (video)
Great video Colin. Man I love the sound of those old race cars
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