Absolutely brilliant driving by Bernard Unett, in a well prepared Hillman Hunter GLS. He flew past virtually everything in the race!!! Great to hear the motor on full song and to see his confidence in a great car.
Impressive for a slow revving long stroke motor. My first car in Australia was a Hillman Hunter fitted with a twin carb alloy headed motor. I wouldn't have dared going anywhere near 6,000 revs.
Those were the days of real motoring used to enjoy open roads without much traffic and at times on Weekends used to go for long refreshing drives usually coming in back home by ten o clock after dinner at some new country joint ....
Imagine all those push rods and cam followers moving up and down rocking the valve rockers generating 110BHP, 10.2:1 compression ratio twin webbers, I remember how Bernard Unett was my hero driver at the time winning one race after another beating cars with higher Cc engines, in Brands hatch race circuit . He was at the time like what is now Lewis Hamilton.
I had been a 3a Rapier tweaked a bit, It,s problem was weight,the arrow range was better, having got married I wanted a sceptre estate ,or to build pne my self,I ended up building a 1600e estate ( defector) but I allways a Rootes man at heart. Also really wanted to build a finless Rapier with the very last front face lift and 13inch wheels, in fact I would still like to do that but those early rear wings must be impossiable to obtain?
Durham Police bought a few as Traffic Cars in the very late 1960s. Had reclining seats. Did not stand up to Police use and were soon kicked into touch.
Very underrated car it could blow the socks of most saloons in its day including 3 litre Capri’s
very true, i owned both cars, but if you breathed on the caprie and put some webers on it the hunter was lost, but trust me i love my holbay gls,
Absolutely brilliant driving by Bernard Unett, in a well prepared Hillman Hunter GLS. He flew past virtually everything in the race!!! Great to hear the motor on full song and to see his confidence in a great car.
It looks so easy,so he is a really good driver.Driving these cars with their small tyres, is a little bit more pretensious,at that speed.
Impressive for a slow revving long stroke motor.
My first car in Australia was a Hillman Hunter fitted with a twin carb alloy headed motor. I wouldn't have dared going anywhere near 6,000 revs.
My God, this engine sounds better than today's F1 crap.
Bernard sadly died of cancer in 2000.
I own a Sunbeam(Hillman) Hunter from 1969 and a Chrysler Avenger from 1978 here in Denmark, they are really great and beautyful cars
wow. if you have not already spoken to the owners club, I’m sure they will be interested.
Those were the days of real motoring used to enjoy open roads without much traffic and at times on Weekends used to go for long refreshing drives usually coming in back home by ten o clock after dinner at some new country joint ....
Imagine all those push rods and cam followers moving up and down rocking the valve rockers generating 110BHP, 10.2:1 compression ratio twin webbers, I remember how Bernard Unett was my hero driver at the time winning one race after another beating cars with higher Cc engines, in Brands hatch race circuit . He was at the time like what is now Lewis Hamilton.
This Guy in The Hunter Effng rock,s....Class video...
Best car ever
Bloody hell I love this guy’s accent
Cool!! Nice old bit of footage
I owned a GLS in the 70s nice fast, and easy car to fix, shame i was drunk it was icy and i hit a telegraph pole with it DOH.
We had few of these in the family. All of them have the same problem: Water leaks in the leg area while raining!
Oh dear, not heard of that before. They are all highly polished classics now so I suppose no one takes them out if it’s raining anymore. 😅
Amazing! Ask any person from Iran and he/she will tell you :))
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Used to be on you tube where's it gone
What used to be on UA-cam ?
The full documentary... some go quicker than others
@@pitbullpowersystems8704 Unfortunately The film ”Some go quicker than others“ has been deleted
I had been a 3a Rapier tweaked a bit, It,s problem was weight,the arrow range was better, having got married I wanted a sceptre estate ,or to build pne my self,I ended up building a 1600e estate ( defector) but I allways a Rootes man at heart. Also really wanted to build a finless Rapier with the very last front face lift and 13inch wheels, in fact I would still like to do that but those early rear wings must be impossiable to obtain?
Your best bet is to contact the Rapiers owner's club
Durham Police bought a few as Traffic Cars in the very late 1960s. Had reclining seats. Did not stand up to Police use and were soon kicked into touch.
Their maintenance was the problem. Not set up to look after the GLS' race engine.
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these old car is no as fast as there ferari :-)
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Faster
@@tomsvenkesen2476 what about there magnum p.i ferari always these are there faster car ever :-(
why would you even bring a Ferrari into this, this is a family 4 door car that can give run for the money to many cars bigger than it.
@@mgabrielle2343 yes yes I am agree with you but it is no as fast as there posche turbo :-O