@@stephenwaller7461 Yes and a nicer world too on the whole. But one thing that is better today is car safety and reliability. Those cars were lovely to look at but were always breaking down and overheating on long summer journeys, and as for safety and protection in an accident - best not even think about it! 😲
@@Iceni007 I agree in part with respect to the safety element but dont you think it made things a bit more interesting where you could actually work on your car , diagnose a problem and then actually fix it yourself without the need of a super computer and a thieving dealership.
Simon George life’s what you make it. There will always be angry, miserable people, there were in the 1970’s and there are now.... most of them are commenting on this video. 😂 If you’re happy and smile, people will smile with you :)
@@oddities-whatnot Not my memory at all. There was a great deal of impatience, a massive toll of road casulaties, regular air crashes and diseases, not easily treated, that killed a great many.
Hats Off, what a great video of those 60’s Cars in the UK. I had just learned to drive my Dad’s Vauxhall, I was 10. This is the absolute best parade. Cheers from San Diego
Precarious stretch of road at 1:21, was dreading a collision at 1:31, 1:32 !! Surprisingly busy, but the world back then was definitely a better place.
The Thanet Way, in Kent near where I grew up, was like this. Notorious for bad accidents throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s. They finally changed it from three lanes with no double line but it took a bunch of RTC deaths there to force the change.
@Jack Warner Telford Road between Bowes Road and Bounds Green? The section under the Piccadilly Line bridge. I remember that in the 80s and my Dad calling it a Suicide Lane.
A big reminder of how small cars used to be, even family ones. I was also amused how 4 grown adult could fit in a tiny Morris Minor at 0:35, the car probably more than doubled its weight with passengers alone.
Driving standards seen on this video are terrible, especially on the 3 lane road where cars seemed to be wandering all over the road. At one point 2 cars were heading for each other, but the film cut before you could see what happened. I wouldn't want to go back to those conditions.
The idea back then was that you was less likely to get hurt if you was thrown away from the car, than to be secured to your seat(s). Which makes sense in a way, but was obviously not applicable in production cars that were to be sold to the public. I think SAAB was the first manufacturer to sell seatbelts in their cars, as an option. Two years later they were mandatory. But it wasn’t mandatory that the occupants used them. They just had to be there. Also, the seatbelt would most often just go over your lap.
My favorite thing is how utterly different the cars here look from American cars during the same era. Nowadays, cars from one part of the world look about the same as those from the next.
The 3 lane road at about 1.35 mins looks quite dangerous as cars obviously overtook from either direction. I read somewhere that they used to be known as "3 lane killer roads"!
Most cars are in dull colours, the exception being a red Mini and Hillman Imp passing at 0:21. Brighter colours were available by the 1970s. There is a North Western Dennis Loline bus, RDB891 that may give a clue to where the 1960s traffic was filmed, could be anywhere from Nottingham to Manchester, or possibly operating on the Blackpool route.
I can remember my uncle having inertia reel seat belts installed in his morris 1100 at the dealership.....this must have been around 1964/65 .....so they were available.
c1964. Spotted a couple of VW Beetles, the most common foreign car in the UK back then, as well as a VW Type-3 estate near the end, but also at 0:29 a UK market Fiat 1100, with front "suicide-doors".
The three lane hiway at the end is hard to comprehend, let alone to look at. Suicide for sure and throw in someone on a bicycle to boot! The speed is way too high for a road design like that. I literally can’t wrap my head around this.
Why would they be, they were just glad they could afford a car at all and those were the choices. Sat Nav was the wife with a road map & no idea how to read it Lol.
@Alfie , for me It’s about Appreciating the Quality of this Video made in the 60’s, And the fact that it showed such detail of so many Iconic UK Cars and occupants , mostly extinct now (including the occupants). So I’m guessing that you weren’t around in the 60’s, (no put down intended), virtually zero motorways when this was filmed and video quality was typically B&W, grainy and unstable. Kudos to the person that made this. Growing up in England, I was early teens and dreaming of owning one of these, so long ago. Cheers from San Diego California
@@Julian-1111 Literally started my first reply 'wonderful old film'. Yes, film. Not video. They didn't have video in the 60s, Julian. I loved the film, I loved the cars. Was just pointing out that none of it was motorway. And, although I was only born in 1969, I have a good grasp of the prior history. Have a wonderful week.
Think of a problem and then think of the part that cars played in its development and you will see that in almost every way we could lead better lives without them.
Austin Cambridge, Ford Anglia, Morris Minor -- remember riding in them all as a kid with my old Pa and Ma back in the 70s...a lost world...
Vauxhall Viva 😀👍
Hillman Imp...as you say lost world. Oh god im old :). stop the world I want to get off!!!!
@@stephenwaller7461 Yes and a nicer world too on the whole. But one thing that is better today is car safety and reliability. Those cars were lovely to look at but were always breaking down and overheating on long summer journeys, and as for safety and protection in an accident - best not even think about it! 😲
@@Iceni007 I agree in part with respect to the safety element but dont you think it made things a bit more interesting where you could actually work on your car , diagnose a problem and then actually fix it yourself without the need of a super computer and a thieving dealership.
@@stephenwaller7461 Yes that's certainly true!
Amazing to see all the old roof racks
This is great to see, drivers with manners & lane discipline. Well done.
This is the reason why I want to go back to the 1960s
King Donald Hill why?
Ben Wilde much nicer country back then. People were friendly, respectful. Today everyone is selfish, angry, impatient.
Simon George life’s what you make it. There will always be angry, miserable people, there were in the 1970’s and there are now.... most of them are commenting on this video. 😂
If you’re happy and smile, people will smile with you :)
And breath in the lead petrol fumes
@@oddities-whatnot Not my memory at all. There was a great deal of impatience, a massive toll of road casulaties, regular air crashes and diseases, not easily treated, that killed a great many.
Hats Off, what a great video of those 60’s Cars in the UK. I had just learned to drive my Dad’s Vauxhall, I was 10. This is the absolute best parade.
Cheers from San Diego
Love the way kids are strewn haphazardly around the car interiors, like scatter cushions.
Precarious stretch of road at 1:21, was dreading a collision at 1:31, 1:32 !! Surprisingly busy, but the world back then was definitely a better place.
...the dreaded three-lane road!
Yes, middle Lane no man's land😄.
It was a better place but our Grandkids will be saying the same about today. Cant imagine what they will be putting up with.....I shudder to think
Here listen ya Mong traffic in 60s is not good. Grow up
And they were saying then that same thing that yesrs ago the world was a better place
I see they had a centre lane for cars wanting to over take - but it was for cars coming in both directions . Shit , that's a bad idea .
I remember my Dad explaining that lane to me, he called it the 'suicide lane'. I can see why too!
The Thanet Way, in Kent near where I grew up, was like this. Notorious for bad accidents throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s. They finally changed it from three lanes with no double line but it took a bunch of RTC deaths there to force the change.
I am old enough to have driven on one at the end of the 80s - and survived!
I guess...its do it your own risk...or dare and win...!
@Jack Warner Telford Road between Bowes Road and Bounds Green? The section under the Piccadilly Line bridge. I remember that in the 80s and my Dad calling it a Suicide Lane.
A big reminder of how small cars used to be, even family ones. I was also amused how 4 grown adult could fit in a tiny Morris Minor at 0:35, the car probably more than doubled its weight with passengers alone.
You're right but being an ' anorak ' it's actually a 1964 Austin Mini in Fiesta Yellow , the Morris equivalent was the Morris Mini-Minor !
Driving standards seen on this video are terrible, especially on the 3 lane road where cars seemed to be wandering all over the road. At one point 2 cars were heading for each other, but the film cut before you could see what happened. I wouldn't want to go back to those conditions.
It wasn’t driving standards, that middle lane was officially for overtaking for either direction of traffic. Mental but legal.
Snap! The attrition rate on the roads was around 10 times what it is now. The Good Old Days didn´t happen.
Excellent a vintage car parade how lucky we are :)
Kids in the back, no seat belts. Astonishing it was ever allowed, and nobody thought of the dangers in the event of an accident.
The idea back then was that you was less likely to get hurt if you was thrown away from the car, than to be secured to your seat(s). Which makes sense in a way, but was obviously not applicable in production cars that were to be sold to the public. I think SAAB was the first manufacturer to sell seatbelts in their cars, as an option. Two years later they were mandatory. But it wasn’t mandatory that the occupants used them. They just had to be there. Also, the seatbelt would most often just go over your lap.
@@sim_1 Volvo invented seat belts, and declined to patent them so that other manufacturers would be able to use them.
My favorite thing is how utterly different the cars here look from American cars during the same era. Nowadays, cars from one part of the world look about the same as those from the next.
Man that's a quality picture for 60s unbelievable
the film is just rescanned with modern technology, you can do it to any old reels of film
The 3 lane road at about 1.35 mins looks quite dangerous as cars obviously overtook from either direction. I read somewhere that they used to be known as "3 lane killer roads"!
The Hillman Imp with optional air condtioning.
Most cars are in dull colours, the exception being a red Mini and Hillman Imp passing at 0:21. Brighter colours were available by the 1970s. There is a North Western Dennis Loline bus, RDB891 that may give a clue to where the 1960s traffic was filmed, could be anywhere from Nottingham to Manchester, or possibly operating on the Blackpool route.
Fantastic
I can remember my uncle having inertia reel seat belts installed in his morris 1100 at the dealership.....this must have been around 1964/65 .....so they were available.
Love that Vauxhall Victor
Them FB Victor's are beautiful
Minic motorway in real life love it 👍
Nearly every one made in Britain.
0.37 looks a strange bunch in that car.
c1964. Spotted a couple of VW Beetles, the most common foreign car in the UK back then, as well as a VW Type-3 estate near the end, but also at 0:29 a UK market Fiat 1100, with front "suicide-doors".
Good childhood days
Everyone driving like they are pissed up😂
How many head on accidents do you want?
1:22 >Yes
How to you make the vids so high quality??
they’re rescanned with modern technology
The newest car I can see here is Mini reg AUY 352B at 0:36, which is a 1964 car
I think I saw someone actually wearing a car seat belt !
The 1930s cars still exist in the 60s
I remember jams like this from the `70`s. VERY borring to sit through !
I’d say the year was 1964, as there was an old B in the video
Who thought of the three lane road where the centre lane could be used to overtake in both directions?
How the hell does that 3 lane road work from 1.30 onwards?
Badly I would think, did not catch on for some reason!🤔🤔.
@@gerrywhelan5761 Haha, yes I guess the fact it didn't catch on was the clue to how well it worked!
A bi directional overtaking lane. Thankfully an invention gladly left in the past.
Yes. 3 Lane roads absolutely lethal. Used to be a stretch on the south side of Petersfield in Hampshire. Quickly turned into a very wide 2 lane!!!
@@unarmedduck still one In Cornwall on the a30
The three lane hiway at the end is hard to comprehend, let alone to look at. Suicide for sure and throw in someone on a bicycle to boot! The speed is way too high for a road design like that. I literally can’t wrap my head around this.
I spotted a Ribble bus
the roads look scary
The are not many foreign cars in this video it would be a different thing if it ware taken now
1:20 LOL they did away with all the suicide lanes on UK roads !
It must have been a sight if someone imported a Cadillac or Buick into that country !.........those British cars were "Matchboxes"... .
Love some of those cars, but definitely do not love the lane structure at 1:22 !!!
Yes, middle Lane looked like a free for all, 😁.
Progressive safety thinking from Austin A40 man with his pram wheels on the roof ready for an overturning mishap?
It was the time of the roof rack everything including the kichen sink went up there lol. The 60s great driving day's I loved every minute.
@@chriswardlow9441 That's true, recalling my grandad moving a huge wardrobe on the roof of his Anglia.
What do I see a three-wheeled car that was red
Because it was filmed?
A Bond Minicar
Every car is English .
It doesn’t really look different than nowadays
Both ways of traffic using the same middle lane.
Didn't your clothes get soaked if you stuck your luggage on the roof?
None of the roads shown are motorways.
Was no one embarrassed driving those things? 😃
Death Wish those were the cars at that time.
Why would they be, they were just glad they could afford a car at all and those were the choices. Sat Nav was the wife with a road map & no idea how to read it Lol.
are you a troll?
@@SYKAROST cars where much much easier for normal people to buy back then
The bigger cars were alright I dont think anyone would be embarrassed driving a Jaguar or a Rover
Not much difference from today is there?
One couple are wearing seat belts.
Some others might have been but you couldn't tell most cars either had no seat belts or lap only seat belts back then
None of that is motorway, no hard shoulder
This is not a UK motorway.
It’s UK, but not motorway
Wonderful old film. But, none of it is motorway.
How Boring?, how old are you.
@@Julian-1111 How boring. How old are YOU?
@Alfie , for me It’s about Appreciating the Quality of this Video made in the 60’s, And the fact that it showed such detail of so many Iconic UK Cars and occupants , mostly extinct now (including the occupants). So I’m guessing that you weren’t around in the 60’s, (no put down intended), virtually zero motorways when this was filmed and video quality was typically B&W, grainy and unstable. Kudos to the person that made this.
Growing up in England, I was early teens and dreaming of owning one of these, so long ago.
Cheers from San Diego California
@@Julian-1111 Literally started my first reply 'wonderful old film'. Yes, film. Not video. They didn't have video in the 60s, Julian. I loved the film, I loved the cars. Was just pointing out that none of it was motorway. And, although I was only born in 1969, I have a good grasp of the prior history. Have a wonderful week.
Gees lol
Think of a problem and then think of the part that cars played in its development and you will see that in almost every way we could lead better lives without them.