The Grand Prix car, 1956-65!

[Art Anderson]

I have to confess:  Growing up in Indiana, almost in the shadow of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, we teenagers and young adults of the late 50's to the early 60's viewed F1 cars as being merely rich boys' toys, the stuff of "Teddy Teabagger" drivers.  I think this video shows just how wrong we were back then!

Art

[vintagercr]

That is pretty neat

[afx]

Fantastic race cars.  Thanks for posting it Art.

[bbowser]

Thanks Art!  Great pictures.

[Shardik]

Thanks for posting this, Art.  When I think of Grand Prix cars, these are what I see in my minds eye.

[Mike999]

Here's another great on-topic BBC documentary - "Grand Prix: The Killer Years."  The Fifties and Sixties, when GP cars amounted to 4 wheels, an engine, and 2 30-gallon gas tanks...with the driver sandwiched between them.  Spectators could (and did) wander onto the track pretty much whenever they felt like it.

Jackie Stewart says his GP car had one piece of safety equipment - a wrench taped to the steering wheel. So somebody could hopefully remove the wheel and get him out of the car before he burned.  And he had to buy the wrench himself.

 

Edited March 30, 2016 by Mike999
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[Ace-Garageguy]

Fantastic race cars.  Thanks for posting it Art.

X2 indeed.

[Dave Ambrose]

Very, very, interesting. Thanks, Art!