Car movie: Checkpoint........

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Jul 28, 2019 | 12:49 AM

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Car movie: Checkpoint........

Checkpoint 1956

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Ring ring ring....James Bond here........

Uses film from the actual race......

John Wyer was tech advisor on this film......and went on to develop and race Gulf GT 40's
and Gulf Porsches.......

I have an idea...lets grab the steering wheel and see if we can kill ourselves.....

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HOT ROD movie.........
Euro sports car road racing flick more correctly than "Hot Rods," Roy Salvadori raced Formula 1 GP races et al.

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Jul 28, 2019 | 12:51 AM

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Nice period racing action - the genuine shots of the Mille Miglia were good. They must have been of one of the last before De Portago killed himself and some of the crowd including children in 1957 and the race was banned.

Jul 28, 2019 | 12:52 AM

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M. Vincent McBride

Same as turboslag, since seeing this at the cinema with my dad in 57. Revelation - Maserati's were red after all, even though they were always grey on the Newsreels and television. A classic of it's time with Stanley Baker, Anthony Steel, James Robertson Justice, to name but a few. One of the many British Classic Films that DVD has forgotten about. Big Thanks for uploading!

Jul 28, 2019 | 12:53 AM

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OMG!!! I have been looking for this film for years! I saw a short sequence once on daytime TV but never noted the title and was subsequently unable to track it down. Some of the film uses period Mille Miglia footage, and the cars are brilliant. To say I'm thrilled is an understatement! Huge thankyou to the uploader!

Jul 28, 2019 | 12:56 AM

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fans of this may enjoy The Helldrivers which Stanley Baker is also in, where a crew of roughnecks have to make deliveries at reckless breakneck speeds, its more gritty and rough than this also its in black and white film, both are highly enjoyable

Jul 28, 2019 | 01:00 AM

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Kevin Lyons

+Wow! Is that what they call a cliffhanger at the end? Good scenery and colour for 1956. As they are approaching the frontier the co-driver asks how fast can car go? Driver answers we are doing 100 mph, top speed is 160 mph. How much faster are these kind of cars now?

Joel House

200 mph sometimes more. Depends on the car, the tune, and the track. You can see some videos taken on the Autobahn. Even the slow lane is scary. There's one with a Maserati clipping past 205. It'd be more exciting if the driver was texting of course. The matter of ground effects comes into play, a hundred plus ton 747 lifts off at 160. Lift plus thrust greater than weight plus drag, and you can fly to work.

Purrete

There were no "mph" in those cars at that point in time...... it was all "kmph". Europe was always "normal" and only the UK was playing out of tune until they also adopted the Kilometer way of thinking. Today only the US keeps playing out of tune .......call it stubborn....or is it stupid?