This 1966 Video Shows A Weird Form Of Stock Car Racing At Brands Hatch In England – A Yank Wins!


This 1966 Video Shows A Weird Form Of Stock Car Racing At Brands Hatch In England – A Yank Wins!

While America may have invented “stock car racing” the product has gone global over the decades with each area of the world and even separate countries putting their own spin on the sport. There have been “bangers” racing in England for decades and some of what looks to be the earliest British stock car racing we have ever seen is showcased in the video below. You are going to see a load of oddball cars that look like modified tractors getting after it at the famed Brands Hatch circuit in England. The one car you may actually recognize belongs to an American guy and no to completely wreck the whole thing, he ends up winning the race.

In the course of the video you’ll see a load of spins, a bunch of crashes, wheels flying into the stands, and the kind of mania that stock car racing fans have been watching since the earliest days of the moon shiners screwing around on local horse tracks.

The one thing we do not know is what these cars are based on or made from. They all have a similar look and shape and they are incredibly basic as well. Perhaps there was a build “formula” that everyone used for the basics of the cars or perhaps it was like here in the sense that guys ended up coming to the same effective conclusions on a lot of things hence the fact that G-bodies, A-bodies and other platforms became the preferred platforms of sportsman stock car racing.

What do you think?

Press play below to see this cool 1966 video from England showing weird stock cars


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