hot wheels part one

[BIFFY425]

ohh shiiitt!! This was on tv when i was about 8 or 9. I used to watch it over and over but my mum recorded over it and i cried! that was about 1988 ish?? wow im so happy to see it again. Was that southbank pre graffiti i noticed??

[guthywoodry]

Ultimate kudos to Zak & his Old Man Horace Ove for this cultural legend worth its weight in Cold War Plutonium !

-Priceless 'forever' moments caught in time.

This film captures perfectly the Eternal 1970's London Skateboard Paradigm.

I wonder, how many - if any - of the faces are still around ? -Bless them.

[fletchzz]

If memory serves - 0.43 Zak Ove and Alex Turnbull. 1.10 Manny. 1.11 Tim Balfour. 1.12 Cleo Rocos.1.24 Mayle brothers Chris and Nick. 3.29 Seth Cutts. 4.26 Laura Thornhill. 4.43 John Sablosky. 4.49 Jeremy Henderson.

[sternoid]

@fletchzz your memory is spot on... who is fletchzz?

[fletchzz]

@sternoid that depends whether you are Jeff or Pete Sternoid

[sternoid]

@fletchzz ,

ok,ok... it's pete stern... you're havin' a laugh

[fletchzz]

@sternoid hey Peter, sorry for not replying sooner, I really should check this site more often. The clue is in the name Fletchzz as in Fletcher, mate I have such great memories of hanging out with you at South Bank. Much love to you and the brother. Graham

[sternoid]

@fletchzz graham... how's the journey!?!? my step son, it turns by coincidence went to creighton comp now called fortismere or something like that. anyway he was in the school play version of "bugsy malone" and your bro dexter wad there in the audience!. we chatted after and both commented on how little the place has changed and how we both felt like we were guilty of something or other and should really be headed straight to the headmistresses office.. birng back "our show" !!!!

[fletchzz]

@sternoid yeah Dext told me about that. you was always north London as I recall, right? Last thing I heard you were a composer, am I correct? There is some classic footage of yourself and Jeff on Our Show in the vault. The Radical Stern Brothers: )

[sternoid]

@fletchzz ...and you have in your possession copies of such classic footage of our show...? upload to youtube or some such video site, if do old sport.... be a good chap and sort it out...

[fletchzz]

@sternoid not got any tapes I'm afraid and there is precious little on youtube. I do know someone who has though and will endevour to contact her

[otterslikejelly]

this is great i remember my friend recorded this in the late 1980's it was on bbc2 after tarzan. Although from the 70's as i grew up in rural lincolnshire it didn't quite reach us until the late 80's. i even rember the cartoon image at the end of the film. brilliant!

[randomonix]

Ennio Morricone"man with a harmonica" 7:12

[randomonix]

Searched and found!! thanks for uploading this classic footage! got to be the first oldskool video i ever seen when i was growing up!!! the music and slow motion footage at 7:12 has always stuck with me!!

[mdjsalter]

The man who made this made the film Skateboard Kings for World About Us ( BBC2 tv show in the 70's) and many of the footage from that film which focused on the Dogtown skaters was later used in the Dogtown movie - the boy in the film is his son and got him onto the idea. So I think without this film there would have been far less archive material from the US. You can watch Skateboard Kings in 7 parts on You Tube -

[sternoid]

the film maker who made skateboard kings is horace ove and yes his son is in hot wheels. however hot wheels was made by someone else who's name i fail to remember!

[graffitiTV]

Yeah, the filmmaker and his son were just in here in my place....OLD SCHOOL

[robsmall8]

the song at 1.45 where they're skating round trafalgar square is althea and donna's ''uptown top ranking''

[davejohnslade]

Yep same as I have waited 30 odd years to see this Me and my mates saw Grease the movie about 5 times in a row just to see this as it was the preview film back them. Sweet

[bladrunner6]

oh my god!!! i remember this being on as the short before Grease! People laugh when i tell them i can remeber that! When i saw it up, i wondered if was the same hot wheels, then i read your comment! Showing our age! lol

[IyotaSnowfox]

can anybody tell me the name of the song starting at 1:45?

[tspencerjuk]

I have waited 30 years to see this again! Fantastic. I first saw it around 1977/8 in London, as it was the short film before Grease, back when there was a short film before the main feature. I never skated at the London concrete bowl called Skate City, but virtually lived at Southbank and also Crystal Palace Park, as shown in some of the slalom footage. This film is my life and awesome music too. I used to ride a G & S Fibreflex, ACS trucks with 70mm red kryptonics, which I still have.

[sternoid]

i was there.. horticultural show ''77.. got to hang with bobby boydon back in his home town..oceanside california. fucking dump back in the day.. marine military town.. last i heard, he was serving hard time for shooting dead someone in a gas station where he was pumping gas...shit happens.

amazing freestyler. world freestyle champ in '77 if my memory serves me correct..radical lifestyle like you wouldn't believe..!

[oilcityskates]

whats that the youth does at about 6.35... is that a kickflip?

I remember bobby boydon doing kickflips on vert at the horticultural show round x mas 77

[HCShannon]

Lol at the kid in the Pepsi hat drinking Pepsi!

[igy85]

Sickest vintage skate footage ever..Lil groms shred ripping all through london in the 60ʻs....with someROOTSY actionk! O.G. fo Shoʻ.

[oilcityskates]

HELMET!

[davergoddard]

This is the best skating movie ever. Very basic skills but big on style with cool music and so retro.

[joel9039]

this is so not the best skating movie ever watch dogtown z boys u will see!