Bentley Racing at Oulton Park 1969 Part 2

Oulton Park 1969 Part 2 The Richard Seaman memorial trophy for vintage sports cars. Lovely old home movie made by John Dawson. The competitor in the bare aluminium Bentley would have stayed with Mr and Mrs Dawson for the race weekend as he towed it from near Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. Primitive trailer and not much in the way of lights. Not a major problem in 1969. The Bentley is a 3-litre though the engine may be 4.5 litres by this date. He had owned the car for about 10 years and modified it extensively. It now (40 years on and with the same owner) looks more or less like an original Vanden Plas 3-litre. It was a bit of a hot rod in 1969 running on 16" wheels with radial tyres etc.

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[yakacm]

smashing, I used to go to the seaman trophy with my parents in the 70;s, as far as i reemember it was the weekend after TT week, or it may have been the same weekend as the final TT weekend, i can't even think if oulton park was on a saturday or a sunday i have vauge recolections of coming back from the IOM and going straight to oulton park for this race. do they still hold the race, i guess in the 60;s these cars wouldn't have benn that old same as watching cars from the 80's now, thanks.

[plbyrne]

Magic that - thanks for posting. Still the most beautiful circuit in the UK.  Great to see the earlier days. Thanks

[ormus55]

great. love the various cars coming back into the paddock.

the basic car trailer is very similar to mine in the 60s. (to carry the mini cooper 1071s).

[cutmustard]

Brilliant. I think the car on pole is 'PPB 10' a highly modified 8-Litre owned at the time by Frank Sowden