Green Valley Home Movies

[Oldtimer]

Growing up, Green Valley Raceway was less than an hour away, and I took every opportunity to get over there when the sports cars were running.

When I first came on this Board, I posted some videos I took with a Super 8mm movie camera back in 1967, and recently stumbled upon some more and had them digitized.

Disclaimer:  This was not one of the more sophisticated movie cameras ever produced.  Think of it as the movie camera equivalent of a Brownie Box camera.

Anyway, thought I might share these with you folks.  Not all of them are Camaros, but there are some Camaro and Firebird racers sprinkled in and among the various videos.

Enjoy!

Here's the first one's I posted on here, they are from the 1967 Polar Prix:  https://flic.kr/s/aHsm8Dxkqz

Couple of races from 1968:  https://flic.kr/s/aHsmUTyTSj

1969 Polar Prix:  https://flic.kr/s/aHsmUTnFNe

1969 Sunburn Grand Prix:  https://flic.kr/s/aHsmUTmBaU

1970 Polar Prix:  https://flic.kr/s/aHsmUTMDc5

[crossboss]

Thanks for posting! Btw, what Super 8mm camera did you use?

[Oldtimer]

Thanks for posting! Btw, what Super 8mm camera did you use?

I think it was a Kodak, but that was a couple of sleeps ago.  Had no adjustments at all, you could do was load film and batteries, and point and shoot.

[MO]

Really cool, wish they had audio!

BTW, you should have patented the snowboard. You were standing on a gold mine.

[Oldtimer]

Really cool, wish they had audio!

BTW, you should have patented the snowboard. You were standing on a gold mine.

Thanks!

Audio is all in my mind.  The highs and lows, based on displacement.

Those were the days before mufflers and decibel limits.

Later on, we found one of those big old round Coca Cola signs, and took it out to a soil conservation lake that had a dam that, at the time, seemed like it was 100 feet tall.

That sign would slid across the grass on the dam and pick up speed, until you discovered there as a barbed wire fence right at the base.

Great times, wouldn't trade them.

[crossboss]

Really cool, wish they had audio!

BTW, you should have patented the snowboard. You were standing on a gold mine.

In 1973 Kodak introduced Super 8 Sound film and cameras. By '74 all the camera manufacturers had tooled up and sold theirs as well.

[MO]

My brother got a Super 8 as a gift from around that timeframe, but no sound. Probably older merchandise stock and someone wasn't paying attention to what they were buying or knew w/sound was available.

[crossboss]

Super 8 Sound cameras and film were about 1/3 more than the silent standard versions. When I was a kid, I bought my first Super 8 sound camera (late 1976), for a whopping 150 bucks! THAT was a lot of money for a kid like me to save up for it. Btw, that camera a GAF 605SS model, I still have it!