Legends Of Motorsport- Spitfires At Le Mans

Thanks a great bunch for uploading this!

Highly appreciative, and know it's out of your control, but for Christ's sake dump the super fruity VO commentator (I know you can't). I'm a Brit and almost puke when I hear him. Should have posted this about 50 years ago.

The fastback "Spitfires" were called GT6. They had inline 1996cc 6 cylinder engines. They did have a difficult time coping with North American conditions and many did become "junk" rather quickly. Now, the survivors are interesting collectibles. David

why did they cover the head lights up

David 'Obbs was a cool host on Legends.

Yes, the Triumph GT6 was beat up in the press over reliability but my GT6 is still on the road. Bought new in 1972 it was my daily driver for many years and I have over 150, 000 miles on it. The car never let me down, the key to longevity is maintenance. Great car, still gets attention today!!

Too bad the production Spitfires including the GT6 were such collections of junk. The BMC Sprite and MGB were much better built and faster, too.

David Hobbs is a class act.

This really was the 'Golden Age of Motor Racing' with real cars and real drivers and very little hype !!!!!

lol - i wonder which driver is the Dutchman ;-p

Geez I miss this show so much. I used to get up an hour early when I was in High School back in the day to watch it because it would be shown at around 6am usually. WE NEED SPEEDVISION BACK

Thanks for up loading ,great era

Enjoyed that, thanks.

Anglo-American??? I know what it means to be but why would Shelby be considered that.

Ah yes ... I had a 69 GT6 MK2 (IRS) ... looked fast even when parked ... when your "back side" is about 6 inches above the road, 120 feels really fast. The 2 liter inline six was "one of the smoothest engines ever built".

Legends of Motorsport and Victory by Design! My two favorites of the older, “serious” shows (as opposed to Top Gears’ not so serious, albeit entertaining, approach).

So that's where the Ginetta G40 designers got their inspiration from....

They were a beautiful car. I drove corvettes at the time and I wanted one, until I drove one.

Raymond Baxter doing the race commentary...

I have always liked those years of le Mans.

please bring back speed.

Huge fan of David Hobbs, a gentleman racer like no other, the real thing to this old man.

Huge fan of David Hobbs, a gentleman racer like no other, the real thing to this old man.

If they got a Triumph to finish Le Mans, I'm guessing the first thing they did was put the Lucas bits in the garbage and install Bosch or Delco Remy electricals.

Love David Hobbs, bet that spitfire is worth a fortune these days.

Best show ever

The number 1 race for me. Been around for many many years.