Most liked posts in thread: Opening day at Bridgehamton 1958

Did find some video of Bridgehampton, nice one on the 65 race but not this one on the 14, but the 110 lapper on the 28th. I will see if I can get a link to it. Good race, some sadness as things broke as they always do in racing. Big fast sports races, Cobras etc. Will watch again when I find it again.

Don

 

For some reason this thread caught my eye, I do wonder what happened to the online video, it appears to be dust now. How Sad). time for a google search.

Don

 

Thanks Chuck...
Enjoyed it.... That was fun...
I'll bet hitting those sandy patches on the track added excitement....

 

Really too bad it's a golf course now!

 

I'm impressed this is in color from back then.

Thanks for sharing this.

 

:cornut: Thanks Chuck! Another time, another place. How can it be that that was 54yrs ago and I remember it?..........................

Jason

 

That was a blast Chuck, thanks.

Yep, enough sand on that track to have called it a beach race!

 

Thanks for sharing. Pretty bumpy for a new track.

And congrats on the win Daniel!

 

Amazing that they had in-car footage in an amatuer (right?) race too!

Exceptional film - thank you for sharing!

 

I was lucky enough to run a kart at Bridgehampton in the 60s. I remember the sand very well!!! Very hard race track to get to, but it was a great course. The sand was imposable for the Karts to deal with, but cars did not have that much trouble from what I remember. They had at least one Can-Am races there. Car & Driver did a really cool road test there. They got Masten Gregory (who drove for the Cooper F-1 team) to test a bunch of muscle cars at Bridgehampton. The whole thing was a hoot. They were supposed to be regular production cars. The Ford was delivered by Bud Moore. It went downhill from there. Thank you for sharing the video. Great footage!! I really enjoyed it. Do you remember who was in the Corvette? Dick Thompson was a friend of my fathers.

 

Oh wow!
I remember my dad owning this footage on a vhs when we were younger, he recently had it put on dvd (with https://www.supaphoto.com/video-to-dvd.html I think) an we watched it on the tv, really was amazing to see how different times were!