Monday, April 30, 2012
cherish
You all know I'm a bit of a car nut and I LOVE this video of driving in 1963.
Within 20 years, probably less, few if any of us will still be driving. The car will simply vanish, a victim of its inability to be flexible with fuel. A few will no doubt survive in museums, but that is all.
I've been photographing cars for years, and hope more of you will do the same. We need to all do our part to record this so brief form of transport. Not just the cars, but the lorries, buses etc that also will use the roads for a few more years. And also of course all the associated infrastructure - garages, motorway services etc, because once they're gone they'll be gone for good.
And again I urge you all to get out and take photos of diesel trains - they may not even survive as long as cars and buses.
It's so good that somebody had the foresight to capture the roads way back in 1963, but how many other people did it? Our kids and their kids will look in wonder back to the days when almost everyone had their own funny little metal box on wheels. Eventually cars and roads may even gain a certain nostalgic glamour ... and who knows, there may even be one or two preserved roads with the odd car or bus shuttling along it.
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unbelievably this is the same year as the Beeching report when Marples & co decided to tip all the traffic off the rails onto these roads, clogged them up and built even more only to do just the same.
Sounds quite mad now? 49 years later…..
Noted that driving standards haven't changed much over the years. :-). Didn't realise that flashing and hooting slow drivers was actively encouraged!
Also, unbelievably - to me at least, I got my provisional motorbike licence the year after this film was made and car licence the year following.
Nostalgia trip indeed. Didn't like driving much even then, but still doing so. Glutton for punishment, I guess.
Or lack of choice, given the (current) standard of the alternatives.
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