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Rootes Group Classics DVD

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ROOTES GROUP CLASSICS

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This unique DVD is the second in a series of four to be finished for the Sunbeam Car Club of New Zealand, by the Wellington Branch.

This DVD contains two discs and has 13 movies included, on different Rootes' cars of the 1950s and 1960s.
The titles are:

Disc 1:

Shock Treatment

Sheila Van Damm & Mary Handley-Page tests the 1958 Hillman Minx. 15,500 miles over Belguim paved roads an average 40mph over 3 weeks. These old Minxes were tough cars.

Minx to Moscow - 1958 Hillman Minx Convertible

From England to Moscow - see Europe -Eastern Block Countries and Russia. Drive the roads the Panza took - war damage still there.

Hillman on Safari - 1962 East African Safari

Hillman 1st & 2nd in Class D with local team of Greenly and Jennings. Pat Moss and Ann Riley 3rd overall in their Saab 96. Amazing African Rally.

Operation Europe - 1952 Humber Super Snipe IV

Oslo to Lisbon. Stirling Moss driving through 15 countries in 4 days 3,350 miles. Big car, big mileage - Stirling at his best.

Bold Adventure - Hillman Minx 1959

Vancouver to North Alaska and back. Then on to Winnipeg -Toronto to see the Great Lakes and Niagara Falls. Next New York, Washington, Florida, New Orleans, Mexico, The Grand Canyon, and San Francisco. A total of 11,700 miles average speed 35mph and 35.8mpg. Wonderful travelogue of North America 1959 style.

Travel to the Snows - Sunbeam Talbots

Monte Carlo Rally 1952, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th in Class, 2nd Overall. Stirling Moss and Nancy Mitchell were the Drivers. Rally cars of the early 1950's, with the best of Drivers. See Stirling Moss as a young man.

Disc 2:

Conquest of the Alps - Alpine Rally of 1952 (30 minutes)
See Mike Hawthorn, Stirling Moss, Nancy Mitchell & John Fitch (American racing driver) drive their Talbots over mountainous Dolomite roads. Amazing driving, our Heritage on good film. A Sunbeam must!

Destination Cape Town (20 minutes)
London to Cape Town by Humber Super Snipe Mark IV - 10,000 miles in 13 days. We fly to France in a Bristol Freighter;  cross the Med. Then from Algiers across the Sahara Desert, Equatorial Africa, Congo, Angola, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), South Africa to Cape Town. Great footage of Africa of 1952. A Super Snipe must!

Progress the Story of Rootes (35 minutes)
Rootes History - very good English settings. Pre-WWII London - Maidstone, where Rootes started. Rootes Group effort.   Armoured Cars Aero Industry. Desert war, Montgomery's Humber "Old Faithful".

Vulcan Assembly (5 minutes)
Car factory of 1913. Vintage footage. Rootes this company over.

Wheels of Victory (25 minutes)
Rootes at War. 8th Army Desert Company. USA forces - Churchill - King George VI.

Hillman Wizard (15 minutes)
First car designed and produced by Rootes Group. A 6-cylinder Classic. South Island, New Zealand Sunbeam event.

Hillman Super Minx (15 minutes)
Non-stop 40,000kms in Finland inside the Arctic Circle - Erik Carlsson the Driver.

At just NZ$65 (+P&P) for a 2 DVD set that you won’t find anywhere else in the world, this is a bargain.

This DVD is one in a series of 4 that was created with lots of blood, sweat, tears and money of the Sunbeam Car Club of New Zealand Inc, in 2008.

Please respect our club and international laws and DO NOT COPY this DVD.

Some of the movies have a time-code window running in the lower-right corner of the screen. We hope it doesn't detract from your viewing enjoyment.

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Rootes Group Classics DVD

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