Posts Tagged ‘Joey Dunlop’

Joey Dunlop, Isle of Man , 1983

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

We’re loving this onboard from Joey Dunlop around the Isle of Man in 1983. But as well as the always amazing images of Joey ‘keeping it lit and between the hedges’, here is the brilliantly cool, calm and under­stated Ulster tones of yer maun himself.

Stay with this footage for some hilarious repartée between Joey and the journ­alist as he sits, gobsmacked, while Joey comments on how ‘careful’ you have to be through this or that particular section.

Really inspiring stuff from the man who walked the walk and never bothered to talk the talk too much.

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Vintage Joey Dunlop

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Stumbled across this lovely two-​​part ‘tube of Joey Dunlop preparing for the 1977 Cookstown 200.

Obviously, Yer Maun ragged it around public roads clobbered only in jeans and T-​​shirt to get the feel of the Ulster asphalt. You could do that in the seventes. Check out the gawping kids in their polyester and the girls with their flicked purdie wedges, spray on jeans and colourful vests. Classic bygones provoke instant nostalgia.

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There’s a lovely under­stated style to the documentary — proper film making pieced together in beautiful composed takes and shot, remember, without the advantage of video and minicam technology.
Let’s have some more of this uninflected style of TV please, aunty Beeb…

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via Motorsport Retro