2008 in my Classic

For your amusement

The first half of

~THIS~

is my Brit-classic racer (the second half is my NASA car).

How did we manage before YouTube? And the rest of you know about today's low-buck video cameras like the GoPro and ChaseCam, right? Any interest in some editorial on them?

Cool footage, too. Makes me want to go run some laps.

Neil,

I enjoyed the music you put to your video, but I kind of miss hearing the old Sprite motor screaming to an inch of it's life. Nice filming though.

Yes David I would like some editorial on the new small video equipment out there, I need to upgrade.

Dougie

Those vids were done with three different units:

1: The family JVC mini-DV camcorder (which requires an extra-cost Firewire card and cable). Kind of heavy and delicate for this purpose. Video is best quality, though.

2: GoPro Hero camera. Very small and easy to attach, but even the very best AAA batteries hardly last 30 minutes. Also the sound quality is poor, there's no monitor and the "Record" button isn't easy to use. Poorest quality video. I just built an external adapter to run it off two "C" cells (but this makes it more of a hassle to use)....running it on AAA batteries is almost hopeless.

3: Flip solid state camcorder with built in USB "leg" that flips out. This is my favourite by far (cheapest too). Very easy to use, decent monitor and AA batteries that last much longer that AAA in GoPro. Has "fixed" non-expandable memory chip that will hold 1 hour of video (we download between sessions to a laptop so this is fine). My "camera-mount" for the Flip is a plastic dry-gas bottle with the top cut off. The bottle is held to the roll bar with a U-bolt and bracket. I drop the camera into the bottle and secure it with a small bungy cord.

Flip camera.

By the way, ~THIS~ is the real "909" on youtube.