The Matra videos on the WWW thread

[Anders Dinsen]

From time to time, interesting videos are posted on the www featuring Matras.

A few of us enjoy watching them, so please post here if you come across one worth watching.

A good place to start is of course the YouTube.

I have two favorites there:

Interview with Henri Pescarolo about his famous crash in the Matra 640: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCv0QqxKEiw

And this one showing a wonderfully tuned J. P. Beltoise Murena on a mountain rally track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_dzVCHeH54

So... go on! start digging!

Cheers,
Anders

[Spyros]

I've a dvd called "la course en bleu", ou quelque chose comme cela ...

Half of it is on Matra . The other half on another little blue french car 

But my favorites are here
1) With my 1975 Bagheera S on Spa Francorchamps tracks : http://naze2ooo.free.fr/images/spa_petit_avant_gout.mpg
2) With my 1979 Bagheera X on the same location  http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCBm7h-D5I

I can try to extract some part of this DVD

[krede]

my god that J. P. Beltoise Murena sounds awesome !!!
I wonder if its the 2.2 they have made go like that...

[Anders Dinsen]

2) With my 1979 Bagheera X on the same location  http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCBm7h-D5I

Looks like a nice little drive you had there

my god that J. P. Beltoise Murena sounds awesome !!!
I wonder if its the 2.2 they have made go like that...

AFAIK yes, I think it's a Sodemo tuned 2.2, bored to 2.5 and turbo charged to 360 hp

[krede]

Doesn't sound turbo charged to me..

[Anders Dinsen]

Doesn't sound turbo charged to me..

I think you are right, it's a group 4 Murena - they were N/A with very hot cams. I just re-watched the video and it stikes me that it's new - notice the Feu-Vert posters: I doubt if that business existed in the 80's and if they did, I'm sure they didn't have the same logo as they have today. This must be one of the actual cars that Politecnic used to run - wonderful!

[Lennart Sorth]

The Club-Arnage forum whom we share the server wih (http://www.clubarnage.com/forum/index.php?topic=6199.0)  has this one from the US in the 60'ies - it has two Matra 650's, one of them fighting for the lead:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4867317109576108917&q=CHAPARRAL&hl=en

/Lennart

[davidewanprice]

Just found this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUYFzHu2y6I&eurl=http://video.google.fr/videosearch?gbv=2&ndsp=20&hl=fr&q=matra%20murena%20%20trophee&ie=UTF-8&saiurl=http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/qUYFzHu2y6I/hqdefault.jpg

[Anders Dinsen]

Just found this

I like the turn with the yellow Bagheera and the gold Murena at 4:03, especially the way the Bagheera seems to handle the turn.
Pity we don't have any snow here now...!

[Lennart Sorth]

M660 Le Mans Classic 2008  (with the 1972-winner bodywork ?) :

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7p1vq_matra66001carrosserie670courteleman_auto

I really must arrange for a "Classic" visit someday ...

/Lennart

[Anders Dinsen]

I really must arrange for a "Classic" visit someday ...

Me too! What a wonderfully screaming Matra!

[Lennart Sorth]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiZILK1ssXY

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[davidewanprice]

Has anyone managed to find any original rally/rally cross or ice racing footage yet, I had a look and didnt find anything.

[Bart_Maztra]

Bagheera on "Die Ludolfs"



1-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoHkKHOIiqA
2-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJKQEgOaVMQ
3-?
4-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB0TYGPAB84
5-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbgtiwCw8WU

[krede]

I know I shouldnt say this.........but I think I would end up in the silver capri instead...... well... if its a v6 of cause..