The 1972 Knox Mountain Hill Climb, Kelowna, BC, Canada

The 1972 Knox Mountain Hill Climb, Kelowna, BC, Canada

A 16mm movie I just lately restored in 4K, a now historic little gem.

The Leavitt Equipment Knox Mountain Hill Climb is an annual occasion at Knox Mountain Park, in Kelowna. Initially named the Okanagan Hill Climb, it was first held in 1956 in Penticton on Crescent Hill Highway, it moved to a 1.1 mile course on the Previous Okanagan Freeway in Westbank from 1957-59. In 1962 the occasion was held on Camp Highway in Winfield and at last made its option to Knox Mountain in 1966 the place it has been ever since.The two.2 mile (3.5 km) paved highway to the summit is slim with off-camber corners, steep grades, and climbs roughly 800 toes (245 meters) in elevation for a mean grade of 6.7%. The present hill report is 1m:34.903, held by Aran Cook dinner of Edmonton, Alberta

This hour-long movie is a delight to observe, now historic, it’s additionally a slice of tradition and style as we’ll see. Amusingly, the hosts fudged a wee bit on the descriptions of the occasion, with rain on the primary day and sunny circumstances on the second day, they took liberties describing the "uncommon" climate as every automotive’s protection from the 2 days had been edited into one go. As nicely, the audio clearly doesn’t match on a number of corners because the editor seems to have taken much more liberties with sound, as a rule, a Lotus Cortina doesn’t sound like an enormous V8 powered Mustang of the day, once more fairly amusing however doubtless a results of no sound captured on the nook. It options: Porsches, Datsuns, Fords, an actual Shelby Cobra, a uncommon Chevron B8, MGs, Lotus, and an AMC Gremlin. Regardless of the minor inconsistencies, it's an exquisite piece of BC historical past.

There are interviews together with total quickest time, Jerry Olsen aboard the McLaren M8 with a 1:59:815 and Gordie Monroe 2nd with a 1:59.915 in his Brabham BT 21. Each these drivers additionally raced at Westwood in these vehicles.