Limited Edition - Only 25 Copies Available.
Alistair has copied all of his original rushes to a 4TB hard Drive of which he is offering cloned copies for only £5000.00 (limited to 25 copies), also he will offer his services in order that you can get the most from this very limited edition archive.
AMTV have been reporting UK rallyeing for over 30 years producing the highest quality coverage for the Broadcasters Worldwide and home video. If you are interested in this wonderful archive footage from the golden age of rallying then please contact Alistair directly for more information.
£25 per Scottish and Welsh events
£35 for a National event
£75 for British Open events.
£125 RAC and other world events
Minimum order £100 plus the cost of the card and P&P.
A brief history of myself and Archive of Rallying.
I’m the fourth son of a farmer; I served my time as an Engineer in three different factories, three different Colleges and qualified in Mechanical Engineering becoming a Field Service engineer and trouble-shooter to Weir Pumps in the late sixties. Early seventies I worked in the copper mines in Zambia where I achieved possibly my most satisfying job, single handed I repaired a German made multistage submersible pump supplying all the mines water, which saved the shutdown of the Bwana Mkubwa Mine near Ndola. I went on to Australia and worked in Garden Island Dockyard in Sydney and having diagnosed successfully the malfunction of their main turbine in an Aircraft Carrier I achieved certain notoriety and attained foremanship. On returning to Scotland I worked for my brother Robert in his used car business but opinions differed so I set up my own Garage business repairing some of the most exotic of cars imaginable and doing an average of three thousand MOTs per year.
I was working in parallel to my business, training as a Cameraman and my hobby of rallying, being president of the local car club and running events in Scotland. I got to know Jim McRae very well and when his son Colin became seventeen Jim asked if I could supply Colin’s first car which I did, it was a Ford Capri. By 1986 my camerawork took over from the garage businesses and I gave up both my garages and made sure my 16 employees were kept safe in their employ.
From 1984 I was supplying Barry Hinchliffe my material from the British Open Rally Championship with a deal that paid me well per round, plus expenses and I was able to retain my original tapes. I learned a lot from Barry and his editors working together in London on the TV coverage. I did do a few World events with him and as I was making programmes for BBC Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Sky we eventually parted company in the late 90’s.
I was freelancing for all the major broadcasters and very busy, whilst filming rallying was taking up more and more of my time. In Scotland I set up a Media Club and the drivers would pay me per event and I would feature them in the Sky and Asian TV programmes which I supplied, this enabled me to scale down my freelancing opportunities and to concentrate on Motorsport.
In 2001 Foot and Mouth hit the UK, and rallying ground to a halt, so with two commissions from the BBC already in the bag I invented the UK Rally Challenge, hired Knockhill Racing Circuit raised enough sponsorship to create link roads and made a 6 mile stage which we ran in various configurations. A full entry from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland and running it twice that year to fulfil my BBC obligations was very successful.
I have the most comprehensive and unique Professional Archive of Rallying in the UK with a few World events thrown in and at present I’ve converted all the tapes to a 4TB Hard Drive excluding the in-car. With over 90 boxes of tapes and nearly 40 years of professional work I would like to sell the whole lot including the original rushes and copyrights. The price I’m asking per cloned HDD is £5k and the release date will be the 14th February 2024. Each HDD will be numbered and when the limited editions are met the archive will no longer be available.
