Model Car World Record Attempt
From the collection of
A Pub With No Beer
- Armagh
- 1984-10
Model Car World Record Attempt (Six Tonight)
A look at competitive remote-controlled car jumping.
Ronan Kelly reports for the Six Tonight local news programme as he interviews members of the East Antrim Buggy Club. They are attempting to set a new world record for the long jump with their remote-controlled cars.
We are told that the Record Breakers TV programme had recognised a previous record set in England, even if it wasn't officially recognised by the Guinness Book of Records. However, the governing body of the model car world, the BRCA, had assured the competitors that they would recognise any new record set.
Ronan talks to some of the young contenders for the record and one tells him that his model car is worth between £300 and £400 - a princely sum back in 1989. Stephen Hill from Glengormley is the most successful of those taking part on the day but you will need to watch the clip to see if he succeeded in setting a new record.
Six Tonight was the nightly early evening news programme for Ulster Television, starting in the late 1980s and was effectively a rebranding of the previous show, Good Evening Ulster.
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A Walk on the Weird Side
The extraordinary, the absurd and the downright weird combine in this collection of reports from UTV’s nightly Good Evening Ulster news programme.
Despite the often bleak aspect of local news in Northern Ireland during the decades relating to The Troubles, ordinary - and sometimes extraordinary - life continued on. This series of some of the more off-the-wall reports from the UTV news archives shows the citizens of Northern Ireland engaging in unusual schemes, fundraisers, pastimes and humorous events.
From Earl Bird attempting to set a new world record for non-stop yodelling to a nuclear bunker disco, from a pub with no beer to a canine snooker referee, you’ll find this collection full to the brim with the odd, the eccentric and the full-on weird.
23 videos in this collection
1
A Pub With No Beer
2
Window Cleaning World Record
3
The Garden Tiger
4
Bay City Rollers Fans
5
Model Car World Record Attempt
6
Buried Alive World Record Part 1
7
Buried Alive World Record Part 2
8
Cow Pat Throwing
9
There's No Business like Gnomes Business
10
The Dog Rufferee
11
There are Leprechauns in Those There Hills!
12
To Heaven and Beyond! A Con Brio Rock Odyssey
13
Snooker Marathon
14
Hula Hoop Champion
15
Death Dive
16
Come away from the Fairy RIng, O Builders!
17
Whiskey Galore!
18
The Spirit of Radio
19
Laughter is the Best Medicine
20
White Christmas
21
Guinness World Record Breaking Weekend
22
Clown Around at the Community Circus
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