I happened to go thru the cheapo video bin while waiting for a prescription at my local CVS pharmacy, and discovered two great deals in dollar DVDs. These were episodes of the BBC documentary series Racing Through Time. One disk had two one-hour episodes, on the histories of Grand Prix racing and Le Mans; the other was a single one-hr. episode on the racing history of Alfa Romeo. Both had lots of old time racing footage.

There's something about watching 1920s and 30s clips of those tubby old guys skidding their high-wheeled front-engined racers around rutted, dusty corners on those skinny tires that really makes me think, "Wow, that would be fun and exciting to do that!" (something that has never occured to me while watching cookie-cutter NASCARs hypnotically going round and round on their antiseptic ovals). Anyway, the bin was almost empty and it produced two great deals, so I plan to go back in a couple of days in hopes that they will restock, and I might get other disks the series.

Apparently, from info online, there were episodes on Lotus and Ferrari and maybe other marques, as well as on individual drivers and tracks. There's an ESPN copyright at the end, so maybe everybody but me has seen these a dozen times and is yawning right now. If not, next time you pass a CVS, you may want to drop in and riffle thru the dollar disks.

--D

Cool -- There's a CVS about 2 miles from me.

Reminds me of finding a DVD of the full broadcast version of the 1979 Daytona 500 at a big box retailer that I don't remember while in Indy for the F1 race last June. The DVD was $9.99 :woohoo:

good heads up!

There's something about watching 1920s and 30s clips of those tubby old guys skidding their high-wheeled front-engined racers around rutted, dusty corners on those skinny tires that really makes me think, "Wow, that would be fun and exciting to do that!" That's great! When I was 7 or 8 years old I listened to this 45 record I had from that era with Graham Hill as the narrator. "The Sounds of Real Racing". Man I listened to that thing endlessly imagining the cars and racing from the sounds on the record. They all sounded like hopped up farm tractors. :p

Happened to pass a CVS in a neighboring town yesterday, so I went in and scored the Ferrari episode for a buck. That's four now.
-- D

I'm always looking to add new fodder to the Racing DVD collection, but I have been in four stores in the CMH area and didn't see a thing........are your CVS stores megala-mart versions or just the neighborhood corner store type?

Is the manufactures name/web site listed on the back of the package?

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...are your CVS stores megala-mart versions or just the neighborhood corner store type?

Is the manufactures name/web site listed on the back of the package?

The ones I found the disks in are the big, new freestanding stores. The one smaller, older neighborhood CVS I went into didn't have any dollar DVDs or cheapo-stuff bins at all.

My local store has DVDs in two places - one is a fairly standard DVD floor display, but all the disks are $4 and up. The other is an array of small plastic (or meybe wire) bins on an aisle - the neighboring bins have cheapie dollar-store type items. All the DVDs in the bin are $1 and there is the usual sort of thing - Abbott & Costello, Roy Rogers TV shows, old B movies, and so forth. There are never more than 20 disks in the bin. It would be solidly packed if it had forty. This is where the racing videos are. They are in very slim plastic cases.

The jackets are copyright 2006 "Double D Distribution". I looked for Double D on the web, but couldn't find anything. The strip along the top says "Sports DVD Feature." The series is "Racing Through Time." (printed along the bottom of the front). I did a search for the series name - the episodes are available on the web from other publishers, but is 4 or 5 bucks per disk plus postage (though some disks double up episodes). The ones I've seen (Grand Prix & Le Mans on one 2-hr. disk; Alfa, and Ferrari, each on a separate 1-hr disk) are still worth the higher price in my opinion, but there are a lot in the series, so at $5 per, the total is going to mount. Looking for the dollar ones is a sort of hobby of its own. Five store visits got me three disks. If you're short of time, or long on cash, it might be better just to order them online. (My guess is that DoubleD just did the easily recognizable car-named ones - for the drivers and courses, I'll probably have to go online anyway, but we'll see).

Good luck,
-- D

LOL I'm sure you got a eyeful when you googled Double D ;^)
I picked up the Lemans/F1 disk a couple years ago at a local dollar store here in Canada so you might want to check dollar stores too.

. . . I looked for Double D on the web, but couldn't find anything . . .

:lol::lol::lol::lol: I bet I could find all kinds of stuff under Double D & video

We don't have CVS stores here in no-place-Nebraska :cry: Lucky!

Bob...oh dang...zilla