I've been watching this:  Golden Years Isle of Man TT  - it's an interesting bit of history but the owner of the film doesn't know what year it was taken - any ideas anyone?

I've worked out that it's 1967 or later, based on a van number plate (E reg Transit @ 3:02 into the video). Apart from that I've no idea. You guys did a good jiob ID'ing the bikes in my 1984 thread so I thought you might be able to able to work it out based on maybe some of the buildings and terrain in the shots. I think the bike shots themselves are just a bit blurry to see clearly unfortunately.

The channel owner seems to do cine-to-digital conversions and posts some of them on youtube. I notice he's got another TT one where he's worked out the year:  8MM FILM ARCHIVE ISLE OF MAN TT RACES 1964  - worth a look if you're interested.

Cheers

Koala

PS I'm not advertising anything, I've no affiliation to the channel owner. I just happened to be browsing some of his content.

Without close ups of the riders. it's hard to get any clues! However, among the clips at Cronk y Voddy crossroads I'm fairly sure I saw Frank Whiteway on a 500cc Suzuki proddie bike and he won that class in 1970, so I'm going to guess that's the year. From memory, the weather was decent that year!

Thanks for that Sticky - sound good.

It's a bit tricky to be sure without close-up of the bikes and there's not even many decent shots of cars/number plates.

I thought it might be possile to work it out from the buildings, road signs etc - I assume they changed over time and maybe someone might know when:







Bit of a long shot though I guess.