I wanted to share with you a little "project" I just completed: conversion to digital MP3 file (with considerable editing and voice-over introduction and summation) of the 120-minute cassette tape recording of my experiences at the 1968 German Grand Prix.
I remembered that I had that tape (well, rather, that my mother had it somewhere in the midst of hundreds of classical music tapes my father had recorded over the years...) when I was engaged in a discussion at srmz.net ("Colin Chapman - Team Lotus 1968") about Grand Prix heroes of yesteryear. Another SRMZ member wrote he had actually been there himself that Sunday in August 1968, standing, he estimated, no more than 10 or so meters in front of where my mom and dad and I sat in the main grandstand opposite the pits. He challenged me to find and convert that tape so I could share it with him and others as an MP3 file.
After accepting his challenge, I was afraid I'd embellished my memories, that I'd find a more pedestrian recording of mundane sounds and commentary than I had built up in my mind over the years. It is my great pleasure and privilege to share with you the edited 1:01:13 result of my labor of love and nostalgia. Thanks to a young German friend (DM2zzion) who uploaded if for me, the 160 kbps version can be accessed from the link below. My contextual introduction for the listener begins 2:50 into the recording, after sounds of the start of the race.
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(Yes, that incomplete sentence represents the complete link.) Very attractive presentation, I think. I hope you'll enjoy it, maybe even as much as I enjoyed putting it together!
Edited by WeeScot, 05 March 2014 - 03:36.
