This video is by a local Brighton Resident called Dave Cresdee. He can be seen right at the start of the video, walking towards the camera on the RH side wearing white trousers and white shirt, hair in a quiff.

The music is from Dave's own band The Polygon, recorded live at The Brighton Metropole in 1968.

Comments on the film by Rupert Lloyd Thomas:

#216 at the beginning is Ken Wilson, in his white and red 2.5 litre B.R.M., [FTD in 1963 with a run of 23.10sec.]

#150 is Mrs. Pat Coundley's 2.7-litre Lotus 19-Climax [In conversation with the policeman!]

#89 is, I think, the red Abarth-Simca of Bob Burnard.

# unidentified: The dark green racing car with white stripe on nose, smoking the tyres in the nearside lane is the 2.5-litre 4-cylinder B.R.M. of Tony Griffiths.

#110 is the blue Shelby-entered A.C.-Cobra of Dante Duce, class winner and 5th overall in a time of 24.35sec.

#200 is the yellow Chevy-powered Moonbeam sportscar of Dante Duce - FTD at 21.95sec, 151 mph.

#155, the red and white sports car, is Ken Wilson in the Lister-Jaguar (same guy as in #216 - see above).

An article from Motor Sport magazine, Oct 1964, P800: 

BRIGHTON SPEED TRIALS (Sept. 12th) 

Following up on last year's "demonstration" at Brighton, when American Mickey Thompson and Dante Duce came over to show the potentialities of the high-powered sling-shot dragsters, this year's Brighton Speed Trial was an even more convincing demonstration of just how far ahead the Americans are with their drag machines.

Dante Duce, unable to use the full power of the light- weight dragster, turned up with a 600-plus-b.h.p. 4.7-litre super-charged car based on the conventional ideas as far as an enveloping body went, but far different beneath the skin. With this "wolf in sheep's clothing" Duce made the fastest time of the day in 21.9 sec., an average of 101.91 for the bumpy Brighton Kilometre.

However, despite using a parachute and all the latest styles in face masks, Duce failed to beat the outright car record held by Chris Summers' Cooper-Chevrolet.

Second fastest time of the day went to Pat Coundley's 2.7-litre Lotus 19-Climax in 23.01 sec., with the ex-works, 2.5-litre 4- cylinder B.R.M.s of Tony Griffiths and Ken Wilson clocking 23.06 and 23.15 sec., for third and fourth fastest times.

Duce, driving a Shelby-entered A.C.-Cobra, also won the over 2,500-c.c. GT category and made fifth fastest time at 24.35 sec., beating John Dawney's ex-works 215 Aston Martin by 0.10 of a second.

Jaguar-engined cars took the next fastest five placings.

In stark comparison with Duce's Dragster was Douglas Fitz- patrick's 21-litre Metallurgique, which was minus two of its three passenger seats in the racing car class, and Nigel Arnold-Forster's 5-litre Delage and Ron Smith's Darracq.

Although this year the major prize went to a car which was little far from a dragster, the outright record still remains the property of a car that still bears some resemblance to a Grand Prix car and one cannot help feeling that the Brighton Corporation will have to do some drastic re- surfacing if they are to attract the really fast dragster exponents.