Just wasted a bit of time reminiscing.
1977 Formula 1 highlights series, the first year I watched a complete season of the sport. My father went and got our first Sharp color TV for it, as by chance I had watched on a BW TV the very race of the previous season in which Lauda burned at the Nürburgring, the race on which the movie Rush was based, and I had got the bug which lasted up until Schumacher's dominance became boring. I had debated whether I should watch the movie out of interest - it has been out a while now - or leave what I remember as just that. I watched these to help make the decision; I opted for the latter. It just seems to me now that F1 drivers then were a bunch of guys who drank, smoked and partied and occasionally drove fast - nothing like the obsessively motivated, industry honed professionals of today - who I find frankly rather characterless and a bit boring - though that impression is probably just my appreciation of them deteriorating as I got older.
Then there were the cars themselves - they actually did not look like the same vehicle with a different paint job...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R4d6V-EbHg"]f1 1977 season part 1 - YouTube[/ame]
EDIT: BTW, I might add, we did not see them "live" here in Ecuador back then. We used to get them on local TV a couple of weeks late.