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This neat little Vauxhall Chevette Junior Competition Altered was supported by Dealer Team Vauxhall and driven by Martin Ward. I am indebted to my friend Andy Barrack for supplying the driver's name for this car and a fair bit of other information to update this page. |
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This Model T-bodied altered was driven by Kjell Johansson and was powered by a 426 cube Hemi with tunnel ram carbs. There is another picture of this car on page 2 (click here to view) when it was sponsored by Bilhuset. |
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The excellent Paranoia Jaguar-powered Model T of Thomas & Loten in all its glory in the pits at Snetterton on a lovely summer's day. |
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Drag Addict was an unusual looking car having something of the stock car about it to my eye. The car originally belonged to Peter Hollingsworth and had a small block Chevy lump. It subsequently passed to Robert Hunt. I have later pictures of it painted red so possibly it was still with Peter when this shot was taken. |
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Just to prove that not all Model T-bodied Junior Altereds had to have a Jag engine, here is ECA 40 with an injected four pot. This very well turned out car was the first effort of the team of Andy Craddock, Steve Clark, Dave Fletcher and Mike O'Connell. Andy tells me that ECA 40 was later christened GEE TEE. This shot was taken at Blackbushe. |
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This car was originally campaigned as The Animal by Mick Saunders but it was acquired by ex-motorcycle racer Terry Revill. All his bikes were called The Assassin and as you can see the name stuck when he moved over to four wheels. |
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Fire In'jun was pictured on page 2 appropriately painted red (click here to view). Since then it has been very considerably stretched, lowered and re-painted. The original owner was Jason Smith - I am not sure if he was still driving the car when this picture was taken in the pits at Santa Pod. |
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The Sunoco-sponsored Fiat Topolino of Mike Kason being pushed by the crew in the pits at Santa Pod Raceway. |
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This is Peter Blake's Sabbath altered, a neat V8 powered Bantam bodied car which is seen here in the pits at the Pod on a fine day. |
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Travel Agent was raced for many years and was a Jaguar-powered bucket T owned by Alan Sherwin. It was unusual in that the engine was supercharged by this rather ungainly arrangement of mounting the blower above the engine with the carbs planted on top of that. Dave Gibbons' Rough Diamond Topolino-bodied car can be seen in the background. |
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Mike Kason's very mean looking Senior Altered sponsored by Nicholson's Easy Street seen when driven by Capital Radio DJ Len Harris. The car was fitted with a petrol-burning small block and had the first nitrous kit in the country and therefore represented quite an important step in UK drag racing. The extremely rapid Morris Minor belonging to district nurse Hazel Wioslec (apologies if that spelling is wrong Hazel!) is in the background. |
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An unusual shot of Mike Kason's car minus its back wheels. Mike went on to add a Rowat Brothers small block nitro engine and a Fiat Topolino body and raced the car himself with Sunoco sponsorship, see above for a picture of the car. |
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Pumpin Iron was campaigned by Herb Andrews and was previously the famous Invader altered of Colin Mullan. This picture was taken in the pits at Blackbushe. |
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Andy Barrack has confirmed that this highly unusual Jeep-bodied car did indeed belong to Svante Ericsson and was powered by a 426 Hemi with tunnel ram and carbs. A picture of his original street car is on Doorslammers page 1 (click here to view). This car, although often driven to the strip, was so rapid it was forced to run in competition altered, he obviously thought it was time to go the whole hog! |
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Tim Spencer's 2-Ton Carmen started life as a Mini-bodied altered painted a dull copper colour. It has been brightened up a bit in this shot taken at Santa Pod. Sadly the car crashed in 1975 at the top end against the spectator side barriers. My thanks to Phil Brown for providing this bit of history of the car. |
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Following the accident the car re-appeared in a rather different form in the shape of the ex-Poison Ivy/Sachs Motors' competition altered of Pete Smith and John Williamson. |
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The car is shown here after the previous full body has been attacked with a jig saw. This blown Jaguar-powered altered adopted a rather different approach to mounting the supercharger. This seems a much more elegant solution but which went faster I wonder? |
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Colin Fisher's Themis originally sported a Fiat Topolino body (click here to view). He debuted this small block Chevy powered Monza-bodied junior funny car in 1978. In this form the car was capable of 9 second runs with 130mph terminal speeds. It is pictured in the pits at Santa Pod. |
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Austin A30 or A35 bodies were once quite popular and indeed Dorset Horn, the most famous of them all, is still running in the Wild Bunch. This is John Powis' Henry's Revenge showing off its well rounded posterior in the pits. |
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