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Before the Stones' team got their hands on this it was an unassuming little Mark 1 Ford Escort just like my first company car. |
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This Gary Goggin's Clunk Click Chevy Camaro Pro Stock. It was named after a road safety campaign of the time encouraging people to use their seat belts.
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A couple of pictures of two cars which not only tore the Pro Stock records up - they shredded them! |
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Time for a bit of British tin in the shape of the humble Ford Cortina. |
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Moving swiftly along to the Mark III Cortina, here are two shots of Billy Whizz taken at Santa Pod. It was an A class Modified so it clearly had something fairly substantial under the bonnet. |
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Newsboy was another Mark III Cortina, it is seen doing its best to fog out the start line at Snetterton. |
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Leicester-based DB Motors were well in to drag racing at one point even sponsoring a Pro Comp dragster. |
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Either District Nurse Hazel Wloszek or her husband Richard drove Meany Minor which had obviously had some sort of under-bonnet transplant because it should not have had a 1690cc Ford residing there. It was capable of wiping the floor with just about any stock American car which was always highly amusing when there were a group of US service personnel on the banking. |
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No details sadly for Minor Upevil. |
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This was another very quick British car with a modest power plant. John Woods drove Heavy Breathin' which was an Austin A40. |
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Lotus is a brand very dear to my heart because Colin Chapman, the founder of the marque, was an old boy of my school. He donated an engine which had been cutaway so that you could see the operation of the pistons and valves as it was turned over. That is about the limit of my knowledge of internal combustion engines. |
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I don't know who was driving this Lotus Elan but it certainly wasn't meant to be facing that way! |
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Palladin was another Lotus Elan and it was driven by Barry Potter (Keith's brother perhaps?), this shot was taken on 4 November 1984 at the Pod. |
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No details on this factory-sponsored Caterham 7 (the successor to the Lotus 7). |
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Steve Johnson drives a very rapid Super Pro ET dragster these days but this was his ride in Street Altered way back when. All of Steve's cars have been called Motor Mouse. |
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This is Ron Kiddell's Vauxhall Firenza which was called Sweet Sixteen undoubtedly because the four banger Lotus twin cam engine which he had installed had sixteen valves which was very high tech back then. |
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Mike Allen was a DJ on London's Capital Radio. It must have paid pretty well for him to be able to afford two Mach 1 Mustangs named American Dream and American Dream II. |
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No page of doorslammers would be complete without a few Ford Pops. |
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This picture of Paul's Toy was taken at Santa Pod on 5 May 1985. |
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I can't even tell you if AM30 had a name, only that I snapped it at Long Marston (as was) on 29 June 1985. |
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The Flavell brothers are still going strong and are currently running a blown funny car in Super Pro ET. Pop Dragin' is pictured at Santa Pod early in 1986. |
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No details on this Opel GT with the striking paint job. |
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Hot Tomato II was another of those lovely Opel GTs and was campaigned by brothers Steve and Trevor Clifton. |
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(First posted on 6 March 2014) |
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