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Ray Hoare burns out in his Saxon injected V8 dragster at Santa Pod Raceway. |
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Two of the fastest all-British dragsters posed nicely together. In the foreground is John Whitmore's Drag'n'Fly slingshot car, although only powered by a 1200 or 1300cc engine 9 second runs were routine. The Anderson & Carpenter rear engined More Trouble car ran with a 2500cc Daimler V8. This car ran in the 8 second bracket with 150 mph terminal speeds. |
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The unusual Chicken Coupe competition coupe fitted with a grotesquely distorted Fiat Topolino body in the fire up road at Santa Pod. Andy Barrack tells me the owners were Mike Treutlein and Keith Dancey. |
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The Worden dragster driven by Janet Trinder lifts its front wheels high for such a short wheelbase car as it leaves the line at Silverstone. My thanks to Andy Barrack again for telling me the name of the driver. |
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Here is another very old dragster - John Rotheram gives Avanti a little attention between rounds. Avanti looks like one of the Allard Dragon dragsters built by Sidney Allard. |
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It used to be that if you lost fire on a bye run you had to push your car or motorcycle up the strip in order to go through to the next round. That was what happened to the unfortunate driver of the Black Gold dragster at Snetterton. I wonder if he was too embarrassed to take his helmet off? |
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Richard Jarman's Stripstar edges into stage at an NDRC meeting at Blackbushe airport. Keith Stacey tells me that this car was built by Harold Bull and his friend Derek Metcalf. Andy Barrack gets the credit again for coming up with the driver's name for me. |
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The injected V8 (presumably Chrysler) powered Ratcatcher dragster run by the Cuss & Ashley team. This immaculate car had a retro look about it even by the standards of the time. It is seen here in the pits at Santa Pod in 1974 probably at the 5th Internationals meeting in July. |
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By now the Anderson & Carpenter car was Even More Trouble than before. It really is beginning to look like the junior fueller that it eventually became. |
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A nice shot of the Emmerson, Rowat & Smith injected rear engined car burning out at Snetterton. |
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Ratcatcher has had a new paint job and wings fitted in front of the rear wheels. Pat Cuss proves that it goes as well as it shows at Snetterton. |
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The late George Davy gets the front wheels up as he launches Pubcrawler off the line at Santa Pod. Pubcrawler was unique in that its Jaguar engine ran on propane gas. That rollcage looks a little small for George! |
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Shazam was driven by Rob Panter who co-owned the car with Roger Hopton. He has pulled a holeshot on an unknown Go-Kart which is almost out of shot on the left. Go-Karts used to be raced in junior dragster fitted with large motorcycle engines. This shot was taken at Snetterton. |
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John Whitmore goes the rear engined route with Drag'n'Fly. Here he waits for the lights to run down at Snetterton. |
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Ian Fraser's supercharged 3 litre Ford V6 car looks as if it has been based on the 'Econorail' design which featured in a series of articles in Custom Car magazine. He is seen on the line at Snetterton about to race George Davy in Pubcrawler. |
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Ratcatcher has been converted to a competition coupe! It is seen leaving the line again at Snetterton. |
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My regular informant Andy Barrack has done some detective work and it seems likely that this car is Glen Read's 1780cc Volvo powered The Graduate. Glen's car was a member of Team ReadSpeed which ran a number of dragsters. He looks as if he has got his work cut out trying to keep up with John Whitmore's Drag'n'Fly. |
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