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This car has generated huge amounts of correspondence which I think I have now (almost) unravelled. It was originally built by Tony Anderson and was called Trouble (but may have been known as Budget Breaker at one time). It was then purchased by Gary Whitehead who re-named it Frustration and it was driven by Keith Stacey. Gary subsequently sold the car to Keith. |
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This car was called Age Machine and was originally campaigned by Bruce Brown. It was sold to Dave and Ros Prior with the intention, if my memory serves me correctly, that husband Dave would do the driving. Unfortunately, he was a man of rather generous proportions and had trouble getting in the car which Is why Roz took over. She went on to drive very successfully in top fuel dragster. This is Santa Pod in 1973 again. |
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John Whitmore administers a little TLC to his extremely rapid and well named Drag'n'Fly slingshot dragster at Santa Pod. |
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Here is another great exponent of making British -engined cars go extremely quickly - Russ Carpenter. I have given up trying to keep track of the names of his earlier cars, they all had 'Trouble' in there somewhere. This looks like an NDRC meeting at Silverstone to me. |
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Jerry Cookson's Joker junior dragster. Ian Jupp thinks this shot was taken whilst queuing for scrutineering next to the A30 at Blackbushe. |
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This is what happens when you use a wide angle lens on something as long as a slingshot senior dragster. In the distance behind that large front wheel lurks Tudor Rose. This car was owned by Rex Sluggett who built it with Dennis Priddle. At the time this picture was taken it belonged to Tim Claxton. You can read an article on Rex Sluggett and Tudor Rose by clicking here. |
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This is the very tidy Dubble or Quitz rear engined rail of the Rowat Brothers. |
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The Emerson, Rowat and Smith dragster reversing back to the start line at Snetterton. |
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A nice shot of the late George Davey's propane gas powered Jaguar engined Pubcrawler dragster posed in front of the team van. |
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This is not a particularly good picture of Alan Blount's twin Chevy engined Mouse Organ rail. I include it because it is the only shot I have of the car and I cannot recall seeing another double-engined dragster. |
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This is Levitator which is the Chicken Coupe car minus its highly distinctive Fiat Topolino body. |
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Rod George's Midnight Creeper pictured at Wroughton. |
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Brian Ringsell's Taxi looks to be queuing up for scrutineering at Santa Pod. Andy Barrack is certain that this car is a later version of Tudor Rose (see above). |
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I can tell you absolutely nothing about MD65 and its driver except that the picture was taken at Wroughton. I include it because the unusual sight of a dragster without its body panels shows just what a reclining position the driver had to adopt. In the background is the Poison Ivy altered of Pete Smith and John Williamson. |
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Certainly not Houndog - the memory banks are running on empty here (as usual) but could this be Geronimo and was the driver John Siggery? My thanks to Mick Tickner for getting in touch to confirm my suspicions on both car and driver. Mick ought to know - he built the car! |
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There were only two V12 Jaguar powered
cars to my knowledge and this is one of them. Introducing Alan Sharp's
Methdrinker in the pits, probably at Blackbushe. |
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The only reason that I know that this is Bill Haynes' Quarter Horse II is because Alan Barnett kindly lent me some old programmes and I looked it up. The car was powered by a 4799cc Ford. That looks very like Le Patron Jim Read standing in the middle of the track. |
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Keith Stacey has been in touch to tell me about this car which he purchased from Gary Whitehead (see the first picture on this page) and re-named it Whisky Pedlar after a super stock Chevrolet Malibou which a friend of his raced in Canada. This picture was taken at Blackbushe in either 1974 or 1975. The car ran a best of 10.00 at Santa Pod but could run into the nines with a dash of the hard stuff. Unfortunately this would have put the car in Top Fuel so it was usually run on methanol. |
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The Starlight dragster is being fired up on the rollers in the pits at Santa Pod. From the high definition image I think I can make out the driver's name as Steve Clark. The Moon City Charger competition altered is next in line for the rollers. |
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John Gibbons and Vince Shaw's Chevy powered Alkymist approaches the line at Snetterton. This shot is certainly pre-1979 because in that year they brought out their rear engined rail. |
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