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I have been browsing through my collection of images and have decided to inflict a few more of them on you. Most of these cars have already been included in other pages but I hope you enjoy looking at these additional shots. |
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John Whitmore
started drag racing with a blown 4 cylinder BMC engine on nitro in a front
engined chassis. He called the car Drag'n'Fly and it certainly did
fly. |
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The right hand picture shows the car after John sold it on. It was renamed Inspiration, unfortunately I cannot tell you who the new owner was so if anyone has any information please get in touch and I will add it to the page. |
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John went on to build this rear engined car which was powered by a 2.5 litre Daimler V8 again with a blower and running on nitro. |
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This is the Cosworth V6-powered rail belonging to brothers Martin and Dick Jarman.. |
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The name of Russ Carpenter is synonymous with blown, nitro-burning Daimler engines but it should not be forgotten that he started off in partnership with Tony Anderson and the first three pictures show their final car which was called Even More Trouble. Well, it may have been troublesome but it was the fastest British-engined car as proudly proclaimed on the trailer. |
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The pictures on
the right and below show Russ' final car Glacier Grenade which was an absolute
gem of a car being capable of low seven second runs, a real junior fueller if
ever there was one. |
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Here are a number of previously unpublished pictures of the injected Chevy top dragster campaigned very successfully by the team of Emerson, Rowat and Smith. |
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I have a feeling that the picture on the right may have been taken at the only meeting held by the NDRC at the ex-Handley Page aircraft factory near Elstree. Unfortunately the local residents objected to the noise so that was that. |
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This is Chris Falconer's BMC-powered Moonraker dragster pictured at an NDRC meeting at Blackbushe Aerodrome. |
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The famous injected big block Chevrolet Age Machine dragster of Bruce Brown. |
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Ken Penfold was the enterprising gent who perched on this thing and allowed himself to be propelled along by a nitro-burning blown 750cc Triumph mill. He called the car Patience, I would have thought Incontinence might have been more apt. |
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This BMC powered dragster was called Spirit and was driven by Dave Miller. Steve Clark's Black Widow rail, also BMC-powered, is in the background. |
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Rex Sluggett and Dennis Priddle built the legendary Tudor Rose dragster and campaigned it with great success. By the time these pictures were taken the car was owned by Tim Claxton who went on to have quite some career in drag racing himself. |
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Steve Martyn pops up the front wheels of his 1600cc Ford-powered rail Instant Action at Snetterton. |
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A close-up of the artwork on the front wing of Rod George's 1430cc rear engined Ford-powered Midnight Creeper dragster. |
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We have seen father Jim Read's dragster above, this is his son Robin's Volvo-powered rail which was called Breakaway. |
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This page seems to have way more than its fair share of BMC-powered dragsters, this is Mike Riches' Shazam pictured, I think, at Snetterton. |
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Dave Gibbons is probably best remembered for his competition altered which was called Rough Diamond. However, he also ran this neat Daimler-powered rail called Wild Angel. |
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This is another shot of Age Machine but I am not sure who is driving it here. |
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I
do know that Bruce Brown sold the car to Dave Prior who, fortunately as it
turned out, discovered he was too generously proportioned to fit in it. |
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I am
indebted to Nick Pettitt of Time
Travel DVDs |
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All material on this site is copyright |
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(First posted 17 July 2007) |
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