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Two pictures of Tony Froome's Nitromania slingshot. |
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Answers on a postcard please - I haven't got the foggiest idea about this car. |
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This is Bill Haynes' Quarterhorse II obviously fresh out of the workshop as the bodywork is incomplete. |
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As regular readers of these pages will know, Rick Fielding built and drove a whole string of competition altereds and dragsters all of which he called Imagination. This neat rear engined car was probably one of his last cars. |
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Two shots of John Gibbons and Vince Shaw's Alkymist. I don't know when the picture of the slingshot was taken, but the rear engined car must have been snapped in 1979 as that was the only year that the team ran the car. Power was provide by a 5016cc Chevrolet lump. |
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I
don't know very much about this car except that it was driven by Bob
Holt. |
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I
think it is fair to say that the fantastic power and performance extracted from
2.5 litre Daimler V8 engines by Russ Carpenter inspired several others to go
down the same route. |
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Richard Dawson built and drove this fine looking Jaguar-powered
slingshot which was called Enforcer. |
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The late Marion James drove The Instigator. |
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This head-on shot is of Roy Green's Resurrection with nitrous injected Ford V6 power. |
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There was far more variety in the cars and their
powerplants years ago and this picture evidences that conclusively. John
Hennessey thinks this car was raced by Morry Thomas in about 1971. And he is not wrong because Dave Gibbons (who drove the Rough Diamond competition altered) tells me that Morry is on the left of shot near his Rolls Royce. |
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The car on the left is Richard Jarman's Stripstar V6 dragster with Mike Riches' Shazam in the background. Richard picked up some sponsorship and Stripstar was re-christened Hepolite Hustler. |
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A not very brilliant shot of the late George Davey's Jaguar-powered Pubcrawler rail. This car was unique in that it used Propane gas fuel. Was George trying to save the planet years before we knew it was going down the toilet? |
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This is a pretty grotty picture which shows Steve Johnson's Motor Mouse slingshot powered by a Ford Cosworth mill. |
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Mark Forrester's Gearjammer slingshot used a 389 cubic inch Chrysler hence the B Dragster classification. |
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A couple of shots of the impressive Wilkinson & Framsham dragster taken at Santa Pod on 26 August 1984. |
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I have a contemporaneous note saying this is the ex-Boston Straggler of Dave Burdett but I do not know who was running it when this picture was taken on 26 May 1985. |
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GD 65 was called Raindancer and was driven by Gary Atkinson. It looks to me like either a re-working, or a copy, of the Econorail built by Ian Fraser. |
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This is Steve Warner's Blue Blazer 350 cubic inch Chevy rail pictured at Santa Pod on 25 August 1985. |
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Back in the days of yore Junior Dragsters were quite a thriving
class (just as they are now) except they were driven by grown-ups whose pockets
weren't quite as deep as the Dennis Priddles and Clive Skiltons of this
world. |
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Rod George's Creeper was a superbly built and turned out machine as is evident from this picture snapped over the fence at the Pod. |
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John Hennessey tells me that JD73 was an injected Triumph called Red Rooster which was owned and raced by Steve Jeal and himself. |
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Tony Taylor has been in touch with further information about this car (which is also featured on page 6). He bought the chassis from Mike Sayers and fitted a Ford 1600 crossflow engine with a VW transaxle. |
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The remaining pictures on this page are of Swedish competitors and we
start with a trio of dragsters sponsored by Bilhuset. |
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The second of the Bilhuset cars was built and driven by none other
than Tony Dönges and this was his very first dragster. |
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Another famous name in Scandinavian drag racing making his
dragster debut was Krister Johansson (bending over the car in the pink
overalls). |
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This car is believed to be Anders Höjner's car possibly under new ownership. If anybody can provide any more information then please get in touch. |
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This car was originally imported from the USA by 'King' Knut
Söderqvist in the late 1970s. At that time it had a 468
cubic inch Chevy mill with two carburetors and was good for low
nines. |
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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 31 July 2007) |
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