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The Hemi-Hunter slingshot dragster was driven by Gerry Andrews and was a member of the Stones' drag racing team. As the name suggests it was, like all the Stones' cars, Chevrolet powered. It is seen here awaiting scrutineering at Santa Pod Raceway. |
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Hemi-Hunter in supercharged form was a 7 second runner. The car is seen here burning out hard at an NDRC meeting at Blackbushe airport. |
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Mike Hall in his Shutdown dragster prepares for his run in front of a packed audience at Snetterton. This car was purchased from Dennis Priddle who drove it is as Mr Revell in top fuel dragster down to very low 6 second times. |
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Still at Snetterton, Mike Hall creates his own pollution hazard in Shutdown. |
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Team ReadSpeed surround their Pro-Comp slingshot dragster in the pits at Santa Pod. Jim Read is sitting in the cockpit of the car. |
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Driver and team boss Jim Read hangs the laundry out to dry after another pass at Snetterton. I believe that this car was the ex-John Woolfe Racing/Dennis Priddle 'Hot Wheels' car of 1971. |
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Dave Stone applies the starter and fumes from the header show that the engine has just fired up. Gerry Andrews sits in the cockpit in the pits at Santa Pod Raceway. |
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The DB Motors sponsored Malibu Express Pro-Comp dragster
from the team of Kevin Burroughs, Jess Morris and Rob Spence is seen here being
unloaded from its trailer. |
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The Shutdown car has changed hands and is now in the ownership of Micky Naylor. The name has changed as well and the car is now called Medicine Man. |
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The front engined Pro-Comp dragster of Baz Young edges into stage at Snetterton. |
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The Cuss and Ashley team had previously campaigned a short wheelbase competition dragster. It therefore came as quite a surprise when they unveiled this beautiful state of the art rear engined dragster. |
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It came as an even bigger surprise when after only a season or two Cuss and Ashley wheeled out this radical streamlined car named the Bel-Ray Streamliner. |
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Micky Naylor rooster tails the Medicine Man dragster away from the line on the notoriously slippery Blackbushe surface. It may have hurt the times but it sure made for good pictures! |
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Pro Comp cars were allowed various different engine configurations. Pictured is the unique streamlined, twin turbocharged Saxon dragster belonging to Ray Hoare. |
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Hemi-Hunter II - the new rear engined rail now painted in the same colours as the team's Stardust funny car. |
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It seems that all the teams were going the rear engined route, here is the latest offering from Team ReadSpeed. The car, which was built by Dennis Priddle, was appropriately named Le Patron as Jim Read was the driver. |
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The immaculate rear engined car belonging to the Wheeldon and Claxton team. Both these drivers ahd previously campaigned middle and senior competition altereds so this car was quite a step up in power. The car was powered by a cast iron small block Chevy and 2 speed gearbox, it is seen in the pits at Snetterton. |
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Hemi-Hunter II burns out in the spectator lane at Santa Pod in front of a virtually deserted spectator banking. |
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