All of the pictures on this page were taken by Geof Hauser,
I am very grateful to him for the opportunity of reproducing them here.
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The late Alan Wigmore was probably best known as the voice of drag racing at all NDRC meetings. Before that he campaigned this competition altered called Itzaviva based upon a Vauxhall Viva HA. The car was powered by a small block Chevrolet engine. |
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A good selection of classic British drag bikes with Shotgun in the foreground. My thanks to both Clive Rooms and Andy Barrack for identifying the rider of this 650cc supercharged Triumph bike as David Clee. |
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The next five pictures were scanned from a contact sheet which explains the slightly inferior quality. There is a difference of opinion about this car. Andy Barrack thinks it is Anders Lantz's before its splendid paintjob, Geof disagrees because he thinks it looks "too English". |
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Geof's best guess is that this is a Piper, possibly being driven by David Piper himself. Does anyone know any better? |
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Dave Stone leaves the line at Blackbushe in his Chevrolet Rat engined altered Tee-Rat. This was an exciting car to watch as the team developed it quite rapidly, it seemed to set new bests at virtually every meeting I saw it. They eventually fitted a supercharger which probably provided a little too much power for this chassis. |
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Rick Fielding's 1600 cc Lotus twin cam-powered Imagination 6 competition altered hazes the tyres off the line. |
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I have no idea who is driving the rather garish AC Cobra in the near lane but Bob Oram is in the other lane in his 'Red-E' E-Type Jaguar street car. |
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Off now to Orange County International Raceway. Billy Meyer was only 18 when this picture was taken and he won the OCIR Manufacturer's Race having burst on the scene from nowhere. |
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Andy Barrack says this Vega funny car with its 'chute out was the Braskett & Burgin entry. Gary Burgin has been a big friend and supplier of parts to all European drag racers for the last 20 years or so. |
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Cliff Morgan from Phoenix, Arizona has (amazingly) been able to positively ID this car as The Avengers of Brisette & Noice. Cliff remembers it very well as a hard runner which had one of the first Donovan 417 engines. The driver was Bob Noice who gained fame in a Top Gas dragster before moving to Top Fuel. Jimmy Brisette is still active (as of 2005) as a tuner in Top Fuel. |
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The Ramchargers powered Sien and Lankford Brand X Mustang was from San Antonio, Texas. Journalist Jon Asher drove the car for a 1972 series in Super Stock & Drag Illustrated magazine about licensing in a funny car and he managed a best of 7.47/192. This information was gleaned from the excellent 70s Funny Cars site, when you visit be sure to look at Round 21 (he said rather immodestly). |
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Bill Jenkins' Grumpy's Toy in the near lane and the Vancleave and McLavey Pro Stockers leave the line together at OMS. |
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This looks like the Brand X car again on the left against the iconic Jungle Jim Liberman in his Revell-sponsored entry. |
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Revell sponsorship again, this time it is Ed 'The
Ace' McCulloch in the Whipple & McCulloch Revellution up against the 500
cubic inch Chevy Rat-engined King Camaro of Totten & Geare driven by Dean
Lapole. |
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The final 5 pictures on this page were
taken at Mantorp Park in 1976. |
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Familiar adversaries, unfamiliar location. The late Allan 'Bootsie' Herridge burns out in Gladiator in the near lane while Dennis Priddle waits in his Chrysler sponsored Avenger funny car in the far lane. |
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This is obviously a different race as the two of them are captured sitting in stage together from the other side of the strip. |
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This is the Opel Manta bodied funny car driven by John Andersson (who drove the beautiful Valkyrian dragster) and owned by Tage Hammerman and Bjorn Andersson (the latter was the driver of the "old" Manta funny car). |
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Geof took this shot just as the lights were running down. John Andersson's Manta bodied car is in the left lane facing up to Jan Carlsson's Fever fuel funny car. |
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