All of the pictures on this page were taken by Lawrie Gatehouse,
I am indebted to him for making them available for us all to enjoy.
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Don Prudhomme has recently (2010) announced his retirement from the sport. |
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Ken Veney was another giant of drag racing in the USA. It didn't matter whether it was a funny car or a dragster, if it was powered by a methanol-burning engine with Veney driving the opposition were in trouble. |
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A couple of shots (no pun intended) of Dale Armstrong driving Jim Foust's Alcoholic methanol-burning funny car. |
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This is Bruce Hagestag's Waterman-powered fueller. |
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Colour at last but in the form of a Start & Speed mini-poster featuring Gary Beck boiling the hides in his Export A-sponsored Top Fuel Dragster. |
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I Googled this car and found an interesting article on it on the Clunkbucket website (click here to view). |
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Thanks to Herb Andrews I can identify the driver of the Wayne County Speed Shop entry on the left as Dave Hutchens. |
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Ditto these two stockers. |
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Time for a bit of Pro Stock action. |
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I believe this is Mark Prudhomme driving this dragster. I am not sure if he is any relation to Don. |
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The very smart B/Altered Terry's Performance-sponsored Fiat Topolino burning out. |
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This Volswagen Kharman Ghia ran in the M/G class and that's all I can tell you about it. Nice shot though. |
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The remaining pictures on this page were taken by Lawrie on a visit to South Africa in 1975. Lawrie thinks that the strip was built a few miles outside Johannesburg in the 1970s by a wealthy petrolhead farmer. |
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The Moonshine Express pick-up truck. |
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And this is the Moonshine blown rear-engined dragster.
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Four shots of Mick's very tidy Mighty Vette!
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Shades of the Swedish The Saint funny car with its Volvo P1800 sports car body but this is Reg Murray's The Tortoise B class funny car. |
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Unknown supercharged stocker. |
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The regulations must have been fairly relaxed back then, the driver of this El Camino pick-up is not even wearing a helmet. |
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We've got Grumpy Jenkins in the USA, Dave 'Grumpy' Wilson in the UK, and not to be left out the South Africans had a Grumpy Ford 100E with a psychedelic paintjob. |
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The last of Lawrie's surviving South African shots are of the very smart Smith's Wheels-sponsored blown rear-engined dragster. |
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The best known South African racer was 'Mad' Arthur Christy who had retired by the time Lawrie visited SA. However, Arthur has been in touch with some recollections of his racing career which you can read by clicking here. |
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Lawrie Gatehouse was inducted into the Lawrie sadly passed away on the Lawrie was posthumously awarded RIP
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