All of the pictures on this page were taken by Peter
Jones,
I am indebted to him
for allowing me to reproduce them here.
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The first series of pictures on this page
were taken at the 1981 Transatlantic Drag Bike Race which was held at Long
Marston or Shakespeare County Raceway as it came to be known many years
later. |
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Three shots of the mighty machine. It might not look all that much now but it was quite something back then believe me.
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Left and right - Bo saying a few words to
the crowd.
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One of the few cars to be invited to run
at the Transatlantic Bike Race in 1981 was the beautifully prepared Blue Samurai
funny car. |
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Three pictures of the Houndog fuel altered taken at the 1980 Santa Pod Fireworks meeting. These pictures, and the three below, were scanned from a contact sheet so I apologise for their quality. |
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Sylvia Hauser burning out in her ex-Paul Rossi Dodge Challenger. |
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Left and right : I believe this car is Alan Ritmeisters' Orpheus top fuel dragster. |
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This is Gerry Andrews being towed down the fire up road at Santa Pod in the Stone's team's Hemi Hunter Pro Comp dragster. This picture was taken at the 1980 World Series meeting. |
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The late Jim Read launching his Dennis Priddle-built rear engined Pro Comp dragster off the line at Santa Pod. |
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The late Marion James driving her Instigator dragster at the 1982 World Series meeting at Santa Pod. This car was originally built by Ray Hoare who raced it in pro comp under the name of the Turbo Saxon. |
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Keiran Westman seemed in reflective mood when Peter snapped him as he sat in the Vampire jet-powered dragster. |
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And here is an even more exotic dragster -
the late (and greatly missed) Slam'n Sammy Miller's Oxygen rocket-powered device
pictured in 1981. |
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And now a couple of shots of Norm Wheeldon burning out in the Plan-X Pro Comp dragster. This slingshot dragster was capable of six second runs and was competitive with all of the rear engined cars in the class. |
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Left : Peter Jones co-wrote 'Drive it -
the Complete Book of British Drag Racing' with David Hardcastle who is seen
guiding the Plan-X car back in its tyre tracks. |
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The final four pictures on this page were
taken at Mantorp Park in 1982. |
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Many thanks to Kurt Ljungkvist who has been in touch with information about this car. |
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It was owned and driven by Torbjörn Gustavsson and his brother Christer who later became a partner with Hans Knuters in Pro Stock. Many years later he was crew chief for Mikael Malmgren's Pro Stock car. Now he runs a multi-car team including his entire family. Junior dragster, Super Stock and a Pro Stock. His two daughters, a grandson and a son-in-law are all drivers. |
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Linda Vaughn - the first lady of US drag racing - put in an appearance at Mantorp. |
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Anders Olsson to the rescue again, this '68 Hemi Cuda was owned and driven by Odd Björnland from Norway. |
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