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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Back
in the 1980s Steve Rose and Norm Wheeldon built a revolutionary dragster to
compete in the Pro Comp class which was the equvalent of a combined Top Methanol
Dragster and Funny Car class today. |
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Here are a couple of pictures of the car at an earlier stage of its construction.
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Left - Norm Wheeldon demonstrates the sort of tyre growth you get with drag slicks. |
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Don't believe it could run sixes with a small block? Check out the picture on the left. On the right is a selection of the other brand new goodies that went into it. |
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It looks like Norm (right) and Steve are about to go racing. |
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I think Norm Wheeldon did all the driving and here he is all suited up and almost ready to go. |
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Dennis Stone (bending) and Gerry Andrews of the Stones' team examining the opposition. |
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PWe don't get much glamour down here in the
bowels of the Acceleration Archive so let us enjoy these two shots of the first
lady of drag racing Linda Vaughn. |
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And here are a couple of pictures of Monica in her Top Fuel Dragster. |
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This is Bjorn Bergstrom's beautiful Expert-sponsored Pro Comp funny car. |
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We now have a few mystery cars which I
cannot ID (no change there then). |
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Harry Räikkönen also confirms that this is Tony Dönges car (sponsored by the Falcon Beer Company) racing Jim Read. Thanks again Harry. |
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Fortunately I can tell you that this is Pelle Lindelöw. There is a complete history of Pelle and P & G Racing on the Acceleration Archive which you can access from the site map or by clicking here. |
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No information on this great looking street car, I can't even make out what is written on the door. |
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Another good looking street car, this was driven by Marcus Tannfelt. |
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This Toyota Celica ran in Pro Stock and was called the Pro Gasser. Long-time correspondent Anders Olsson from Swedish tells me that Nicke Andersson both owned and drove the Pro Gasser. |
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Sorry - no details on this superb B class competition altered. |
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Another great B/CA and another no ID. |
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A C class altered this time. Sponsored by Pioneer it bears the delightful message "Have an eargasm" - well really! |
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To finish this page what better than a couple of shots of Schön & Andersson's very tidy looking Pro Stocker. |
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