All of the pictures on these pages were taken by readers of
The Acceleration Archive who have kindly agreed to share them with us.
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On page 6 of the competition altereds in The Alan Currans Collection, there is a picture of a car called Lil' Red Rooster which was campaigned by Jim Cornock (click here to see the picture). Jim's son Tim sent me this shot of the Rooster as it might have been. Tim raked the body and strengthened and lengthened the chassis but that is as far as it went. A great shame because it really looked the piece. |
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Ivan Sansom kindly sent me this picture of Chris Filsell's Satan's Sledge fuel funny car. Ivan tells me that the year would 1982, he believes this was a re-cycling of Gene Snow's Snowman funny car. |
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I have never been to York Raceway but
fortunately my next door neighbour Ray Kemp has. This and the next four
pictures were taken by Ray "sometime in the 80s". |
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This is an interesting picture of a funny car match race. In the far lane is the Houndog Corvette funny car complete with its John Woolfe Racing sponsorship. The other car is the ex-Houndog 9 car which passed to Dave Prior who initially ran it as Warlock. He later acquired sponsorship from Solarport and the car is seen here in that form with (probably) Dave's daughter Lesley driving. |
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A good leaving shot of Dave Warne's Mean as Hell super gas pickup which was cut down from the earlier panel van. My thanks to Ivan Sansom for identifying the car. |
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These are the last of Ray's pictures and
show the Leyland Skytrain in action. I remember seeing this thing at Santa Pod,
I think it used water tanks to shift weight about to help it up on its back
legs. |
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Geoff Martin owned and drove the Oxford
Builder competition altered and he has kindly sent me some pictures. |
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The completely new Mark II car used the
body from Pete Smith and John Williamson's Poison Ivy. |
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A great shot of Geoff powering the car off
the line at Santa Pod taken in 1988 or '89. The car featured a full race 300
bhp Jag engine with nitrous kit, McLeod slider clutch, Fairbanks Clutchflite
transmission, Mark Williams rear axle, Compomotive modular wheels, Earls
plumbing and paint by Bodyshop. All this was good for 9.74 seconds and 143mph
in 1992. |
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When Geoff got in touch he noted that I
did not have a picture on the site of a Jaguar V12-powered Topolino-bodied altered that he
dimly remembered. |
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Dave Dick sent me some of his pictures
taken from a while ago and asked me to compare them with some of his more recent
work. |
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Well Dave the answer is the modern
pictures are better images, they are well framed and the colours are more
vibrant. But I still love those old cars . . . |
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Last but by no means least, I am pleased to be able to bring you five pictures from Dave Kelly. Dave thinks that this atmospheric night shot of Allan Herridge in Gladiator racing Dave Stone in Stardust was taken in 1977 (ish). |
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Roy Phelps gets the front wheels well and truly aloft in the Santa Pod Wheelie Stingray in 1969. |
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The John Woolfe Racing Reliant GTE versus Opus One also taken in 1969 at the Pod. |
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And finally, two pictures of that great
old Top Fuel Dragster Commuter with the late Tony Densham at the controls probably taken
circa 1970. |
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