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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The first six pictures on this page have
been submitted by Steve Robson, Steve has also supplied most of the information
for the captions. |
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This is Les Field's small block Chevy
powered BSA bike shot in 1967 at a bike-only meet (back in the days when bikes
and cars ran at separate meetings). |
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The sad remains of Micky Naylor's once
beautiful Medicine Man Top Fuel Dragster after he pulled such a violent wheelie
off the line that the car went right over and, as you can see, was
totalled. |
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A couple of pictures of the famous Stripteaser Minivan, this one was taken in October 1972 when it looked rather utilitarian. |
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Moving quickly along to the International meeting in June 1973 and, not only has the sun come out, but Stripteaser has had a smart new paint job and shiny back wheels into the bargain. It still has the metal Minivan body though, check out those exhaust headers from the straight 6 Jaguar engine exiting through the roof. |
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Steve's twins have been recruited as Micke
Kagered's team mascots, so he knows something of what goes on in the
pits. |
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The next three pictures were sent in by
David Crunkhorn aka 'Crunch' who is the Crew Chief on Martyn Jones' super pro
dragster. David tells me he previously crewed on Richard Dawson's Enforcer,
George Davie's Pubcrawler, Dave Burdett's Boston Straggler and Steve Johnson's
Motor Mouse rail. Quite a Who's Who of 1970/80s dragsters. |
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Richard Dawson again in the Enforcer at Santa Pod in 1984. |
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With all the work that goes into prepping
the track, understandably you don't get this sort of thing anymore. But back in
those less sophisticated days, flame burn outs were all the rage and just the
thing to warm up the fans at the November (and December!) meetings. |
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I think this is a first for a UK site -
drag boats!
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Wild Bunch racer Alec Coe submitted the
next five pictures. |
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On the left and below right are two
pictures of another of Alec's cars which he called Shy Torque and competed in the
Wild Bunch. The car was built by Baron Sharpe in 1984 and called The Rutland
Rebel. Present motivation is provided by a 355" small block Chevy mated to a
Race Glide box. This combination has produced a best of 10.29 seconds at 116
mph. Alec intends to alter the gearing on the car. |
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On the left is Alec's son Tommy ' The Gun' Coe's car, also a Wild Bunch runner, called Psycho. It has a 3500cc Rover V8
engine which has taken it to a best of 11.155 seconds and 119.36 mph. |
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The last three pictures were donated by
Peter Allen. |
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My thanks to Martin Gleadow of Time Machine Racing for identifying
this car as Peter Lane's Earsplittenloudenboomer 468ci Chevrolet Camaro powered Super
Gasser. |
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And finally for this page, the Fireforce jet-powered funny car hard at work heating up (and sandblasting) anyone who has been ill-advised enough to remain in the barn behind it. |
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