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 five pictures on this page were submitted by Richard Franklin. |
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I was initially unfamiliar with this double Hillman Imp-engined bike but a little research in my old programes reveals it to be Alan Thompson's 1,750cc Lonewolf. |
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Go-karts used to be fairly common in junior dragster way back when, this example is Richard Bottom's 740cc Triumph powered Strip Kartoon. |
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The last of Richard's pictures show the
destruction of one of the fastest front engined fuel dragsters of all time. At
the time these pictures were taken Mickey Naylor was running the car on alcohol
and experienced a horrifying flipover which totalled it completely. |
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The next set of pictures are courtesy of
Steve Robson who also provided the captions. |
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The Roaring Viking of Hazze Fromme, all the way from Sweden, again taken at the 1973 June International meeting. |
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Keith Potter's The Devil taken at SPR during the September 1978 International. The car was eventually totalled in Italy doing demo burnouts. |
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September 1978 again and, would you
believe, Pubcrawler on Calor Gas? |
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The late, great Tony Nancy taken at the June 1973 International. This was probably the most incredible top fueller we had ever seen up to then. |
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These six pictures were sent in by Rickard
Eklund and show work in progress on the restoration of his friend's '57
Chevy.
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The next collection of pictures on this page were sent in by Glenn Ramsden of UK Event Safety. |
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Ron Picardo is known today for his
collection of demonstration vehicles but he previously drove in both Top Fuel
Dragster and funny car with a similar sense of showmanship.
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This is a great shot of The Commuter top fuel dragster hazing the slicks at Santa Pod. |
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This excellent picture of John Hobbs on his Hobbit Top Fuel Motorcycle was taken by Glenn's friend Les Stubbs. I am very grateful to Les for allowing it to be reproduced on the site. |
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I was stumped with this shot which was taken at Avon Park in the early 1990s until my friend Tog from Eurodragster.com came to the rescue and told me the car was driven by Sandra Fath from Germany. |
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This little Ford Escort van was running in
the street class and the driver was obviously out to enjoy himself! |
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The last of Glenn's pictures (for the time
being at least) show the monstrous Leyland Skytrain wheelstanding truck in all
its glory. I guess these shots were taken at York Raceway. |
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The final picture on this page was sent in
by Peter Blake and is a very rare picture of the first Page brothers' Panic
competition altered. This car, which was built by Mark Stratton, was previously
campaigned by the John Woolfe Racing team who called it Hustler. |
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