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 set of pictures on this page are from the collection
of Barry George.
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Presumably that is Roland Pratt standing up in the cockpit steering the Hillbillies Fiat Topolino-bodied altered through the Santa Pod pits. |
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My thanks to Nick Pettitt for identifying this car as the
Ultrasonic Top Fuel Dragster brought over to the UK in 1967 by the Commando Drag
Race Team. |
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Two pictures of the beautiful ex-Lawce & Gunn AA/FA imported
from the USA by Keith Harvie and re-named Dream Machine. |
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Nick Pettitt to the rescue again with another of the 1967 Commando team, this time the ex-Tommy Ivo twin 401" Buick-powered slingshot of Ron Jellineck and Dave McCaig. |
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Also pictured in 1967 is Jack Stilwell's 2.4 litre Jaguar-powered Phaeton 1 dragster which was driven by Tony Brown. This car later passed to Alan Sharp who re-named it Methsdrinker. |
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The next set of pictures were submitted by Mark Ison whose
father John and uncle Chris campaigned the famous Wild Honey Jag-powered
competition altered. Whilst looking through Mark's pictures and deciding which
to include on this page I came across another, rather better, shot of the
Phaeton dragster. |
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Nick's final contribution to this page concerns the Maffia Mouse altered pictured on the left. He tells me that this picture was taken in August 1970 when Pelle Widholm brought the car over from Sweden. It had a steel '54 Topolino body (different from the usual '37 body) and ran a Hilborn injected 454" Chevy on petrol and ran 10.8/133 at this meeting. At the end of 1970 Pelle sold the engine to the Hillbillies for use in their Topo altered (see above) and the car went to Willi Hesterman from Germany. |
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This is the Malibu Express dragster which debuted in 1969 and was designed, built and campaigned by the team of Kevin Burrows, Bob Spence, Jeff Morris and Geoff Fardell. The car was so called because most of the parts came from a 1964 Chevrolet Malibu SS sports saloon. The engine was a 4.7 litre Chevy V8 fed through a pair of Holley 4 barrel carbs and a chromed Moon 'Bugcatcher' ram intake. This car is still running in the Wild Bunch as Chris Hartnell's Backdraft. |
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And here is the Wild Honey altered itself. |
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Glenn Ramsden of UK Event Safety sent me these two later pictures of Wild Honey which show that the car underwent a fair bit of development. |
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The final set of pictures on this page were sent by Paul Psaila
who hails from Toronto in Canada although he was originally from Wellingborough
and was a regular at Santa Pod from the early days. |
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Paul's next pictures were taken at the Goodguys meeting held at Formosa Raceway, Bakersfield from 28 to 30 October 2005. I can't tell you much about these cars except I wouldn't mind seeing them at Santa Pod. |
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Here are a couple of examples of the new-style nostalgia
slingshot dragsters. |
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This is the legendary Winged Express originally campaigned by
Marcellus & Borsch which was driven with considerable panache by Wild Willy
Borsch who normally sterred it one-handed. |
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