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 collection of pictures on this page come from Clive Rooms who is no stranger to this site. |
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This picture brings back memories of when dragsters used to be push started down the fire-up road. It was usual with rear-engined cars such as this to have a detachable bar on the dragster with a bit of wood on the push car to protect the bumper (or should that be fender in this case?). |
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Still with Clive's pictures but on to the now redeveloped Ontario Motor Speedway. Just look at the size of those stands, sorry, bleachers. |
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Absolutely no identification problems with this car. |
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These three of Clive's pictures have so far defied identification - even Clive cannot remember who they are! So if you think you can supply an ID for one or more of them please get in touch. |
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Clive was back in the UK when he took the next three shots. |
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Roland Pratt in the Hillbillies' ill-fated Transcontinental funny car. Sadly it was written off in a nasty top-end accident fortunately without serious injury to Roland. |
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Quite a rare picture this of Dave Stone driving the Stones family's competition altered which went on to great things when called Tee Rat. In this very early picture of the car I believe it was named Doo Wot. |
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These two pictures were kindly submitted by Jim Stapler. |
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The remaining pictures on this page were sent in by Dave Buckland. |
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An Austin 1100 body might not be the obvious choice for a competition altered but David Johnson shows his unique take on things here with his Trakshun Akshun altered. That may be Pete Smith and John Williamson's Poison Ivy in the foreground. |
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That is Ken Penfold driving his blown 750cc Triumph-powered kart in the far lane with Brian Parkins in his un-named 650cc Triumph-powered device nearest to the camera. |
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Dave Chester at the controls of his Mini-bodied Poacher 2 at Santa Pod. |
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Two shots of Colin Mullan driving Invader the flip-up bodied Vauxhall Firenza competiion altered. |
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This is Russo's Rat a 427 cubic inch Chevelle driven by Richard Smith. Nick Pettitt has worked out that this picture dates to 1973. |
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US serviceman Freeman Rogers driving Aardvark which was a senior competion altered. This car had been acquired from Phil Elson who ran it as Sneaky. |
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Dave Stone driving the re-painted and re-named Tee Rat altered. It sure looks a lot better than that grotty green they had before. |
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Phil Elson's new ride was Sneaky T now with a blown fuel engine. Phil seems to be a little out of shape in this shot. |
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Santa Pod Raceway built, owned and ran the Firefly Top Fuel Dragster usually with the late Allan 'Bootsie' Herridge driving although several other drivers had a go in this evil-handling car. I think the theory must have been if you could drive Firefly you could drive anything! |
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Tony Nancy was one of a whole host of top US drivers who brought their cars over to race against the local opposition at Santa Pod. Unusually, he took his car back home with him although he did permit Nobby Hills to copy the chassis for his Houndog fueller. |
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An all Topolino match up between Lee Johnstone in the far lane driving his Jaguar-powered Crusader versus Rick Fielding's twin cam four banger Imagination. |
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Gunne Back was over from Sweden with his More Frighten Camaro Pro Stocker. |
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The Rose brothers ran this 'Cuda which was subsequently re-painted and named Cracklin' Rose. The car was well known for its crowd-pleasing burn outs. |
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Peter Crane was driving Eazy Ridin' when this picture was taken. As most readers will know Peter went on to clock the first five second run outside of the USA in the Stormbringer Top Fuel Dragster. |
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Tony Anderson driving his blown 2.5 litre Daimler V8-powered dragster which he called More Trouble. |
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Pete Skinner's Midas Mist Jaguar-powered altered. |
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This the Gleadow brothers' iconic Motor Psycho altered. What a fabulous name for a car. |
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Two shots of the equally iconic Stripteaser Minivan of Bob Messent and Roger Bishop. These shots show the car with its original all metal body, it later (and still does!) sported a one-piece flip-up fibreglass body. |
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