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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Click on any image to get the bigger picture |
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This page is very international in nature because none of the contributors hail from these shores, and none of the pictures were taken in the UK. |
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Here are some shots of the Mooneyes slingshot which is owned by Mr W Wouterse from Holland and who sent them in some time ago. |
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And now from the sublime to the ridiculous as they say. In one giant leap we travel from Holland to the USA and go from a nostalgia slingshot to one very modern Superbird Pro Modified. |
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The next collection of pictures were sent in by 'Mopar Marcel' Overre and are, I think, unique on the site in that they were taken at Zandvoort in Holland. All the shots date from1983. |
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And speaking of Houndog, here are a couple of good pictures of the car. |
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Left : this is the late Tony Boden being strapped into his The Hitman Funny Car. |
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Left : the engine of the Gladiator Funny Car with the late Allan 'Bootsie' Herridge working on the car. |
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Left : this is Rico Anthes' Citreon 2CV-bodied altered called Wildente. |
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Left : Sylvia Hauser on the left and Mick Cheley's Mr Shifter roadster. |
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The final collection of pictures was submitted by Benoit Pigeon who, to continue the cosmopolitan theme of this page, was born in France but now lives in the USA.
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This looks very like Street Rebel to me. |
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No confusion over this car, it is Russ Carpenter's incredibly quick Glacier Grenade blown nitro-burning 2.5 litre Daimler-powered rail. |
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The Page brothers' Panic Funny Car which may well have been driven by Bob Jarret by this time. |
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This is the Rough Diamond Competition Altered originally built and raced by Dave Gibbons but shown here when ownership had transferred to Tony Morris who ran it in Germany for six years. Tony and his sister Andrea were instrumental in locating the car when Dave re-patriated it to the UK. |
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Bertrand Dubet raced this altered which he called Alien. |
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This altered was campaigned by Jacques Bidard from Toulouse. Jacques had a really nasty accident while driving the car at Hockenheim which you can view on YouTube by clicking here. |
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This car appears to be Colin Fisher's Themis full-bodied altered although it may well have changed hands when this picture was taken. |
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Danielle Dieudonne entered at least one of the famous Transatlantic Drag Bike Races held at Long Marston in the 1980s, but she was riding something altogether more modest back then. This looks like one of Henk Vink's old bikes and she certainly seems to be giving it the full berries (as Nigel Mansell might have said) in this shot. |
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As you can see this dragster was called Gadget, the driver's nickname was Pif. Benoit tells me that Pif Gadget was a French kids comic book and believes that this is how the car got its unusual name. |
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This picture of the ex-Sammy Miller Vanishing Point rocket car was taken in Guiscriff, Brittany. |
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This picture is entitled 'Urs_Montlhery_France_circa1991.jpg' which I guess tells you all you need to know. |
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This is the Citroën-bodied ex-Anders Lantz Pro Comp Funny Car driven by Phillipe Danh. This picture was talen in Los Angeles in 1987. |
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Benoit snapped this great shot of Tiki Warrior! in 2012 at Maple Grove at the 40th Anniversary Meeting of the track's opening. The car, which is a BB/FA, is owned by Dave Bany from Wilsonville, Oregon and driven by Ron 'Tikiman' Huegli. |
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And finally, here is Benoit at Frank Hawley's drag racing school in Florida in 1986. |
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(First posted on 25 February 2013) |
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