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Another shot of the 5000cc Chevrolet powered Ford Escort 10 second Tender Trap which was campaigned by the Stones' team. |
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Kevin Pilling (or 'Kami Kazi Kev' as it says on the air intake) is seen here at Santa Pod performing a fierce static burn out in the beautiful Satan's Toy Camaro. The crewman has drawn the short straw and struggles to stop the car slewing round whilst virtually being gassed. |
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Another Line Loc burn out this time from the Rose Brothers' Barracuda, this shot was also taken at Santa Pod Raceway. |
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The Rose Brothers applied some nice paint and called the car Cracklin' Rose - but apart from that nothing much changed as you can see. |
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The first nine second Pro Stocker was Colin Mullan's London Heavy. It is pictured here at a National Drag Racing Club meeting held at the Royal Naval Air Yard Wroughton. |
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The other half of the heavy mob was Adrian York's Brooklyn Heavy. |
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This is a view inside Brooklyn Heavy showing the Lenco transmission which was partly responsible for the blistering times the two Heavy cars were capable of. The other reason was the fact that they had been built by Sox & Martin who were the team to beat in the States at the time. |
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Gary Goggin tried harder than anyone to run the first nine and came pretty close. Here he is in his Clunk Click Camaro warming the rubber in preparation for another (sadly unsuccessful) attempt at a sub-ten. |
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Gary Goggin approaches the staging beams in Clunk Click. Both pictures of the car were taken at Santa Pod. |
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The Eazy Ridin' Camaro lights up only one slick during this static burn out. This car was initially campaigned by Peter Crane (who later became the first man outside the USA to run a five second pass in a Top Fuel Dragster) and was then sold to Mustapha Errol, I don't know which of them is at the controls here. |
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I suppose if you will shoehorn a 3 litre V6 Ford lump into an Anglia this sort of thing will happen. Mr Torquer is seen, also have lighting up problems, from the barn at the bottom of the Santa Pod strip. |
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Alan Barnett was the owner and driver of Quintessence. He has been in touch to tell me that the car as pictured had a blown B-series MG engine with a narrowed Capri axle allegedly done by Allan Herridge. Those are the headers sticking out of the bonnet by the way. He went on to fit a basically stock V6 and ran 14.14 seconds at 89 mph. The car is pictured at the Pod. |
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This is the Beckers car of Jan Johannson pictured burning out over the line at Snetterton. The car in the background is Keith Potter's (of Devil fame) Hey Jude Lotus Elan. My thanks (yet again) to Anders Olsson for providing the driver's name for the 'Vette and to Keith's brother-in-law Nick for info on the Lotus. |
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An unknown Swedish Corvette accelerates hard up the Snetterton strip. |
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Melvyn Wooding's Blue Rose II faces up against team member Colin Babjohn in The Thorn at Santa Pod. |
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This looks like it could be another Rose team member - Glenn Jarvis burns out in Wild Rose at Snetterton. |
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SSA 15 was one of a number of Lotus 7's that competed over the years, here it performs a static burn out at the Pod. |
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A close-up picture of the name on the late Tony Dickson's Money Hungry Camaro. If you click to enlarge this picture you will be able to make out the pound notes stuck on the door and lacquered in. |
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The Insurance in Pro-Motion Chevy Nova pro-stock pictured in the pits at Santa Pod. |
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Born Free smokes its tyres as it leaves the line at Snetterton. |
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