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David Riswick is the head honcho at John Woolfe
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Meet the boss. |
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On the left, the mangled remains of Alan Wigmore's
Chevy-powered Itzaviva altered after he rolled it at the 1971 August Bank
Holiday meeting at Santa Pod Raceway. |
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If
you enlarge this picture you will just about be able to make out that it has
been signed by the co-owners of the Dorset Horn team Dick Sharp and Bunt Wilcox
together with third team member Tim Russ. |
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Another autographed picture, this time by 'The Fast
Lady' herself Roz Prior. |
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And the final signed picture is John Hobbs. It is difficult to see which machine he is riding but I would hazard a guess it is Olympus II judging by the leathers he is wearing. |
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And now for a selection of pictures of the famed Pegasus
Top Fuel Bike. |
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Left - This is a
very rare picture which was taken in early 1974 and shows the partly-built
double Norton-powered Pegasus outside the team's workshop. This picture was
probably taken for 'Bike' magazine (the primary sponsor at the time) as part of
a series showing the build-up of the machine before it was completed. |
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Two pictures of the team. On the left from left to
right - Derek Chinn, Ian Messenger and their very faithful crew member Eddie
Keightley posing with the Norton Pegasus at Castle Asby home of Lord Northampton
in 1978. |
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Don't you just hate it when that
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Colin Mullan and Reuben Johnson's Invader started life with a Vauxhall Viva HB bodyshell before morphing into . . . |
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. . . a Vauxhall Firenza. |
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Oblivion featured a Hillman Avenger body and was campaigned by the team of Morris, Spence and Burrows. |
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Rick Fielding was a prolific builder of competition altereds and dragsters all of which were called Imagination. This is number 6 which featured a Fiat Topolino body and a blown 1500 cc four cylinder Ford lump. |
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I think if there was a prize for the best name for a car, the Gleadow brothers' Motor Psycho would take it hands down in my opinion. The car was later sold to Alan O'Connor who campaigned it very successfully for a number of years before writing it off in a fairly big way at Santa Pod. |
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These two pictures were almost certainly taken by Roger Phillips and show Roy Phelps driving Santa Pod Raceway's very photogenic wheelie Stingray. |
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Gerry Andrews pulls round on to the strip in the Stones' Hemi Hunter II Pro Comp dragster. |
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Two pictures of Ron Picardo in the Highway Patrol Top Fuel Dragster. |
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The final incarnation of the Page brothers' famous Panic Competition Altered was this car which they ran in Pro Comp with great distinction. |
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Nick Pettitt kindly confirmed my identification of this
car as Tony Anderson's blown V6 rail Trouble. I was completely stumped by the
other car which Nick tells me is Ray Elliott's Jaguar-powered slingshot Red
Witch. |
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And finally (for this page only!), this is the Emerson,
Rowat and Smith rear engined dragster at Snetterton. The photo had the
following information written on the reverse "1975 354 cu in Chevrolet small block.
In this race we shut down a blown Chrysler rail!". Mind you Dave Riswick tells
me they were running 85% nitro so that probably helped. |
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