All of the pictures on this page were taken by Lawrie Gatehouse,
I am indebted to him for making them available for us all to enjoy.
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This page is a celebration of competition altereds which is particularly appropriate as Lawrie currently owns (2009) a rather outrageous example of the breed (click here to see a 2007 picture). |
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The All Shook Up roadster-style altered about to race Chris Pretty's Pretty Thing at a very crowded Santa Pod. |
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Moonshadow was Jaguar-powered and featured a Fiat Topolino body. |
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The unusually styled Drag Addict pictured at Blackbushe Aerodrome with, I think, Pete Hollingsworth driving. I also have Robert Hunt listed as the driver but I believe the car was painted red when he drove it. |
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Stripper featured a cut-down Mini body and a Jaguar lump which looks as if it was making plenty of power as this great leaving shot at the Pod testifies. Richard Brooke was at the controls. |
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Loten & Thomas' immaculate Paranoia altered. If you would like to read an in-depth article about the team click here. |
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The picture above shows Mike Kason's Kerbdozer III 5-window Coupe-bodied car which later became Keith Potter's The Devil (left and right). |
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The famous Liquidator Ford Pop was powered by a 440 cubic inch lump and was variously driven by Tony Merry and Pete Goddard. |
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Barry Sheavills moved up from a Jaguar-powered altered also called Stagecoach to this rather more impressive version. As many readers will know he didn't stop there and went on to compete with great success in Top Fuel Dragster. |
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Sorry - I have no details at all on this very well presented Ford Pop. |
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Dick Sharp and Bunt Wilcox ran the always immaculate Austin A35-bodied Dorset Horn with the former doing the driving chores. |
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Roger Bishop and Bob Messent built and campaigned Stripteaser, a car which the visiting Swedish competitors nicknamed 'The Jumping Doghouse'. No prizes for guessing why that was then. |
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The database says that John Howlett drove the Jaguar-powered Jagged Edge altered with its familiar Topolino body. |
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This is what a Fiat Topolino actually looked like, unfort-unately I have no further details of the car. |
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Dave Burfitt's Jaguar-powered Boss Cat Austin A35 getting some heat into the slicks at Blackbushe. |
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Duckham Oil supplied the sponsorship for the Reliant Kitten-bodied altered of John Williamson and Pete Smith which they called Poison Ivy. |
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Peter Blake's Bantam-bodied Sabbath pictured at the Pod. |
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The Ison brothers' iconic Wild Honey altered. |
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Various pictures of Sue Coles driving her Helzapoppin' altered in the days before it grew a blower and cockpit canopy. |
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I did say this page was all competition altereds, well this is as close as you can get to it with a dragster. |
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