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This page contains a whopping 61 images taken by Peter during 1971/72. We will start with dragsters and then work our way through competition altereds, a single street car and then on to the bikes. |
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If Peter has got his years right this must be Dennis Priddle at the controls of the Priddle, Riswick, Stanford and Gane Mattel Hot Wheels-sponsored Top Fuel Dragster in the shut-down area at Santa Pod. |
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Dennis Priddle's arch-rival at this time was Clive Skilton. |
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Two quite similar shots of Mike Hutcherson driving Nobby Hills' Houndog 5 fueller. |
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The late Tony Densham driving Santa Pod Raceway's Commuter Top Fuel Dragster. |
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Three pictures of Santa Pod Raceway's Firefly fueller in it's as-built condition before the cowl was modified to improve driver access. Eagle-eyed viewers will notice that in the top picture the name 'Tony' is painted on the cowl which suggests that Tony Densham was the driver in these shots. |
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On the left is Arnold Sundqvist posing with his Silver Streak jet-powered land speed record car. |
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A selection of pictures of Bruce Brown's iconic 440" Age Machine Senior Dragster.
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This is Harold Bull at the wheel of his tiny 998cc blown four cylinder Stripduster dragster. |
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It looks as if Harold has pulled a hole-shot over Sture Torngren's Wild Honey B class competition altered. |
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John Whitmore was another man who could wring incredible performances from small displacement blown four cylinder engines. John called his car Drag'n'Fly and that just about summed it up. |
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Three good shots of Tony Anderson and his supercharged 3 litre V6 Ford-engined slingshot called Trouble.
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Nick Pettitt kindly identified this car for me as Martin Rowat's Daimler Hemi-powered Asterix the Gaul. |
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Meet the car which launched so many people's love affair with Fuel Altereds (including mine) - Freddie Whittle's immaculate Shutdown. |
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Another of the very early nitro-burning altereds was 'Flying' Phil Elson's Sneaky T. |
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This is Dave Stone driving the Stone's team's injected big block Chevrolet-powered Model T. In this form the car was capable of eight second passes which was class-leading at the time. I think the car was called Doo What when it first came out but it was soon re-named Tee-Rat and later sprouted a supercharger which took it down into the seven second zone. |
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The Hillbillies Team consisted of Roland Pratt and Mike Derry and they produced this Vauxhall VX490-bodied funny car called Transcontinental. |
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The Page Team was made of brothers Dave, Clive and Gary. |
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Kevin Pilling leaving the line with some enthusiasm in his 440 cubic inch Dodge-powered Pure Seven. |
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Reuben Johnson and Colin Mullan's Invader featured an all-steel Vauxhall Firenza body. The shot on the left must have been taken at the car's debut as they hadn't even got the name painted on. |
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Midas Mist in the foreground was driven by Rob Skinner and featured a Buckler body and 3442cc of Jaguar power. |
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Another altered called Wild Honey, this time it is the Ison brothers' Jag-powered version. |
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Bob Messent and Roger Bishop campaigned the Stripteaser Minivan. |
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Rick Fielding driving his rapid supercharged 1600cc Ford twin cam-powered Imagination 4. |
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Gunne Back from Sweden drove this lovely Corvette which he called Frighten Chicken. Peter has captured its characteristic launch with the rearwards weight transfer causing the front wheels to tuck under perfectly. |
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Four pictures of S Bentley riding B/CS 49 his twin-engined Triumph-powered bike which he called Centaurus. |
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Ian Messenger, Derek Chinn and Mick Butler made up the Pegasus team and here is their mighty V-twin Vincent-powered bike. I think that is Mick riding in the top two pictures, not sure who was in the hot seat in the two below.
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What can you say about John Hobbs and his double-engined Olympus II? |
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In the foreground we have Tony Weedon on board Blue Rondo his 499cc supercharged Triumph. |
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Keith Lee was kind enough to identify the bike in the foreground as belonging to Phil Manzano but he doesn't believe it is Phil riding - he thinks it might be Dave Clee. |
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Two shots of the late Ray Feltell on Penetration his supercharged 650cc Triumph-powered bike. |
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This is Dennis Allen gunning his blown Triumph-powered Ram Rod off the line. |
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I am guessing that this is Ag McPhail lying prostrate on this three-wheeled device powered by a four cylinder engine. |
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D/CS 13 in the near lane is Tom Quinn on Shier Khan his supercharged 650cc Triumph. |
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