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Decent pictures taken at Custom Car shows are few and far between because the relatively poor lighting makes life very difficult for photographers. Luckily, Peter overcame these hurdles and has a good selection of pictures taken in the first half of the 1970s and here they are. 1971 |
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These six pictures show Ray Hoare with his very tidy Chevrolet-powered The Saxon rear engined rail. If you would like to read more about this car you can click here to read Mike Lintern's article
which was first published in the September 1972 edition of Custom Car magazine.
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Two shots of Clive Skilton's Third Revolution Top Fuel Dragster as it originally appeared with aerodynamic fairings over the slicks. These did not last long.
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A/CA2 is Freddie Whittle's immaculate Shutdown AA Fuel Altered. If only that car was still around today - what a beauty! |
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Answers on a postcard please . . . |
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The twin engined dragster in both of these pictures is John Harrison's Twin Jinx which featured a couple of Austin Healey lumps. |
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And the twin engined dragster in these three pictures is Alan Blount's Mouse Organ which was powered by a pair of Chevys. |
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The white altered at the top right is Snowbird (no other details), also just visible are Alan Blount's Mouse Organ and the Stone's Tee-Rat when it was painted plain green and might have been known as Do What at that stage. |
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The famous Alleycat 3800cc Jaguar-powered Fordson van. |
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The left hand picture shows from front to back - the Firefly Top Fuel Dragster, the front wheels of Harold Bull's Stripduster, Phil Elson's 6426cc Chrysler-powered Sneaky, and Alleycat. |
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1973 |
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The Stone's Tee-Rat altered in its injected form with young lady. |
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A general view of the 1973 Custom Car show which was held at Crystal Palace.
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This display consisted of the Oblivion Competition Altered run by the team of Morris, Spence and Burrows; Santa Pod Raceway's wheelie truck resplendent with V8 just in front of the rear wheels; and Ed Shaver's Ecstacy Reliant Scimitar-bodied Funny Car (as far as I recall this car was strictly display only).
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This display consisted of the Houndog, Firefly and Mr Six Top Fuel Dragsters (where are you going to see three slingshots this close together now?); together with the Tee-Rat altered. Note the artistic use of cotton wool on the slicks to simulate tyre smoke. |
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The John Woolfe Racing-sponsored Mr Six Top Fuel Dragster campaigned by the team of Priddle, Riswick, Gane and Stanford with an unknown lovely. |
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The white Topolino-bodied altered was the Page brothers' Panic. This car was written off and replaced with a Model T-bodied car which they ran with great success. |
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1974 |
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On to 1974 and I think you are going to see a common theme developing here which leads me to believe that Peter may not have had his mind entirely on drag racing . . . |
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Clive Skilton's Revolution III Top Fuel Dragster which was the ex-Kuhl & Olsen rail imported from the USA. |
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You can almost see Ian Fraser's V6 Ford-powered Econorail the building of which was detailed in Custom Car magazine. |
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The Stone's Tee-Rat AA/FA. |
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As I said before, I don't normally include custom cars in these pages except where they can't be cropped out, but I had to make an exception here. Why? Because it was Peter's very own Ford Capri. |
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There was only room for one totty at a time on John Hobbs' twin engined Olympus Top Fuel Bike so they had to take it in turns. |
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This is the Age Machine Senior Dragster originally built by Bruce Brown. It was then bought by Dave Prior who discovered that he was too calorifically endowed to drive it so his missus Roz had a go. And the rest, as they say, is history . . . |
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1975 |
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And finally, on to 1975 and this is Backfire, Janne Karlsson & Borje Holmgren's P1800 Volvo-bodied Funny Car. |
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