All of the pictures on these pages were taken by readers of
The Acceleration Archive who have kindly agreed to share them with us.
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The first four pictures on this page were
contributed by Clive Rooms. |
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The late Tony Dickson's Money Hungry in the form that it was imported from the USA. |
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A front view of the Firefly Top Fuel
Dragster showing the original straight front axle with which it was
built. |
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An
excellent shot of Bruce Brown
burning out in his Chevy-powered Age Machine dragster. |
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Chris Pretty contributed this picture of the Jaguar-powered Stripteaser Minivan in its final incarnation with the one piece funny car style body. This car was driven by Bob Jarrett who is now the owner and team boss of the Showtime funny car. |
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Also from Chris Pretty is the late Slam'n Sammy Miller's Vanishing Point rocket -powered funny car - the fastest accelerating car on earth. |
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Next up is a series of five pictures by
Dave Dick. |
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The team of Loten & Thomas began their drag racing career with this Jaguar-powered Model T-bodied altered which they called Paranoia. |
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Variety was the name of the game in competition altered way back when. This is Pete Smith and John Williamson's Poison Ivy Jaguar-powered entry. |
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This is the beautifully turned out Cuss & Ashley retro-styled Ratcatcher slingshot. |
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Fortunately David is still snapping away as this great leaving shot of Martin Bishop on his Pro Stock bike demonstrates. |
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You only have to say Wild Honey to drag fans of a certain age (i.e. knocking on a bit!) and it conjures up this image of a small car fitted with a large Jaguar engine. Wild Honey was campaigned by the Ison brothers John and Chris. Sadly John has passed away but his son Mark has kindly contributed a number of pictures of the car and team for us all to enjoy. |
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Wild Honey has clearly had some work
carried out on it in this picture but it still retains the same set up as the
original, i.e. four carburettors and a supercharger where the engine should be
and a Jag straight six where the front seats should be. |
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Chris Ison at the front of the car with Mark's father John still avoiding the camera at the rear. |
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This picture is believed to have been taken at Leicester City/County Show in 1972 which featured a carnival parade featuring a few drag cars including Wild Honey. I will include some shots of the other participants on a future page. |
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We are now stepping back even further in
time thanks to Alan Peck who fortunately remembered to pack his old photographs
when he emigrated down under to Sydney. |
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Another great shot of Roy Phelps and Gloworm doing the necessary. |
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A more tranquil shot of the car in the pits, it looks as if they were transporting it in the Commuter top fuel dragster's old red van. |
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Alan also took some pictures of another very early UK funny car, the Vauxhall VX/490 bodied Transcontinental of Mike Derry and Roland Pratt. |
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A peep under the body shows it to be a well built and nicely detailed car but they sure don't look like that any more! |
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Another very good shot of Transcontinental taken by Alan Peck. It really was a fine looking car and it was a great shame that it was destroyed in a crash (fortunately without injury to driver Roland Pratt) before it could fulfil its potential. |
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Wolfgang 'Fisch' Dorsch's bikes have featured on these pages before. This is his latest offering a 114 cubic inch Buell XB19R which he runs in top gas. It looks a very nice bike. |
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