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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This page is entirely devoted to the
pictures of Alan Peck who now lives down under. |
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Barry Bowles drove the Blonde Bombshell which was rocket-powered and was intended to take the British land speed record. Unfortunately for Barry, we had to wait until Sammy Miller arrived on the scene to see the awesome power of a rocket-powered vehicle. |
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This is a very unusual picture of the late Ed Shaver at the wheel of his rear engined funny car running without the body on. |
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This is quite an early shot of Jeff Byne warming the rear slick of Hurricane. Jeff later progressed to a double engined machine sometime in the mid 1970s. |
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Several people drove the Firefly Top Fuel Dragster. I am guessing that this is the late Allan 'Bootsie' Herridge at the wheel. |
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Early Top Fuel action at Santa Pod Raceway. On the left is Firefly, doubtless with 'Bootsie' on board, on the right is the John Woolfe Racing Hot Wheels car driven by Dennis Priddle. I suspect that is team member Tony Gane bending over Dennis' car. |
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Fast forward a few years, the dragsters may have been traded in for funny cars but the drivers remain the same. Allan Herridge is driving Gladiator in the spectator lane and Dennis is in the Olavi Knuttinen sponsored Monza in the pit lane. |
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Another storming burn out from Dennis in the Monza. |
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Clive Skilton burns out in his Third Revolution Top Fuel Dragster at the Pod. I wonder if that is Geof Hauser ready with the grip juice behind the car? |
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Peter Crane, the first man to run a five in Europe, burning out in the Crane & Edmundson Top Fuel Dragster. |
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Clive Skilton and Peter Crane on a lap in front of a packed spectator banking. It looks as if Clive has the advantage. I think this picture must have been taken during the final of the famous 1976 'Garlits' meeting. Peter must have been feeling pretty confident having defeated Big Daddy and run a five - still that's drag racing! |
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The 'Fast Lady' herself, Roz Prior, at the wheel of the Maneater Top Fueller. |
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My initial identification of this car was Freeman Rogers' Aardvark AA Fuel Altered before he painted it in camouflage colours. However, Russ Heaven looked more carefully at the picture and noticed that the engine is a Chrysler Hemi not a Ford as used by Freeman Rogers. This means that the car must be the first incarnation of Phil Elson's Sneaky AA/FA which subsequently was sold and became Aardvark. |
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This is a really priceless picture because I haven't seen very many of this car when it was painted green. It is the Stone's competition altered which I believe they originally called Doo Wot but which was later christened Tee-Rat. Dave Stone will have been at the controls and this picture was taken at the bottom of what was known as the fire-up road after the car had been push-started by the team's faithful Thames van. |
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This is Liam Churchill's Euro Sting funny car with the late George Davie's Pubcrawler truck in the background. |
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This is an iconic car from the early days of drag racing - the Gleadow brothers' Motor Psycho. What an absolutely great name that was. This car, which ran in competition altered, later became the equally iconic Al's Gasser street altered. |
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John Woolfe Racing purchased Chicken Coupe from the famous American cartoonist Pete Millar who was living in Sweden. They promptly extracted the blown engine and put it in their Top Fuel Dragster. This unusual but very charismatic car was then campaigned by Mike Treutlein and Keith Dancey who re-named in Crescent Coupe. |
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Rick Fielding and his 1600cc Lotus twin cam-powered Imagination 6 altered probably at Blackbushe Aerodrome. |
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Emmerson, Rowat & Smith's cracking injected rear engined dragster shown after a pretty serious looking accident at Santa Pod. Andy Rogers (aka Tog of Eurodragster.com) tells me that this accident happened on the Saturday of the 1977 Easter Springnationals meeting. |
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To finish this page of Alan Peck's pictures off, a site which will never be seen again. This is the staging lanes at Silverstone taken at one of the meetings held there by the National Drag Racing Club in the early/mid 1970s. |
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