Manky Monkey Motors

this has been going for just a couple of months, last month on a cold evening they had 100+ cars turn up. music during the evening and this month there'll be the trunk junk so anything you wish to get rid of take it along.

Not heard of that one Dave, even though it's local to me. Who's organising that? What sort of cars are we talking here?
There was recent talk of restarting the drag races there that I remember from my youth. Anything to do with this meet?

open to all sorts i believe, there's talk of getting some dragsters there at some point next year. they're hoping to maybe get part of the old track. i remember going there many moons ago for the drag racing, the car i remember most were the victor estate wheelie car

Sky blue Morris Minor pick-up with huge rear wheels. I had a pic of it somewhere but can't bloomin' find it.

i'm sure i still have the bw pics from when i used to go, also might still have somewhere pics from the custom car shows in london

Ooooohhhhh...... sounds interesting.

Dave - do you have a link to the webpage in the poster (dragfest.co.uk) as i can't seem to find it?

The re-union advert for the event is a clever take on the 1965 2nd International Dragfest programme which back in 1965 was 2/6 or half a crown  ::)   (that's 12 and half new pence to the decimal generation!!  ;D)

Think the first Blackbushe drags I went to was 1971, and I bought the number one issue of National Drag Racer, which had the programme for day inside of it (and I still have them)

The poster/advert MM has in the previous post is for that actual meeting.

Blackbushe - August 1975 programme

Blackbushe - October 1975 programme

Ahh, them was the days.

Here's a load of images of Blackbushe and other venues drag racing programmes, ahhh, Nostalgia............   :P


http://www.mankymonkeymotors.co.uk/Misc/vintagedragprogrammes/words.html

i think its all facebook based tony, decembers meet is on a sunday as it'll be a holiday weekend

the link does work http://www.dragfest.co.uk/

Linked to the Events Calendar for you Dave.

cheers andy

Thanks Dave  ;)

Can't believe that this is the only place I've seen this and it's only a few miles up the road!
Wont be able to get to November but December looks good to me.
Even Mrs Old wants to go  :o

MM Sir, interested to know what info you have about the rumour to have some drag races there as hadn't heard if this.
Be pretty cool if something could happen.  ;D

Anyone else heard anything??

We run a lot of vintage/historic (and newer) drag/sprint bikes at our club. Some of them may well be interested in running.

Looking at googlemaps of the airfield http://maps.google.co.uk/ , the long runway (parallel to the A30) appears 'live' as the runway doesn't have a  painted cross at each end (my understanding is painted crosses indicate a runway that is not available to aircraft).

That only leaves a couple of relatively short runways. Assuming the surface is suitable, these appear long enough to run an 1/8th without too much problem.
Personally, I couldn’t see the event allowing vehicles running towards the live runway (in case there was vehicle trouble), so the running direction would be either S to N on one runway, or SE to NW on the other.

If that’s the case, that means there’s no service road to the ‘start’ area, so I’m guessing they’d have to drive down, turnaround and be held as a batch. It looks like the runway’s the best part of 150feet wide, so that shouldn’t be too difficult (unless your in a rail!  ::)).

Wouldn’t it be good to go back to Blackbushe and catch some draggin’…………..  8)

Heard talk of it several times over the Summer at various rod meets Toby. I'm sure there was something arranged, which later fell through earlier in the year.
Maybe your guys should approach the airfield owners?
Yeah, my first drag meet memories are of Blackbushe, crammed in the back of my brother's mark 1 Escort van with a bunch of mates for the trip over from Newbury.
Remember seeing Pinball Wizard race there. Here it is in '83. Smokin'.
One of it's engines, (it's had half a dozen over the years), is sat in my shed.

Racing in the rain.

This brings back some memories,Drag racing at blackbush,Won best bike performance there one year,
Can't remember witch year,But a great venue fantastic atmosphere,Henk Vink on his rocketbike.

Back to Blackbushe for the first time since the seventies in the drag racing days, tonight there was a good gathering of rods, along with a couple of mankeys Renegade53 Colboys Chic and husband Colin, the airfield Cafe is very small and with the disco and rodders all tucked inside at times was bursting at the seems, with a loud speaker outside allot of people stood out in the cold and watched others jive the night away. Not the best of pics but will give you some idea of the motors that turned up, I expect Dave will post some pics of better quality soon.



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Not a bad turn out for a cold Winter's night.

forgot that this one had been started and put the pics here
http://www.mankymonkeymotors.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=12126.0

Didn't see you up there Rick. Thought it was alright just dark!

Hi Archie I was there perhaps you didn't recognise me behind the white beard ::) just waiting for the RED COAT to arrive, its a seasonal thing. Was going to bring some bits for the trunk sale glad I didn't, like you said a bit on the dark side. :-\

Just perfect for flame burnouts. ;D