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25th anniversary NSRA Hot Rod Drags at Shakespeare County Raceway. From the SCR website http://www.shakespearecountyraceway.com/eventdetails.asp?event=85More than 200 show quality Street Rods and American Muscle Machines are expected to to this special NSRA co-ordinated event for three action packed days of 'street legal drag racing’ for pre ’73 high dollar hot rods and big block custom cars that were special before the land went decimal.
The fifties was the cornerstone for drag racing and it’s events like the Original Hot Rod Drags and the Nostalgia Nationals which help to recreate the golden days of hot rodding on disused airfield’s and the dry lake beds. Where else can you expect to see period Flathead roadsters and coupes, 200 mph blown methanol injected hot rods, ground thumping dragsters, big blocked Fiats and classic blown Willys Coupes? This weekend of course!some pics etc from the 2012 event http://www.mankymonkeymotors.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10383.0 |
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There's nowt as light as a hole, so add lightness.
Our lady of blessed acceleration, don't fail me now! - Elwood Blues
Nitro doesn't add power, it multiplies it! Bob Loux, running 10.07 secs @138mph on a 650 normally aspirated Triumph drag bike in 1965!
"Incontinence Hotline" - please hold.
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Right, lots of photos, so let's get started.
Plot details -took the Pop along. Fully intended to race it in the "run what ya brung" class, but rain in the morning persuaded me otherwise. A couple of slippery moments on the A34 on the way up there confirmed that greasy roads & skinny crossplies aren't a good mix.
The truck did see trackside service though, as a tow car for the "Chemical Reaction" slingshot dragster. I wanted to go for a wander around the site, so my big brother Brock took the keys & immediately pronounced the Pop the official tow car.
First time I've been to the drags on a Saturday, so I was able to stay on for the evening "Cacklefest". As the light faded, the fire-up lane was cleared & 25 or so cars were driven past the crowds in the grandstands, tyre smokin' the length of the lane, before lining up on the track below a firework display. I left before the band took to the stage in the marquee in the evening, but I'm reliably informed they were "crackin".
A good day.
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Always lots of junior dragsters, tot rods & pull along kiddie cars -this one's a Mercury lead sled & the lucky owner cruised the pits in the evening, pulled by her Dad, with working lights & blue underglow lighting, (the car, not her Dad).
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« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2013, 07:16:59 PM » |
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Ford model Y with a fibreglass model T body.
How it's supposed to look.
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« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2013, 07:18:47 PM » |
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Willys coupe. 'glass bodied I think.
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One of my favourites of the meet. "Frankenstein" Chevy gasser. Not sure about the blocks of wood between the axle & springs, but I guess it works.
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« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2013, 07:33:00 PM » |
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that willy's passed sva test, is a regular at our club meets, lives 20 mile up the road. great guy, also gota 29? roadster, a 50's pick up and use's a vaux victor as a daily.
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Just proves the BIVA registration test ain't as impossible as some would have you believe doesn't it. You can build a "proper" hotrod & still be completely legit.
The guy with the little blue Bedford Rascal van was on t' telly last year. I've seen clips on YouTube of him driving it across America from one drag meet to another, with all his spares & his missus loaded inside. Runs a Vauxhall red top motor I think.
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Lots of ex magazine feature cars cruisin' the pits. Both of these were racing.
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« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2013, 07:37:30 PM » |
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i watched alot of the racing saturday on the cam.
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Yeah, there was a live web feed from a camera on top of the commentary box. Looked a bit wet there today, but was dry yesterday.
"Chemical reaction", sporting one of our special Go Faster stickers.
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