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Vintage Dragracingretrowagen1234
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Feb 16, 2011 19:34:31 GMT
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How is it that people keep jumping on this whole , doom and gloom bandwagon about nothing good being posted. Yet threads that have decent stuff in, That applies to the whole point of this forum go un noticed. And people like pauldaf open a nice thread. Albeit a bit off the beaten track of usual RR threads. But that might not be a bad thing. It was a happy. Retro car related thread, Thats been locked for no reason?  |
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Hey man, I tried with the grey motors.
What was the engine of choice for British drag racing in the 1960s? Anything local? Ford pre-crossflow? Jag six?
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Seth
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MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
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Feb 17, 2011 11:04:28 GMT
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Hey man, I tried with the grey motors. What was the engine of choice for British drag racing in the 1960s? Anything local? Ford pre-crossflow? Jag six? Jag six was pretty popular.    As were the Daimler V8s    Photos from The Acceleration Archive. |
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Feb 17, 2011 11:42:14 GMT
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Wow, those are all awesome photos! Especially that Jag-powered funny car, that's amazing! I can't tell what car it's supposed to be, but it's awesome! I was going to wishfully suggest the Daimler V8 purely because it's such a cool motor, but I didn't think that they would've been commonly used because they're so small and rare! Since you have so spoiled us with those photos, I'll kick in one which I was reluctant to put in. A hard-charging FJ Holden called Capt. Nitrous is my favourite nostalgia drag racer.  It's been rebuilt and renamed, but it is a genuine old drag car from the '60s and was once called Mr. Terrific. The current owner is very keen on keeping it historic and spent an enormous amount of money getting it to run flat 12s on the old Grey motor! I believe he eventually caved in and put in a later model engine before he went completely bankrupt, which caused it to run quicker but not quite so historically faithful. It certainly looks the goods! I love the lace paint in particular. |
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Feb 17, 2011 12:00:08 GMT
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Last Edit: Feb 17, 2011 12:03:04 GMT by fotorabia
75 Daimler XJ6-S2-SWB
71 Jaguar XJ6-S1-SWB
Fiat 500D Custom
Cars in NZ.I'm in flippin Germany!
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Vintage Dragracingretrowagen1234
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Feb 17, 2011 12:15:10 GMT
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damn thats better... I'm gonna try find a site i found the other day.. Lost it when the pc crashed  Had loads of shots from various magazines like life  |
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Feb 17, 2011 12:21:24 GMT
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75 Daimler XJ6-S2-SWB
71 Jaguar XJ6-S1-SWB
Fiat 500D Custom
Cars in NZ.I'm in flippin Germany!
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Feb 17, 2011 12:40:01 GMT
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75 Daimler XJ6-S2-SWB
71 Jaguar XJ6-S1-SWB
Fiat 500D Custom
Cars in NZ.I'm in flippin Germany!
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Vintage Dragracingretrowagen1234
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Feb 18, 2011 12:12:39 GMT
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Last Edit: Feb 18, 2011 12:13:18 GMT by retrowagen1234
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Feb 18, 2011 12:30:59 GMT
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OMG! The coolness of that van with the flip-up body is just amazing. Did it actually run as a funny car I wonder?
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meltedcheese
Part of things
Please, Don't Sqeeze the Volvo!
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Feb 18, 2011 16:42:43 GMT
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Great pics! Love the old skool Santa Pod images, back in the days when the scene was so fresh. Nothing but a straight bit of tarmac in a field  |
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Feb 19, 2011 19:24:54 GMT
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Another picture of Poison Ivy in a different guise. The Jag engined Elva.  |
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