1970 - Alan Wigmore was out in “Itzaviva” powered by an injected small block Chevy

1970 - Alec Kinch in “Stagecoach” takes on the Bond bodied “Travel Agent” of Alan Sherwin, both powered by Jags

1970 - Brian Gibson in “Wild Thing”

1970 - Bruce Brown in “Prospector II” gets the jump on Wild Bill Weichelt

1970 - Cliff Jones and Mike Treutlein debuted Crescent Coupe in 1970 originally run in the States by cartoonist Pete Millar with Ford then Chrysler power it was now fitted with a Crower injected 302 Chevy

1970 - Clive Skilton comes out in 2nd Revolution. The flags on the barn suggests this is the July Internationals

1970 - Crescent Coupe gets some attention in the pits

1970 - Dennis Priddle debuted the “Quartermaster” fueller in 1970 powered by 354 Chrysler Hemi taken from the ex-Pete Millar “Crescent Coupe” 1970 -- Dennis Priddle in the 427 Rat powered “Whistler” takes on Freddie Whittle in his 283 Mouse powered “Shutdown”

1970 - Dos Palmos against Trouble

1970 - Drag bikes leave the line. There was no finish line gantry at Santa Pod in 1970 just two chequered marker boards, the gantry went up in '72 (Terry Richards

1970 - FGR Capri funny car

1970 - First time out at the Santa Pod Spring Nationals Wild Bill took the Top Eliminator title and ran low ET of the meet at 10.07

1970 - Here the Nigell-Fromm Capri takes out Phil Elson with a 9.87-143m.p.h. to Sneaky's 12.44

1970 - Here's a close up of the Jag in Old Smokey

1970 - It was powered by a Hilborn injected L88 Rat running methanol as the Swedish Hot Rod Association didn't allow nitro at the time

1970 - John Siggery gets a good start in “Geronimo” as Tony Anderson boils the hides

1970 - Just behind Commuter on the left is Gerry Cookson working on his 995cc BMC digger “Joker” with Mrs Cookson standing in front and thanks to fellow Drag Racing Historian John Long

1970 - JWR Rat powered Whistler Reliant

1970 - Lars Nigell and Hans Fromm brought their Fibre Glass Repairs bodied Capri Funny over from Sweden for the July Internationals and became the fastest full bodied car so far at the Pod with a string of 9.8's. Roy was a bit miffed when the Swedish Capri shut him down in a match race winning with a 9.87-147m.p.h. to 11.37-133m.p.h.

1970 - Next door is their Lotus Cortina “Lopus One”

1970 - Pelle Widholm brought Maffia Mouse over from Sweden in August. It was powered by a gas burning Hilborn injected 454 Rat with TurboHydro 400 and Olds rear end

1970 - Pete “Snoopy” Bennett in the “Red Baron” takes on “Crescent Coupe”

1970 - Phil “Ziggy” Smith pulls away from the “Hallucination” Jag Pop

1970 - Phil Elson's Sneaky

1970 - Roger Harrison mounted a Jago T body on a Jag XK 120 chassis to create “Atlantis RI” which he ran on the street and at the drags in Street Altered Eliminator

1970 - Roy Phelps drove both the Wheelie Stingray and Gloworm

1970 - Roy was a bit miffed when the Swedish Capri shut him down in a match race winning with a 9.87-147m.p.h. to 11.37-133m.p.h.

1970 - Stagecoach was run by Alec Kinch in 1970

1970 - That's Ken Penfold's 498cc Triumph Kart “Patience” and Steve Collins' 1015cc Ford dragster “Hokus Pokus II” and next to that Chris Leaney's blown 1420cc Commer dragster

1970 - That's Reg Sommers' “M.A.B.” slingshot powered by a blown straight six Zodiac lump

1970 - The “Dos Palmos” Gas Dragster was back out in 1970 after a five year lay-off now in the hands of US Serviceman Wild Bill Weichelt

1970 - The Invader Chevy-Viva

1970 - The Nigell-Fromm Capri Funny Car about to shutdown Opus One. This is probably taken a few seconds later during the same race captured by Andy Brough above

1970 - The old Allard Dragoon Anglia back out in 1970 with backing from Cars and Car Conversions magazine

1970 - Tony and John Dickson and Roger Marshall were back out with their Olds Rocket powered Anglia now painted red white and blue by Colourtune Spray man Phil Ritchie

1970 - Walt Ithell's latest creation was this rear engined twin Ford Thunderbird powered machine and he used canoes for the bodywork

1970 - A new injected Chevy slingshot turned up called the Red Baron

1970 - Clive Skilton debuted a new AA-Fuel dragster called Second Revolution

1970 - Ken and Pete were back at the Pod and get a close-up of Commuter and a nice pair of legs which belonged to Pete's soon to be wife Margaret

1970 - The Jag Mini Stripteaser debuted

1970 - The John Woolfe Racing Whistler Reliant was back out

1971

1971 - “Mad” Arthur Christy brought his 354 Hemi Fueller over from South Africa for the July Internationals

1971 - Alan Wigmore never did sell Itzaviva as it became Bitzaviva at the August back holiday meet at the Pod when Alan rolled it at the top end

1971 - Allan Herridge took over the driving in Commuter as Tony Densham was driving Firefly in '71

1958 - “The Hot Rod

1971 - Doing wheelies was Roy Phelps in the FGR Stingray

1971 - Mike Derry and Roland Pratt had the ex-Maffia Mouse injected 454 Chevy in their Topolino for '71 and they were looking for sponsorship to pay for it

1971 - Over from Sweden for the July Internationals was Arnold Sundqvist with his Silver Streak Jet dragster which clocked an 8.65-142m.p.h.

1971 - Bengt Wahlstrom brought his 327 Chevy powered Deuce coupe over from Sweden for the July Internationals

1971 - Bob and Mick Gleadow and Steve Warner got a best of 12.14-111m.p.h. from their 303 Olds powered Pop in '71.

1971 - Clive Skilton was unable to attend this meeting as he was waiting for pistons from the States so Dennis ran a best of three with Tony Densham in Firefly.

1971 - Crescent Coupe

1971 - Custom Car photographer Roger Phillips gets down for a shot of Shutdown

1971 - Dennis got down to a 7.22-194m.p.h. for a new strip ET record

1971 - Firefly and Gloworm get stripped down

1971 - Freddy Whittle was back out in the immaculate Hemi powered Bantam “Shutdown” after running the first 9sec run for an altered in the UK at the Internat's

1971 - hands on ears time as The Hillbillies let rip

1971 - Hush Bloo was Ed Gurney's Buick powered altered

1971 - Ian Garbutt was back out with his “High Fever” Topolino and Ron Fisher was doing push start duties in his Capri

1971 - Ivan Fryer ran this Mustang in the early 70's and it was later run by Steve Hale

1971 - Kevin Pilling comes up to the line against Dennis Stone in the injected Rat powered Opus One

1971 - Priddle warms the tyres in the bleach

1971 - Ray Archer built this Jag engined dragster in the style of Tony Nancy's Wedge

1971 - Ray Hoare comes down the fire-up road in his injected 301 Chevy powered Saxon junior fueller alongside Brian Ringsell's blown Hemi Taxi which ran a best yet 9.6

1971 - Smokin' Shutdown

1971 - Steve Cryer drives with bare arms behind that big bad hemi

1971 - The Stones were tippin' the can and got into the nines

1971 - saw the debut of Santa Pod's “Firefly” driven by Tony Densham

1971 - saw the sad end of Alan Wigmore's Itzaviva when it rolled at the Pod's top end. Alan came out ok but gave up racing for commentating

1971 - Shutdown became the first British Altered in the nines in '71

1971

1972 - was the last year for this version of Stripteaser, just behind the ex-Rick Fielding Imagination now called Strange Brew and run by J. Woodward

1972 – The new Priddle-Riswick-Gane-Stanford machine, the last word in British built slingshot fuellers

1972 - “Twin Jynx” the twin blown 2660cc Austin Healey powered digger of John Harrison

1972 - A pair of Jag Altereds leave the line as Pete Skinner in Midas Mist takes on Chris Wilson in Alleycat

1972 - Anders Lantz brought his Rat powered Plymouth over from Sweden for the first time at the July Internationals at Santa Pod

1972 - Colin Mullen's Invader

1972 - Dennis Acott in the Helcat Jag slingshot takes on Tony Anderson's V6 Trouble in Senior Dragster

1972 - Here Dave Stone lights them up off the line against Geronimo

1972 – Clive Skilton in a 392 Hemi with a 6.71 Bull-Beadle blower and Enderle injection, and thats Keith Harvie's 440 Chevy powered Fire-Brewed Camaro behind

1972 - Harold Bull added another BMC motor to his Stripduster in '72 but the twin engine setup never reached it's full potential

1972 - Nobby Hills and team got their new 354 Hemi powered Houndog running well at the Big Go with a best yet 9.02 in qualifying and took Top Dragster Eliminator on Sunday and Monday

1972 - John Whitmore took the Middle Dragster win running 10.4-130m.p.h. and that looks like Gerry Cookson behind

1972 - Keith Harvie's “Fire-brewed”

1972 - Mike Hutcherson helps John Siggery push Commuter

1972 – Mr Six

1972 - Race looks pretty even at this point

1972 - Rick Fielding's Lotus powered Topolino debuted in '72 and went on to be raced by many more racers in different guises

1972 - Roland Pratt and Mike Derry's “Transcontinental” Funny Car which crashed at the July Internationals

1972 – At the season ending Fireworks Meet Shutdown was back out with it's red 'flake sparkling in the Autumn sunshine

1972 - Sneaky

1972 – Tee Rat

1972 - That's not a burnout, this is the way Houndog preferred to leave the line

1972 - The 240“ chassis was designed by Ian Fraser and welded up in chrome moly by Weld Equipe who also knocked up the body

1972 - Santa Pod's Springnationals in April '72 including this nice shot of Bruce Brown's Age Machine now fitted with the injected Rat from the Hillbillies Topolino

1972 - The Stones debuted their new T altered which was based on the old Benbow and Fullerton Turtle T and named Doo-Wot at this meeting but later became know as Tee-Rat

1972 - This slingshot was run by Wally Flannigan and Barry Ayres from Essex

1972 - Tony Dickson got Money Hungry down to an 11.9

1972 - Wild Thing made it's last appearance at the Drags in this guise in '72

1972 - Was the last year Gary Goggin ran his Super Vette getting down to an 11.59-124m.p.h.

1972 - Money Hungry was the first US Pro Stocker to be imported and was out at the '72 Springnat's complete with Chet Wilson built 427

1972 - Nobby Hills had a new Houndog Fueller with Mike Hutcherson behind the butterfly

1972 - Powering the car was the 354 Dodge Hemi used in Houndog

1972 - The Page bros' 427 Rat powered Topolino debuted

1972 - The Stones family debuted their new T altered in '72 which was based on the old Benbow and Fullerton Turtle T and it became know as Tee-Rat

1972

1973 - Over from Sweden Bjorn Anderson in Second Invention ran a best of 8.54-174m.p.h. at Silverstone

1973 - Don Schumacher brought over one of his Baracudas powered by a 426 Ed Pink

1973

1973 - “The Loner” Tony Nancy shows us his cool Tee-shirt

1973 - 20,000 spectators turned up at the Big Go to not only see Priddle's new USA fueller but also the first appearance at Santa Pod of Clive Skilton's “Revolution IV” which was the ex-Kuhl and Olson car

1973 - 78inch wheelbase chassis was knocked up by the team as well and by the end of '73 they'd run a best of 11.08-124m.p.h.

1973 - A pair of 'cudas do battle as Mustapha takes on Dave Rose

1973 - A pic taken from the rear of this Pro Stock line-up appeared in the Oct '73 issue of NDR in a competition to name the cars and drivers

1973 - A regular at Felton was Bob Hughes' Incredible Hulk

1973 - Adjusting the valves

1973 - Al Stevens debuted this ex-GPO Minor van in Competition Altered powered by a blown Ford V6

1973 - Alan Sherwin comes round for a run. Best times for '73 were 12.28-111m.p.h.

1973 - Allan Herridge comes over for a chat with Nancy. His blue patterned shirt wasn't half as cool as Tony's

1973 - Allan Herridge was back out in “Firefly” at the Big Go which saw for the first time ever a field of seven British owned Top Fuel Dragsters - Kopia

1973 - Santa Pod and Tony Nancy warms the tyres at the July Internationals

1973 - Phil Elson

1973 - Next door sticking with slingshots for '73 is the Rowat Bros' injected Chevy Double or Quitz

1973 - Ken Robbins' at the Santa Pod July Internationals

1973 - Anders Lantz brought his Plymouth coupe over from Sweden to Silverstone for the NDRC Internationals. Also brought his street legal Plymouth coupe and was to run in Street Altered but this was changed to Competition Altered after a drivers meeting

1973 - As was John Spats Wilkinson with his bright red MGB powered Model Y

1973 - At the July Internationals Norm Wilcox came over to drive “Mr Revell” and here comes up against fellow American Tony Nancy in his Revell Liner in the semi final

1973 - Attention in the pits

1973 - Auto Frog was the name of Jim Read's Ford powered slingshot which used the Weekend Warrior chassis from 1966

1973 - Black Magic Ford Torino run by Dennis Mutton of the Shoestring Drag Racing Team

1973 - Body came from Fibre Glass Repairs and was narrowed 6ins and lengthened 9ins

1973 - Bootsie soon got used to driving the ex-Don Schumacher “Stardust” funny car after the July Internationals

1973 - Brian Mondey in Optomist

1973 - Brian Ringsell and John Reynolds were back out with Taxi powered by a 354 Hemi with 6.71 GMC and Hilborn injection running straight Alky

1973 - Chassis was 124“ built by Kent Fuller and Romeo Palamedies

1973 - Chicken Coupe was now run by Keith Dancey and Mike Treutlein

1973 - Chris De Luen built the Wedge on a narrowed Pop chassis with a wooden body. It first had flathead V8 power then a Lincoln 360 as in this pic and later a Dodge Hemi

1973 - Clive Skilton gets a push back after the burnout

1973 - Clive's '72 car was now in the hands of Roland Pratt with Accles & Pollock backing

1973 - Clunk Click

1973 - cockpit

1973 - Colin Deans, Ray Tucker, Peter Lane and Glen Searle had bought the old Hillbillies Topolino and fitted a small block Chevy

1973 - complete with smart new paint job and bigger Goodyears on bearclaw mags

1973 - Dave Johnson and Dick Allen ran this small block Ford powered Austin 1100 altered

1973 - Dave Prior had purchased Age Machine and was finding it a tight fit so got wife Ros to drive it instead

1973 - Dave Stone

1973 - Dennis brings out “Mr Revell” resplendent in one of Mech Spray's superb paint jobs for a qualifier

1973 - Dennis Priddle debuted his Shell sponsored Chrysler Avenger Funny Car at the October DRN Trophy Meet and pulled a front end damaging wheelstand when he dropped the clutch on his first run

1973 - Dennis Priddle had his new “Mr Revell” fueller out for the first time at the 10th Big Go at Santa Pod in May