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Funny Cars / The Restoration of Veney's Vega
« on: January 22, 2014, 06:03:24 AM »
I am running a piece detailing the restoration of this famous car by ex-pat Brits Pat and Linda Neal.  The chassis work has been completed and the car is being shaken down in injected form before the blower is added.  Work has started on restoring the body which is in pretty poor shape.  You can read the two page article at http://www.theaccelerationarchive.co.uk/features/veneys/vega_01.html

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Drag Racing / Russ Collins' Battlestar
« on: November 22, 2013, 02:20:02 AM »
I run a UK-based nostalgia drag racing web site called the Acceleration Archive.  I have just posted a page in the Readers' Gallery section which includes a number of pictures kindly supplied by Russ Collins of his rear engined Top Fuel Bike dating from 1982.  If you would like to see some pictures of this unique machine follow this link and scroll to the bottom of the page.  On the way down you will also see images of some of the top US cars and drivers of the 1970s and '80s.
http://www.theaccelerationarchive.co.uk/readers/gallery_32.html

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Altereds / UK AA/FA and BB/FA
« on: October 09, 2013, 04:15:11 AM »
Hi, I thought a few pictures of UK fuel altereds taken back in the day might be of interest to forum members.
The first AA/FA built over here was Freddie Whittle's Bantam-bodied Shutdown.  This car has a lot to answer for because it got me hooked on the awful awful ones and I have never recovered.
The first picture shows the car almost as built.  The second and third shots show the car re-built with the chassis from one of Dennis Priddle's funny cars and now being raced in Pro Comp.  Finally, a picture of the car after it had passed to Norwegian Ludwig Björnstad and been re-named Headache.

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