Surrey Street Rodder Harold Martin took many photos at rod runs and the drags in the
70s...
Tri Chevy fans Ken Robbins and his brother Pete started taking colour slides at the drags in 1965...
Tony Whitehouse sent me a few pics of his Nail Comp Altered Pop and mentioned
that he had quite a collection of pics from back in the day and would I like to
see them? Naturally the answer was yes so over the next few months Tony sent me
several hundred pics many of which he put captions on making my job a lot
easier...
Ken Sweeney’s pics cover mainly the late 70s and early 80s when he was
helping out Gary and Sandra Healey with the Gary’s Shack stands at custom shows
and collecting parts for the shops.
In 1980 Ken imported a ‘57 Chevy from New York and spent the
next couple of years cruisin’ with the Battersea Boys, was a member of the Spirit of the Fifties club and most importantly had the foresight to capture
the action with his camera...
Paul Hicks took the following 81 pictures when he was a member of the Dragons
Hot Rod Club and part of the Owen, Hicks and Lingard Drag Racing Team...
Brian Surey was a founder member of the Spirit of the Fifties Club and the
following galleries contain Brian’s photos and slides from 1974-1983 including
some of his American cars. Some of the early pics were take by Alex Szczepanski
another early SOTF member as was Pete Leddy who’s Dallas Texas pics were
amongst Brian’s slides and I’ve included them here as well...
The following gallery of pics were taken by Graham Martin from the mid 60s to
the mid 70s including some of his own cars and projects...
Barry George's pics from 1963 - '78 including a few of his own cars and
bikes...
Dave East was a member of the Essex based hot rod club the Eastern Cruisers and took hundreds of pics going back to the first meetings at Santa Pod in
1966...
Tony Russell was crew man and general dogs body for Team Pheaton in the 60s
running the Jag powered Pheaton/Limelight slingshot...
Dave Eady's collection of pics from the drags in the mid 70s...
Brian Webster got the hot rodding bug in the 50s...
Pete Blake built and ran Scarab the flying Beetle and the Sabbath Competition
Altereds in the 70s as well as taking a load of pics...
Brian Sparrow is one of the pioneers of British Drag Racing
and helped kick-start the sport in the early 60s. With Allan Herridge he
formed Dragster Developments in 1962 and organised many of the early Drag
Race meetings and Sprints. Fortunately he had a good camera and took 100’s of
fantastic photos which I’ve added to the galleries below...
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Dave Riswick has an ever growing collection of British Drag Racing and Hot
Rodding memorabilia at his John Woolfe Racing offices in Bedford. Last time I
was up there I managed to sneak out with a box of photos under my arm to scan
and add to my site and where known I’ve credited the photographer...
John Bennett formed the company National Dragways in 1965 to develop Podington
Airfield into the UK's first permanent dragstrip to be known as Santa Pod
Raceway...
Melvyn 'Woody' Wooding built and ran a series of doorslammers with the Blue
Rose Drag Racing Team in the 1970s...
Roy Thomas kindly sent me a CD of pics that he took at Rod Shows and Drag Races
from 1974 - 1981 which I’ve published in the galleries below.
The first gallery contains some rare early 60s pics he got
from Dick Bird and show two of the earliest Hot Rods to be built in the UK...
Dave Coleman took some great shots at rod runs in the mid 80s...
Mick Wheeler was part of the team that ran the Juggernaut Model Y Altered in
1966 then he built Scorpion his Imp powered Dragster in 1967...
Solomon Dee's dad took the following pics at the Crystal Palace Custom Car
Shows and the Drags in the early 70s...
The following galleries contain photos I’ve collected over the years and where
known I’ve credited the original photographer. I’ve also used snippets from
magazines, programmes, news papers etc...
