Ken Cooper has been building Hot Rods and Dragsters with flathead power in the UK since 1959. Here's some of his memorabilia and collection of British Flathead Racers Association Newsletters...

60s memorabilia

BFRA Newsletters 1974-75

BFRA Newsletters Jan-Jun 1976

BFRA Newsletters Jul-Dec 1976

BFRA Newsletters Jan-Jun 1977

BFRA Newsletters Jul-Dec 1977

BFRA Newsletters Feb-Jun 1978

BFRA Newsletters Jul-Dec 1978

BFRA Newsletters Jan-Jun 1979

BFRA Newsletters Jul-Oct 1979

BFRA Newsletters Feb-Jul 1980 


Further down you'll find Brian Sparrow's excellent pics from the 60s and early 70s. Brian was instrumental in getting drag racing started in this country and wrote numerous letters, race reports, AGM minutes etc which thankfully he kept...

1964 Drag Festival results... 1st weekend Blackbushe/Chelveston

1964 Drag Festival results... 2nd weekend Woodvale/Church Fenton

1964 Drag Festival results... 3rd weekend Kemble/Blackbushe

Letters, race results, etc... 1963

Letters, race results, etc... 1964

Letters, race results, etc... 1965

Letters, race results, etc... 1966

Letters, race results, etc... 1967-69

BHRA AGMs... 1963, 1964, 1965

BDR & HRA AGM... 1969



Mike Woods was one of the officials at the first meeting of the 1964 Drag Festivals at Blackbushe...

Mike Woods pics 1964 


Bike racer Nigel Dodd took over 100 slides at the Drags and Sprint Meetings in the late 60s and early 70s...

Nigel Dodd pics 1968 - 1975





Kool Kams : Journal for the British Hot Rod Association... These scans are from Ken Cooper and Brian Sparrow's collections...

issue 8 1961

issue 9 1962

issue 10 1962

issue 11 1962

issue 12 1962 (page 1 & 2 missing)

issue 13 1962

issue 14 1963

issue 15 1963 (There was a note inside this issue... "Sorry no photos this time. They got lost in the post. Double lot next edition.")

vol 3 no 5 Oct 1963

vol 3 no 6 Dec 1963

vol 4 no 1 Feb 1964

vol 4 no 2 Apr 1964

vol 4 no 3 Jun 1964

vol 4 no 4 Sep 1964

BHRA Newsletter Jan 1965

vol 4 no 5 Mar 1965

BHRA Newsletter Apr 1965

vol 4 no 6 May 1965

Kool Kams Extra Jun 1965

Kool Kams Extra Aug 1965

vol 4 no 7 Sep 1965

Nov 1965

Dec 1965