Some Pod pics from back in the day

Some Pod pics from back in the day

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SickAsAParrot

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304 posts

118 months

Tuesday 24th February 2015
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Taken probably early 90's but not 100% sure.











Edited by SickAsAParrot on Saturday 23 September 07:36

SickAsAParrot

Original Poster:

304 posts

118 months

Tuesday 24th February 2015
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Edited by SickAsAParrot on Saturday 23 September 07:40

SickAsAParrot

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304 posts

118 months

Tuesday 24th February 2015
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Edited by SickAsAParrot on Saturday 23 September 07:42

SickAsAParrot

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304 posts

118 months

Tuesday 24th February 2015
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Sorry about the dodgy colour in the last few, they're scanned from transparencies and I'm hopeless at Silverfasting.

Edited by SickAsAParrot on Saturday 23 September 07:44

It's fixable...

470 posts

211 months

Tuesday 24th February 2015
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1992 or 1993 by my reckoning for what its worth...

Evolved

3,725 posts

193 months

Tuesday 24th February 2015
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Must be while ago as colour cameras weren't invented.

firewalker

366 posts

187 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Excellent photos thanks for sharing.

Muzzer79

10,945 posts

193 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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SickAsAParrot said:
Much want cool

MYTHING

5 posts

152 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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If its not this Caddy its one almost the same, when I was going around the pits the boot lid was up and in the boot nicely lined up were three or four sleeping bags, they had driven over and camped in the car!

Unlike any other car you could choose to camp in the boot was huge and easily accommodated them



snakehips

250 posts

199 months

Benni

3,538 posts

217 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Great Pictures, thanks for posting.

I was at Santa Pod in 93 or 94 for the first time, watched my first TF session when Rico flipped 801.

I was almost as blown over as him, thought : Well this kind of traction is different than Hockenheim !

Budweiser days, the press Container had a man-sized fridge that was always stacked to the brim,

the teams got a free crate of cans after scrutineering, was hard to take a pit pic without squashed tins everywhere.

On the access to the grandstand (smallstand) there was a cast iron turnstile that looked victorian.

Vampire and Hellbender looked in a rough state as a kids playground.

Definitely very much improvement over the last 20+ years !

Tet

1,196 posts

210 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Benni said:
I was almost as blown over as him, thought : Well this kind of traction is different than Hockenheim !
So you're saying that nothing much has changed in the last 20 years then, Benni ;-)

NitroWars

665 posts

217 months

Thursday 26th February 2015
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Tet said:
Benni said:
I was almost as blown over as him, thought : Well this kind of traction is different than Hockenheim !
So you're saying that nothing much has changed in the last 20 years then, Benni ;-)
Cruel!

SickAsAParrot

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304 posts

118 months

Thursday 26th February 2015
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Thanks for the comments, they're just a random selection from two different events and the films have probably got mixed up so I can't pinpoint a date.

I do remember the lady in the Philips Car Stereo TF dragster blowing the clutch spectacularly on one run, that may be familiar to someone.

I've got lots more but most of my attempts at capturing actual races ended up blurred because mechanical camera and all.

ribaric

262 posts

181 months

Thursday 26th February 2015
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We bought Barry Sheavills's A1 dragster at, I think, the end of the 1994 season so this must be before then. He kept the Hemi/Lenco and we put in Tim Cook's 515ci BBC and a Winters glide. The nose was so low we used to stage on it, yet never tripped the guard beam. Strange?
Fay's Speedflow website says we debuted the car in 1995, probably about right.

Total loss

2,138 posts

233 months

Thursday 26th February 2015
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My car is in the background of Al O'connors pop, I last raced it in '92, so '92 or before for some of the pics.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

261 months

Thursday 26th February 2015
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SickAsAParrot said:
back in the day
Oi, parrot, please stand still, I can't get a good shot if you keep moving around....

Bloody Americanese....irked

Rat_Fink_67

2,459 posts

212 months

Thursday 26th February 2015
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SickAsAParrot said:
Great pics. That looks like my old man up on the trailer roof getting set up.

Edited by Rat_Fink_67 on Thursday 26th February 18:43

Rat_Fink_67

2,459 posts

212 months

Thursday 26th February 2015
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ribaric said:
We bought Barry Sheavills's A1 dragster at, I think, the end of the 1994 season so this must be before then. He kept the Hemi/Lenco and we put in Tim Cook's 515ci BBC and a Winters glide. The nose was so low we used to stage on it, yet never tripped the guard beam. Strange?
Fay's Speedflow website says we debuted the car in 1995, probably about right.
You didn't buy it off Barry, Paul. I remember when you and Fay came to look at it, it was the end of 93 or start of 94. Barry sold the dragster to my Dad (Andy Kirk) and Dex Dexter (real name!), and it lived in our garage at home, Barry was already running the purple car by then. After licencing during 93 and running at the Flame & Thunder, plans were hatched for a new car in 94. Unfortunately they never came to fruition, but with space in the garage, Rat Fink took up residence and the rest was history.

SickAsAParrot

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304 posts

118 months

Thursday 26th February 2015
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ribaric said:
We bought Barry Sheavills's A1 dragster at, I think, the end of the 1994 season so this must be before then.
Wow, here's another then just for you,



Edited by SickAsAParrot on Saturday 23 September 07:46