Some Pod pics from back in the day
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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
Unlike any other car you could choose to camp in the boot was huge and easily accommodated them
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 !
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 !
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.
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.
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.
Fay's Speedflow website says we debuted the car in 1995, probably about right.
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.Fay's Speedflow website says we debuted the car in 1995, probably about right.
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