Stormbringer

[feritsbum]

Some of you may find this interesting. Found by one of the lads from york.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBS5N7_P2WM

[Benni]

Thanks for posting this interesting piece of history.
"oops, there goes a back axle"............
isn´t this the wheelstanding corvette called "High Risk" today ?
Another question : what was that "junior dragster",
the go-karty thing with double rear tires ?
Cheers,
Benni

[feritsbum]

Yep, I thought that was the wheel stander too. The go cart thing is something else, kept up with the pop, Whoever the young junior dragster driver was he/she was lucky to have such a quick little thing at junior level! Wonder what the pop driver had to say after.

[falcemob]

Interesting that the vid was balck and white, it was shot in 1976. I was at Santa Pod that Easter when Peter Crane was the first European to go sub 6 seconds.

[Eurodragster.com]

feritsbum said:

Whoever the young junior dragster driver was he/she was lucky to have such a quick little thing at junior level!

Junior Dragster meant something else in those days. Sportsman racing in those days included three classes of dragster - Junior, Middle and Senior - all to do with engine size, weight etc and the same for Comp Altereds. Kids didn't race back then.

Apologies if you know that and I have just patronised you

[redvictor]

falcemob said:

Interesting that the vid was balck and white, it was shot in 1976. I was at Santa Pod that Easter when Peter Crane was the first European to go sub 6 seconds.

wasn't everything in black and white in those days?....ooo young man...:-D

[feritsbum]

Eurodragster.com said:

Apologies if you know that and I have just patronised you

Thanks for that Tog. No I did not know, I was only a kid myself back then. Seems so long ago yet only 32 years ago!

[veryoldfart]

some very well known cars at the start. hellzapoppin, liquidator, black magic, and notice how tiny stormbringers rear wing is (note - AD2, not TF back then)

has pete crane still got the mullet?....

nitro.........£7 a gallon....

at 3.45, whose taking the plugs out?

and looking at it, this was magpie, "Tommorrows world" actually built (or heavily adapted) a fueller, so wheres todays tv coverage, and the sun cheapo promo tickets like back then?

1 step forward, 2 back?....

[Bigmouse]

For years I had half a memory of watching drag racing on a kids program but could never remember exactly what it was so thank you for the posting.

[veryoldfart]

Bigmouse said:

For years I had half a memory of watching drag racing on a kids program but could never remember exactly what it was so thank you for the posting.

kids program?


i was there, in the stands when pete crane ran the sub-6....

sob..........

[obsession]

Hi guys, and girls of course. I don't normally post on forums, but I wanted to thank feritsbum for posting the video from 1976. Thanks because it shows some footage of my old mans 68 camaro 'Black Magic', not just in passing but also on the track putting in a lap, against I think Tony Dicksons old Money Hungry - I think, don't quote me 100%. The old man passed away in 06, so if this was 1976 then he was racing/promoting/sponsoring drag racing for at least 30 years, a fact I didn't even know myself!

Is there any way of me getting hold of a copy of the vid? - I don't subscribe to you tube, although if this is the only way of getting it - I will.

Thanks again.

[feritsbum]

Dragracerdave from York says he found it on UKDRN.co.uk. and there should be more forthcoming when a loft gets cleaned out!!
http://www.ukdrn.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&amp...

I don't know how but there is some downloads on the net that can copy Youtube stuff. Might be worth doing a google!

Edited by feritsbum on Thursday 3rd April 22:10

[Uncle Wonko]

In reply to Obsession, I can remember Terry Gibbs founding the Camaro Club of Great Britain in 1976. I was a member with what was then a straight 8 67 convertible. It was green and gold and some might remember it as the push car used by Colin and Mike Fisher and latterly by myself for Tony Froome's cars.

Indeed I am sure that a can claim a world exclusive with that car, that of push starting a funny car - down the fire up road at Santa Pod. TF's rear engined Rover which stood just 39 inches tall with blower intake sticking through the roof.

[obsession]

I had forgotten about the Camaro Club, mind you I was only a year old at the time. I'm told - but can't remember, that my first years were spent mostly on the back seat of the camaro travelling from one custom car show to another. I must admit is it just me or were they the best years ever? The shows, the racing, everything is so professional now - and rightly so with the amount of money people have tied up in their equipment etc..., but I can't help but feel that something has been lost in all the professionalism. Im sure it has been said before on here - but bring back the days of Gary's Picnic and the doorslammer meets, bring back the Custom Car Shows as they were back then, bring back Russ Carpenter firing up the old daimler outside the Jolly Sailor (I think that was the name of the pub) in Woking on a late summers evening in the early eighties, bring back..........I could go on and on.

Ahhh...memories....

[Tet]

obsession said:

bring back the days of Gary's Picnic

http://www.shakespearecountyraceway.co.uk/eventdetails.asp?event=26 

[ATG]

Kids programme from '76 looks like 2008 Panorama. We is fick.

[obsession]

Thanks Tet, I didn't even know it was back! Now all we need is the swedes to make it complete.