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Dragfests 1965 and 1964

PostPosted:Wed Feb 06, 2019 10:47 am
by timetravel


Not sure who originally took this cine film, it's a bit jumpy but includes footage from the 1st British International Drag Festival at Church Fenton in 1964 and the 2nd International Dragfest at Woodvale 1965 including in order of appearance Nick Colbert in his Dodge fueler, Merek Cherkow in Moonshot, Doug Church in his Porsche dragster, Bob Keith's Chrysler fueler, Bill McKee's '59 Chevy, Gary Casady's Chevy powered 400 Junior fueler, Chuck Griffith's Starlite III fueler, Tony Nancy and his 22 Junior fueler, Cherkow racing Casady, Nick Colbert racing Chuck Griffith, Buddy Cortines in Troublemaker racing Tony Nancy, Ronnie Sox, Bob Keith's Dos Palmas Gas dragster, Chris Lawrence's twin Mini powered Deep Sanderson, Alan Allard in the Work's Dragon and then in the Allard Chrysler, Tony Nancy in the Wedge, TV Tommy Ivo in his fueler, Denis Flather's 1897 Daimler, Don Garlits' fueler, George Montgomery's Willys, Chris Church again, George Brown racing American Don Hyland's double Triumph, Bob Keith again, Dave Strickler racing Doug Church, Strickler and Sox, Keith and Strickler in the pits. The first part of the film is Woodvale 1965 (apart from Doug Church) and the second half Church Fenton 1964...

Re: Dragfests 1965 and 1964

PostPosted:Thu Feb 07, 2019 7:42 am
by timetravel
good to see the Drags returning to Church Fenton this year with the NO PREP NATIONALS 4 NORTH in June :D

Re: Dragfests 1965 and 1964

PostPosted:Sun Feb 10, 2019 1:15 pm
by oily bike bloke
Any details re the June meeting at Church Fenton Nick, did a quick web search and didn't find anythng.

Thanks

Re: Dragfests 1965 and 1964

PostPosted:Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:51 am
by timetravel
it's 29th 30th June, there's more details on the 'No Prep Drag Racing' site on Facebook and on Eurodragster 7th February

Re: Dragfests 1965 and 1964

PostPosted:Tue Feb 12, 2019 1:11 pm
by oily bike bloke
Thanks, and thanks for posting the Dragfest footage, have now found.

Links below to the No Prep sites.
https://www.facebook.com/No-Prep-Drag-R ... 407586999/
http://www.eurodragster.com/news/news.a ... =january07