bond bug drag car

[timetravel]

did ed shaver drive metronome?

Yes he drove it at the end of 1972

[nitroburner]

To put the Metronome, Doodle Bug conundrum to rest, they were definately NOT the same car/chassis. I used to help on Roy Jagger's pit crew in the early 8os with a mate who I went to school with. Good times

[boyzee]

I have some large black and white photos of the bond bug taken at santa pod in 1969/70.If anyone lives near me (basildon essex) that could put them on here please get in touch with me as im useless with computers and i dont have the scanner needed.

[ukdrn]

I have some large black and white photos of the bond bug taken at santa pod in 1969/70.If anyone lives near me (basildon essex) that could put them on here please get in touch with me as im useless with computers and i dont have the scanner needed.

Here you go boyzee, some really good pictures, I will scan some more when I get the time, thanks for sharing them.

[jaytee]

I've always loved that car,I know Mark Stratton built it for Steve Cryer but were the engine and wheels from an earlier race car.

[jaytee]

Just to answer my own question I think the wheels came from the John Woolfe Scimitar and maybe the engine came from Priddles Quarterhorse car,I think the engine and wheels were then used on the first Stratton-Shaver rear engine FC

[dragracer]

Hi guys,just been reading the posts on the bond bug car,i live next door to mark strattons wife who is now
in her seventies, but can still remember all of the cars mark stratton built,some of the tales are brilliant
i can listen to them all day.i run a drag bike and pontiac car and every time we fire them up she is out like a shot listening and smelling the fuel.
unfortunetly when she moved house a few years ago she lost all of her photos of mark and his cars.

[tug]

Hi, new to the web site have been into dragracing since my Dad told me about the dragfests in the sixties. Before I joined the Fleet Air Arm in 1977 I worked in an amusement arcade in Silloth, Cumbria there met one of the femail staff whose husband crewed Metronome she showed me some photos, can,t remember her name though. Loved the car but never saw it in the flesh. The first race car I saw was the old rear engined Skilton Revolution driven by Trevor Young again at Siloth, nearly took some of the crowd out though.

What hapened to all the old cars??

Tug