............Movie Clips............

 

CLIP 1

Roland Pratt rolls the Transcontinental funny and then is helped out of the wrecked car- Santa Pod 1972.
Rare top end footage.
File Size 507kb
Running Time 18sec
Format Quicktime (.mov)

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CLIP 2

Don Schumacher burning out the Stardust funny at the 1973 July meet.
Excellent camera shot.
File Size 245kb
Running Time 6 sec
Format Quicktime (.mov)

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CLIP 3

Raymond Beadle and Gene Snow pair off for one of the best funny car races seen in the UK.
The final of the 1979 Santa Pod World Series.  Snow runs 6.04 while Beadle runs 6.00 making it the fastest side by side funny car race in Europe at that time.
Startline Footage.
File Size 335kb
Running Time 9 Sec.
Format Quicktime (.mov)

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CLIP 4

Rocket man Sammy Miller rewrites the record books at the1979 Santa Pod World Series, Running 4.35@317mph.
Startline Footage.
File Size 666kb
Running Time 13 sec
Format Quicktime (.mov)

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CLIP 5

Gerry Andrews rolls the Hemi Hunter Pro Comp dragster in the Final of the1983 World Finals.
Home Video Footage
File Size 253kb
Running Time 9 sec
Format Quicktime (.mov

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CLIP 6

Dennis Priddle in Mr Six beats Clive Skilton in the Revolution 3 dragster. 1972
Good Footage but No Sound
File Size 180kb
Running Time 5 sec

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CLIP 7

Clive Skilton in his Vauxhall Funny Car at the 1975 Tor Line Funny Car Championships at RAF Wroughton Swindon
On Board Camera Action
File Size 278kb
Running Time 13 seconds

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CLIP 8

Allan Herridge flips the Gladiator Vega in Spectacular fashion at the 1979 Supernationals.
Home Video footage from one of the Time Travel Videos (No Sound Though )
File Size 1.1 mb
Running Time 12 seconds
Format Quicktime (.mov)

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CLIP 9

Sammy Miller runs his last decent pass in the Vanishing Point Rocket Car
Startline Footage
File Size 178kb
Running Time 4 seconds
Format Quicktime (.mov)

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CLIP 10

Dave Stone burns out and runs the Tee Rat Fuel Altered
Good TV Footage but no sound
File Size 544kb
Running Time 6 seconds
Format Quicktime (.mov)

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CLIP 11

The Commuter dragster runs an 9 sec pass followed by an interview with Tony Densham about the car and the sport in the UK at the time.
B&W TV Footage
File Size 14.7 meg
Running Time 2 mins 53 sec
Format Windows Media(.wmv)

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CLIP 12

Tom Christenson does a demo burnout and pass on the 'Hogslayer' Norton and is interviewed about the bike.
Great TV Footage
File Size 21 meg Large 10meg Smaller
Running Time 4 mins 12 sec
Format Windows Media (.wmv)

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CLIP 13

In 1972 Ian Turbuville and a few friends made a short movie at Santa Pod in 16mm film as part of his second year degree course in fine art at Nottingham University for which he got a BA hons II. Featured here is a great sequence from the film of the Stones AA Fuel Altered Tee Rat.

Sadly the 34 year old film has suffered some deterioration over time and the soundtrack wasn't able to be converted but what's left is some fantastic footage of the team working on the car, a warm up, a push start down the fire up road, an overhead burnout shot and a run of 8.56 against Phil Elson's ‘Sneaky T'.

16mm film Footage - No Sound
File Size 17 meg Large 11.4 meg Smaller
Running Time 4 mins 44 sec
Format Windows Media (.wmv)

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CLIP 14

I don't know if we will ever see anything run down a drag strip again that was as spectacular as Sammy Miller in one of his awesome rocket powered cars. The performance of his cars was astonishing. The numbers he ran in these cars still seem unbelievable today. In Holland Sammy run the 1/8th in 1.6 sec at 307mph, he still today holds the world 1/4 mile record at 3.58 sec at 386 mph. With up to 25000 horsepower on tap and pulling up to 12g's Sammy's body would sometime take a hour to recover after a run, with nose and ear bleeds quite common. Sadly Sammy died in 2002 in a incident unrelated to Drag Racing.

This amazing 1982 clip shows Sammy trying to break Kitty O'Neils 1/4 mile time of 3.74 in the Oxygen Dragster.

Film Footage
File Size Large 12 meg, Smaller 5.5 meg.
Running Time 2 mins 21 sec
Format Windows Media (.wmv)

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CLIP 15

Great rear camera view of Clive Skilton at the 1973 NDRC National Championships at Silverstone

Film Footage
File Size 8.8 meg.
Running Time 1 mins 40 sec
Format Windows Media (.wmv)

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CLIP 16

Another great piece from Ian Turbuvilles 16mm 1972 movie from Santa Pod. This time it's Alan Herridge (Firefly) Vs Dennis Priddle (Mr Six). As was often the case Dennis takes the win and Firefly has to be towed back to the pits on the breakdown truck. Some footage of 'Bootsie' getting suited up for the run and a great overhead shot of Dennis burning out.

16mm film Footage - No Sound
File Size 15 meg Large 6 meg Smaller
Running Time 3 mins 20 sec
Format Windows Media (.wmv)

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CLIP 17

A match race with a difference. Andrew Hurdle in the Scorpian jet car races Bill Sherratt in the Rain City Warrior nitro funny car. Andrew runs 8.02@183 to Bills 8.4@162

Good quality
File Size 2.24 meg
Running Time 0 mins 29 sec
Format Windows Media (.wmv)

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CLIP 18

Allan Herridge backs the Gladiator Trans Am up after the burnout, does a few dry hops, a practice launch and then runs 6.21@228mph

Video Footage
File Size 11 meg
Running Time 1 mins 57 sec
Format Windows Media (.wmv)

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CLIP 19

Trevor Gardiner has kindly sent me a film he made as part of his degree
at Middlesex Polytechnic. Funded by Gauloises with
much help from NDRC and the late, great, Alan Wigmore.
The technical staff were from Coles
Prendergast, a small film making company doing commercial
and corporate stuff.

Filmed at Snetterton in 1978 and features interviews with Dennis Priddle, Liz and Ollie Burn plus some great racing footage.

Video Footage
File Size 16 meg
Running Time 6 mins 17 sec
Format Windows Media (.wmv)

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