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Modern I know but really nice.
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I saw that going through the pits at the Summer Nationals and saw the Pro ET and SE designations but couldn't find it in the programme. Does anybody here know anything about it?
a favourite car of mine,using Dennis Priddle's STP Avenger chassis
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Some from Snetterton
Shelia Billington
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Reg Halzeton
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Keith Potter
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Len Harris
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Images Brian Sparrow
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Some nice rare shots of Rex Sluggetts' "Duke of Cornwall" 1965
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Pictures:Brian Sparrow
ukdrn wrote:Some nice rare shots of Rex Sluggetts' "Duke of Cornwall" 1965Yes they are rare. I wonder where they were taken?
CRR wrote:Taken at Santa Pod July 1966. This was it's one and only visit to the Pod and sadly never made it out onto the strip due to a blow-up when firing up in the pits.ukdrn wrote:Some nice rare shots of Rex Sluggetts' "Duke of Cornwall" 1965Yes they are rare. I wonder where they were taken?
The event was the 1966 July 31st BHRA Final Championship Qualifying Round. This is what Brian Sparrow wrote in his race report for the September issue of Drag Racing & Hot Rod magazine.
"Rex Sluggett, all the way from Bude, North Cornwall, towed along his Didge 'hemi' powered device that first showed up last October at the Woodvale Dragfest event. A complete front mounted Potvin-GMC blower kit is fitted to the 'hemi' and to this a four inch choke sidemounted Hilborn injection set up. A £75 Crower Cam kit is installed having 120 degrees overlap - this is not the kit that Garlits uses, the Crower 'Imerial' Roller kit costing all of £230!! However the characteristics of the cam profile are identical to those in the 'Wynns Chargers'. The power unit resembles that of the Allard Chrysler and in fact Allards obtained the blower set-up for Rex from Moons last summer, and Bob Keith was responsible for the flying in of the American Wheel Co., magnesium wheels on which the Goodyear 10 in. wide Cheater Slicks are mounted. Rex had terrible luck after all that safari as it is believed that a ring picked up in one of the bores when the engine ran up to eight grand on warm up. The pistons and rods are modified from standard and some racing pistons are to be flown over from the States as replacements anyway, all being well, the Duke of Cornwall' will be running by the end of the month again."
"Rex Sluggett, all the way from Bude, North Cornwall, towed along his Didge 'hemi' powered device that first showed up last October at the Woodvale Dragfest event. A complete front mounted Potvin-GMC blower kit is fitted to the 'hemi' and to this a four inch choke sidemounted Hilborn injection set up. A £75 Crower Cam kit is installed having 120 degrees overlap - this is not the kit that Garlits uses, the Crower 'Imerial' Roller kit costing all of £230!! However the characteristics of the cam profile are identical to those in the 'Wynns Chargers'. The power unit resembles that of the Allard Chrysler and in fact Allards obtained the blower set-up for Rex from Moons last summer, and Bob Keith was responsible for the flying in of the American Wheel Co., magnesium wheels on which the Goodyear 10 in. wide Cheater Slicks are mounted. Rex had terrible luck after all that safari as it is believed that a ring picked up in one of the bores when the engine ran up to eight grand on warm up. The pistons and rods are modified from standard and some racing pistons are to be flown over from the States as replacements anyway, all being well, the Duke of Cornwall' will be running by the end of the month again."
A cracking and nice rare colour shot of the Herridge and Beadle Brothers "Motivation" sitting alongside John Harrison Jynx. 
Special thanks to Jennifer Beadle for the picture
Left to right : Don Beadle, unknown, Derek Saunders, Allan in the car and Tony Beadle.
Special thanks to Jennifer Beadle for the picture
Left to right : Don Beadle, unknown, Derek Saunders, Allan in the car and Tony Beadle.