PostPosted:Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:55 pm
What is the red altered running against the cortina?
Millevanille wrote:What is the red altered running against the cortina?It's this one............
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PostPosted:Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:49 pm
PostPosted:Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:21 pm
Dont remember the car, but it looks fabulous. Any times for this T?
Anders Lantz, didnt he have the that ribboned Model B?
Anders Lantz, didnt he have the that ribboned Model B?
PostPosted:Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:01 am
At the July '76 Santa Pod Internationals Anders Lantz ran an 8.67/152m.p.h. in his petrol burning injected T altered which I think was his best run in that car over here and yes he did run the "ribboned" coupe (which was a Plymouth not a Model B) from 1972-1974. In the late 70s and 80s he ran in Pro Comp.
PostPosted:Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:53 am
Was the Ecstasy chassis used on a later race car
PostPosted:Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:06 pm
Thanks for posting the extra Avenger shots!
I didn't realise there were properties so close to the track. In one of the startline shots we see the Vauxhall Victor Wheelie car parked?
You can clearly see the reworked front arches on the Hillbillies new Avenger body. Modified to suit the wheel clearance on the existing chassis.
I'm looking to get the arches restored to original shape - as shown on Priddle's Avenger. I know it will take the 'originality' away from the body, but I just don't like the look of it.
I've got someone in mind who's expressed an interest in doing some repair work on it.
As for Pat Cuss he's still trading under the Fiberglass Applications name in Westbury. Producing one-off glass items for commercial uses.
I didn't realise there were properties so close to the track. In one of the startline shots we see the Vauxhall Victor Wheelie car parked?
You can clearly see the reworked front arches on the Hillbillies new Avenger body. Modified to suit the wheel clearance on the existing chassis.
I'm looking to get the arches restored to original shape - as shown on Priddle's Avenger. I know it will take the 'originality' away from the body, but I just don't like the look of it.
I've got someone in mind who's expressed an interest in doing some repair work on it.
As for Pat Cuss he's still trading under the Fiberglass Applications name in Westbury. Producing one-off glass items for commercial uses.
PostPosted:Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:41 pm
Hi Badger
The white semi you see in the Wroughton pics is just about the only dwelling on the Wroughton airfield site. When I was marshalling for the NDRC, my mate Keith Harvey (not Harvie!) actually lived in that house!
In those days the site was of course the 'Royal Naval Air Yard Wroughton' and Keith's father was a security officer on the site - living in the semi in those shots. So you can see why we considered Wroughton a 'home' track.
If you ever drive by Swindon or Wroughton you can still see the little white semi all by itself up on the top of the hill. THe hangars at Wroughton airfield now house some large exhibits - a kind of 'overflow/extension' to the Science Museum.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/wroughton/
The white semi you see in the Wroughton pics is just about the only dwelling on the Wroughton airfield site. When I was marshalling for the NDRC, my mate Keith Harvey (not Harvie!) actually lived in that house!
In those days the site was of course the 'Royal Naval Air Yard Wroughton' and Keith's father was a security officer on the site - living in the semi in those shots. So you can see why we considered Wroughton a 'home' track.
If you ever drive by Swindon or Wroughton you can still see the little white semi all by itself up on the top of the hill. THe hangars at Wroughton airfield now house some large exhibits - a kind of 'overflow/extension' to the Science Museum.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/wroughton/
PostPosted:Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:44 pm
jaytee wrote:Was the Ecstasy chassis used on a later race carAs far as I know it wasn't. The car was purchased from Ed Shaver by Roland Pratt in early 1974 but Pratt only used the body and built a new chassis himself.
PostPosted:Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:27 pm
Thanks for the insight Ian. Good to hear the occupant of the house was involved. Noise nuisance just wouldn't describe those barking hemi's and Nitro BB Chevy's!
PostPosted:Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:48 pm
timetravel wrote:Hi,jaytee wrote:Was the Ecstasy chassis used on a later race carAs far as I know it wasn't. The car was purchased from Ed Shaver by Roland Pratt in early 1974 but Pratt only used the body and built a new chassis himself.
Here's some pics of the Roland Pratt's Hillbillies drag Scimitar:
If anyone has anyother pictures of the Whistler, Sizzler, Ectasy or Hillbillies Scimitars then I would love to see them
Cheers
Dave Poole from http://www.sporting-reliants.com