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.
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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
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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.
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.
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
What hapened to all the old cars??
Tug
Badger wrote:Bloody hell, the gadger 2nd from right in the cowboy hat is none other than my old mate Paul Croston ,former owner of the B'Sting Topo that's now undergoing a mega-buck re-birth in the hands of it's new owner and former title sponsor Andy Murphy !
Sorry, here's the image -
I'd love to see someone build a modern version of Metronome
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Wow, just tripped over this site - 2 hours of Rose Tinted racing Goggles.
Terry Sands [ TJ ] here - I was working for Keith Harvie as Crew Chief / Race Car manager when he decided to form Americar. Long story that, I'll spare Wolferace the embarrassment! Keith asked me to manage Americar, which I did together with working on the race cars.
Over on the Firebrewed thread there's pix of the Camaro having been rebuilt on a ghoster to get it ready for the weekend - what you can't tell from those pix is I spent the previous evening rebuilding Keith's new alloy block motor on the coffee table in his house ! I had to hand lap the bearing housings [ main ] as it had come back from a well known engineering company having been "align" bored - well not aligned.
Anyway the point - Keith and I bought Metronome so that I could go racing as I'd sold all my race cars in order to concentrate on Americar and Keith's racing efforts. Although Keith was my "boss" - he was more of a mate and I think he realised that with the Americar effort I'd never have the time or money to build my own race car again.
However, before we got to racing it the LAWCE BROS. & GUNN CAR CAME UP AND THE REST'S HISTORY.
I do rememebr before it was sold, I had it running and was doing burn outs outside the Americar complex, when Keith came out with some urgent mail that had to be at the post office within 10 minutes to catch the evening post. The post office was in Grays Thurrock's sleepy little village main street, - so off in Metronome, park outside and rush in with the post and back to the workshop ! Yes the post office was only a 5 minute walk, but that was much more fun. At the time the car was running a Daimler Hemi with Zoomie headers.
Memory has faded - we either bought it from or sold it to Dave Prior [ Roz Prior ]. That was after we'd stripped 4 or 5 layers of paint and sprayed it in grey primer / sealer.
Terry Sands [ TJ ] here - I was working for Keith Harvie as Crew Chief / Race Car manager when he decided to form Americar. Long story that, I'll spare Wolferace the embarrassment! Keith asked me to manage Americar, which I did together with working on the race cars.
Over on the Firebrewed thread there's pix of the Camaro having been rebuilt on a ghoster to get it ready for the weekend - what you can't tell from those pix is I spent the previous evening rebuilding Keith's new alloy block motor on the coffee table in his house ! I had to hand lap the bearing housings [ main ] as it had come back from a well known engineering company having been "align" bored - well not aligned.
Anyway the point - Keith and I bought Metronome so that I could go racing as I'd sold all my race cars in order to concentrate on Americar and Keith's racing efforts. Although Keith was my "boss" - he was more of a mate and I think he realised that with the Americar effort I'd never have the time or money to build my own race car again.
However, before we got to racing it the LAWCE BROS. & GUNN CAR CAME UP AND THE REST'S HISTORY.
I do rememebr before it was sold, I had it running and was doing burn outs outside the Americar complex, when Keith came out with some urgent mail that had to be at the post office within 10 minutes to catch the evening post. The post office was in Grays Thurrock's sleepy little village main street, - so off in Metronome, park outside and rush in with the post and back to the workshop ! Yes the post office was only a 5 minute walk, but that was much more fun. At the time the car was running a Daimler Hemi with Zoomie headers.
Memory has faded - we either bought it from or sold it to Dave Prior [ Roz Prior ]. That was after we'd stripped 4 or 5 layers of paint and sprayed it in grey primer / sealer.