Rolled up to the Nostalgia drags at Avon Park Shakespeare County Raceway today. Managed to blag a ride in Pauls' Dart.
There were Bentley's buzzing all over the place on the way towards Stratford and we were joined in the petrol station by these two.
Anyway, first sighting once at the strip was this gorgeous '36 Roadster.
Paul had decided to run the Dodge, mostly to have a go before he straps himself into a Methanol burning slingshot. Oh, how we laughed at his race number.
Until he moved his car away from the scrutineering area only to be chased by the scrutineer to have some oil drips under the car pointed out. Trans Fluid. Not gushing but enough to prevent a day's racing.
We wondered up to the stands and saw one squirrely run from an altered which laid oil down a length of the strip. Oh well, best go for a wander round the pits while that gets cleaned up. First stop was Chris Hartnell, who runs a car similar-ish (at least in engine terms) to Paul's in the Wild Bunch and was full of great advice.
The oil-down took a while to clear so the fire up lane was queuing half way up the pits. I was quite excited to see this car as it was featured in one of the first issues of Street Machine I bought.
Amazing it has survived with that paint and in such good form too. Saw it run a quick number later on.
Racing finally got underway again so we headed back to the strip, once fed and watered.
An R-R'er I do believe.
Sun-shades of all sorts were spied.
This '33 Willys looked so right.
The weather was getting to us a bit so we decided to have a quick scoot around the camping areas to look for other cool cars before heading off.
ANd then on the way back to London we popped by a friend of Paul's near High Wycombe who had a new toy on the drive.
A cool/hot day out.
There were Bentley's buzzing all over the place on the way towards Stratford and we were joined in the petrol station by these two.
Anyway, first sighting once at the strip was this gorgeous '36 Roadster.
Paul had decided to run the Dodge, mostly to have a go before he straps himself into a Methanol burning slingshot. Oh, how we laughed at his race number.
Until he moved his car away from the scrutineering area only to be chased by the scrutineer to have some oil drips under the car pointed out. Trans Fluid. Not gushing but enough to prevent a day's racing.
We wondered up to the stands and saw one squirrely run from an altered which laid oil down a length of the strip. Oh well, best go for a wander round the pits while that gets cleaned up. First stop was Chris Hartnell, who runs a car similar-ish (at least in engine terms) to Paul's in the Wild Bunch and was full of great advice.
The oil-down took a while to clear so the fire up lane was queuing half way up the pits. I was quite excited to see this car as it was featured in one of the first issues of Street Machine I bought.
Amazing it has survived with that paint and in such good form too. Saw it run a quick number later on.
Racing finally got underway again so we headed back to the strip, once fed and watered.
An R-R'er I do believe.
Sun-shades of all sorts were spied.
This '33 Willys looked so right.
The weather was getting to us a bit so we decided to have a quick scoot around the camping areas to look for other cool cars before heading off.
ANd then on the way back to London we popped by a friend of Paul's near High Wycombe who had a new toy on the drive.
A cool/hot day out.