FIA European Drag Finals @ T'Pod. **pics added**

[tigran]

As title peeps, went to the friday of the weekender as blasted work dictated I couldn't bring the tent along and top up my tan on the sat and sunday.

Ho hum, anyhoo in no real order, apart from my fave car of the weekend first:





Artistic or something:



Cool plate



Best.Support.Vehickal.Evah!





That dude is living the life!



Cool willys gasser type thing:



2nd coolest support vehicle of ever:



more coming up...

[mk14dr]

more, more, more ;D

[tigran]

Akku alert!





This simply made me go week at the knees, not sure if these uns are in the super stock class, whatever it is the ones with heavy mods but standard ish bodies rock my casbah



Oooooh filthy scoop'age:



Sorry but this camaro cracked me up - the front wheels is what did it i think, specially compared to the rears:



Rumours had it this was faster than the car it was towing ;D

[tigran]

These guys i think got pretty pissed with me asking more questions about this thing than their top alcohol car:



Nice pinstripes on a sit up and beg (i think)





"Izzit a bird, izzit a plane...?"



Kool Kalibra:



This thing was very oofworthy, just wish it had some mooneyes for that full saltracer look:

[tigran]

Mmmmmm, do want







Cool:





Fake patina zOmg!!1!!1

[arthurbrown]

tigran said:

These guys I think got pretty pissed with me asking more questions about this thing than their top alcohol car:

Chock-A-Block!

[tigran]

Hoodride



Hardslam?





This was brought along by a House of Kolor official sprayer:





Hard.As.Nails







"I'm a bomb exposal expert, if you see me running..."







More images of actual drag racing and some cool launches when my matey boy andy decides to get off his lazy ass (hope you're reading andy) and get em off his cam.

Not up to ed's/slaters/seth's standards and not that much pics of the actual racing, just of what i thought looked cool.

Enjoy.

[kee]

the fez was at RR, has a completely standard 1.1, the boot has a big bottle of NOS ;D

[DarrenW]

Fantastic ;D

I have spent so much time at Santa Pod this year that it feels like a second home... Good to see some motors in the pics that I haven't seen there before though ;D

[DerbyDan]

darrenw said:

Fantastic ;D

I have spent so much time at Santa Pod this year that it feels like a second home... Good to see some motors in the pics that I haven't seen there before though ;D

Nice pics there Tigran - that Fiesta was one of my fav cars at Retro-Rides07 this year.... so simple, yet effective

Some of the others I recognise from this years Parade of Power around town - that Camaro, E30 BMW & the Willis has taken part in previous years (see my vid link thread)

Yeah, Pod seems like some kind of second/spirtural home to me - living so close means we quite often wake up on a Sunday morning and decide if the weather's nice to pop up & watch some RWYB & enjoy a bacon butty in the Pod Cafe My mate's mum was born up there when it was a refugee camp after the 2nd world war - so for him it even has more relevance

Haven't been to a proper big drag meeting up there for a couple of years though now

[tigran]

Yeah it must be awesome living so close. I stayed with a mate on thursday night in bedford - so had all of 20mins to drive there. I don't understand how he doesn't spend all his time there though, being an automotive engineer an all.

[penski]

Ghetto tyre warmers for the win!

*n

[rainking]

darrenw said:

Fantastic ;D

I have spent so much time at Santa Pod this year that it feels like a second home... Good to see some motors in the pics that I haven't seen there before though ;D

I concur...

Back up there for the National Finals at the end of the month... can't wait! w00t....

[Dez]

tigran said:

Cool plate

that van is from ipswich.

it belongs to naomi's (my girlfriends) ex, staunch extreme is his clothing company.

she split up with him because he had an opsession with 40+/50+ porn mags.

he had 100s of them.

she saw that and said 'I'm glad hes finally admitting it to himself'

shes 6 years younger than him.

true story!

[DarrenW]

It's about 3 hours for me on a Friday evening in the traffic on the M6, always worth it though ;D

rainking said:

Back up there for the National Finals at the end of the month... can't wait! w00t....

I should be there, finances permitting ;D

[rainking]

w00t!

[tigran]

Well matey boy andy got some of his pics uploaded so i'll bosh em up, must say with the equipment he was using they're pretty good.





This bug was amazing, it was driven all the way to the even, ran stupidly low times and was driven back!



























Ooof!



This thing managed to actually blow over a couple of people in the barn - that nevAr happens.

















Njoi.

[gearoil]

I fookin' love doorslamers me...

But. Never been to the 'Pod or Avon Park. Seen just about every other kind of motorsport in the flesh except for the drags.

Next year, deffo.