British-Car Drag Racing Photos

[Moderator]

I want to see some pictures of British Cars drag racing. Post them here, guys!

I'll get the ball rolling. This car will appear in the upcoming edition of BritishV8:



In case you're wondering, the engine in this Sprite is a 2.6L Alfa Romeo straight six.

[Moderator]

Come on guys - I know you have some cool old photos tucked away!

[ex-tyke]

.....from the Meeting archives, taken by Dave Burstyn at the 2005 British V8 meet in Terre Haute....

[BMC]

Lots and LOTS of photos can be seen here:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=190027

Unbelieveable stuff!! I had NO idea this was this popular. One of the guys here in the shop picked up a Bugeye bodyshell from us and he plans to make this a Gasser, Real neat ideas. Not something I would do, but something I have respect for- low budget, run what you brung 1960ish era stuff that you run parts from everything including solid front axles and so on. I have only gone through the first 5 pages and you can see MGs, Healeys, Spridgets, Opel GTs, and a number of fibreglass bodies. Neat stuff if you like going in straight lines with lots of back door engineering kind of appearance.

-BMC.

[Moderator]

Here's a sampling of snapshots from that excellent link Brian provided...




















(incidentally, we have a How-It-Was-Done article on this last one...)

[v869tr6]

Here's one of my TR6 went a best of 8.74 this year and on a different pass 153.9 MPH and a best 60ft of 1.28 all on different passes.

[74ls1tr6]

Ed,

I think if we had access to a drag strip at one of our future meets, you would SMOKE the playing field.

That's a killer time, must have been a big adrenalin rush to turn a time like that. I hope your chute works well.

By the way, what did you finally do for end results on your front hub for bolting different rims?

Calvin

[v869tr6]

Rules say I need to have the parachute over 150 mph but I haven't used it yet. Never did anything with the hubs, maybe next year, good thing TR6's have good front brakes, with the drilled and slotted rotors and the Hawk pads I make lots of dust hauling down from 150+ LOL

[WedgeWorks1]

Here is a picture of Tim Lanocha & Woody Cooper battling it out at the Roadster Factory show at Keystone Dragway in PA.


In the end Tim squeaked by with a 11.88 @ 116mph.

[Moderator]

This just in...

Another cool "BritishV8" drag-racer that's almost ready to be added to our photo gallery!



The sign says:
 - Force equals Mass times Acceleration (which is Newton's 2nd law of motion),
 - 0-60 mph in 3.8 seconds,
 - 0-117 mph in 12.2 seconds (standing qtr mile).

[Moderator]

Look what I just found!



I wonder how old this photo is. 1980's?

[BMC]

Thats it... I need to get white and blue lab coats for everyone in the shop. I guess that is the way they did it over at Morris cars in some sections according to one guy who was there in the 1960's.

Curtis, time to enlarge those pictures, figure out those telephone numbers and see how many will still answer the same as what they were. That said, they can't spell Healey correct, so I don't know how much I would trust them to remember! :-)

[MGBV8]

IDA Automotive?  The phone number is sill good.

http://www.idaautomotive.com/

[Dave]

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dragtimes.com/images/12070-1958-Austin-Healey-Sprite.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dragtimes.com/Austin-Healey-Sprite-Timeslip-12070.html&h=500&w=750&sz=44&tbnid=oTZHX61hBydNLM::&tbnh=94&tbnw=141&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dasutin%2Bsprite%2Bimages&usg=__z-TsZMOtkRMrhmd5YRkDgXuvtCA=&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=1&ct=image&cd=1

[fasttiger]

I will try and post up some pics of my Twin Turbo Tiger once we get the new motor combo in it.
Best time so far has been 9:77 @144 on NOS

[tr6turbo]

This is a street strip car with 60,000 street miles.

[bugeyegasser]

i finally signed up to post on here im the guy who got the bugeye shell from brian here are some pics i found i'll have to post a link to where i found them
i think the second one is an alfa but its jag powered

[BASSLES]

Before I found out it was more fun to turn!!!

[dbv8]

Heres my humble TVR...


0-60 recorded in 3.63.
1/4 mile in 11.63 @ 122.6

[perrymgbv8]

Heres a recent one of my MGB.

[rficalora]

That's what happens when the driver's on the wrong side Perry .

[427ZA]

That's also what happens when standard rear suspension winds up with the power of a 4.6 and nitrous and no tramp bars.....which I'm glad to say he now has!

Driver on the wrong side huh!

[fasttiger]

Don't know how to post the vidio but my car is on You Tube "Jerry's Twin Turbo" fastest pass 9:55 @143 on street tires.
This was done on 8-9lbs of boost. Looking to going to a race in March where we can put some boost to it without getting thrown out

[MGBV8]

The Tiger?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXOG4ysT_fk

[fasttiger]

Yes that's my Tiger thanks for posting up the Video