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By: Nicholas Pettitt .

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Born in America in the late 1940s, drag racing soon spread across the world, reaching Britain in 1960 when some local hot rod clubs joined forces to form the British Hot Rod Association.

At the same time, Sydney Allard saw drag racing as a new challenge and began building an American-style dragster in the Allard workshops. Sydney also brought over teams of American dragsters to show the British what drag racing was all about, while the British Hot Rod Association was holding meetings on RAF runways with a growing number of enthusiasts, who were building their own dragsters based on American machine designs. John Bennett realised that for drag racing to grow in Britain a permanent facility needed to be found, and, at the end of 1965, he announced that Podington airfield was to become Santa Pod Raceway, opening for business in 1966.

This book takes a detailed look at the burgeoning British drag racing scene of the 1960s, complemented by rare colour photos. It follows the development of Santa Pod Raceway, and the ever increasing fields of competitors that ran there up to 1969.

A fascinating, nostalgic study of one of the fastest, loudest, most powerful motor sports in the world.

 

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9781845843373
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Dimensions:
205x190mm
Pages:
96
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Soft Bound, colour and b/w ill
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1000
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261186
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