15. The new tank’s overall shape was formed from sheet steel using a bender made from scaffold poles and sash clamps 16. The tank has a more sensible 20 gallon capacity and features internal baffles 17. The tank ends were formed around a plywood buck

There was a good collection of Wild Bunchers on the premises over the weekend running, as usual, to their own rules, and providing some good entertainment in the process. A new entry into the ranks was James Griffen in the Hold Fast Topolino, who saw

Event: Duchy Capri Classic Ford Club show Date: 20-21 May Venue: St Merryn, near Padstow. The weekend of 20-21 May saw the Duchy Capri Classic Ford Club stage their annual show, located at St Merryn near Padstow. The event is open to anything wearing

What a fantastic season we have had here at Santa Pod Raceway this year. The highlights have been plenty, including the first ever Street Weekend and an incredible summer of UK Drag Racing, culminating in one of the best European Finals in recent mem

Following on from the success of last year’s event, Run To The Sun returns to Newquay, Cornwall over the weekend of 24-27 May 2024. Applications for the show and shine, sponsored by VolksMagic, will open soon. Only vehicles that fall into what the or

There’s always a good German contingent at the Mopars. This year, they brought with them some tasty cars including a beautiful 440 GTX, a ’69 R/T Coronet convertible and not one but two Plymouth Satellite Sebring Pluses.

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This year saw the 29th running of the Mopar Euronationals. And while we had to split our time between it and the Hot Rod Hayride in Surrey, in the process unfortunately missing the best weather and the best of the racing at the Pod, we still had a gr

I didn’t know Brazil had a Kustom Kulture until I wrote a feature for Hot Rod Magazine about a ’34 coupe being built by Brazilian Marcio Luz at Troy Ladd’s Hollywood Hot Rods in Burbank, California. Marcio moved to the US from Curitiba, the hot rod c

Only Mike Couch and Keith Freeman showed for this round of Supercharged Outlaws but both seemed to be enjoying themselves. Couch ran 8.511 / 154 in session three and Freeman did a burnout of epic proportions in session two, much to the delight of the

New PB for Andrew Clifford (8.761 / 149) and quickest in class in the first round time trial on Friday. Next time out it was Ford Skipp collecting a PB ticket (9.520 / 139) and then John Sharod blew his PB out the water by over four seconds in the Ne

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To show how close this class races, Ray Irish was number one after qualifying one, but was then down in 13th place by the end of session two, with Jason Hollamby in the number one spot (10.762 / 117 on a 10.75 dial), followed by Chris Layram and Laur

Recently imported by Mark Fox and Arron Haywood, Chinese Bandit is a Flathead-powered ’37 Topolino race car built in 1959 and raced on the east coast of America by Don Salvagio. It’s a period-perfect piece of drag heritage. Pic: Mike Pye We’ve been w

23 cars signed or this year’s Willys Wars, and John Dalrymple ran quickest of ’em all (9.844 / 143) in the first round of qualifying for this heads-up, just-for-fun class. In round one, which brought Saturday’s racing to a close, Damien Bacon, Chris