Ford Pop

This was my first attempt at anything. It was 1974 and I was 15, my mate, Rob Carrington had to drive it, and it ran 14.7 seconds in the 1/4 mile. The doors would open every time he changed gear. Standard Ford Pop, Jag 3.8 lump, manual transmission, running on petrol. Total cost was £217, when I was earning £14 a week...

Ford Pop

Flip up steel Pop. 3.8 Jag lump, manual transmission, running on methanol. It ran 13's. I hated this car as it was butt ugly. It was called Aggrovation, at the time I was 17, and had seen better things come out of my dog's bum...

Fiat Topolino

This got a bit more interesting; this car was built twice, Rob Carrington and I then realised that we couldn't make any more power, so we made the car as small and light as possible. There used to be dozens of Jag altereds at all the meets. To run a 12 was good - we managed to run 11.97 once. By now we had a sintered bronze clutch, E Type gear box and M&H slicks. I'm pretty sure this car weighed about 1360lbs. I was 17 at the time - the car had a Pat Cuss Topo body with a 3" roof chop.

Fiat Topolino

By now, 1981, I had a Jag breakers in East London, and access to some money. This attempt at another Jag Topo was aborted due to boredam...

Eliminator - Fiat Topolino

My mate Neil Lewis and I built this 440ci Chrysler out of the aborted Jag Topo, came to about £8,000 to build, when a house cost £16,000!
It lasted 3 passes; it had a Hauser engine in it - 1st pass was against Ivor Roffy at North Weald - he crashed. 3rd pass was at Long Marston, I crashed it, running through at 10.04...about £3,000 a pass! This was 1985 and the car was quite a nice piece.

Eliminator II - Fiat Topolino

This car was made from the wreckage of the last cars. It was a new chassis, I didn't like driving it by now so when it ran a 9.99 at about 105mph (the mph sort of gives that away), it was sold to Lee Child. I think it ended up with Bob Batten and ran 8.4 with nitrous.

Eliminator III - Fiat Topolino

This car was run on 50% Nitro. The body was stretched and sectioned by myself and Rob Loaring. Rob was the first to drive this car, like most underfinanced cars, it didn't perform. Written off at Long Marston (Shakespeare County Raceway now) by half owner, Gary Willy. It ran down the right hand barrier for the entire 1/4 mile. Shame because the chassis was an H&H chassis.

I built a new chassis using only the rollcage, when I cut the uprights out, I found a headed piece of paper in one of the uprights, headed H&H Race cars, it said "Hi, we're all stoned and we're building your car".

Toyota Supra AA/FC

This car was written off at Santa Pod, at a Cannonball meet, with half owner, Gary Willy driving it. Part of the suspension triangulation broke and allowed the chassis to drag on the floor and then into the fence. Oh how we laughed...

Toyota Supra AA/FC

This car skint me. Rebuilt from the wreckage of the last car, with help from the crowd donation. We rebuilt this car with a buzzard catcher, 14/71 blower and a pair of severe heads from bearded Frank Bradley, also ran at 60% Nitro. This woke the car up, but by now, 1989/90, I was skint and fed up, so dissapeared for about 12 years. It took 3 years working with my mate, building rods, to pay debts off.

This car got sold, or should I say, got ripped off for the money. It went through a few owners, until Charlie Draper put it out of it's misery and cut it up. I have part of the body hanging up on the wall of the workshop.

Chrysler Slingshot Dragster

In about 2003, I met up with an old friend, Andrew Gibb. He taled me into building a car. We built this, it was full of 12's. It was underfinanced, so I sold my bit to Andrew.