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Swedish Viking car!!

 

We need more......lots more.......awesome!

 

Yes Mart Made it there , drove from Birmingham to south Wales, drove the wheels off the 32 and was beaming with his results .. car looked great and run like a top . Pretty sure he will post his account so I wont interfere with that .

We drove 1200 miles in total for the event , trailering the rebuilt coupe ( Number 64). It was Gus's return after a rule change restricted a few cars that run into and beyond the 100mph mark . To top it Covid came along and then to add insult to injury, Gus's coupe was written off in a collision .

The car is now rebuilt and totally revamped and once again qualified for the event . I managed to button it up a couple of weeks ago .. see a few videos in that post ..

Gus first run netted him a spin at 100 mph. Unfortunately he had forgot to disconnect the kick down and when pushed that wee bit harder it dropped a gear just as he entered the timing area. The car broke loose and spun sending him a a massive side ways slide . He reported that the car felt like it was going to roll, but fortunately it didn't dig in and the car drove out of the slide with no more indignity other than a cone from the timing area firmly fixed to the front axle



Second run saw him in the 100s again with another 2 consistent runs in the 100mph speed range, even with a 10mph headwind .. would have been good if the wind was behind us

Upshot was a great weekend and another great event put on by the VHRA and Sidewinders car club . The even wouldn't be what it is if the criteria was eased, so, good for the VHRA to stick by there guns and not giving in to pressure . Takes some doing to keep things from becoming a commercial money making lifestyle event .. Good on you lads .. Keep up the good work maintaining the integrity of one of the worlds best hot rod events. Im proud to be part of it even though I haven't yet driven on the hallowed sand at such a historic location where land speed records were once fought over . but I hope to compete in the next couple of years before I'm 60

What was good to see was a few young fellas getting in on the action . Ages from 18 to early 20s living it as it was in the day , teens in hot rods, not old farts in cool cars regardless, Im proud to be an old fart .

Pics to follow

1st set

 

2nd set

 

3rd set

 

4th set

 

5th set

 

Great photos, Thanks!

 

6th set

these are the last of the pics I took on my snappy camera no order , no preference, just as they came off the disc . hope you enjoyed the pics ,

As far as I understand it the numbers for the event are limited to 150 or thereabouts . This ensures that everyone that attends gets 2 runs in on each day . Im not sure what the numbers are for VHRA membership but it has to be close to 800 these days .

 

Man, what a cool event. Thank you for all of the photos!

 

If you’ve got a spare hour this vid came up today... pre race scrutineering etc.

Part 2 is due...

 

A couple of me

 

That's a great batch of photos, thanks for sharing.

 

Where do you find out what speed they were doing? JW

 

Thanks @reefer ... Great vid!

 

He did, we had a chat, will post some vid and pics soon.

 

check out the VHRA website in a couple of days

 

Nick Pettit video Part 2

 

Great Event and Great!! coverage Hambers...

Across the Pond Excellence...

 

Great photos, cheers.
Cool event, this has to be one of the best this world has to offer. In a beautiful part of it also.

 

Outstanding !

 

Now that is gorgeous.

 

Absolutely Unbelievable, thanks guys......

 

im pretty sure Jamie will post these videos in his build post but this one is ace ..

 

Great photos and video's, I even managed to appear in a couple of them

 

Thanks for the great pics! Outstanding event and cool hotrods!

Jim

 

So many cool hot rods.

 

I met Doug in the chippy - stays not far from me ,I also passed him on the way home zooming up the road at a perfectly legal 70 mph up one of the steepest hills back to Scotland .

 

Not sure if this is a solid coupling or not.