Hi all, a great day out at york dragway and no problems as you may see on today's blog photos raced a couple of yanks just before the photos blew them out, Even Ben and his green and silver pop [a club member] was a push over until he managed to work out that when the lights went green you had to go and not sit there waiting for Christmas, in the pop Ben had a 3ltr straight six vauxhall opal engine with 3 webbers feeding it all the fuel it needed so in the end he just got over the line first. Times for the race not great but for a bog standard 3 ltr ford I was chuffed.
78 mph at 16.9 seconds not great but OK for me.Next show was at Lincoln so back home to get cleaned up ready for that one as I have to show the world my creation or that is how it felt. No photos of that one but I do remember what a fantastic sunny day loads of comments and no problems apart from them bugs still trying to get nectar from my pickup. All this happened in 1982 but this was the year that I started working for myself and I left the steelworks and had purchased my first lorry. This was also the time when all those little children I have to use this word as blogger wont let me call them by their correct names went around nicking cars for joy riding. As I was working away on the road all week my big worry was would they find it as I had rented a lock up away from my house. A guy who rented the lock up next to mine told me that since I moved my pick up in a number of doors had been forced but nothing taken and so was I going to be next and bang goes my pick up. Next show I go to it was going to be put up for sale as trying to make a living from my lorry was all the worry I needed at that time.