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If you or your parents recall the "golden age" of British stock-car
racing, I have a nostalgia website with some 300 photos and stories of
the outrageous cars and legendary characters that raced them between
1955 and 1975. www.oldstox.com
The smell and sound of a rackety out-of-tune V-8 on the overrun, and
the solid thump of a car hitting the steel girder posts --- aahh the
good old days. Today they have sponsors and polish. Back then it was
sledgehammers, skinned knuckles, in-your-face "race hard or go home",
yet the bloke who stuffed you in the fence would lend you his tools and
time and trailer if necessary.
"The Yanks" from bases like Chelveston and Alconbury provided a
valuable injection of nearly-new V-8 motors, and also provided one
English champion and garage-owner with the blueprints for a Kentucky
"moonshine still", which functioned well on British soil --- I won't
even reveal which county this was in!
I always welcome old photos and tall tales from those tracks and those
days. Oddly, I never once spotted a Land Rover body on a stock-car ---
surely someone tried --- though quite a few Rolls-Royce bonnets and
grilles made their battered appearance.
Cheers,
DK, now in Canada
www.oldstox.com
racing, I have a nostalgia website with some 300 photos and stories of
the outrageous cars and legendary characters that raced them between
1955 and 1975. www.oldstox.com
The smell and sound of a rackety out-of-tune V-8 on the overrun, and
the solid thump of a car hitting the steel girder posts --- aahh the
good old days. Today they have sponsors and polish. Back then it was
sledgehammers, skinned knuckles, in-your-face "race hard or go home",
yet the bloke who stuffed you in the fence would lend you his tools and
time and trailer if necessary.
"The Yanks" from bases like Chelveston and Alconbury provided a
valuable injection of nearly-new V-8 motors, and also provided one
English champion and garage-owner with the blueprints for a Kentucky
"moonshine still", which functioned well on British soil --- I won't
even reveal which county this was in!
I always welcome old photos and tall tales from those tracks and those
days. Oddly, I never once spotted a Land Rover body on a stock-car ---
surely someone tried --- though quite a few Rolls-Royce bonnets and
grilles made their battered appearance.
Cheers,
DK, now in Canada
www.oldstox.com
