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A huge thank you to all those who supported the BDRHoF auction at Dragstalgia. It was very well received by all participants, with friends up-bidding each other on the spot and others putting in some very generous bids to secure the items they wanted. It was a pleasure for us to bring to the Santa Pod audience some rare and autographed items, which are now the treasured possessions of the auction winners. I would personally like to thank those who donated: Paul Whitehouse; Lynn at US Automotive; Steven Bishop; Paul Harris; Phil Cottingham; Tommy Ivo; Ron Hope; Don Prudhomme; NHRA Motorsport Museum and SO-CAL Speed Shop. Thanks also to Tony Thacker for collecting items from the US and US Automotive for shipping them over. We were offered donations of further…

Looking for a wood rim steering wheel for your whip? We came across these from Heritage Parts Centre the other day and were impressed by the quality, the thin mahogany rim with no rivets and their likeness to the Speedwell wheels of the’70s. They’re 15-inch diameter, have a fourinch dish, a brushed ali finish to the spokes and the standard three-bolt fixing, which means they can be made to fit pretty much anything via either one of the steering boss kits the company sells or a Grant adapter. They cost £128.65 from www.heritagepartscentre.com…

Santa Pod Raceway is currently recruiting marshals to work on, or in close proximity to, the track. Key roles available include working on the fire and safety crew, running and maintaining timing equipment, administering paperwork with racers, communicating messages to the racers in the pits, track maintenance and preparation and aiding in the traffic management of race cars. It is preferable that applicants have a full valid driving licence, but it is not essential. The roles are for weekend work, with occasional week days, and remuneration is by way of a subsistence donation. https://santapod.co.uk/vacancies.php…

Pistons & Props Sywell Classic Pistons & Props returns to Sywell Aerodrome, Northamptonshire on 25-26 September 2021. The weekend combines hot rods, historic race cars and bikes with exciting air displays, car and bike clubs and live music to create a fantastic family day out or weekend, if you utilise the on-site campsite. www.sywellclassic.co.uk Vintage swapping The VHRA Swap Meet will return to the 1940s Camp in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire on Sunday 12 September. Trading and attending is open to members and non-members, with the gates opening at 9am and closing at 2pm. The only stipulation for traders is that all goods relate to traditional hot rods and customs, early Fords or vintage Americana. www.vhra.co.uk Pop along Popstalgia 10 is happening at Bosworth Water Trust (CV13 6PD) on 24-26 September. Sunday’s…

Drag racing fetchedup on Britain’s shores in the 1960s and it only took a couple moredecades for folks to get nostalgic for those not-so-distant times. The manifestation of this keening for the days of déja vu was a race meeting called the Hot Rod Drags, held on the Long Marston track, latterly known as Shakespeare County Raceway. When Shakey went theway of all flesh, Santa Pod took on the show, and in 2018the HotRod Drags became the vibrant, late-season complement to July’sblockbuster Dragstalgia weekend. If youcame to Dragstalgia, and long formore in the same retrovein, or if youdidn’t come to Dragstalgia and wish youhad, you’re in luck. The 33rd Original HotRod Drags, supported by the National Street Rod Association, blossoms on to the drag strip from Friday 17 toSunday 19…

If you’re doing anything with early Ford banjo or quickchange rear ends, we highly recommend checking out Vern Tardel’s series of ‘Let me help you’ books. We had copies of the Banjo Axle Quickchange assembly guide and Ford 1932-’48 Banjo-differential servicing and rebuilding guide, both of which proved invaluable in putting our Rodsville rear end together. To be sure we’d done everything correctly, after assembly we followed the procedure for checking the ‘set’ on the rear end gears with paint, noting that the witness marks on the ring gear should be in the middle of the teeth, and made sure we had the right combination of gaskets at the bells to achieve the appropriate clearance at the big gear set. Thanks Vern!…

Whilst this year’s Hot Rod Supernationals was like no other, it was most definitely a great place to be over the first weekend in August. This, the 30th staging of Europe’s premier hot rod and custom event, was run over four days, but limited to members and their guests to ensure numbers were kept within the allocated quota. The newness started the moment participants arrived at Old Warden on the Thursday. The NSRA had its act together, though, and navigating the new access road was a breeze. We did hear that early arrivals had to queue, but that is only to be expected with revised procedures and hundreds, if not thousands, of people all descending on a venue at the same time. All I can say is that when we…

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I don’t know about you guys, but I feel like we’ve turned a corner, and a bloody sharp one at that. Maybe even a hairpin bend. I’m referring to the 30th Hot Rod Supernationals, the largest rod run to be staged in the UK for two years. You can read all about it on p18 but, as we can’t fit in everything, I thought it worthy of mention here. Whilst it wasn’t the biggest, nor the most diverse, it was probably one of the most significant Supernats ever. Sure, there were no Europeans in attendance and numbers were limited, but it happened. Those who were there surely felt a great weight lifted off their shoulders. We were out and about once again, four days of mixing, mingling and talking bullshit.…

My best friend of over 30 years, Colin Casey, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Sunday 1 August following a long illness. He was a very popular guy in the hot rod and American car community, and also within the local birding scene. Colin was well known in Lincolnshire as the person who started motor factor group LINCO in the 1980s. More recently, he was one of the authors of the Lincolnshire Bird Club publication, Birds of Lincolnshire. Charitable work was another of Colin’s passions, which he actively continued with despite the onset of his illness. Colin was a generous and sincere bloke who will leave a very big hole in our family’s lives. RIP bud, see you on the other side.…

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I’m not a patient person, but I try to tell myself delays are part of life, even though they drive me nuts. With the T taking shape nicely, and the end of lockdown on the horizon, I have found recent hold ups incredibly frustrating. We got to the point of starting road testing, which was when the gearbox lost drive. Having taken advice from several sources, we changed the filter (despite it looking okay to me) and transmission fluid and resumed testing. It was then that one of the rear tyres developed a huge bulge on its inner wall. The Cooper Cobra tyres were fitted when I bought the car and were clearly unused, with the date code reading week 21 of 2014. Unable to track down a Cooper Cobra…

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