The infamous UK car club `The Low Flyers`

Theres an interesting thread going on at the moment on the UK NSRA website about the infamous low flyers...this was the mid 80`s and i dont think a lot of the UK rodding fraternity were ready for this `traditional` view of hotrodding and as one article said at the time `you either loved them or you hated them`....Pat Ganahl did an article about them for street rodder which was highlighted to him by HAMBer Japchris.....the thread is mainly asking where are they now


you`ve gotta remember this is the mid 80`s....but there are certainly some interesting cars there.....

loads of photos on there...check it out
http://www.nsra.org.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=37948


monkey

 

oh man that brings back memories. I remember the weekend at hailing island, the flyers were there as always and on the sat afternoon ( i think it was sat) they all came out to their cars and one by one fired them all up. In a line they drove out the campsite and onto the beach, we followed to see what they were doing only to see them hand paint all they cars blue with a white stripe.
They then drove back to the campsite and parked up as they were before. Just mad!!

 

Dammit, now I'm gonna have to search through my photo albums until I find the pics of them at Hayling Island & Bruntingthorpe. Good times........

 

I knew I had a photo somewhere!
Hayling Island 1987 (?)

 

And a couple of them (I think) at Bruntingthorpe....

 

The Low Flyers are my heroes!! I dont even know how to put it into words, the amount of respect I have for those guys! True legends.
Jimmy White

 

the question that seems to get asked the most is..`where is that pierson bros. coupe lookalike`

i`ve got some photos somewhere of them most probably Hayling.....

monkey

 

low flyers ROCK !!

 

I know where it was will try and track the guy down.

 

Did they only have the one tin of paint?

 

Two actually, Blue and White!
Originally they were all painted various shades of primer, off they went for a little drive down to the beach (via a D.I.Y. store, I think) and came back Blue with a white stripe. Mad as a box of Frogs.

 

I remember they used to dress up a lot i remember one Hayling Island, where they went to the sea front and was washing everyone's windscreen, wether they had one or not, there was a few wet faces lol

Daisyduke

 

My snaps o' Flyers from over the years.....

 

I do remember one guy, 6'6", built like a brick **** house, severe flat top hair, doc Martan boots and a polker dot dress. I ain't gonna say nothin'

 

Someone got a deal of a ****load of blue paint!

 

thats a cool post, I saw a bunch of what I think was there stuff in the early 90's at Knebworth, sure helped steer me down the right path there were small groups of folks down here doing similar stuff at the same time and i guess inthe USA but these guys got in the public eyc and were very influential.

 

I have heard the story about those guys painting their cars blue with the white stripes a couple of times. The LOW FLYERS deserve a place in hot rod history. They were young guys building proper hot rods long before we did over here. Kev Elliot stops by my shop once in awhile, he showed me a cool pic of all them sitting in their hot rods. I think it might have been the Custom Car photo shoot.
Jimmy White

 

Hey Jimmy next time that Elliot fella drops by say hi from me, it's about time he got on here.

 

A few mo' pix. Not all mine, but you get the picture.....


The Vultures CC - Hemsby circa '89

The Vultures CC - Hemsby circa '89

Two-Tone Rod was a revamped 'Flyer' car at Knebworth Nats circa 2000

Low Flyers rendition of The Pierson Bros. Coupe - Hemsby circa '89

Low Flyers Kevin Elliot's roadster - Hemsby circa '89

Another revamped Flyers roadster fairly recent pic.

Same roadster as above - Knebworth Nats?

Koops.....

 

I didn't know so many pictures existed of these guys. It makes for great viewing and far less of us would be doing what we're doing now without them....

 

Fantastic post Tim !

There's been loads more pic's put on the link you posted in the last few hours , go have a look everyone !

Wish I'd been a part of the scene when all this was happening , but its good to soak up the memories of others ;-)

 

awesome pics, send more.

 

ratty....there seems to be more cars connected to the club than first thought if all those photos are anything to go by

monkey

 

Apparently they had no problem gettin it "right" on the other side of the pond. Great pics!

 

You're not wrong mate , its facinating seeing them all together , then people popping up and saying "oh , I own that now !" . This really should all be recorded by someone ...

 

Here's a few pics i found from my collection.





Daisyduke

 

There are a lot of these pics that weren't actual Low Flyers, they caused such an uproar at the time there were many who quickly embraced the style. Me being one of them I guess, the British traditional scene would have taken a lot longer to develop if it wasn't for the original few.

 

Was it the Low Flyers who also did the Lollipop Ladies
at Hayling Island years ago?

 

I believe they did, they seemed to get up to something different every year. It was great fun in the good ole days

 

Ah,the joys of hemsby,a place lost/stuck in time lol,but always connected with the UK scene..........i was a teenager then n just getting into the veedubs,but through mags/word o' mouth even i'd heard of the flyers n seen a little,must've made an impression.......later,kevs' editing of CC mag has influenced me too,the cars still do too great pics/thread guys,loving it