Vintage Allard powered slingshot

With the H.A.M.B. drags and all
thought you would like to see this

And Her name is
Liane Engeman

Enjoy


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Sweetness !!

 

That was cool and she was kinda hot

 

cool historic shot of the first drag race in england

 

Some more pics of the Pre-crossflow powered Allard FED's.














They used the same Shorrock supercharger the VW people are so fond of.










Liane Engelman road raced a Mk1 BDA powered Ford ****** in the early '70s

 

Some more pics of other Brit 4cyl Ford powered FED's

 

Those look like some pretty light weight diggers. it must be neat to watch them for the first ten feet. Look likes fun to drive.

 

Allard used the same kind of engine in their Anglia.

 

And some pics of a FED with a even smaller BMC ( Austin/Morris ) engine.

 

I wonder where both of them are now?

 

Allard is the car (and guy they interviewed), an Allard Dragon in this case. They were factory built dragsters kind of like Dragmaster, Scotty Fenn and others were doing in the US. The engine is a Ford.

Sydney Allard was kind of the patron saint of British Drag Racing along with making those historic sports cars earlier.

Gotta love the dummies at B-J...
http://www.carcollector.com/index.php/features/38-featured-news/216.html
"The 1947 Steyr-Allard racer owned by the legendary Sydney Allard, one of America’s greatest automotive pioneers"

America's?????????????????????

 

Britain’s (and indeed Europe's) first dragster was the Allard Chrysler built by Sydney Allard which first ran in 1961. Its last run was in 1964 and since that time it has been stored under cover latterly at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu.


More Here :--


http://www.theaccelerationarchive.co.uk/acag/acag.html

 

Damn that was kewl but what the hell was up with her eyebrews. Kewl vid and pics

 

I am pretty sure these first 2 pics are the same car, and it now belongs to a friend of mine, Alan Smith, who lives a couple of miles away. He was a friend of the original owner, Probably the guy in the first shot with the Jag in the pic, and Alan ran the car on behalf of his widow after his death. I would expect his widow is now p***ed and Alan as far as I know still has the car.

EDIT: In the second pic, by squinting I can sort of make out the names of K Rotherham and Alan Smith on the side of the car. I remember Mrs Rotherham (the widow) because she was a nice old lady who was the midlands secretary for the NDRA (National Drag Racing ***ociation) and she had a big old house with Alan's Parts 60 Cad in the back garden.

Mart.

 

got a few of those motors and trans ,,,,think I just found a use for em

 

Hi there,

I got a few of those Shorrock superchargers at 90° angle as used on VWs. I also have some U "horseshoe" Shorrocks C75B, more than 20, for sure, laying around my workshop and in boxes, some dismantled. I have a total of 5 units with the longnose, I think. And I also have some complete kits for MG TC and TD. I produce parts to complete all these kits, I restore the blowers.

One of the images shows a small BMC engine with a nice small blower strapped to the side: that's a cute one, it looks like a Nordec-Marshal J75, but has a lot more fins... an early version ?

 

Sweet sounding machine, sure did a nice smooth burn off the line and seemed to run very straight and true. Thanx for this very interesting historical post. Love all the great history dredged up on here of late!! ~Sololobo~