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Stroud's Dave Allen in one of the new-fangled rear engined Specials tangles with this front engined version
The late Merv Tucker was one of the pioneers of Specials racing and was very competitive
Western Valley driver Ron Jones in one of the then popular front engined specials
An unusual Volvo. Unknown driver.
Les Horder in his 1300 Pushrod Special
Epic battle between Penhow's Roy McDonagh in his transverse supercharged 1800 BMC Special and PHD22 Don Jenkins in his V6 Ford version. In those days PHD stood for Pembroke Hell Drivers!
PHD65 Elwyn Rossiter
Stroud's Dave Gardiner in his A Series Special was very successful.
Isle of Wight racer Peter Attrill. Could he be related to Colin Attrill?
B52H Bill Locke(?) in another front engined special
Fiery Fred Booy again, this time in a 100E
Radford racer Dave Cox being persued by P36 Colin Coombes
Hard to believe that even in the mid seventies there were rows and rows of cars competing in the sidevalve class.
BS27 Keith Fraser battles with assorted 100E's, E93A's, Beetles and even Imps
BS11 Rob Crone in his 850 Mini
BS111 John Jenkins in his 1275'S' Mini
BS11 Rob Crone collects his fourth place trophy at the 75 Nationals whilst the winning mini of Weymouth racer Dave Rolls' sits in the background
Ford Pops of Allan Payton and Kelvin Walker sit on the line at an early Bristol South meeting
Mini engined special of Dave Brooks leads Gerry Packer's Imp and Keith Fraser's 100E
Colin Coombes and Steve Wilson battle in their 1071 Minis
W71 Jumping Jeff Jones
Freddie Booy again in his Datsun at Stroud's Moreton Valence track
YS36 John Woodland chases a Forest special in his 1300 Ford Pushrod powered car
This is Mike Tegg in his early days racing with the Warminster club in a Jag engined Anglia complete with cut down roof and wire wheels! Afterwards Mike was a Bristol South member for a few years before moving to Saundersfoot in West Wales. In the late 80's and early nineties he was a National Champion in Class 5 and 3 with the PHD club.
A Lotus twin cam powered Triumph Spitfire using an S type LSD back axle driven by Mark Cope of the 'Copes of Earlswood' stable. Thanks to Rob Bagley of Raceshots.com for the info
