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In the 1980's the Jalopy racing tag was long gone and Autograss was going from strength to strength. Along with the increase in popularity came an increase in rules and officialdom. The Nationals was now run over 2 days with the Ladies still part of the same event. There was also the introduction of the Juniors class...
The cars were evolving too. In Class7 the pushrod powered Ford Pops had given way to a new wave of Rover V8 engined Mini Pickups such as North Shropshire's Bernie Edgeley and Cosworth twin cam powered Imps like that of Harrogate's Roger Newbould.
Tommy Mills' lightweight Mini engined special was as quick as anything else in its day and could even give Gerald Brace's BDH a run for it's money.
Geoff Berrisford in one of his early class 9's.
Steve Wilson who went on to be Metro Challenge Champion on the circuits
Pembroke's Emyr Jones always had exciting cars and this BDG Imp was no exception
Welsh grassing legend Don Jenkins special with a 1700 Ford crossflow motor rumoured to be an ex Barry Lee World championship winning Hot Rod engine
Manchester's Phil Taylor - 2 times National Class4 winner
The man himself - Gerald Brace 1300 Cosworth BDH and many times Nationals winner.
Grant Victory in an ex Bryan Waterhouse Hornet with a 1350 Ford pushrod in the back.
Bredon Hill's Mick Highman makes a move on Phil Goodenough's Escort in a WASA Class 7 race
Jeff 'Boss' Hogg on his way to yet another win at the 86 West Midland Open
Dave 'Bumble' Fenwick's Rover V8 Imp
Douggie Brown and Bruce Campbell giving each other the stare at Hereford's Withington track
Ellir Morris leading the final of the 1988 Weymouth Nationals before his rear suspension collapsed letting Fred Towey through to win
Cliffy Thompson in the ex Steve Roberts car
Nick Aldridge in his 17F Imp trying in vain to hold off Bill Summers in the 82 Class5 Nationals final at Hanbury
Dave 'Bumble' Fenwick had reshelled into an Escort for the 87 season
Lee Lebrun and Roger Bown in one of their many battles
Bryan Waterhouse is still racing today in an updated Class5 RWD Mini. This picture is from 1984.
Ken Gwilliam was a pioneer of the new for 84 Class 3. He chose a Triumph Herald for its good front suspension design and used a Jag rear axle and Alfa Romeo twin cam engine
Roger Newbould on the way to his 82 Class7 win at Hanbury chased by Mick Farrell, Wyn Evans, Bernie Edgeley and Derek Carless
Paul Fackrell (then with Evesham) tries the outside line round E5 Robin Trow (dad of Alex Trow)
Grassing Grandad - Derek Poole from Nottingham
After many years with Rover V8 power Barry Glendenning tried a Cosworth GA engine from a works Capri Touring Car
Radford racer Alec Trow with his Rover V8 Beetle Class7
Pete Williams with his Rover V8 Datsun
Joe Brewer being chased by Phil Brent and Pete Burge
Ron Garrett on the very fast Farringdon track in Oxfordshire
Billy Macmillan holds off Andrew Sheppard at the Weymouth Nationals
Norman Ross with a very early version of a bike engined saloon. Way ahead of its time
Weymouth's Pete Saunders holds off rolling road man Tommy Williams' supercharged & water injected A series Metro
Lincolnshires Dave Yeardley with his ex Merv Evans lightweight V6 special, and a black and white picture from Short Circuit Magazine of Dave after winning the FMOG in 1979 ,a few weeks earlier he had won class 9 at the nationals (now class 10)
Steve Mundy campaigned this Chevette for a while. Rover powered of course
Phil Brents 84 998 Hartwell Imp. A serious bit of kit
Bob Talboys and Jeff 'Boss' Hogg about to see who will brake first into the first corner at the WASA open 86
Concord's Mick Jennings replaced his Champion of Champions winning Mini with this BDA Fiesta. It never really fulfilled its potential on the grass
Nick Pike from the North Avon club battles with Pete Winter and Rory Fisher
Ian Jones got fed up with breaking Imp gearboxes in class4 so put a Hewland Mk8 box in and ran it in Class5, winning the Nationals!
Brian Chamberlain was always at the sharp end in his Class1 seen here at Farringdon.
Future Class4 BAS champion Andy Chamberlain in an early 970S version
Dave Illingworth's Class 9 special in the pits at Hereford's Withington track
Ron Moon of the Mid Glamorgan Club in his Class4 998 Imp
Mick 'Mogsey' Morgan at the Hanbury Nationals 1981. Mogsey won the Class 10 Nationals 3 times
Multiple Class 9 Nationals winner Dave Smith drove a variety of machinery including this Simca before he settled in Specials
Huw Beynon at Stoke Lacey, Hereford in one of his Class 5's, which were usually Tyler powered.
Mean looking Class 10 V6 Ford special of Stroud's Alan Bird(?) at Hanbury
Pete Collins and Lyndon Phelps enjoy a chat after the Class 9 final at Sherborne 1988
