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Lyndon Phelps has a look to see if anyone is on his tail
Popular welshman Danny Lewis in his Rover V8 Imp
PAC23 Meurig Davies in his BDA Anglia was the man to beat in Class7 at the start of the 80's
Ray Corbett had a couple of seasons in this Class 9 special.
Martyn Tinker leads TA80 Andy Williams and Grassing Grandad Derek Poole at the MAP Open 1988
Tony Green was a quick Mini driver back in the 80's. He now runs Daytona Mini Spares.
Mickey Manning won the 88 Class 6 Nationals with this BDA Fiesta
Ed Lloyd was very successful in this Rover V8 pickup with direct drive
Paul Garrett's 1450 Class 6 Mini was always on the pace
Huw Scourfield was a very quick Class 6 driver and now builds some very quick Class 4 mini engines
Phil Barlow was one of the pioneers of grassing. Here he is with his fast but fragile BDH Class 8
Tidy Class4 Mini for Cwmdu's Richard Hills. Thanks to Lee Zammit for the name check!
Yate's Andrew Bishop. One of those drivers who could win a race driving a wheelbarrow...
Sturton's Phil 'Bimbo' Bryan was a Nationals winner in 87
Andy Grainger in his Class 3 Escort. You can bet it was running on SU's!
Malcolm Pritchard, Peter Collins and Paul Fackrell fighting over the lead at Hereford's Withington track
Bala's Kenny Roberts looks to have melted a piston if the smoke is anything to go by
Terry Rigney with his 970 Class4 Mini estate which used a Weber IDA sticking out of the bonnet.
Colin Claxton in his Nationals winning Class 3 Lotus twin cam Escort
Nice tidy 1300 pushrod special for Stroud driver Nick Aldridge
Class 6 & 7 mixed race at Hereford's Withington track
Dave Hill was the man to beat for many years with his 1700 pushrod Fiesta. Dave worked for Russ Tyler so worked on most of the quick cars of the era
One of Noel James' very quick Class 3 Escorts at the 88 MAP Open
Very tidy Class3 Escort from Hot Rod Enterprises Chairman and Promotor Chris Carter
Glyn Pettifor in the Dave Hill Fiesta
Lyndon Phelps and Darrell Williams do battle at the 82 Nationals Hanbury
An early Juniors outing for Yate's Justin Warren
Always quick - Nick Shaw in one of his many Class3 cars
Nottingham grafter Ted Shillitto in his Class 3 V8 Sunbeam
Shaun Leyfield had some good results with his 970S Mini Traveller
Les Sharp controversially parked up on the start straight at the 88 Nationals.
Popular Isle of Wight man Fred Jupe drove the race of his life to get in front of Terry Brown at the MAP Open 88.
Tidy Hereford Class 6 Clubman of Arthur Evans (?)
Keith Allington in his 1480 Class 6 Mini at the 88 Sherborne Nationals
Very quick Class 4 Mini of Pembroke driver Colin Davies
Pembroke's Phillip Thomas in his rapid Class 3 Starlet
Douggies brother Terry Brown battling with Darrell Williams and Jim Spencer at the 82 Nationals
Gordon Harries entrusted his Class 4 Mini to Douggie Brown at the 87 Tenby Nationals and he took 3rd place. Gordon used to call his engine the 'Mongrel' because it was such a wierd combination of components. The bodyshell was the ex Bill Summers car with an aluminium roll cage.
First meeting for Spam's Class 6 Mini and showing promise by keeping up with the top Class 7's of Jeff Hogg and Peter Williams
Teifi driver Colin Dodd on the way to his Nationals win in 1988
Farm Flyer Ian Fay with his immaculate bubble arched Mk1 Escort at the 88 Sherborne Nationals
Radford man Richard Sykes in his Class 5 Mini at Stroud 1989
Nationals Class 10 battle lead by Swansea's Howard Hughes
Isle of Wight man Roy Sheath was very quick in this 1480 Class 6 Mini - even though it was still on 10 inch wheels!
Paul Waldron at the 87 Tenby Nationals
R90 John Grantham in a very tidy Class 5 Metro at Farringdon near Oxford
2 very similar BDH Metros of John Greenwood and Pete Ellis at the 87 Tenby Nationals
Immaculate Class 7 Pinto Imp of Maurice Cox (Gerry Packer)
Early 80's Class7 tussle at Bristol South's Nempnett Thrubwell venue (Gerry Packer)
Pembroke's Bernie Edwards in the ex Lyndon Phelps Class 10 car
Dave Hill leads Tim Janes (Gerry Packer)
Emyr Jones leads Wynne Evans and Derek Carless at Hanbury (Gerry Packer)
Brian 'Dizzy Duck' Bevan C2 in an unusual Honda bodied Class 7 (Gerry Packer)
Roger Newbould leading Emyr Jones (Gerry Packer)
Emyr Jones with his BDG Fiesta (Gerry Packer)
A regular round the midland tracks in the 70's & 80's was Bob Mountford in his V8 Capri
This is a view of the Isle of Wight track in the 80's. Looks like it would have been fun to race on...
Brother of Gerald - Geoff Brace from Saundersfoot campaigned this immaculate Mini in 1983
A rear view of Keith Davidge's revolutionary special with a bike engine alongside the driver. 1986.
Joe Brewer was a Nationals winner in the 70's with a modified 850 Mini, and made his comeback in 86 with this Nissan powered Class 5 Mini. Joe's daughter Tracey Aldridge is also a Nationals winner and his grandson is now racing in the juniors using Joe's famous S27D number.
Brother of Roger, this is Anthony 'Hank' Bown in the Russ Tyler car which rumour had it was used on a rental basis from Russ. It had several owners afterwards including Minispares North proprieter Neil Booth and Class 4 man Alan Parker. It's now still going in the hands of SR326 Ben Hardman 23 years after it was built by Mr Tyler!
Martin 'Jetlegs' Adams in his Class 10 with the ex Bernie Edgeley/Terry Brown supercharged Rover engine installed.
Noel James had this Starlet in Class 3 for a while before he changed back to a Mk2 Escort
Teifi man Kevin Jones took major victories in his Class 4, 5 & 6 Minis throughout the 80's. He was Class 6 Nationals winner in 1990 with a light blue coloured Clubman fitted with a Ford pushrod engine grafted onto a Mini gearbox. Does anyone out there have any pictures of this car?
Malcolm introduced his sons to Autograss and this is future Rally Champ Mark in his Class 3 Escort
Malcolm Perrott was already a British Rally Championship winner as Graham Middleton's co-driver when he started his own grassing career
Bob Talboys' famous S1D Rover powered Allegro ingeniously named the 'Allegover'!
Lyndon Phelps battles with Pete Brewer at the 86 WASA Open - both in BDG Specials
Still racing today this is Gloucester's Phil Kent in his Class 4 998 Imp at the 87 West Midland Open
Pete Saunders very quick Class 6 Mini at the Farringdon track near Oxford 1986
Bredon Hill man Rob Dance was one of the first to try out the Metro bodyshell in his Class 5 in 1981.
Roger Bown in his Wilcox BDG Class 9 at Dodwell 1984
Richard Northway in an early Class 3 Starlet at the MAP Open 1988
Weymouth driver Mark Rodford did not often venture far from the Southern League but was a very quick Class 3 driver
Thanks to Adam Clark and Wayne Yeardley for giving us some background info on this car. It's a Yorkshire Rover V8 Class 10 that was built by the late Roger Gale, father of Sue Harrison ex Y35 and the late Mandy Thompson Y19. This picture is of Nick Stanton who bought it off Roger. The unsilenced exhausts came off Barry Glendenning's Class 10 after he switched to Cosworth GA power.
Mental front wheel drive Class 6 Mini with a V6 Ford in the front for Radford's Ray Ryder
Tyre guru Mark Webber with his homebuilt Class 10 special which had the sweetest sounding Essex V6 you were ever likely to hear.
Isle of Wight man Steve Chase who was a pioneer of the Class 8 bike engine revolution
Ivor 'the driver' Cox's best result was a 5th in the 85 Nationals in Class4.
Gerry Packers Class 8 was based on a Royale RP26 Formula Ford chassis.
Tim Janes moved up to Class 6 with this Metro and was very competitive before selling the car to Tom Donnelley
Withy Race Engines man Keith Allington back in his Radford days. Keith is now doing Mini Miglias
Kev Nash was very quick in this semi short stroke Class 5 Mini Estate seen here at the 87 Tenby Nationals
1988 Class 4 battle at Norton Radstock's Frome track lead by Phil Brent
