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Our first dose
of nostalgia dates from the late 1970's.
Chippenham, Wiltshire, is the
venue for this little meet. |
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| The Austin Devon
was Mike Taylor's ride - the classic gasser stance ensures it look good
even today. |
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| The jacked-up
Zephyr belonged to Neil Grant, while the Ford pick-up just visible on the right
was owned and built by Merv Barnett. |
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| Andy House
brought along his Morris Minor pick-up. |
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| Also in the
Chippenham group, but here pictured elsewhere, was Mike Walters high-riding
Ford 100E. |
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Around 1976,
here's Neil Grant's primered Pop and Phil Mitchell's black Pop.
Neil's
Pop was very nearly finished but was then given a roof chop before it got on to
the road.
We had visited Stratford for an early NSRA meeting, where we
saw Simon Falmer's Pop - at that time, the first chopped Pop we had seen. Neil
decided that his Pop needed a roof chop too.
Phil's Pop was also chopped
a little later. |
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| Here Neil Grant's
chopped and finished Pop sits alongside Rich Denley's chopped Austin Cambridge
at a Cheltenham meeting. |
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Lazy Lotus was
the twin-cam powered Ford Pop built by Phil Baines. It languished in a garage
in Bristol until a house-hunting friend of Phil Mitchell's came across it - it
was then sold to a Bristol Renegades member.
The car is pictured here in
1976, having an alarm fitted. The car passed through the hands of several
owners then disappeared from sight. Last heard of many years ago in Yate, with
a V6 fitted, we wonder where it is now? |
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| Visitor Elaine Hayward (nee Williams) dug out the old wedding pic
above for us. She says "this was at Lee Phillips’ wedding to Sharon in, I
think 1984/85. From left to right: I think this was Slim’s pop, then my
car, Rod Rich’s Mk1 Zephyr, Neil ‘Garf’ Genge’s Vauxhall
Victor – I don’t recognise the last car in the line-up." |
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Moving to the
track, here's Andy House on the start line at Long Marston drag strip, in his
V6-powered Model Y Ford.
Here the Long Marston (now Shakespeare County
Raceway) banking is at an early stage of construction.. |
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| Knebworth, 1985.
Mike Bull's couped Pop, and the Merv Barnett-built purple Pop, here owned by
Rich (Louie) Llewellyn. |
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| Derek Hicks'
Model B pickup in between Rich Roberts 'Bristol Flyer' Pop and Merv Barnett's
Ford pickup. |
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| Part of a lineup
at Cwymbran - Rich Roberts' Pop , Howard Thomas' Camaro, and Mike Russel's Mk1
Zephyr, 'Midnight Breeze'. |
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| Andy House's
couped Morris Minor at a Bristol show. |
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Slightly blurred
but still worth showing, here we are pictured at Kenilworth in 1986 at the NASC
Nationals.
From right to left: Phil Mitchell's green Pop, then the Pop coupe
of Mike Bull.
The Prefect belonged to Rich Roberts, and the
almost-fenderless Model Y Ford was Derek Hicks'.
Phil Thomas owned the '32
Ford, and the orange Pop was Mike Taylor's.
In those days we were known as
Bristol Area Street Rods, a name that survives to this day on the number plates
of Mike Taylor's Willys. |
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