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Check out these pics I took in the National Motor Museum this afternoon, pretty sure this ageing Hemi come from either a mid '60's land speed car or early dragster, not sure which, maybe you can fill us in
The "Outspan Orange" is just plain silly

That hemi is sweet,and what is that other car? one of those orange cars for sunkist?

Adrian Worman wrote:Check out these pics I took in the National Motor Museum this afternoon, pretty sure this ageing Hemi come from either a mid '60's land speed car or early dragster, not sure which, maybe you can fill us in

That is the engine from Europes first Dragster. Sydney Allards 1961 Allard Chrysler. It is it's 50th birthday this year.

Pink Floyd's Nick Mason is in charge of the team restoring this important car.

Read your club magazine Adrian.

Here are some articles with some info & pictures;
http://www.hotrodhotline.com/pr/2011/acagjan2011/
From http://www.trakbytes.co.uk/hofsaaa.html
Sydney Allard completed the building of his first dragster. Powered by a 354ci Chrysler with a GMC 6-71 blower, Hillborn Fuel Injection it produced around 750BHP on straight methanol. Allards idea was to use the car to help establish the sport of Drag Racing in the UK and thus generate a market for competition and hot rod equipment. The car had no serious competition as nobody wanted to spend the money required to build another rail. He ran it at the Brighton Speed Trials in this year and by the end of 1962 he had run a best time of 10.48 seconds.
http://www.myrideisme.com/Blog/hemi-nos ... pes-first/

I did see that Allard rolling shell in there, but its getting a massive re-fit (the museum) and a lot of the displays are stacked up in odd places, like this particular one
.......as for the club magazine, Herman got to "read" it before me, I don't think I need to expand on that do I

I have this magazine from the late 60s with this image of it.

Those are not Policemen (Bobbies) as described in the text. They look like the St Johns ambulance drivers from the ambulance in the background.