Santa Pod Raceway BHRA Meeting Whitsun 1966. Vintage dragsters having fun!

An historically important film of one of the earliest meetings at this British drag strip. The cars look a bit tame by today's standards but the variety of machines are much greater than of latter years. Look for the old Rolls Royce with a Jag engine and the early sling shot style of the full race machines. 'Run what you brung' really meant just that. Did any viewers attend that meeting or am I the only one left? It is shot on 8mm Kadachrome film long before the miracle of digital video had been thought of. I paid £75 for that camera in 1963 and it took me two years to pay it off on hire purchase (remember hire purchase?). No credit cards in those days! As a skilled mechanic I was earning just £12 a week and drove a 1936 Morris 8 to work each day. The good old days? Some of them were!

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Thanks for posting Kafcan excellent rare footage, got any more!!! This was the first meeting at Santa Pod to run a class for Altereds. Good to see Wild Thing, Kool Kams, Juggernaut, Scout Master, Dragoon and Martin Hill's Model A. Not to mention the diggers of Ken Cooper, Harold Bull, Allan Herridge, Clive Lingard, Derek Metcalf, etc.. etc..