The First Go i Sweden

[jannes_z-28]

Those two english fuelers were a great inspiration for the coming dragracers in Sweden.

One fun notice of the First Go event:
The third fastest car was a 1966 Hemi Charger, bought new in New York by a Swedish enthusiast. He was even quicker than the two Swedish built top fuelers that were at the event too.

Here is some info on Clive Skilton, running the pink dragster http://www.britishdragracinghof.co.u.../clive-skilton

and Dennis Priddle in the blue one: http://www.britishdragracinghof.co.u...dennis-priddle

Jan

[COPO_Anders]

Hi Janne !
I started searching for pics from "the First Go" and used other combinations of words, and found this website:
http://www.aspesbilder.se/sida7.html

Asbjörn who has this website used to race a chopped 34 Tudor.
Lots of pics from Santa Pod and Mantorp Park in the early seventies also.

[jannes_z-28]

Good site you found Anders!

Yes I knew about him we were racing at the same time, we were also partnering in a car for a short while with his garagebuddy Håkan Malmborg.

I found this great picture of Paula Murphy when she was at Santa Pod. Look at the girly touch on the firesuite! I once met her in LA in 1981, we were a gang of people that went for a dinner after Winternationals. She sat on the opposite side of the table and she had very fond memories of the trip to Europe.



Jan