2nd British International Drag Festival 1965 Programme
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Programme kept from 1965. The Drag Festival ran during September & October 1965 at Blackbushe Airport and R.A.F. Woodvale.This programme was bought at the Blackbushe event held on 25th & 26th September. The programme has 40 pages, and articles by Sydney Allard, Gerry Belton, Wally Parks, George Wells and Harry Worrall who wrote "A Dragster for £200?"The programme also lists the trophies/awards, prize money, description of race categories and a run down of the American Team which included Bob Keith, Tony Nancy, Danny Ongais, Gary Casady & Chuck Griffiths. (The top Americans at this time were recording 1/4 miles in the USA of under 8 seconds with terminal speeds just over 200 mph)The British Entrants on that day included the dragsters of Alan Allard(Chrysler) and Denis Jenkinson (Allard Dragon) and the drag motor cycles of Alf Hagon (Hagon/JAP), George Brown (Vincent "Super Nero") and Ian Ashwell (Vincent "Satan") with Denis Jenkinson also running his Triumph. Condition: Generally very good condition for age. All pages are intact and attached to the staples. General handling marks, light creasing, cover edge wear and some cover grubbiness. The staples are good. That weekend was very wet and there are damp marks on some page corners. No tears or writing. Please look at photographs. I will try and combine postage where possible. Post
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