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Hi everyone,
My name is Alan Currans and I would like to introduce you to my UK-based website The Acceleration Archive (http://www.theaccelerationarchive.co.uk).
It currently consists of 272 pages of photographs and 78 feature articles containing 11,874 images in all. The website for the restoration of the Allard Chrysler dragster, the first dragster built outside of the USA, is also hosted on my web space.
As you might imagine the focus is mainly on UK and European drag racing, which you may find of interest, but there is also quite a bit of US coverage as well, for example within the photo pages there are the following items which may be of interest :
The Roger Phillips Collection page 1 is a pictorial guided tour of 'Big Daddy' Don Garlits' Florida Speed Shop in 1971, page 2 features the 17th Anniversary Championship Meet held at Lions on 13 November 1971, and page 6 reports on the 2nd Annual Supernationals held at Ontario Motor Speedway on 20 and 21 November 1971 (Roger was a busy bee in the US in 1971!)
Moving on to Peter Quinn's Collection, page 3 features pictures of Top Fuel Dragsters taken at OMS and OCIR taken during his 1972 trip to the USA. Peter's page 4 is the same but is an all Funny Car affair.
Ex-pat Frenchman Benoit Pigeon nows resides in the US and his first two pages cover the recent Dragpalooza IX meet at Rockingham, while page 3 features Maple Grove's 50th
Anniversary Meeting held in 2012.
Moving on to the Feature Articles section of the site :
Brian Johnson - The Imperial Wizard contains an account of Brian's successful 1984 Top Fuel Bike campaign in the IDBA series,
The Restoration of Veney's Vega by ex-pat Pat Neal requires no further explanation, and
Roger Reporting consists of veteran UK photo-journalist Roger Gorringe's reports on some of the NHRA meetings in 2012 and 2013.
I hope you enjoy visiting the site. I will keep you advised of updates as and when they occur.

Alan is one of our best friends and confidantes in the world of drag racing. I am thrilled that he has signed on here.

I apologize that it has taken so long for his post to appear. He made it several days ago.

I discovered last night that several posts in this forum were awaiting my approval. That is something the board has never done before.

I will have to keep an eye out for that.

Welcome aboard, Alan! Bill

Thanks very much for the warm welcome Bill, it's good to be here.

Great to have you here and I'm happy that you were able to make that post without my intervention! I guess the settings I played with the other night worked! bp

I have just published the fifth page in The Peter Quinn Collection. This consists of 54 images taken at various custom car shows in the UK between 1971 and 1975. This link will take you straight to the page - http://www.theaccelerationarchive.co.uk ... re_05.html

Benoit Pigeon's 4th page has just been published which consists of early pictures of US Pro Mods taken at Shuffletown, North Carolina in 1989, Atlanta also in 1989, New York Empire in 1991, and Englishtown in 1993. As you will see, many of them look more like modified Pro Stocks than the cars that we are familiar with today. Those with a technical leaning will find comparison of those early chassis with current designs of interest. This link will take you straight there http://www.theaccelerationarchive.co.uk ... on_04.html

Great stuff, Alan. Thanks for sharing it with us! bp

The Acceleration Archive's US-based reporter Benoit Pigeon has been busy with his camera again. I have just published a page containing 147 images taken at a Gasser meeting at New England Airport and Drag Strip, Va. A few local racers and some slingshot dragsters also turned up on the day to add some variety.
This link will take you straight there http://www.theaccelerationarchive.co.uk ... on_05.html
I hope you enjoy looking at Benoit's work, I certainly did.

Thanks, Alan! bp