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“Big Ed” Stipanovich Sedan Drag Racing
“Big Ed” Stipanovich was one sedan drag racing’s biggest names through the 1970s after an early apprenticeship in the Sydney street racing scene. Ed would thrash his Ford Single Spinner ute or his Triumph motorcycle around the old airstrip at Castlereagh, along the new entry road into the factories at the Brickies venue at Homebush,… Read more »
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The Leprechaun Monaro Pro Stocker
At his home track at Adelaide International Raceway Peter D’Alessandro was a star in his “Leprechaun” Monaro. The conventional wisdom, for good reason, is that most people who come to drag racing do so from a base in street performance. It was certainly that way for Adelaide sedan specialist Peter D’Alessandro in the early 1970s…. Read more »
Posted in: Drag Racing, Modified
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Blue Meanie Plymouth helps shape Australian Drag Racing
This week’s installment is against the strictures of our esteemed editor, who said to keep this Australian, but we need somewhere to have a discussion about the three American sedans which set up much of Australia’s drag racing from 1964 into the 1970s. These cars were known locally as Ramchargers, a name adopted from an… Read more »
Posted in: Drag Racing, Modified
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Mopar Charger Aussie Pro Stocker
Mopar Charger Aussie Pro Stocker! There haven’t been that many attempts to make for a fast Chrysler product in Australian sedan drag racing over the past 50 years. Ford and Chevy (Holden) products seeming to dominate the field. One of the few serious attempts was that of the Sydney-based Bob Reischl and Bill Gilmore team… Read more »
Posted in: Drag Racing, Modified
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Jim Fife Phase II XW GTHO Falcon Drag Car
Fancy buying a brand new Phase II XW GTHO Falcon for $3800? I‘ll take ten right away! In 1970 that was the asking price when a 29 year-old Sydney engineer by the name of Jim Fife decided that his attempts to build something outstanding for the quarter mile was too complex and he would be… Read more »
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The Shaker HK Monaro takes GMH to the Quarter Mile
The Shaker HK Monaro takes GMH to the Quarter Mile. Drag racing in Victoria had been the seed bed for the new motorsport of drag racing. It provided home to the first drag strip, first organised drag racing, first dragster, first this, first that, mostly under the tutelage of a couple of highly organised hot… Read more »
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