• Drag Racing Comes to Goodwood Estate 2008
  • Toast to Drag Racing
  • Over The Hill Gang
  • OTHG on display
  • Lord March introducing the US Drag Racing Team 2008
  • Sir Sterling Moss "loved the US Cacklefest"
  • Six Stainless Land Rovers donated to charity, if you can get them down
  • 140,000 paid $400 US each for general admission
  • Pat Curnow and Bobby Allison
  • One reception after another
  • OTHG showing the brits what is was all about
  • Note the Faux tower made from shipping containers
  • Dave West in the Beebe & Mulligan Top Fueler recreation circa 1969
  • An old flathead dragster now residing in England
  • Our own dragstrip replica
  • All build by union employees mostly on overtime $$$$$
  • Pat with the Mooneyes owners Shige and Chico
  • Art Chrisman  Tom Curnow
  • They lined up to make sure we were not thirsty at any time lol
  • Mike Chrisman in the Chrisman -Cannon Hustler
  • Local Moon distributors in thier "whites"
  • Nitro, oh no call in the Fire Engineers
  • OTHG
  • Remember Jim Busby?? Now a road race celebrity
  • The Chrisman "slumming at Goodwood"
  • The Unsinkable Kelly Brown 1978 # 1 1979 Indy 50th Winner prepping the OTHG
  • Note the "before" guard rails, before union carpenters worked all night
  • Sonny Diaz scoping the situation
  • US Drag Team
  • Lord March came to US after the event and bought a rat rod so he would get the "feel"
  • Lord March is a racer in his own right, but this was really something for him
  • Get in-and smell the roses
  • Floyde Lippincot Jr, with a local friend
  • Hired actors to add to the day
  • The US team was invited to the stage and presented with "winners" medallions
  • The Goodwood House was our host for formal dinners and enteratinment
  • The Over the Hill Gang was the only RE dragster invited
  • This is how it all started in So Calif, the Christman Bros famous #25
  • The Howard Cam Rattler,
  • We passed out a few dozen Othe Hill Gang Flamed umbrellas, they need them there
  • The amazing "Glass Slipper" from Nothern California
  • The circa correct uniforms were a hit
  • Hang'n with the royality
  • Pat Curnow,Tom Curnow Sonny Diaz, Kelly Brown the OTHG
  • Waiting to fire
  • Another Formal Dinner
  • The Chrisman Team
  • Who said the Brits were "stuffy"
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