6thAnnual Rod and Custom Car show near Penzance: Crowds muffle their ears as a Dragster's engine is started. "Glacier Grenade" is a 1000 BHP was a star attraction with the crowd as thus was the first British car to smash the 8sec barrier for standing quarter of a mile. Powered by a V8 Daimler 2.5 super charged engine the car is run on a mixture of nitro methane
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BES_18_128
Date
c1980s
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Andrew Besley
Coverage
Penzance
Creator
Andrew Besley
Type
Still Image
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SP 27.4
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Andrew Besley, “6thAnnual Rod and Custom Car show near Penzance: Crowds muffle their ears as a Dragster's engine is started. "Glacier Grenade" is a 1000 BHP was a star attraction with the crowd as thus was the first British car to smash the 8sec barrier for standing quarter of a mile. Powered by a V8 Daimler 2.5 super charged engine the car is run on a mixture of nitro methane,” cornishmemory.com, accessed November 25, 2024, https://www.cornishmemory.com/item/BES_18_128.Support Us
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