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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Identifier

BES_18_128

Date

c1980s

Rights

Andrew Besley

Coverage

Penzance

Creator

Andrew Besley

Type

Still Image


Institution ID

SP 27.4


Social Bookmarking



Collection

Andrew Besley Collection




Citation
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.
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