"Oblivion" Avenger Drag Car Santa Pod UK

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Yeah I'm sure this car has been posted before but I've never really researched it till now








And YT vid clip of it in action : https://youtu.be/RmnJciPO4nU


And recent (2015) facebook photo from here : https://www.facebook.com/AcrossTheDecades/photos/a.1886573688110481/1886591098108740/?type=3




 



Following info copy / pasta from here : http://www.ukdrn.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=142

Here as promised from the original ?Oblivion? Junior Funny Car Family Tree CD plus some colour photos from the original 1973 Custom Car feature.?As with many of our drag racers, the team of Kevin Burrows, Jeff Morris and Rob Spence, came together after the early Drag Fests at Blackbushe and Woodvale, and subsequently debuted their first offering in 1969. Equipped with a small block Chevy, the team recorded respectable times around the ten second mark with the first ?Malibu Express? slingshot dragster.One novel idea with the dragster was the fully enclosed cockpit which made it look rather smart and very different, but by the International at Santa Pod in 1971 they decided it was time to sell and to turn their attention to building a junior style Funny Car. Named ?Oblivion?, the new car was powered by a stock 283ci Chevy engine (4.7 litre) with Fuelly heads and Hilborn injection. The body was an all in one fibre glass Hillman Avenger shell of stock length and dimensions, and totally home built. The chassis was built from 1 3/8? 14 gauge tubing and 1 5/8? 12 gauge for the main rails and roll cage. Wheelbase is 108 inches, with the front axle carrying 100E spindles and home built hubs with Pirelli shod Avenger wheels. The rear end was a Chevy item with 4.11 gears spinning 8.90 Kelly Springfield?s on 8 ? ? American Mags. Jag discs take care of the braking with the mandatory drag chute for extra safety. Steering came from a Standard 10 box, and the whole car weighed in at 10cwt.Meantime, Jeff had been trying to get some form of sponsorship to offset some of the running costs. One interested party was Martin Dilks, owner of D.B. Motors, a local speed shop in the Leicester area. This gratefully netted a trailer for ?Oblivion? in return for advertising on the sides of one of the quickest and fastest Competition Altered?s of its time.

Splashed across the January 1973 issue of ?Custom Car? magazine, and staring the season off with an 11.9 at 110 mph, it wasn?t long before ?Oblivion? started to make some serious mph by setting the class speed record at Santa Pod in July 1974, even though it was done running on pump gas.Still, the quest to go faster was there, and ?Oblivion? was sold to Lawrence ?Ollie? Burn to make way for a new rear engined injected small block Chevy powered rail to run in Top Dragster.As far as event records go, Laurence Burn?s purchase from D.B. Motors came midway through the 1973 season. On reflection, Lawrence feels that he made a mistake of not taking immediate delivery of the car, but instead allowed the owners to race until the end of the season.Laurence only completed three events of the 1974 season before concentrating his efforts on his wife Liz?s dragster, the ex-Bruce Brown/Roz Prior ?Age Machine? slingshot. Although the car never did complete a full pass under power at these events, the altered was sold back to D.B. Motors towards the end of the 1974 season to run alongside the team?s new ?Malibu Express? Top Dragster, but records show that the car never turned a wheel in anger again.?

I basically only Skimmed Page 1 and 6 of that thread


but yeah a 1 piece Fibreglass body sounds neat!