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Welcome
to the Bristol Hotrods web site.
We hope you enjoy your visit -
and check in again soon, because there's a lot more to come! |
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About Bristol Hotrods |
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Although the web
site was launched in early 2007, Bristol Hotrods has a history dating back over
thirty years, and a tradition for producing some of the U.K's finest and most
influential Hot Rods and Street Rods.
Bristol Hotrods is an informal
group, originating in and based around Bristol, England. We invite new people
in when they show an interest in the way we are; it is not a free for all
'club', but certainly not elite. We have serious 'members' (for want of a
better word) in Swansea, Newport Pagnell, Yeovil, Frome, Falmouth and
Florida!
There is no committee, no money involved, and hopefully no
politics. We have a definite leaning towards certain vehicles - pre '49 glass
or steel, post '49 Chevy trucks, Tri-Chevys and the like.
However 'club'
nights are open to anybody in the spirit of having fun with cars, and we
usually get a large cross section of vehicles on our Tuesday meets - including
vintage, classics, bikes and scooters. |
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About BristolBristol is a city in the South West
of England, about 115 miles west of London.
From its earliest days, its
prosperity has been linked to the Port of Bristol, the commercial port which
was in the city centre, but has now moved to the Bristol Channel coast at
Avonmouth and Portbury.
Bristol was particularly associated with the
Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who designed the Great Western
Railway between Bristol and London, two pioneering Bristol-built steamships,
and the Clifton Suspension Bridge. |
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Clifton Suspension
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In the 1960s
Filton played a key role in the Concorde supersonic airliner project. Concorde
components were manufactured in British and French factories and shipped to the
two final assembly plants, in Toulouse and Filton.
The British Concorde
prototype made its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford on 9 April 1969,
five weeks after the French test flight.
In more recent years the
economy has been built on the aerospace industry, and the city centre docks
have been regenerated as a centre of heritage and culture. |
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Concorde |
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Why the 'dry lake' theme for these web
pages? |
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The site design
pays homage to the originators of hot rodding on the dry lakes or salt flats of
the USA. As early as the 1920s, Muroc dry lake in California was used by the
American Automobile Association for speed events, where souped-up and
stripped-down cars would strive to achieve the fastest straight line
speeds.
The number of participating cars and car clubs continued to
grow, and in 1937 the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) was formed
to organise and control the racing, using their own timing equipment. The SCTA
events continued until the onset of World War II, when many racers put their
cars on blocks to join the war effort. |
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Veda Orr racing the
Karl Orr Speed Shop '32 Roadster |
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During the war,
Veda Orr, the first woman salt flats racer, mailed SCTA Newsletters to
servicemen overseas. When the young men returned, many had gained additional
mechanical skills, and they picked up where they had left off, building cars
from whatever was available, for use on the street as well as the
lakes.
In 1948, Regg Schlemmers yellow and black 1927 Model T Ford
clocked a speed of 148.27 mph. The roadster featured on the cover of the very
first issue of Hot Rod
magazine, published the same year.
Hot Rodding has since grown in many
different directions, but here were the true origins. |
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Regg Schlemmer's yellow and black 1927 Model T
roadster |
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External
links:
Number Plates
Club
Private
Number Plates Search
Cheap Car Insurance UK
Car Insurance
Comparison Online
Compare Car
Insurance
Private Number Plates |
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