These have sounds....turn your speakers up!!!!!!

altered fire.wmv

 

Nobby gets a burnt bum, or do you remember flame burnouts ??
The story here was that Nobby was concerned that the crowd were bored so wanted to do a serious flame burnout. He used twice the normal amount of fluid and the engine nearly died due to the lack of oxygen !

 
corvette 5.wmv

 

I have discussed this clip with Nobby and this is the video of Houndog running the first 5 second Funny Car run in Europe.

 

corvette 2.wmv

 

A night time shot of the Corvette

 

corvette 3.wmv

 

A demonstration burnout from the Corvette. The full version has the car turn around and do a burnout back the other way !

 

houndog 10.wmv

Owens demonstration of how not to drive a Fuel Funny Car !!!

 

corvette 6.wmv

 

How to do a smokey burnout !

 

corvette 1.wmv

 

Remember traction hops ??

 

corvette 4.wmv

 

Alan Bates in Holland smokes 'em !

 

The old cars in action

 

With thanks to Emagine Productions, a short film with a fantastic soundtrack of the old cars, including the infamous Houndog 7 wheelie, the Houndog 7 crash and the Houndog 10 incident with Harlen Thompson.

 

The new car being prepared
 

Emagine Productions filmed the team preparing for the Xtreme Wheels Show 2005.