[RUNWAY RACER]

Checkout this link guys I am sure its the same car look at the panel work round the driver area plus the rear wing and wheels ete etc.
http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx36b1Ci

[fester]

the rail in the forground is jon lovetts car circa 1986, i owned this car in 84 ,it was built by the peek brothers of colarado,i bought it off everybodys best friend ....knut..... god knows how he came by it,and i dont really want to know ,i sold it to the drapers via bob jarret in 84 for 1000 whole english pounds, dont know how much charley paid for it

[jaytee]

Lindsay Deuchar and Paul Jackson from 94

[Eastern raider]

This is the version we had. The ex Juha Leppenan Finn/am car.
The chassis i sold to a mate of John o'sulliven. Adam Gledow has the Rodeck.

[DaveK]

Old post but I can shed some light on the V12 Black Widow.

This was built by Bill (William) Brook and myself (Dave Kelly). The two cars pictured are completely different versions of the car. The first is the version we ran in our first year and started out using carbs and a 6-71 blower. We had a lot of issues with fuel capacity and after the first year was over we rebuilt the car completely (with a lot of help from friends we had made along the way) which is what is seen at Long Marston.

We'd learned quite a bit despite the problems with V1 so V2 had a completely re-engineered chassis and was basically a copy of Joe Amato's then TF dragster. We also simplified a lot of the over-engineering on the V12 to make it easier to work on. As someone noted we improved and lowered the blower manifold and added a Hilborn racing fuel injection system.

This cured the fueling issues and we started making some real power with the motor. But as is so often in drag racing this exposed other weaknesses. We blew the transmission many times and beefed it up over a period of time. The Long Marston event where the car is pictured we finally got the transmission working and promptly blew both half-shafts!

The car showed great potential and I am sure could have done great things. Unfortunately we were a low budget team and simply ran out of money before we could work out all the bugs. I believe V1 was 1987 and V2 was 1988. The biggest difficulty using the V12 was the lack of aftermarket performance parts. Luckily Bill owned a fabrication company so we were able to build a lot of what was on the car ourselves - this included the chassis, blower manifold, blower input drive, starter system, transmission, rear drive coupling and a lot more.

We had a huge amount of fun drag racing, both with the dragster and with street cars before that. We were members of the PDRC at the time and our "home" track was York.

Dave

[REALITY]

It was great to see my old Capri tow car and myself beside Lindsay's Rodeck TAD. but sad to see that shot of the holed pan! Tony

[timetravel]

Old post but I can shed some light on the V12 Black Widow.

This was built by Bill (William) Brook and myself (Dave Kelly). The two cars pictured are completely different versions of the car. The first is the version we ran in our first year and started out using carbs and a 6-71 blower. We had a lot of issues with fuel capacity and after the first year was over we rebuilt the car completely (with a lot of help from friends we had made along the way) which is what is seen at Long Marston.

We'd learned quite a bit despite the problems with V1 so V2 had a completely re-engineered chassis and was basically a copy of Joe Amato's then TF dragster. We also simplified a lot of the over-engineering on the V12 to make it easier to work on. As someone noted we improved and lowered the blower manifold and added a Hilborn racing fuel injection system.

This cured the fueling issues and we started making some real power with the motor. But as is so often in drag racing this exposed other weaknesses. We blew the transmission many times and beefed it up over a period of time. The Long Marston event where the car is pictured we finally got the transmission working and promptly blew both half-shafts!

The car showed great potential and I am sure could have done great things. Unfortunately we were a low budget team and simply ran out of money before we could work out all the bugs. I believe V1 was 1987 and V2 was 1988. The biggest difficulty using the V12 was the lack of aftermarket performance parts. Luckily Bill owned a fabrication company so we were able to build a lot of what was on the car ourselves - this included the chassis, blower manifold, blower input drive, starter system, transmission, rear drive coupling and a lot more.

We had a huge amount of fun drag racing, both with the dragster and with street cars before that. We were members of the PDRC at the time and our "home" track was York.

Dave

Thanks for the info Dave, the pics I took were at the '86 Cannonball meet so I guess that was your first year with the car...
http://www.timetraveldvds.co.uk/gallery ... index.html