Photos: The Allan Porter Collection - Part 3

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Promo shot of Kevin Dolores.

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Allan Lim's wildly chopped Escort.

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Ralph Wright warming the bags.

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Another brand new drag strip complex. This is Thunder Park, in the Hawkes Bay, which had only just opened when Allan snapped the following images.

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And this was from the opening day at Thunder Park.

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More from Thunder Park, with the two Chevy Nova's of Ivan Jujnovich and Gary Taylor about to do battle.

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Butch Reid performing a spectacular wheels-up run.

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Mike Gearing. Awesome paint scheme.

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Dave Chung.

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Roadside repairs. Check out the cool tow wagon.

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Neat shot here form the control tower.

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Alan Edwards' Corvette, moments after blast-off.

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Colin Stuart, doing a little pre-race engine prep...........from the cockpit! Check out the cool Fairlane push-car.

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I love this Mustang, owned by Brett Wilson. Where is it now?

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Alan Edwards again. Looks like rear end repairs taking place.

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Graham Bicknall and neat Ford Pop.

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Curly West and 32 Ford 5 window coupe. I'm trying to work out the modifications done to get the car to look this way. I assume the body has been channeled so the chassis sits up inside it rather than underneath it.

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Fred Harrop. This thing must have sounded incredible!