Perhaps my favorite class in drag racing has to be the awesome Pro Mods. There is such a diversity of body styles and engine types. The bodies must be full size with opening doors and three types of power can be used. 1. Supercharged running on methanol. 2. Turbocharged. 3. Nitrous injected. There is no limit to engine capacity, the biggest motor is over 14,000cc !
These cars race over the 1/4 mile and are a real handful. The European records currently stand at 5.751 seconds for the ET and 260.11 mph. Here are images of most of the race cars from the last few years seen at Santa Pod.
‘Gotham City’ 63 Chevy Corvette. Bruno Bader Switzerland
‘Voodoo Hemi’ Plymouth Superbird. Marck Harteveld Netherlands
53 Chevy Corvette. Marco Maurischat Germany
‘Pro Dutch’ 70 Chevy Camaro. Robert Joosten Netherlands
41 Willys Coupe. Rick Garrett UK
‘Shakespeare Engineering’ Dodge Viper. Roger Moore UK
68 Chevy Camaro. Micke Gullqvist Sweden
‘Anger Management’ 69 Chevy Camaro. Andy Robinson UK
Dodge Avenger II. Norbert Kuno Germany
‘Blown Bird’ 57 Ford Thunderbird. Kev Slyfield UK
Willys Coupe. Bobby Wallace UK
‘Hawaiian Tropic’ 57 Chevy Bel Air. Thomas Stieffel Switzerland
70 Plymouth Superbird. Nick Davies UK. 98 Chevy Corvette. Steve Hall UK
67 Chevy Camaro. David Vegter Netherlands
68 Pontiac Firebird. Mattias Wulcan Sweden
‘Fast Freddy’ Chevy C10 pick up. Freddy Fagerstrom Sweden
‘MPM’ 68 Pontiac Firebird. Marc Meihuizen Netherlands
‘The Old 51’ 51 Chevy Business Coupe. Jimmy Alund Sweden
63 Chevy Corvette. Steve Rawlings UK
‘Lucky Devil’ 63 Chevy Corvette. Wayne Nicholson UK
‘Pro Dutch Racing’ 71 Plymouth Cuda. Michel Tooren Netherlands
‘Green Goblin’ 56 Ford Crown Victoria. Mats Eriksson Sweden
‘The Hot Rod’ 38 Ford Coupe. Bert Englefield UK
‘Punisher’ 63 Chevy Corvette. Marcus Hilt Switzerland
68 Chevy Camaro. Jan Ericsson Sweden
68 Pontiac Firebird. Kim Kristiansen Denmark
‘Bad Apple’ 68 Chevy Camaro. Jean Dulamon France
‘Roofers Toy’ 57 Chevy Bel Air. Peter Wacker Switzerland
Ford Mustang. Roger Johansson Sweden
Plymouth Duster. Chris Isaacs UK
‘Fast Company’ Ford Mustang. John Webster UK
‘Wallace Motorsport’ Ford Mustang. Annie & Bobby Wallace UK
‘U.S Automotive’ Pontiac Firebird. Nick Davies UK
‘Johnny be Good’ 53 Chevy Corvette. John Tebenham UK
68 Chevy Camaro. Dmitry Samorukov Russia
‘Wallace Motorsports’ Chevy Camaro. Bobby Wallace UK
Ford Mustang GT500. Andres Arnover Estonia
’69 Chevy Camaro. Walter Stroble Germany