{"id":37282,"date":"2014-07-25T13:12:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=37282"},"modified":"2014-07-25T13:12:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:12:28","slug":"hound-dog-1970s-drag-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/hound-dog-1970s-drag-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"Houndog: Icon of Drag"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you were around in the seventies and ever went to Santa Pod: Hound Dog will mean a lot to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’re not really sure why it held the imagination – the Brit funny car was spectacular alright – but every funny car was spectacular. The fact that she was a Custom Car magazine cover star must have helped.<\/p>\n

And we suppose, around the time that Elvis expired, the association with the KING of rock and roll couldn’t have harmed the car’s populist appeal.<\/p>\n

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Hound Dog 9 is the one that sticks in my memory – being a magazine geek even at the age of nine made the Chevy Vega bodied brute stick. Apparently the team principle was Nobby Hills and he seems to have a noble history in British Drag Racing.<\/p>\n

There was an irreverence to this kind of no-holds-barred motorsport that we hadn’t felt until we went to Dirt Quake last weekend – and the Hound Dog encapsulated the power and the glory of the 6 second quarter mile more than any other racer of the time.<\/p>\n

Get along to Santa Pod<\/a> and feel the earth move.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t