A weekly selection of hot rod photos from either the past or present.

A Scottish / German combination! A photo essay following the construction of the first SLK to arrive in Scotland #321 - Eddie Schrader

A depiction of the cars to domestically race in Scotland in 2009 with GMP & Crimond

Northern Ireland 2009 - All Images by Davy Park

Originally Mad Jocks favourite formula. The album covers a 25 year period. Starting with theearly years of the formula in Scotland through to its final hours in the early 90's

Saloon racing at the current Scottish tracks.

A lookback at the Aycliffe & Hartlepool tracks, which for many years were the two N.E. of England stock car tracks, both are now part of racing folklore

Photos from the current Northern Ireland scene supplied by Davy Park unless otherwise stated

NEWTONGRANGE or Nitten as it was known was the original GMP track. Lying about 7 miles South of Edinburgh, the track opened its doors in 1981, then lived for just 8 seasons. The final meeting was on 3.1.89 before the authorities shut the track with undue haste

Armadale Raceway until 1971 was a West Lothian dog track. All that changed when in spring 71 the cars arrived with the first meeting held on 28-5-71.
For 10 years it was Spedeworth Scotlands 2nd track until in 1982 it changed sides to be GMP's 2nd track for a single season.
1983 saw it revert back to the Spedeworth organisation until the end of the 84 season when the cars withdrew.
It was back in 1987 after Spedeworth Scotland were removed from Cowdenbeath and the promotion saw it days out at Armadale.
After Spedeworth Scotlands demise it lasted 2 more seasons as Spedworth Armadale until the lastr meet was run on 28-12-91.
Since then it has continued to survive as a Speedway and dog track despite now finding on two sides large private housing within 100m of the stadium

Crimond Raceway is the UK's most northerly track. Crimond ran it's first meeting in June 1970 and has continued on the former airfield ever since, making it Scotlands longest continously running track, although in total it has done 3 seasons less than Cowdie.
This album looks at Crimond down the years from the late 1980's onwards.

A look at some of the many tracks that have played their part in oval racings history.
Most no longer exist having disappeared under by-passes and Industrial estates, some remain but for various reasons no longer host oval racing.

A collection of photos showing why the lap wasn't completed

The early years of the formula presented grids largely consisting of Anglia 105's & Mk1 Escorts along with some Hillman Imps.

By the 2nd half of the 1970's the Mk1 and 105's were rapidly disappearing as the Mk2 Escort became the almost obligitory steed. As ever there was the occassional exception as illustrated

1981 saw the end of the Golden Era and the start of the Modern era, lead by Ormond Christies all conquering Toyota Starlet. The Starlet soon became almost the obligitory machine for much of the 1980's. A few other designs like the Mazda 323 got a look in

The latter 1980s saw the Starlet dominance start to fade and through to the mid 90's the Peugeot 205 became the formulas mainstay along with Fiestas and the occassional VW, other models such as the Corsa & Clio got a look in

The new decade dawned with the Peugeot 206 as the "in" chassis, subsequently the TT appeared in small numbers before the Tigra became dominant frame, with as in any era a few others getting a look in

1972 to 2009 has produced 23 different World Champions. The cars depeicted may not be the championship winning cars