| Blair Shepherd was a speedway racer who
purchased Scorcher from Ash Marshall and decided to try his hand at
drag racing. Shepherd's debut meeting was 10th April 1971 at Surfers
Paradise where he obtained his license running a best of 8.85 @
177.51mph. Shepherd ran two more meetings at SPID lowering his best
ET to 8.45secs. On 28th November he competed at the Nationals at
Castlereagh picking up a win and running 7.72 @ 205.71mph. The car
was repainted and became "Wheeler Dealer" and ran a meeting at SPID
Boxing Day 1971, he also picked up a win. After suffering a nasty
blower explosion which saw his helmet hit with pieces of blower case
he decided to give drag racing away and sold the car. |
