| Graham Scholes and Lester James purchased the
car turn key from Noel Horton, They named the car "Pirana". Both
Scholes and James drove the car alternately and ran the car on
Alcohol running AA/Dragster. Scholes' debut was August 1975 and
drove up to October 1976 running a best of 8.11 secs @ 182.92mph.
James drove from November 1975 to March 1977 running a best of 7.96
secs @ 193.96mph. James scored a win at SPID and won twice at
Castlereagh. Graham Scholes died of a heart attack in the pits at
Surfers and Lester James died a few years later behind the wheel of
another dragster at SPID. The car became a monument to these two
racers and sat on display in the QDRA club room. The car was never
raced again in that form. Some photos are courtesy of Steve Thomas
of Visual Velocity. |
