Thanks to John Woofle Racing and a proud sponsor of Eurodragster.com Dave Riswick for sending this article on Allard Dragster, Dave writes:

THE "ALLARD II" DRAGSTER RESTORATION PROJECT WAS ANNOUNCED TO ALAN ALLARD FAMILY

During the "BURNOUT ! 60th ANNIVERSARY” Exhibition Launch held at the National Motor Museum on the 26th of September.

Sidney Allard built a second 354 Cu In Chrysler V8 dragster in the mid 60’s and the dragster is now set to be fully restored by John Woolfe Racing with original stainless steel chassis donated to the JWR archives by legendary drag racer Clive Skilton.

The first hurdle, is to find the RARE Potvin Chrysler inlet manifold and associated intake gear. Once we have managed to locate one we can progress quickly with restoration as most other items are to hand.

Having attended the early Dragfests I was not the only pastsell date drag racer to be gifted with an invite to the Launch. Leading up to this event, earlier in the year I was approached by Carina Taylor, Curator of Library Collections at the National Motor Museum Beaulieu.

She was keen to locate original historic related items and made arrangements to visit John Woolfe Racing on the 4th of July and discovered that some of the archives held would be great for their exhibition, resulting in the historic Brian Sparrow photos and other artefacts being loaned for the exhibition which will run through Sunday 2nd February 2025. Ms. Taylor was given a short tour of various features here at the John Woolfe Racing archives and discovered some of the missing links to the early days of British Drag Racing such as the original starter flags used during the first Dragfests in 1964.

This is when the existence of a second Allard Dragster was first revealed.