OK, this first one isn't a dragrace photo, but this is just to show you what Ton was up to before he started dragracing (trial as you can see)

Monique and Vincent on the 250cc Kawasaki (mid seventies)	first edition of the 500cc Nitro Triumph (mid seventies)
Second edition of the 500c Triumph at Drachten (check out the wheelie bar)	Vincent on the Triumph
Team 'Pro-motor' (the name of Ton's motorcycle shop back then): Peter Scales, Ton Pels, Henk Kemp and Gert-Jan Moeskops	Ton and Phil Manzano at Santa Pod
Monique on one of the bikes of the late Henk Vink	Our first "motorhome"
First edition of the double engined Triumph (1976-1979) at Santa Pod	'Double Dutch' Triumph (1976-1979) at Drachten
Double 'PUMA' Triumph (1980-1988), which probably had the first billet cylinderheads in the world, designed by Ton and engineered by PUMA in England	A new "home away from home"
Team 'Dutch Dragrace Combination': Rob Janssen (2 bikes), Rob van Ginneken and Ton Pels (early eighties)
Fire burn-out at Le Mans, France (1983)	Last version of Ton's double PUMA Triumph, which was sold to Roel Koedam in 1988
1988: Ton at Guisgriff, France (Home of Asterix) with Peter from the Koedam team dressed as Obelix	Harley Pro Stock bike (1989-1991) which ran with the 'Jap' bikes but still managed an event win at Montlhéry France defeating Len Paget in the final
First Top Fuel Harley (1992-1995) at Hockenheim	Ton and the legendary Jim McClure making faces and drinking 'snoopies' (Bacardi and coke) on the ferry from England (1996)
Top Fuel Harley #2 (1996-1997) at Gainesville, Florida	Team picture at Gainesville (1996) after Ton became the first European and 3rd in the world to do 200 MPH on a Harley
Top Fuel Harley riders: Mark Conner, Jim McClure, Bill Furr, Bob Spina and Ton Pels (Gainesville 1996)	Daytona Bike week 1998: Marianne, Phyllis, Jim and Ton
Ton and Rob van Geffen doing demo runs in Barcelona, Spain (1998)
Top Fuel Harley #3 (1998) at Gainesville, Florida	Team presenting new bike (1999)
Top Fuel Harley #4 (1999-2001) at Mantorp, Sweden	Ton in Melbourne, Australia (World Championship Top Fuel Harley, 2000)
All Riders presenting before the finals in Adelaide (World Championship Top Fuel Harley, 2000)	Packed up for the flight home (World Championship Top Fuel Harley, 2000)
Friends 'down under': Bert, Ann-Britt Karling, Ton, Rob van Geffen, Jim McClure, Vincent and our busdriver Merv	Our latest 'domicile'
2001: in Hockenheim we got a visit from a really big fan of Ton from Austria (for real, no kidding)	Top Fuel Harley #5 (2002-2003) at Mantorp
Team picture at Mantorp (2002)	Burn-out in front of the huge Hockenheim crowd (2002)
Monique, Vincent, Marianne and Ton on the startline for the Top Qualifiers presentation (Santa Pod 2003)	Ton waiting for the track to be cleaned after an oil-down (Hockenheim 2003)
Top Fuel Harley #6 (2004) at Santa Pod	honouring our very dear friend Jim McClure
Ton's oldest granddaughter Nikita on his bike (Main Event 2004)	Nikita (safely stored in two rear tyres) with her father Bert
Vincent and Monique bringing Ton into start position (Hockenheim 2004)	Ton won in Hockenheim and... made his wife Marianne very happy!
Acka, Charley, Ton and Ronny at the 2004 NitrOlympics prize giving	Ton taking the win and the championship title at the European Finals 2004
2004 European Champions and very good friends: Roel Koedam and Ton Pels	Top Fuel Harley #7 (2005) at Santa Pod
Ton Pels, Lex Joon, Roel Koedam (Main Event 2005)	Ton, Marianne and Vincent ready to fire up the bike (Alastaro 2005)
Vincent just switched on the racepack (Alastaro 2005)	Ton "in flight" (Alastaro 2005)
Ton's youngest granddaughter Indy at her first race (Drachten 2005)	Ton's grandson Jaimey with his mother Annemieke in the workshop
Ton in action at Mantorp Park in Sweden (July 2005)
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