Weird Bonneville machinery??

Reading the post from AdamShumard about going to Bonneville with an OT car, several people brought up other strange cars that run there. A rubber band car?! (What... did that get 100 feet and quit?) A flathead powered 1967 Camaro? (Regressive engineering?) I didn't want to interfere with his post, so I'm starting a new one with this topic. Reading about those machines in that post made me wonder just what the hell is running on the salt, and I want to see pictures and their results!! And I promise not to laugh... for about 15 seconds. And no, I've never been... and yes... some day I want to go.

Thanks!

 

If you are in California, you are closer than most. Just get in the car and go. There was a big green truck with a Detroit in it, the guy siad the engine came out of a tug boat. It went 285, there is a nine minute movie on youtube about it, great movie. Look up The Pheonix.
I have seen a flathead Ford engine in a Hudson, and a Hudson six in a lakeseter that goes like stink. I have seen a 12 cylinder Jag engine with a long stroke in Camero. There is a Jag sedan that holds many records powered by a straight eight Buick. When a Japanese factory team saw a Buick 320 straight eight the first time they thought it was from a locomotive. I have seen a 1200 Harley on a street luge. I sat at a table one day eating a burger across from a pretty young lady in a pink bikini and white leathers, she had just set a world record for 100 cc bike. I have seen an unnamed hero to many dumptser diveing for head gaskets because someone forgot to pack spares. He found some and set a record over 300. Always get there a day early and hang out at tech inspection. Watch, listen, visit, learn.

 

There's a guy that ran there on a bicycle, not sure if it was the world of speed, though. There's a law tractor, too, which was pretty intense. I heard it fire but didn't see it run. I think there's a YouTube vid on it... maybe the bicycle too?
I'm sure there are people that've been around the salt a lot longer that could share more with you.

 

I'm having trouble finding the video by just youtubing "the pheonix" or "pheonix bonneville" or similar. any chance you could help me out? That truck was at a car show I saw a few years ago I believe, and was incredible. I'd love to see it in action.

 

I am looking for a pic.. but there's even a guy that has a MOTOR HOME!! built for bonneville.. the one I was thinking of is a newer atempt but heres one from 1970.. 97mph thats the world record.. well at least for 1970 lol

 

That's the kind of **** I'm talking about!! Some day I 'WILL' go to Bonneville, but for now I want to see pictures, stats, and stories! Surely someone has a picture of that flathead Camaro and the rubber band powered thingy?!

 

Johnunit:
Try searching for PHOENIX. You know how pissy these computers are.

 

ya know.. one of these days.. I will finish my jet-kart.. I want to run it there.. but there is no cl*** that I know of.

 

dug up the video of the phoenix. pretty cool.

 

Sam W. has set the human powered bike record held at Battle Mountain, ~ 82 mph
The video shows them running, at about 2/3 of the way thru the clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V2FgwN_re4

 

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Let's not forget the four guys from France who broke their motorcycle down, packed it their luggage, came to Bonneville, ***embled it on the Salt and got a world record!
That frog could leap!

 

At B'ville 152 MPH behind a '55 Chevy with a plywood box on the back to block the wind
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1119704/index.htm

 

I and a lot of others watched that truck run in 1998 and it does haul the freight.
Link to the truck's site http://www.ugofadini.com/phoenixstory.html
The off the wall combinations of engines and bodys often is because the body used has a better chance of setting a record with the engine of choice. Hence the Flathead in the Camaro body. Or that particular body is a card carrying tech p***ing Bonneville car and it is simpler to stick the flathead in it than build a new car to run the engine in.
In several cases the engine belongs to one guy in one part of the country and the body belongs to someone else several thousand miles away and they meet and combine the two for speedweek.

 

Too bad the pictures are missing, the car and bike were cool pieces of machinery

 

Here's pics of '55. He did 140 with it. 152 was behind Vesco streamliner
http://books.google.com/books?id=79...e&q=allan abbott "speed record" teeth&f=false
And check out the build it yourself metal cutting bandsaw article below it. I miss magazines that expected you to build things.

 

wow. thats cool. i only got my bmx bike up to 31mph.

 

The guys that packed the cycle in their luggage were at Bonnevile in August 2010 again. They were with a company that had a compressed air powered streamliner that did 54??mph in the Omega cl***. We talked to the compressed air guys and they were confident of a record no matter how slow they went. LOL

Nick

 

I forgot about using Vescos liner!

 

One of my favorites from many years ago. Makes my sidecar seem very comfortable.

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The Rubber Band car

 

Hey,, try landracing.com they have all the Bville info and stuff ya need! Crow. LFFL

 

Weird or strange Bonneville machinery? I don't belive there is any such thing, anything and everything is "normal". LSR has more innovation than any other form of motorsport, fun per dollar ratio is tops as well in my book.

Ed

 

Isn't that the beauty of LSR compe***ion? Some guy figures out how to go 200mph using a reverse rotating washing machine motor running on pb&J. I think all the LSR guys are genius. Nothing weird about it.

 

And you should see the looks on the faces of racers picking up slips at the timing stand!! How much they have met personal challenges or to have impound to back up a record!!
I saw it in 1995 and will be back.

 

To me EVERYTHING that runs at Bonneville is weird in one way or another. Every car I look at has someting out of the ordinary. That's why I love the place!

 

I don't have pics here on my work computer, but I'll post later from home, a Nissan 240SX with Flathead Ford power.

 

I've posted this before, but her's another pic of that Blown, injected, Pontiac slant 4 in a flat fender Jeep


and a Buick Straight 8. Dig them manifolds...


how about an old GMC inline 6 in an '80s Camaro?


Electric Chopper

 

Anyone know what that rubber band rig ran? I love it, man I build a LOT of rubber band airplane's when I was a kid, what an awesome evolution!!

Doc.

 

I am not sure if they actually ran it. I know it was cool as hell though