The Jalopy Journal
If you learn to SHUT THE FUCK UP long enough to listen to people who think with their brains instead of their egos you might learn something.
The car wasn't spinning the wheels from wind resistance because it wasn't anywhere close to terminal velocity. It's an under 5,000 lb gross...
There were prop rods before there was an SCTA,
450 mph was the exit speed from the mile. Tom's average through the mile was 438 mph.
When one looks at the attached photos of skatecars from 1977 and 1978 it is easy to envision very similar cars at Bonneville but stretched to...
The record for a prop-driven vehicle on wheels was set in 1931 with the Rail Zeppelin, a pusher propeller self-propelled railcar the size of a bus...
At least up through 1974, there was no such thing as a supercharged, normally aspirated, fuel, or gas streamliner or lakester. All streamliner and...
The sport is continually advancing. Just this year we had requests to add a B engine class to Production Supercharged and a J engine class to...
Airboats don't have wheels. They don't have a steering wheel. They don't have brakes. They're steered through a set of rudders mounted in the...
Bob Summers set the 409.9 mph record with Goldenrod after a total of only eight timed runs. The next day after setting record, he went out with...
Without ever having built a racecar before, I built on a shoestring budget a one of a kind experimental car that included features such as...
The current human powered land speed record is 81 mph. Thats almost as fast as the slowest car record set at Speedweek 2008. Thats faster than...
I am one of the few people EVER to have seen in person attempts on both the World Land Speed Record AND the World Water Speed Record. Vehicles...
Some people like to say the SCTA is just “club racing.” However, for example in the list of ALL 107 car records extant as of 1973,...
In the 1974 SCTA rulebook, the only vintage classes listed were X and XX. XX was not allowed in streamliner. X was 0 to 325 cubic inch flathead OR...
There was no separate class in 1940 for flatheads. Rufi wanted to be the fastest and so used the better technology.
There were two car records set at Speedweek 2008 that were slower than the 94 mph 750 cc class production car record set in 1931 at Daytona by Sir...
At least up through 1974, there was no such thing as a vintage four cylinder class in SCTA racing. There was simply X and XX classes. The X class...
I have known about Rufi's record for over thirty years. I bought the Petersen's The Complete Chevrolet Book 3rd Edition at a newsstand in 1973,...
ALL of the vintage four cylinder records in streamliner and lakester set at Speedweek 2008 weren't even as fast as the 143.54 mph SCTA record set...
None. Car companies are in business to keep car companies in business, not oil companies.
http://www.americanjetcars.com/arfons/art/art38.htm Art Arfons afterburner-equipped J-47 Cyclops jet dragster...
Thanks. Just throwing the idea out there because rodders are always looking for some way to make their car different.
Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems. Bringing rodding into the 21st century. Recovering energy during deceleration that would otherwise be lost....
I think depending on the rear wheel fairings instead of a significant conventional vertical stabilizer is going to bite the Fossett team.
First area ruled land speed car was Breedlove's second jet, Spirit of America - Sonic 1, in 1965. Second area ruled land speed car was The Blue...
Rounding off, the records set by Gabelich in The Blue Flame were 622 mph for the mile and 630 mph for the kilo.
Breedlove's second jet car used the coke bottle approach. Cars don't have wings (exactly) but they do have wheels.
Breedlove's first jet car was eligible for FIM records, not FIA. Breedlove's first three records were FIM, his next two set with the second jet...
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