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central said:
I was about six years old when I first watched that film. Even then I questioned the use of incendiary explosive and petrol when a high density shaped charged would have been better. I spent the rest of the Easter holiday making and blowing up pallet boxes to prove my point. What a great childhood. 
What Hotrod magazine can do...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktRq6D4Eg44
...the mile drag guys do better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktRq6D4Eg44
...the mile drag guys do better.
JB! said:
Tet said:
Are you offering to fund the costs of shipping RV3 to the US and racing it there, JB!?
Alas I cannot afford such a venture, however would happily donate to a fund!This would settle once and for all if RV3 really is street-able and can run the consistant times! 1000mi is a brutal test!
Maybe stopping at Bruntingthorpe, Santa Pod, Shakespeare and York on the way to blow the motorway cobwebs out.
Tet said:
JB! said:
This would settle once and for all if RV3 really is street-able and can run the consistant times! 1000mi is a brutal test!
What needs settling? Do the numerous videos of RV3 on the road not convince you that it's streetable? 1000 miles is indeed a brutal test. But it's not a necessary one to be considered streetable. FWIW, I have no idea if RV3 would be able to do the 1000 miles necessary for Drag Week. But ultimately it's irrelevant. It was built to be the worlds quickest streetable car, and it's done that. There's not much more that needs to be said.My bike was just as good as the others but just because I hadn't ridden it across a desert didn't make it any less of a bike or me less of a rider.
Red Victor III is the worlds quickest street legal car, just because it she hasn't been driven across America does not and will not change that fact.
Wow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yyqxn0shKQ
It's like a stretched GT40-esque chassis with a truck body dropped on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yyqxn0shKQ
It's like a stretched GT40-esque chassis with a truck body dropped on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Npa-9XNL4
Another seven second Camaro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykZH8ouKRMI
A broken Monte Carlo.
Maybe a Lancia Monte Carlo would have been better.
Another seven second Camaro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykZH8ouKRMI
A broken Monte Carlo.
Maybe a Lancia Monte Carlo would have been better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VORuB6yXKiM
Another Nova.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lriKOfMuWXo
A close of of the Wagon losing it's wheelie bar.
Another Nova.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lriKOfMuWXo
A close of of the Wagon losing it's wheelie bar.
As per the Hot Rod Magazine (we don't like Andy Frost) "Unlimited Class" rules. You can drive to the event, do whatever you like to the car in the parking lot, do a pro-mod run, make the vehicle road legal again and drive to the next track.
My ten Cents worth if a car drives from the road to the tree, does a quarter and drives back on to the road then it's a street legal quarter mile. Driving the car, stripping it back to pro-mad spec, doing a quarter and putting all the stuff back is a pro-mod quarter in a car that is then made road legal again.
I think Larry's truck is great for two reasons. It's a truck so Red Victor III is still the worlds fastest car and Dave Frieburger said "Let's see what you can do" and he did.
My ten Cents worth if a car drives from the road to the tree, does a quarter and drives back on to the road then it's a street legal quarter mile. Driving the car, stripping it back to pro-mad spec, doing a quarter and putting all the stuff back is a pro-mod quarter in a car that is then made road legal again.
I think Larry's truck is great for two reasons. It's a truck so Red Victor III is still the worlds fastest car and Dave Frieburger said "Let's see what you can do" and he did.
Edited by Liquid Knight on Tuesday 16th September 13:44
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