#71 K&K Daytona Bonneville

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/bobby-isaacs-legendary-71-dodge-daytona-returns-bonneville/

AMC marketing stunt in 1968 was pretty cool, but, then the cars were never used again. This one only has 19 miles on it, some of those were setting the record of 161 miles an hour on Bonneville

In 1968 American Motors sponsored a contest in which 3 1968 Javelins would run at Bonneville to compete for the C Production class record. Dubbed the Bonneville Speed Spectacular, it featured three stock Javelins specially prepared by Craig Breedlove, Edelbrock Engineering and head-porting expert Joe Mondello. Nine entrants, forming three three-man teams, were chosen who met the contest’s selection criteria, which included a small quiz to determine their automotive aptitude.

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/bonneville-baja-former-car-craft-publisher-sal-fish-seen/
https://www.mecum.com/lots/SC0512-126296/1968-amc-javelin/

Followup to the most cars ever sold in a year... bad news all the way around, total washout

So, to remind you what I'm referring to...

in the early 70s Joe Girard sold a lot of cars, became famous for that, and hit the motivation talk show circuit after 1977
What else is a used car salesman going to do when he gets older anyway? He's sure as hell not going to keep showing up to a car lot to sell more cars.

in 2017, a GM dealership claimed that their guy, Ali Reda, sold more than Girard.

Well, maybe. Just how many he sold, vs, how many he was credited with based on the number of cars sold that he talked the customers through from start to finish, is something else. Reda was a salesman team leader, and gets credit for all the sales he assists his salesmen with.

Anyway, here's the hammer that knocks the block out from under it all...

Guinness refuses to take the call. They claim nothing can be verified, and no matter than it can, they aren't going to take part in it anymore, and have "retired" the category now that there is someone who challenges the old record holder.

So, they say it's now a "Historic Category" and will not update it.

To add insult to this injury, Girard who at 89 has nothing else, sues Reda.... get this, for taking away his esteemed position as the record salesman, and his bookings. Yeah, not that being 89 was getting in the way of being paid to show up for speeches, for selling cars over 40 years ago and none since, but that he can now put someone in the defendants chair in court and sue him for loss of income.

Ain't that a kick in the teeth? No matter if Reda accomplished the sales numbers, Guinness won't get involved in doing THEIR JOB and calling the issue for this guy or that guy based on facts, so, really, what the hell are they good for if they aren't going to step up and be the referee on a record?

http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/02/27/worlds-best-car-salesman-broke-44-year-old-record-and-someones-not-too-pleased.html
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2018/08/23/best-car-salesman-joe-girard-goes-court-guinness-pulls-out/1058870002/
https://www.autoblog.com/2018/08/28/guinness-freezes-salesman-record-joe-girard-ali-reda/

a hybrid race Porsche just beat the lap record at the ring, setting the new record to 5:19:54. That's nearly 52 seconds faster than the previous record, top speed 230 mph, average speed 145 mph

well worth the 5 minutes to watch... the only way to get faster than this on the course might be complete focused effort to dominate the track by computers.... that analyze all factors and then utilize a car without a human in it, and using mathematically achieved best possible speeds, shortest distances through corners, least amount of braking, along with more aerodynamics in speed and braking ( computer controlled air dams used to increase airflow anytime the car isn't slowing, but fully closed air dams when slowing, like that new Ferrari system) then maybe something will be faster than this five-time overall winner of the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring.

https://www.919tribute.com/stories/919-tribute-tour-timo-bernhard-breaks-nordschleife-record

the founder and CEO of Weather Tech is overcharging the customers. How else does he get so rich he can spend 70 million dollars on this 1963 Ferrari that placed 4th at Le Mans?

setting the record for the most ever spent on a car.

His collection also includes a 1960 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta SWB, which just won best in class at the 2018 Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este, as well as a stable of other "prancing horses" including a 250 GT Lusso, 275 GTB, 365 GTB/4 "Daytona," F40, and F50.

This was a private sale, not an auction. The seller set the price, and I'd guess every other 1963 250 GTO Ferrari owner has just increased how much they are selling theirs for, by 10 million.

What makes this specific car worth 20 million more than any other?

It's never been wrecked for one thing. It's been raced a lot, but never crashed.

In its first two years it was raced by the famous Belgian teams Ecurie Francorchamps and Equipe National Belge – hence the yellow stripes on its silver bodywork.

This 250 GTO also finished fourth in the 1963 Le Mans 24-hours, driven by Pierre Dumay and Léon Dernier, and won the prestigious but tough ten-day Tour de France road race in the hands of Lucien Bianchi and Georges Berger in 1964. In 1964–’65 alone it competed in 14 events, including the Angolan Grand Prix in Africa.

It went on to be raced in Spain from 1966 to ’69 by owner/driver Eugenio Baturone.

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ferrari-250-gto-1963-record-sale/index.html
https://www.superyachtfan.com/yacht-w.html

Ford and Chevy ought to man up, just race each other, and be done with the pissing contest

A few years ago the Viper set a lap time record at VIR (Virginia Intl Raceway) with a 2:40:02. Fine, that's nice, they took a factory race car and dropped the record time. Expectedly, and this isn't a newsworthy item.

But last week, the new Ford GT was supposedly not out to set a record lap time, but clocked a 2:38:62 while "Ford nonchalantly claimed this was part of a validation lap to iron out a few developmental kinks, not a planned record-breaking run" paraphrased

So, yesterday, those goofy dorks at Chevy decided to have a measuring contest so long as no one was on the track ready to put up a fight for bragging rights, and shaved 00:01:37 off the Ford GT time, with a front engine pushrod dinosaur that costs 1/4 the expense of the Ford supercar.

Keep in mind, it's only that cheap because unlike Chevy, Ford hasn't been building GT40s since the 60s when they kicked ass at Le Mans. They stopped then, and to get into production with a Le Mans winner right out of the gate was a ridiculously expensive venture.

Supposedly, with a fully optioned factory bare bones Corvette that wasn't stripped for racing. Uh huh. Got video proof of the car the camera was on? No? Well, let me know when you're ready to be serious about who gets to claim fastest factory stock dealership available car around VIR.

Unlike the photo of the Demon lifting the front end off the ground with a NHRA validated 9:65 in the quarter mile that made Chevy and Ford fans lose their grip, so far all we have is Chevy's word it was a production Vette like any you can buy from a dealership.

Sure, I believe that. It's that Vette that you can find on the beachfront race track for sale in New Mexico, or the one that is for sale in New York City that comes with a bridge they'll throw into the deal for free.

http://www.automobilemag.com/news/2019-chevrolet-corvette-zr1-sets-lap-record-virginia-international-raceway/

In 1968, Chrysler shipped two brand new 1969 Charger 500s to Hot Rod magazine for drag strip tests where the B-5 hemi 4 speed knocked off a quarter mile in 13.48 seconds. Then it was stolen. It eventually was the car that cracked 200mph closed course

Later, it was found missing its Hemi, its interior and driveline. Chrysler could not repair and sell the B-5 car. They decided to turn it into an engineering test car. The shell was shipped as essentially a body in white to Nichels Engineering in Griffith, Indiana.

Nichels rebuilt the car to NASCAR standards, including raking the body nose-down. They installed the bars inside the engine compartment from the firewall to the radiator support to stiffen the front end. They put in a roll cage, a race Hemi and matching drivetrain, and numbered it DC 93.

Paul Goldsmith drove it at the 1969 Daytona 500, and along with Bobby Isaac and Charlie Glotzbach completed a 1-2-3 sweep in Charger 500s.

Chrysler decided to go to the next level and install the ultimate aero package – the nose cone and the wing, making it a Charger Daytona.

The test results convinced Chrysler higher ups to make the winged cars and sell them to the public so they could be raced in NASCAR. While Chrysler worked out the logistics of building the 500 cars necessary for the public, Chrysler racing made the wings and nose cones available to teams racing the Charger 500s. None of the teams would race actual Charger Daytonas; they would merely add the modifications to the 500s they were already running. The newly configured cars would make their first track appearance at Talladega in September 1969.

Technically, a Chrysler-owned car could not race in NASCAR. As he had at Daytona, Nichels entered the car at Talladega as if he owned it. The car was outfitted to look like a Nichels-owned racer and the number “88” was applied to it.



The first day of practice at the track led to the headline: “200 MPH Certain At Talladega Track.” P Isaac was driving the K and K Daytona and Glotzbach predicted he would be even faster on race day. He was slated to sit on the pole – and then the Professional Drivers Association walked out.

On March 24, 1970, DC-93 ran its “transmission test” where here it broke 200 MPH with Buddy Baker at the wheel. The speed was a NASCAR record and world record for a closed course. After the Talladega record runs, the car was sent to Chelsea where Chrysler continued using it for tests.

https://speedwaysightings.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/how-a-stolen-car-became-nascars-fastest-and-ended-up-in-a-field-decades-later/

Yesterday Marc Márquez did 3 amazing things, he won his 6th world championship in 8 years, and broke the "youngest" records of Valentino Rossi and Mike Hailwood.

24 yr odl Márquez is now the youngest rider to win 4 premier-class titles, taking the record from Hailwood, who was 25 when he won his fourth premier-class title in 1965.

He is also the youngest rider to win six world titles, taking the record from Rossi, who was 25 when he won his sixth title, the 2004 MotoGP crown.

Even more incredible, Márquez is the first rider in 69 years of GP racing to win at least five GPs every season over eight years and three different classes.

and check out this remarkably astonishing save





http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/opinion/motogp/m-rquez-ledge-beyond-edge

thanks Stephen! 

Lizzy Musi Shatters 1/8th mile record... 3.23 at 205mph

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https://www.holley.com/blog/post/lizzy_musi_shatters_1_8th_mile_nitrous_record_with_msd_power_grid_/

Mephistopheles, the last car to set the world land speed record on public roads

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10211894062455888&set=a.4705775571281.184479.1501025670&type=3

Bruce Gordon, broke the round the world bike record by 10 days, and on a recumbent

He hit a jaywalking kangaroo.... and seems to have been able to get away from it without a pummeling, as I imagine a roo would be hopping mad at a bicyclist for the assault. The collision did break one of his fingers though.

The previous record was 163 days, he broke that by 10 days

he rode a Bacchetta Corsa on average 117 miles a day, Bruce did the ride solo and unsupported.

Gordon rode through New Zealand, Australia, Greece, Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, England, the United States and Canada.

If Guinness World Records accepts his submission, Bruce points out that he'll establish a number of firsts among the small group of globe-girdling record holders: He'll be the first to break the record on a recumbent; the first to break the record going in a East-to-West direction (Time zone changes assist on the number of hours of daylight to bike); and, at 48 years old when he started, he'll be the oldest cyclist to break the record.

http://www.bentrideronline.com/?p=5311
http://globebent.blogspot.com/

The full gallery of article on Danny Thompson hitting the 400 mph record at Bonneville is now up on Hot Rod.com

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/danny-thompson-finishes/

referring to Mickey Thompson and Danny Ongais

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/  of course. Lots of good stuff there

Ted Horn, surpassed many winners at Indy, yet never won

Ted Horn's record will never will be matched.

After starting as a rookie in 1935, and placing 16th, Horn never finished worse than fourth. In his next nine races from 1936-48, Horn was runner-up once, finished third four times and fourth four other times.

Including his 1935 rookie race, when a steering problem knocked him out after 145 laps, Horn finished 4,860 of a possible 5,000 miles, a 97.2 percent career average for his 10 races at Indy.

By comparison, the completion rates for current drivers who have driven at least 10 times at Indy are 84.8 percent for Al Unser Jr., 81.7 percent for Michael Andretti and Buddy Lazier, 74 percent for Scott Sharp and 70.2 percent for Eddie Cheever.

http://www.espn.com/espn/wire?section=auto&id=2456837

who was Oscar Egg? The most winningest cyclist of his day

1890-1961

He captured the world hour record three times before the First World War. He also won major road races and stages of the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia.

Egg's 1914 mark of 44.247 km then stood until 1933, and only two other men have ever set the world hour record 3 times. None have done that more.

A common race was a 6 day race, and he won 8 of them in the 9 years between 1915 and 1924.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Egg
http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=572
http://www.lesrendezvousdelareine.com/2016/09/bien-plus-que-dans-certaines-soi-disant-bourse-d-echanges-il-existe-dans-certaines-brocantes-non-specialisees-bien-des-objets-inte.h

Break The Record, a documentary covering the Blue Flame in 1970, the last time the outright land speed record would be set at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

http://silodrome.com/documentary-break-record/

This spring Masato Kawabata set the drifting speed record — 189.5 miles per hour — in a stunt in the UAE at the airport

Kawabata, a 38-year-old from Osaka, set the record in a specially prepped 2016 Nissan GT-R. In three attempts down the 1.86-mile airstrip, he managed to drift the car from 34 to 55 degrees of yaw. Kawabata's speed bested that of prior record holder Jakub Przygoński, a Polish driver who hit 135.4 miles per hour while going sideways in 2013.

Tanner Foust, rally racer and Top Gear USA host, says he was planning his own attempt at the record, but Kawabata's feat — 55 miles an hour faster than the previous record — will be hard to beat. "What you have to understand is that to drift consistently at 180 miles per hour," Foust says, "your wheel speed actually has to be something like 200 miles per hour."  The sideways movement also creates extra lift, which could flip the car in an instant.



Kawabata's GT-R was tweaked by Nismo, and GReddy. It's 4 liter engine was tuned to give it a healthy 1,380 horsepower. (The standard GT-R at Nissan dealers has a paltry 565.)

http://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/articles/drifting-at-1895-miles-per-hour-w436965

Guiness world record for longest ride in any country, goes to Danell Lynn. 48 thousand miles. That is about 141 miles a day

almost a year on the road....
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEAHTC0pTFO/

1963 B-Lakester 255.501 MPH and 1964 A-Lakester at 263.350 MPH record setter, and then it went into storage forever, then Ebay in 2012, for $210,000

http://planetmotherfuckers.blogspot.com/2012/02/belly-tank-for-sale.html

just a handful of vehicles that have climbed into the Million-Mile Club, Honda and Toyota have given those owners a new vehicle

Peter Gilbert, a Wisconsin salesman who has put way more than a million miles on his meticulously maintained 1989 Saab SPG. 

Guy Newmark’s 1964 Porsche 356 made it to a million miles after its owner decided decades ago that he was only going to drive one car for the rest of his life.
This gorgeous Porsche made such a stir in the automotive world that Petrolicious did a full-blown feature on the car and its owner back in 2013.




Irv Gordon’s 1966 Volvo P1800s is the vehicle most people have probably heard of. This car and its owner were awarded a Guinness World Record for “highest vehicle mileage” in May 2014. He has only used Castrol Oil. https://www.facebook.com/irvgordon3millionmiles
http://www.kbb.com/car-news/all-the-latest/irv-gordon-tops-3_million-mile-mark-in-his-volvo-p1800/2000009711/

Mobil 1 bought a brand-new BMW 325i in 1990 to run on a dynamometer for a million miles just to see how synthetic oil would work at 85 miles per hour for four years, a million miles was finally reached, and the car’s engine was pulled out, disassembled, and inspected for wear. Results showed that the engine had the same tolerances as a new engine

Chet Belisle’s 1983 Lincoln Towncar Here sits a land yacht that has seen both American coasts and everything in between. Years ago, when CNN did a feature on Topeka, Kansas, native Chet Berlisle, we were thoroughly amused by this grandpa (yeah, go figure) who has driven across the United States multiple times just because he felt like “going for a drive.”

Hugh Pennington’s 2006 Chevrolet Silverado 3500HD attached to a 39-foot camper trailer for some cross-country camping.

Joe LoCicero’s 1990 Honda Accord has not rusted out like most other Accords from that era, the upholstery and steering wheel ripped over time. As Joe rolled his odometer back around to all zeros, Honda was there to mark the occasion with a parade and a brand new Accord for the diehard Honda head

Victor Sheppard put a million miles on his 2007 Toyota Tundra, and Toyota traded him a new 2016 Tundra, so they can take apart the million miler and see what they can learn from it and improve the trucks they are building http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-million-mile-2007-tundra-toyota-has.html

http://www.cheatsheet.com/automobiles/going-the-distance-7-cars-that-have-gone-1m-miles.html/?a=viewall#ixzz3o2xITASB