Saturday, November 30, 2024
Discount Tire has a gimmic that's new to me... checking the age of the spare, and recommending that the customer buy a new one (due to OLD tires not being safe-ish)
hell, spare tires don't need to be 5 star safety rated, they just need to get you to the nearest tire shop.
But there's another interesting thing they do that is not new, it's a real old way to drive up business - free air and tire inspection.
Because if someone needs air in their tires, they probably have a leak, and even if they don't, getting people to stop by so their tire tread can be checked for excessive wear? Well that's just going to get tires flying off the warehouse shelves!
Anyway, those are pretty good ways to increase profits
Friday, November 29, 2024
the Phoenix’s last ever run in 2003 at Bonneville, set the current record for the Unlimited Diesel Truck class at 272.685 mph! (With a junkyard find ’47 International K-7 semi !)
Skip the first 8 minutes
Or see this WAY too short video that cuts out the semi truck used as a pusher that was spinning tires like made to make speed
The Phoenix made its debut pass at Bonneville in 1989, running 158 mph. Eventually, the truck went 188 mph, then 212 mph, then broke 250 mph -- and the streamliner record.
Carl Heap proved just how far a determined team can come with some effort (and a lot of streamlining).
The truck now resides in Hastings, Minnesota, at the Stagecoach Diesel Motorsports Museum.