Showing posts with label land speed record holder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label land speed record holder. Show all posts
Monday, August 24, 2026

World Land Speed Record cars from 1898 to 2026 — the machines that pushed the record from 39.244 mph to 763.035 mph (thank you Larry W!)

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Monday, March 16, 2026

Segrave's Sunbeam 'Tiger' was back on Ainsdale beach

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https://www.facebook.com/Yellow.Hound.Photography/posts/pfbid0E93BUReQwLf7WvWwzKTNZS6x9FFHa2wuTzHz6McXQ6wnKQf4ks1cHPtAvYNajzHYl
Thursday, October 02, 2025

Who said baggers can’t go fast? Indian Motorcycle just set the class record at 196.576 mph, two-run average record of 194.384 mph. The previous class record was 169.828 mph set in 1972, by J. Angerer riding a Triumph.

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Indian built its Bonneville contender on a stock Challenger race bike, in collaboration with S&S Cycle. It uses the Indian's 112 ci ...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

the Bluebird returned to Pendine for the 100th anniversary

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Friday, May 09, 2025

this is superb... the fastest Kenworth in Australia - Speedweek 2025 - Rob Waters and his W-Model Kenworth

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  https://www.perthnow.com.au/lifestyle/motoring/the-cars-coming-to-perth-that-you-need-to-see-to-believe-ng-b88846542z https://thewest.com....
Friday, November 22, 2024

A new video about Ab Jenkins and the land speed racing Allis Chalmers

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Saturday, October 12, 2024

2009 Vette pulled off 263.93 miles per hour in the standing mile

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  https://www.autoevolution.com/news/2200-rwhp-c6-corvette-makes-world-record-standing-mile-pass-at-264-mph-lsx-is-not-happy-241176.html#
Friday, June 14, 2024

a 1935 Riley Kestrel, alone and unloved in Holland was chosen to be the eye magnet for marketing beer... it's working! Then they decided to land speed race it!

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Nigel McNally founder and CEO of Brookfield Drinks and The Kestrel Brewing Co (Scotland), said: “Plenty of people told us we couldn’t do it....
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Thursday, February 08, 2024

The 1904 Napier Samson L48 shattered the 100 miles per hour record 117 years ago at Ormand Beach

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https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/news/the-first-car-to-exceed-100-mph-in-america-rumbles-once-again-to-bonhams-cars-amelia-island-auction-block
Friday, August 04, 2023

Sunbeam Tiger, not just the mid 60s Alpine with a Shelby 289, the name was originally on this 1925 land speed record setter, at 152 mph

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Did you know the 60s Sunbeam Alpine Tiger was a result of input from Ken Miles, Shelby, and Jack Brabham?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun...
Monday, July 10, 2023

a real land speed racing record holder from the 1966 though 1972 seasons is coming to auction at Pebble Beach this year, 271 on the salt two way average, 290 one way.

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it was left at George Callaway's El Mirage ranch, and he kept it for decades, because Thompson (SCTA secretary) never paid him rent.  ht...
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Friday, May 12, 2023

On May 24, Paula Murphy will be celebrated at the Petersen, 1st with a film, then with a panel discussion with her.

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Paula Murphy: Undaunted, a film from the Left Behind documentary series created by Pam Miller and Cindy Sisson. The series about women in th...
Friday, March 24, 2023

today's Google doodle celebrates Kitty O'Niel

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https://www.google.com/doodles/kitty-oneils-77th-birthday O’Neil was born on this day in 1946 to a Cherokee Native American mother and Irish...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

colorized movie footage of Campbell setting a land speed record of 276 mph in his Blue Bird at Daytona Beach back in 1935, should be appreciated, it's SHARP!

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see the video at  https://twitter.com/aut0mob/status/1591092866008625152
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Friday, October 21, 2022

just finished watching the Jessi Combs documentary, and they do include the in cockpit camera footage of the run where she crashed

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 and it shows that her front wheel was gone, and when she came off the afterburner, the jet car just landed on it's nose, and had no bra...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Norman Dewis, who was a rear gunner in the RAF during WWII, piloted a modified 1952 XK120 with a small bubble windscreen to win the land speed record for a production car. It became the only Jaguar to hold a land speed record.

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known as the ‘Jabbeke’ XK, famed for its 1953 land speed record of 173.159 mph, achieved on Belgium’s Jabbeke Motorway. Norman Dewis & J...
Friday, June 03, 2022

Jim Amrhein's Team Fercockta roadster, It's still in the record book, (as of 2012) holding the D/Blown Fuel Roadster record at El Mirage, set in 1975, at a respectable 223.

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  http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php?topic=5202.1845
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Monday, April 25, 2022

This Javelin that Craig Breedlove set a new C-Production class record of 161.733 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats with, is up for sale. It’s only ever been driven 19 miles – all on the salt.

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powered by a modified 304 topped with a Vic Edlebrock-designed special prototype 2 x 4-barrel aluminum intake and special heads built by Joe...
Sunday, September 05, 2021

Kim came across photos of Soviet LSR sidecar motorcycles, with beautiful aluminum fairings. The third wheels qualified the motorcycles in their hand-beaten aluminum fairings for sidecar records.

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 Here’s Edgar Ermani’s with EKE-1, and (right) Nikolai Shumilkins supercharged Kometa-3 boxer motorcycle in 1954 (85-90 bhp, 138 mph.)  Than...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Ted Frye's record-setting bellytanker with Von Dutch pin stripes

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  Ted Frye of Los Angeles built this P-38 tank in the mid '50s. He was working for Isky Racing Cams in those days. The tank, nicknamed ...