That's awesome!!

God bless good neighbors like him Bob!!

oh man, that's 75 at this reply. still out there?

@@moaningpheromones yes still here and nearly 77 and still a car nut.

That's because they have electric turbochargers too.

These British documentaries are written for 5th graders...

Nice, I just bailed after ten minutes because of, didn't sign on for a Ministry concert!

Ugh, but yeah, period correct...

I thought it was a Fiero with a long front clip.

Boy you couldn’t be more wrong. Over the last several years (except 2018) the course has been a kidney splitting wreck if it didn’t get rained out altogether. I worked as a roving patrol on course 1 (the ‘long course’ - 9 miles - 5 under power + 4 shutdown) and have had some of the toughest, fastest dudes on earth getting their asses kicked in unsuspended vehicles. Tons of spins and broken driveline parts from washboarding at speed too. But the suspended cars, especially those with downforce, could do far better speeds and the drivers weren’t getting their bells rung. Everyone thinks it’s easy to go straight, fast. It ain’t. I’ve been going myself on and off since 1970 and grew up going. My dad got in the 200 MPH Club in 1969 and was the fastest open-wheeled driver on earth until 1975 when he crashed and lost his paw

There is none you get a red hat if you hit 200mph

@@jcerullo5015 So, you’re saying that GM didn’t pay So-Cal to build the vehicles and race the Scion? 🤔 Ooohhhkaay. 😏

@@andylewis7360 No that money was paid to the shop that built the car. Building a race car and racing it are differrent things Bonneville has no prize money no point system nothing like that not even a trophy. GM got no money for breaking any records no did anyone else. You just get a red ball cap if you pass 200mph thats it. So no there is no money to be made racing Bonneville you do it for bragging rights and a dream.

@@jcerullo5015 You obviously didn’t see who I was quoting.

That's what I thought as well.

Yes and then the average speed of the 2 runs is calculated and that is your official effort.

@@UberLummoxyes that’s how they do the official speed records, 2 passes within the hour and there’s an average of the 2 runs

Pretty sure they crashed that on course 2 in 2013 I believe - I might be off a year but I worked as a Roving Patrol on course one thru 2018. I remember seeing the car in the pits. Somebody on Facebook will know if you’re really interested

Yeah Daytona was the place to go to set speed records before 1949

Ahhhhh Noah and the flood is just a fairy tale along with the rest of the bibble

@@randomoldbloke My my, aren't you the childish one! I suggest you go away and try grow up some.

FastIsLife I

The hotrod records are not governed by the FIA - who does have that rule. there are people who are trying to have the time between runs lengthened due mostly to the fact that a hundred years ago, when the rule was first written, the cars involved simply turned around and drove in the opposite direction. With an 800 MPH car though, the safety checklist after a run is massive and without maybe 50 people to do it in addition to turn the car around, during which time, checking cannot safely be done, that one hour time frame is a major challenge to say the least. In 1997, Craig Breedlove did not make it in the hour. The SCTA and other hotrod sanctioning organizations had a summit over this issue in the early 1990s. The crux of the matter was that, while the records set within the hotrod organizations did require two runs, the magnitude of being able to do so and run an event with 400 and now more competitors simply made the two impossible to do together. The predominant amount of competitors, myself included, are low bucks back yard guys. The maintenance and the safety check lists alone take a few hours between each run. In the interests of safety, with the appalling conditions of the Bonneville Salt Flats at present also dictated that the direction and placement of the courses no longer allowed for safe running in the opposite direction. The requirement to have two opposite direction runs was waived a few years ago due to this.

That only was safe when he course was long enough to have a safe shut down distance on both ends of the course.

Probably a modified production car I think. As opposed to a belly tanker or streamliner. I'm sure you could google it.

There are so many classes and fuel types and body types and induction types. The classes are almost endless and even the difference between some or the “cars” and “motorcycles” is pretty exhausting!

He's the greatest.

@@KingRoseArchives Anybody else think Sean Connery was doing the voice over?

Exactly! So full of himself...

Jimmy Shine...LOL!

@@onazram1 Who?

John Cobb beat 400 (in one direction, as did Thompson) in 1947. But actual 400mph records have been set since: Donald Campbell, Don Vesco, the Summers Brothers, Al Teague, George Poteet, Tom Burkland, Charlie Nearburg and Danny Thompson (the son of Mickey) have all broken 400 wheel-driven.

We never did an episode on Mazda and that would have been in the line up but we couldn't raise any more money to do more episodes. Did a bit on the Miata/MX 5 in our sports cars episode.

Racing Beat!

Not is this GM commercial

Model "T" went out of production by the end of 1927. You are thinking model A I am guessing.

The push truck was actually neither; it was a GMC Canyon (ancestor of today’s Chevy Colorado!), turbo-ed up to add an extra 130 hp, among a few other customized niceties. But it's not surprising that the commentator assumed it was a Syclone. GMC produced just under 3,000 of them in 1991, and the it was the first truck to break 200 mph at Bonneville in 1991. The Syclone was also just enough of an upstart to inspire Car and Driver to send it up against - and best - a Ferrari 348t. To this day, it is considered a cardinal sin to bring up the incident in Maranello.

It was a dually

Alana Wolf They never sold any dually Canyons. Was this a custom one off build? This “documentary” seems like a GM commercial....

and first gen hemis!

2jz in that body = more like 250 mph.

Yeah, it was a GM commercial...Look how well it worked for Saturn.......

my thoughts exactly!

You mostly get a bucket of broken parts, if you don't know what you're doing, as hundreds of flatheads have proven.

Genius is what Burt Munroe did with a 47 year old Indian V twin with only 953 cc in the under 1000 cc class. 184 miles per hour. He used an engine from 1920 and set the record in 1967. He cast his own aluminum pistons in his garage and welded and ground his own cams until he got it all right! In 1920 that engine pushed the motorcycle to a top speed of 55 miles per hour... Now that, is genius!!

A couple million dollars will do that.

It won't be nearly as much fun blowing a couple million bucks on a Veyron as it would be to truly "Build it yourself." Although it likely would not be a Veyron.

agree. good film ruined by terrible canned rock muzak

Oh well. Can't please everyone. I'll bring it up with the composer.

Really ? Please explain fossils and bones millions of years old...oops!

Everyone's a critic.

You’re super annoying

I have been a Bonneville racer for going on 48 years now...I have also drag raced and been involved in building cars and motorcycles for both of those motorsports as well as others. In my years of racing, I have seen A LOT of people like you - who seem to have ALL of the answers (only - you just do not seem to know what questions to put them beside) and you make comments just like you did. That car that never did go faster than the Auto Union special never had a chance to as it got destroyed in a wreck before larger, more powerful engines got installed in it - and believe me when I say, the SoCal team was eyeing faster engines.... Had that car not been wrecked, a 300 inch hemi with a blower on it would have put that car into the books withs seeds a long way into the 200s or even the low 300s. They went fast with other cars and fast engines in later years. There are names that I would say that most, if not all of my Bonneville land speed friends would say I would be justified in calling you, but I will refrain. Suffice it to say that I would like you to tell us all what you really do know about building land speed cars and running them at high speeds that qualifies you to be so wise and knowledgeable so as to make such a dismissive statement of great achievements that took place nearly 70 years ago by people who are widely regarded assome of the godfathers of modern hotrodding. I would really like to hear a detailed answer and see some serious posts of your land speed achievements so that you can prove me wrong! Will we see you at Bonneville this year with a potential record breaking vehicle? So, how, I doubt it - for both this year and every other year in the futre as well. David P Green Life Member - Bonneville 200 MPH Club 213.246 MPH Aug 20, 1991

We should not forget that the Auto Union was driven on a paved road one of the first Autobahns (Interstates) in Germany and that makes a big difference in drag, not to mention that Bernd Rosemeier ,the driver was killed attempting the last record run due to side winds.Greetings to all Bonneville racers from Germany.