British Challenge
Britain is preparing to break the land speed record with this formidable and slightly International Rescuesque machine.So?
It's a steam car.
Somewhere James Watt is smiling.
Labels: Britain, Motor Car, Technology
posted by David at
12:58 AM
3 Comments:
I had not been keeping up with this project, I first read about it a couple of years ago. It's exciting to see a steamer going for the record and of course it's got a lot going for it, it runs on steam, it's British Racing Green, and it's got fins.
Now that's a win even if it doesn't achieve the top speed, which I am sure it will!
I must agree, neil russell, it is indeed pretty farging cool. What would be cooler is if it were powered by an actual steam engine rather than a turbine. But, yeh.
An early land speed record WAS a Stanley Steamer (not the rug people) with an aerodynamic shell.
It looked like an upside-down canoe on wheels.
It ran on Daytona beach.
127mph in 1906.
The record held for four years.
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