As those watching took in the excitement of hearing and seeing a Top Fuel dragster in person, Dr. Doug Brittsan, of Brittsan CPT, measured the movement of the earth with a mobile seismograph.
Once the dragster had been shut off, Dr. Brittsan got to work evaluating the data. End results? The movement of the earth created by the Snap-on Tools Top Fuel dragster was equivalent to an astounding 3.9 on the Richter scale.
http://www.competitionplus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3448&Itemid=6
Earthquake when ever and where ever you need one, just light up a top fueler on Nitro, they'll nail 3.9 on the richter scale
Sabtu, 06 Maret 2010
I've been curious, how many Barracuda were built in 1971 with the gills, the shaker hood and the billboard stripes? Best looking non SS Barracuda
Sabtu, 27 Februari 2010
Image via: http://spiriteddrive.tumblr.com/
there were 11 Hemi Cuda convertibles, and 5 were 4 speeds
Kamis, 28 Januari 2010
The 4 lane highway was a 55 zone, but the people of Boulogne posted a 45 zone, and cashed on. They won the lottery.
The speed trap was so effective, 60 %of the city income was from fines and forfeitures.
Of the 1008 arrests in 1961, 999 were for speeding. Accordingly 88% of the budget went to policing the zone, all 1.3 miles long and 2000 feet wide.
Greed was their downfall of course, so many complaints, etc caused the state road dept and a senator to get involved. They lost about 10 million dollars due to bad will, and people going out of the way to avoid the now nationally known, nasty little town that was a parasite on the highway and drivers just passing through. The few businesses and citizens left had their charter revoked 8 years after getting it, and 2 years after the senator took a side against them.
From a late 1960's Road and Track article by Richard Poe
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Minggu, 24 Januari 2010
In 1923, if your Hays Hickory Hitter bumper broke, you'd get a new one free.
The Netherlands American Embassy used an Edsel, it was bought in the late 1960's by the London members of an Edsel club who intended to restore it.
The LA County Fair in 60 or 61 had a rod and custom show, and at it were the Grabowski Kookie Car, Ivo's Buick powered bucket T, Roth's Tweedy Pie T and his Outlaw were all entered in the street roadster class
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California traffic ticket fines, they don't make sense relatively, but indicate that the state looks at these fines as revenue, not as a deterent
Kamis, 21 Januari 2010
Traffic Tickets Fines (01/06/2010)
Failure to notify DMV of address change within 10 dayd..................................... $214
Failure to provide evidence of financial responsibility (insurance) ....................$796
Failure to stop at a red signal. ..................................$436
Failure to stop at a stop sign. ....................................$214
Unsafe Speed, 1 to 15 miles over the limit.................$214
Unsafe Speed, 16 to 25 miles over the limit...............$328
Passing a school bus with flashing red signals............$616
Drive using wireless phone not hands free, First offense ....................$148
Drive using wireless phone not hands free, For each subsequent offense. ...............$256
Drive while wireless device to send, read or write text.........................$148
Minor drive using wireless phone.....................................$148
Parking in a bus loading area ...................$976
Violation of disabled parking provisions, first offense................$976
Violation of disabled parking provisions, second offense...............................$1876
Unlawful material on vehicle windows...........................$178
Adequate muffler required ................................$178
Mandatory use of seat belts...............................$148
Mandatory use of child passenger restraints.....................$436
Headsets/Earplugs over both ears.....................$178
Motorcycle safety helmet requirements.......................................$178
No evidence of current registration...................................................$256
Minggu, 17 Januari 2010
Pierce arrow, Dodge magnum, AMC Javelin, Sunbeam Rapier, Buick La Sabre
Via: http://forums.acdclub.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=3711
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Jumat, 08 Januari 2010
From Wally Parks:
We took some new (1949 model) cars down, and as part of the the regular Motor Trend road test, we ran these experimental runs. The purpose of the thing was to find out just how far you could race the average car that was available at the time before you had to start getting stopped. We had a runway down there that I think was 4700 feet long. We had probably 20 different cars running, of all types, including some dry lakes cars; and we found that if we extended the acceleration distance more than a quarter mile, some of them couldn't get stopped at the other end. It was on that basis that we (later) established the quarter-mile as the official (NHRA) competition distance.
Hot Rod Magazine Nov. 1978
Minggu, 27 Desember 2009
there were actually 3 deployed: http://luminosis.blogspot.com/2009/07/for-sale-one-lunar-rover.html
Above image via: http://www.solarviews.com/raw/apo/as17-147-22526.jpg
Below inage via: http://apolloanomalies.com/images/ALSJ/AS17-137-20979HR.jpg
They are still working on the next generaton of lunar rover tires: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/08/06/goodyear-and-nasa-develop-the-next-gen-lunar-rover-tire-its-springy/
They are still working on the next generaton of lunar rover tires: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/08/06/goodyear-and-nasa-develop-the-next-gen-lunar-rover-tire-its-springy/I don't consider the toys on mars to be vehicles, since they have no ability to transport people
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