Having been a fan of Bonneville ever since I built a model of Mickey Thompson's Challenger in the 60's I have always wanted to pursue a speed record of some sort. I've been to the salt on several occasions but with three hot rods already in the garage I didn't feel brave enough to entertain discussing a fourth car with "the Lady who Likes to Park her Turbo PT Cruiser in the Garage". I do have a small cup of 'the salt' on my desk to remind me why I go to work.
Instead I became part of ROSSA, the Radio Operated Scale Speed Association and we build R/C cars that will run well over 100 mph. Mine has somewhat replicated Challenger in that it's four wheel drive, four engines and I'm attempting to return the nitro record back to the USA from Britain.
The American meet is this weekend at Rockingham Dragway. It's the first meet for my car and it has hit 110 on an inertia dyno, smoking the tires trying to drag the rollers higher.
Here's a few pics of my car. It's powered by four .21 cubic inch Picco engines, each putting out just over two hp on 30% nitro. The body is my first attempt at vaccuum forming carbon fiber...there's plenty of flaws but the next copy will be better. Just didn't have time to make another before the meet.
If you're interested I'll post some videos of the event next week. Hopefully there will be an electric car running which has unofficially hit 145 mph!