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Re: Land Speed Record on Ice
« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2009, 01:46:24 PM »
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Re: Land Speed Record on Ice
« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2009, 02:34:00 PM »
suitable ice vehicle for jim demmitt's attempt at the lsr on ice.
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Re: Land Speed Record on Ice
« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2009, 03:22:39 PM »
Whoa, what an old Zamboni (the ice resurfacer).  That is the original version -- with the chain to move the ice chips from the auger to the bin on top.  These days they use a screw-feed system.  And as for the ice dragster -- any idea what it uses for a drive system?  I couldn't see a wheel or track -- and with the power that a big blown motor could make -- well, maybe it was a show-only dragster.

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Re: Land Speed Record on Ice
« Reply #18 on: February 19, 2009, 03:30:27 PM »
You can see the original jeep body that the were made out of.
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Re: Land Speed Record on Ice
« Reply #19 on: February 19, 2009, 03:42:05 PM »
Has anyone tried to run a snowmobile on the salt?  They do dragrace them at normal dragstrips, and some are pretty fast, in the 9-8 second range on asphalt.

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Re: Land Speed Record on Ice
« Reply #20 on: February 19, 2009, 04:08:35 PM »
Whoa, what an old Zamboni (the ice resurfacer).  That is the original version -- with the chain to move the ice chips from the auger to the bin on top.  These days they use a screw-feed system.  And as for the ice dragster -- any idea what it uses for a drive system?  I couldn't see a wheel or track -- and with the power that a big blown motor could make -- well, maybe it was a show-only dragster.



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Re: Land Speed Record on Ice
« Reply #21 on: February 19, 2009, 04:38:19 PM »
It looks like a set of rollers.  They could support a belt - especially since that's the way most snowmobile tracks are designed.  But I couldn't see the belt per se.  Maybe the thing has, I wondered, a studded tire in the center - as a driven device.  I guess it doesn't matter -- the photo was only to tease someone, right?
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Re: Land Speed Record on Ice
« Reply #22 on: February 19, 2009, 04:44:47 PM »
Take your eyes of the mini skirt SS Slim and the chromed dragster always does (did) appear to be a teaser rather than a runner.  But perhaps those that know will recognise if the tracks on each side- which looked to be off two snow mobiles would work. 

I saw the piece in Hot Rod Magazine - so it was Americans teasing Americans on this one.  Motor looked to be capable of good horsepower - too much perhaps for the running gear.

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Re: Land Speed Record on Ice
« Reply #23 on: February 19, 2009, 04:56:23 PM »
Malcolm- just when I was trying to be a nice guy -- you go and accuse me of letting my eyes stray from looking at Nancy.  Ah, what's a guy to do?

I posited a few posts back that maybe this was a show-only vehicle, remember.  I don't see tracks - or even a track.  The blind side is just that -- can't see anything on the left of the vehicle. 

I have seen snowmobiles go fast -- we've got a local "radar run" event on Teal Lake, near Negaunee, Michigan - the next town up the road from Marquette -- and the speeds there, in a relatively short run (under a quarter mile, I think) get well above 125  mph.
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Re: Land Speed Record on Ice
« Reply #24 on: February 20, 2009, 09:38:25 AM »
At first I thought this was one of the flash-backs Jimmy Buffett warned us about. J.B.
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Re: Land Speed Record on Ice
« Reply #25 on: February 20, 2009, 11:06:03 AM »
at the risk of coming-off like "pink flamingo" jim demmitt: check out this link:
http://www.xtremecanada.com/Snowmobile%20drag%20history.htm


some of those pics, with the steamlining and white surface, almost...
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Re: Land Speed Record on Ice
« Reply #26 on: February 20, 2009, 05:30:44 PM »
That set of legs standing next to the Snow Kitten sure looks like a younger Elvira! :evil:

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Re: Land Speed Record on Ice
« Reply #27 on: April 10, 2009, 12:00:08 PM »
This was some weekend to remember, nothing like this has happened in sweden or anywere else that i know, se for your self  :-D

Some films:

http://op.se/harjedalen/1.917008



http://svtplay.se/v/1498625/mer_sport/rekordhoga_farter_under_speedweekend


http://www.automotorsport.se/tv/?m=17678

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Re: Land Speed Record on Ice
« Reply #28 on: April 27, 2009, 09:46:25 PM »
Want 2 see some ICE see this   http://www.vetechnet.com/rocketcar.htm    Bird21
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Re: Land Speed Record on Ice
« Reply #29 on: April 27, 2009, 10:30:55 PM »
Very interesting (but that's another story).
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