Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile racing
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Land Speed Record
Author: Land Speed Record
Author: Cyril PosthumusPublisher:
ISBN: 9780850456417
Category : Automobiles, Racing
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Record-Breaking Cars
Author: Daniel GilpinPublisher: Powerkids Press
ISBN: 9781448852895
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Describes some of the cars that hold current world records, including the world's fastest car, the largest production car, and the most expensive car.
Land Speed Record
Author: Cyril PosthumusPublisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
ISBN: 9780850450378
Category : Automobiles, Racing
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Land Speed Record
Author: David TREMAYNEPublisher:
ISBN: 9788504563399
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The World's Fastest Cars
Author: Sean McCollumPublisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1491481811
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
"In a top-ten format presents the worlds fastest cars"--Provided by publisher.
Guinness World Records 2022
Author: Speed Machines
Author: Miranda SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motor vehicles
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Presents descriptions and statistics on some of vehicles that have been used to set extreme world records, including racing cars, monster trucks, trains, hydroplanes, submergence vehicles, yachts, jets, and spaceships.
Land Speed Record Cars
Author: Source WikipediaPublisher: University-Press.org
ISBN: 9781230575919
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Bluebird record-breaking vehicles, Jet land speed record cars, Rocket land speed record cars, Vehicles designed by Reid Railton, Wheel-driven land speed record cars, Bugatti Veyron, Alfa Romeo 8C, Bluebird K7, Wingfoot Express, Bloodhound SSC, Napier-Campbell Blue Bird, Silver Bullet, Bluebird-Proteus CN7, Mercedes-Benz T80, Campbell-Railton Blue Bird, Sunbeam 350HP, JCB Dieselmax, Thunderbolt, Spirit of America, ThrustSSC, Budweiser Rocket, Green Monster, Speed of the Wind, Ford 999, Sunbeam Tiger, White Triplex, Vampire, Blue Bird K3, Buckeye Bullet, Sunbeam 1000 hp, Railton Special, Thrust1, Bluebird of Chelsea, Blue Bird K4, Babs, Campbell-Napier-Railton Blue Bird, Blue Flame, North American Eagle Project, Goldenrod, Leyland Eight, List of Bluebird record-breaking vehicles, Golden Arrow, Thomson & Taylor, Bluebird Garage, Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen, Rene Stapp, Bluebird CMN-8, Inspiration, Renault Etoile Filante, Thrust2, Fiat Mefistofele, Crusader, Pioneer 2M, Maxximus g-force specs. Excerpt: The Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 is a mid-engined grand touring car. The Super Sport version is the fastest road-legal car in the world, with a top speed of 431.07 km/h (267.85 mph). The original version has a top speed of 408.00 km/h (253.52 mph). It was named Car of the Decade (2000-2009) by the BBC television programme Top Gear. Designed and developed by the German Volkswagen Group and produced by Bugatti Automobiles SAS at their headquarters in Chateau Saint Jean in Molsheim (Alsace, France), the Veyron's chief designer was Hartmut Warkuss, and the exterior was designed by Jozef Kaba of Volkswagen, with much of the engineering work being conducted under the guidance of former Peterbilt engineer and now Bugatti Engineering chief Wolfgang Schreiber. A number of special variants have been produced, including two targa...
Ultimate Speed
Author: Samuel HawleyPublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1641600233
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
An L.A. hot-rodder with a high school education, a family to support, and almost no money, Craig Breedlove set out in the late 1950s to do something big: harness the thrust of a jet in a car. With a growing obsession that would cost him his marriage, he started building in his dad's garage. The car's name was Spirit of America. Through perseverance and endless hard work, Craig completed Spirit and broke the land speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats, setting a new mark of 407 mph in 1963. He went on to be the first person to drive 500 and 600 mph, breaking the land speed record five times. In the early 1970s he turned to rockets and set an acceleration record at Bonneville that stands to this day. He built a jet car in the 1990s, Spirit of America–Sonic Arrow, to go head to head against Britain's ThrustSSC to be the first to Mach 1. Craig's subsequent crash at 675 mph remains the fastest in history. Even today, at the age of eighty, he is going strong with plans for yet another Spirit of America racer. The ultimate goal: 1,000 mph. Ultimate Speed is the authorized biography of Craig Breedlove, with a foreword by Craig himself. A candid revelation of one of motorsports' most interesting figures, the book is based primarily on countless hours of interviews with Craig and dozens of people connected to his life.