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Polaris Slingshot on Live Oak Road, Orange County, CA. Beginning with the 2020 model year, the Slingshot is powered by a 2.0 L inline four-cylinder gasoline-powered Polaris ProStar Engine rated at 203 hp (151 kW; 206 PS) at 8250 rpm and 144 pound force-feet (195 N⋅m) of torque at 6500 rpm.
Tobias also started manufacturing Slingshot cars for use at local dirt tracks, [4] and also maintained the family business, Tobias Speed Equipment Inc. [5] In addition to racing NASCAR, Tobias also won a number of high-level dirt races in New York and Pennsylvania.
The front-engine dragster was an evolution from earlier front-engine hot rods and initially was a car from which all non-essential parts, including the body, had been removed to reduce weight, making the earliest dragsters essentially a production car chassis with a "souped-up" engine. These early dragsters were nicknamed "rails", due to the ...
The front engine dragster came about due to engines initially being located in the car's frame in front of the driver. The driver sits angled backward, over the top of the differential in a cockpit situated between the two rear tires, a design originating with Mickey Thompson's Panorama City Special in 1954, as a way of improving traction. [1]
Similar cars went to Chrisman, "Fast Eddie" Schartman, and Kenz and Leslie. [33] These cars had the first coilover suspension in funny car, and were powered by Hilborn-injected 427 SOHCs producing 1,000 hp (750 kW) on 80% nitro. [33] (Chrisman's was the oddity, a roadster running a 6-71 GMC supercharger. [33])
Polaris Sno Traveler (1965) Polaris RZR ATV used by firefighters in the Kaibab National Forest Edgar Hetteen (later described by the Snowmobile Hall of Fame in St. Germain, Wisconsin as the father of the snowmobile), David Johnson, and Edgar's brother Allan Hetteen were partners in Hetteen Hoist and Derrick [6] in Roseau, Minnesota.
An 81-year-old man who investigators say terrorized a Southern California neighborhood for years with a slingshot has been arrested, police said. While conducting an investigation, detectives ...
The Slingshot was designed to be a "lifestyle-oriented vehicle purposely targeted at the young people of the 1990s." [3] Slingshot was designed as part of a series of three sports cars from Chrysler—along with the "Big Shot" and "Hot Shot."