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Speed Demon is a land speed racing car built in 2010 by Ron Main for George Poteet. In September 2010, George Poteet made a serious attempt to break the flying mile and flying kilometer record for piston-engined wheel-driven cars. Speed Demon is powered by a 299 cu in (4,900 cc) aluminum block 'Hellfire' V8, built by Kenny Duttweiler. [1]
Land speed records by type of vehicle Category Speed (km/h) Speed (mph) Vehicle Operator Date Certifier Refs Land speed record [a] 1,227.985: 763.035: ThrustSSC: Andy Green: 15 Oct 1997 FIA [2] Wheel-driven [b] 745.187: 463.038: Vesco Turbinator II: Dave Spangler 14 Aug 2018 SCTA [3] [4] Piston-engine [c] 722.204: 448.757: Challenger 2: Danny ...
Burkland's 411 Streamliner, driven by Tom Burkland on the Bonneville Salt Flats, holds the current piston-engined wheel-driven land speed record In 2008 Tom Burkland broke the piston-engined wheel-driven record for the flying mile, recording a speed of 415.896 mph (669.320 km/h).
It was the first ground vehicle to break 400 mph (640 km/h) in a measured test. On 16 September 1947 John Cobb averaged 394.19 mph (634.39 km/h) over the measured mile in both directions (385.6 & 403.1) to take the world land speed record, before the American Goldenrod set a new mark for piston-engined, wheel-driven LSR cars eighteen years later.
Parry-Thomas rechristened the car Babs and rebuilt it with four Zenith carburettors and his own design of pistons. [2] In April 1926, Parry-Thomas used the car to break the land speed record at 171.02 mph (273.6 km/h). Babs used exposed chains (covered by a fairing) to take power to the drive wheels. It has been rumored that the high engine ...
The land speed record ... inline-6 FIAT A.12 aero engine — 145.89: 234.98 Fastest land speed record ever on a ... British land speed record; Production car speed ...
George Poteet (February 22, 1948 – July 16, 2024 [1]) was an American Memphis-based [2] [3] land speed racer and winner of the 1996 Ridler Award. Poteet's 1937 Ford roadster (built by Don Pilkenton) [4] won the 1996 Ridler Award. [5] [6] [7] This car would go on to take "America's Most Beautiful Roadster", top prize at the Oakland Roadster ...
The massive 44.5 litre Daimler-Benz DB 603 inverted V12 was selected to power the record-setting car. The engine was an increased displacement derivative of the famous DB-601 aircraft engine that powered the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter in production at the time, with the DB 603 ending up as the largest displacement inverted V12 aviation engine ...