| Author | Message | ||
| Horsefly (Arlie)
Member Username: Arlie Post Number: 524 Registered: 5-2002 |
I prefer my rocket car. I test drove it in Arizona a few years ago. You may have heard of the mishap. | ||
| Jim Schad (Jim_schad)
Member Username: Jim_schad Post Number: 596 Registered: 7-2002 |
you are correct. they are on slot tracks and the steering wheel does not turn. you get to stomp the gas and shift once by pushing a button then it stops you automatically. pretty automated, but the acceleration is still fun. Used to be $20 for 2 runs, now it is $20 for 3 runs. | ||
| Andreas Forrer (Tifosi12)
Junior Member Username: Tifosi12 Post Number: 170 Registered: 10-2002 |
Eyeballs-In configuration as the early astronauts called it on their centrifuge runs. Jim, did you actually get to 'drive' the Malibu dragsters? I've seen their ads, but thought that is more like a sled ride. True? | ||
| Jim Schad (Jim_schad)
Member Username: Jim_schad Post Number: 595 Registered: 7-2002 |
I drove the "funny cars" at Malibu Speed Zone. They have 350 chevy's in them powered by propane. Go from 0 to 70 in 3.5 seconds in a few hundred feet. Was pretty fun, but I cannot imagine going 300+mph in 1/4 mile. Your eyes must black out from the blood being forced back..... | ||
| William Huber (Solipsist)
Member Username: Solipsist Post Number: 534 Registered: 9-2001 |
The car as I remember it was more for show than a racer. Bob put too much money in this car to mess it up. I asked if they could start it & I was told they were afraid of breaking an engine part if they did. The car was in pieces the many time I had seen it. I think the funny car is boxed up in a warehouse somewhere in Dallas now. | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 323 Registered: 8-2002 |
Tillman, that's just sick... ...how do i become an NHRA funny car driver...? | ||
| Tillman Strahan (Tillman)
Junior Member Username: Tillman Post Number: 238 Registered: 11-2001 |
Des, FYI, the NHRA Funny Cars now top 325 MPH in the quarter mile. That's fast. | ||
| William Huber (Solipsist)
Member Username: Solipsist Post Number: 533 Registered: 9-2001 |
Thanks Jim Even when I make the photos smaller for this sites format, I can't seem to post them correctly. I was uploading the photos to the server when I lost my DSL connection. I'm having a hell of a day so far. | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 322 Registered: 8-2002 |
"...at 170mph in the quarter mile" godDAMN....! | ||
| Jim Schad (Jim_schad)
Member Username: Jim_schad Post Number: 594 Registered: 7-2002 |
Here ya go.  | ||
| William Huber (Solipsist)
Member Username: Solipsist Post Number: 531 Registered: 9-2001 |
F*ck it Here's the link http://www.bobnorwood.com/Un-Salted%20Flat%2012-Power.htm | ||
| William Huber (Solipsist)
Member Username: Solipsist Post Number: 530 Registered: 9-2001 |
Damn, Images are too large. I gotta make em smaller. | ||
| William Huber (Solipsist)
Member Username: Solipsist Post Number: 529 Registered: 9-2001 |
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| William Huber (Solipsist)
Member Username: Solipsist Post Number: 528 Registered: 9-2001 |
I found this on Norwoods new site. Back in the the 1980'S, Norwood autocraft built this project vehicle. It has a reverse mounted testarossa block. I have my own photos of the car when I visited the old shop on Tracey Ave back 1989. I'll try to post them when I get a new scanner. |