Drag Racing pic of the Day
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from the dragstalgia event at the pod earlier this year. first vw i saw when i got in, fecking camera died 2 mins later
rocket-powered beetle from '60s
rocket-powered beetle from '60s
It’s an “after” photo of Roy “Mr. Pitiful” Drew, an exhibition racer from Kansas City, who concocted this sort-of Volkswagen called the Black Widow. No 36hp mouse, it instead got its motivation from a rocket-engine rear axle produced by a once-infamous Florida company called Turbonique. Here, essentially, was how it worked: Turbonique geared an acutal rocket to a quick-change rear axle – you can see the Black Widow’s monster rear hubs – using a Borg-Warner sprag clutch. The whole thing was engaged by a flip switch, the driver holding a panic fuel-shutoff cord. It advertised an instant 1,000 horsepower, apparently truthfully – Drew, whose major claim to fame was beating Tommy Ivo’s four-engine dragster with this thing, launched it in the lights on a test run, flying inverted through the beams at 183 MPH. Another early Turbonique ad identified a young Evel Knievel as a customer. The Orlando firm went kaput, allegedly, after people began creating rocket-powered go-karts with its products, resulting in at least one ghastly fatality. - See more at: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/07/02/fire-bug/#sthash.m1GRq43V.dpuf
rocket-powered beetle from '60s
It’s an “after” photo of Roy “Mr. Pitiful” Drew, an exhibition racer from Kansas City, who concocted this sort-of Volkswagen called the Black Widow. No 36hp mouse, it instead got its motivation from a rocket-engine rear axle produced by a once-infamous Florida company called Turbonique. Here, essentially, was how it worked: Turbonique geared an acutal rocket to a quick-change rear axle – you can see the Black Widow’s monster rear hubs – using a Borg-Warner sprag clutch. The whole thing was engaged by a flip switch, the driver holding a panic fuel-shutoff cord. It advertised an instant 1,000 horsepower, apparently truthfully – Drew, whose major claim to fame was beating Tommy Ivo’s four-engine dragster with this thing, launched it in the lights on a test run, flying inverted through the beams at 183 MPH. Another early Turbonique ad identified a young Evel Knievel as a customer. The Orlando firm went kaput, allegedly, after people began creating rocket-powered go-karts with its products, resulting in at least one ghastly fatality. - See more at: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/07/02/fire-bug/#sthash.m1GRq43V.dpuf
