Now this car is fast!!

**Rob** · #1 (**permalink**) 07-06-2007, 08:32 PM

this is the Thrust SSC ( super sonic car), it recorded a 763 MPH, land speed record in the black rock desert, in Nevada, on October 15, 1997.

the sonic boom shock wave actually bends the light above the car

the sonic boom generated extended 150 foot along side the car creating a dust cloud about 300 feet wide

pretty interesting!!!!

DrPMR · #2 (**permalink**) 07-06-2007, 08:40 PM

slow.. my rig does 800mph on a rainy day..

**Rob** · #3 (**permalink**) 07-06-2007, 08:42 PM

all on slicks right?

DrPMR · #4 (**permalink**) 07-06-2007, 08:44 PM

do you even have to ask..... duh?!

**Rob** · #5 (**permalink**) 07-06-2007, 08:45 PM

i guess not......

DrPMR · #6 (**permalink**) 07-06-2007, 08:56 PM

lol...that is really impressive.. you have the cost of how much it was to make it?

**Rob** · #7 (**permalink**) 07-06-2007, 09:05 PM

this is off the website i found.

"ThrustSSC herself is the result of 2½ years of research into the shape of a supersonic vehicle, followed by another 2 years and some 100,000 manhours of build. Not only is the reseach and design fascinating of itself, but the story of that research makes compelling reading."

"ThrustSSC is the most powerful, most extraordinary car ever to be designed to attack the Land Speed Record, and as the SSC (SuperSonic Car) in the name indicates, it is also one of the first with genuine potential to breach the Sound Barrier.
Where Thrust2 used a 17,000 pound thrust Rolls-Royce Avon 302 engine from a Lightning fighter, ThrustSSC is the first car to use not one, but two turbojets. These will initially be Rolls-Royce Spey 202s from the Phantom fighter, each producing 20,000 pounds of thrust. Richard Noble has acquired two of them, but also has two even more powerful 205 units (25,000lb of thrust) for use when ThrustSSC has proved itself in transonic testing. ThrustSSC thus has the power of 1000 Ford Escorts, or 145 Formula One cars...
It will weighs 10 tonnes, and initial performance estimates suggest it will accelerate from standstill to 100mph (161kph) in four seconds or 0-600mph (1000kph) in 16 seconds. Within five miles (8 km) it will then reach its maximum speed of 850 mph within half a minute."

"Completion of the project required $900,000 and the funding eventually came from a few sponsorships, the 4,800 person Mach 1 supporters club, the internet followers and readers of the Daily Telegraph. More spectacularly, after failing to find a fuel sponsor the 1 million litres of jet fuel needed for the project's HeavyLift Antonov was funded by the internet followers."