Author Topic: Soh-dee-uhm Klawr-ahyd - Solved! (Read 2597 times)

Otto Puzzell · « **on:** April 17, 2009, 04:43:11 AM »

12 machines built for speed - lot's of speed. Setting outright speed records on salt (sodium chloride) and other surfaces. Many constructed by privateers, working in their spare time. Others constructed as testbeds or showcases of technology. How many can you identify?

As these are answered, I'll try to pepper this thread with a little information about each car - please add your own, too.

Better hurry - these will go fast!

1960 Flying Caduceus / 250gto

Summer Brothers' Polywog / 250gto

Burkdoll Streamliner / Ray B.

Fred Carillo Hemi Streamliner / faksta

Moreau Streamliner / Cabrius

Speed of the Wind / faksta

EELC Wee Eel VI / Ray B.

Jet Wing-Foot Express / 250gto

Steamin' Demon / @re

The Datsun Competition Coupe / faksta

Hel's Angel / Ray B.

Hammon-Whipp-McGrath Redhead / 250gto

Larsen & Cummins liner / metalshapes

Battery Box / faksta

250gto · « **Reply #1 on:** April 17, 2009, 03:34:21 PM »

Hmm I Think...
Salty 1 is the Flying Caduceus of Dr Nathan Ostich
Salty 8 is the Wingfoot Express of (I think) Walt Arfons

faksta · « **Reply #2 on:** April 18, 2009, 01:39:28 AM »

Don't wait too long to move it

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #3 on:** April 18, 2009, 02:25:53 AM »

Quote from: 250gto on April 17, 2009, 03:34:21 PM

Hmm I Think...
Salty 1 is the Flying Caduceus of Dr Nathan Ostich
Salty 8 is the Wingfoot Express of (I think) Walt Arfons

2 for 2

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #4 on:** April 18, 2009, 02:26:40 AM »

Quote from: faksta on April 18, 2009, 01:39:28 AM

Don't wait too long to move it

Patience, you must have.

250gto · « **Reply #5 on:** April 21, 2009, 06:33:18 AM »

I Think salty 2 is the Summers brothers streamliner "Pollywog" and salty 12 is the Lattin and Gilette Streamliner "the Redhead".

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #6 on:** April 22, 2009, 03:04:21 AM »

An AutoPuzzler worth your salt, you are.

Cabrius · « **Reply #7 on:** April 23, 2009, 02:06:28 PM »

Salty 5 - McBride and Moreau Racing's One-Liter Streamliner

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #8 on:** April 24, 2009, 02:12:23 AM »

And another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the................salt.

knightfan26917 · « **Reply #9 on:** April 30, 2009, 11:35:16 PM »

Ahhh...the Bonneville Salt Flats, eh?

I can't say I know any of these, but I suspect if I asked a buddy of mine who takes pics at the Bonneville Salt Flats, I'd probably find out most, if not all, of 'em....

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Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #10 on:** May 02, 2009, 07:50:34 AM »

Promoted to expert level.

faksta · « **Reply #11 on:** May 02, 2009, 07:57:54 AM »

Patience I've had

#4 - Fred Carillo's Streanliner. In 1954 it has flipped at Bonneville, Fred broke his leg, and the car was destroyed.
#6 - George Eyston's Speed of the Wind, basically Eldridge - Rolls-Royce.
#10 - Burkland Datsun Competition Coupe.
#11 - T-Bird by Knot Farrington.
#14 - The Battery Box, electric thingy.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #12 on:** May 02, 2009, 08:14:15 AM »

ID'd them well, you have.

#4 - Fred Carillo's Streanliner. In 1954 it has flipped at Bonneville, Fred broke his leg, and the car was destroyed. Correct, you are

#6 - George Eyston's Speed of the Wind, basically Eldridge - Rolls-Royce. Correct, you are

#10 - Burkland Datsun Competition Coupe. Correct, you are

#11 - T-Bird by Knot Farrington. The nickname given this this car, I require.

#14 - The Battery Box, electric thingy. Correct, you are

metalshapes · « **Reply #13 on:** May 03, 2009, 03:19:33 PM »

#13 - The Cummins & Larsen streamliner

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #14 on:** May 04, 2009, 03:24:56 AM »

fnqvmuch · « **Reply #15 on:** May 04, 2009, 10:56:40 AM »

it was seeing the Redhead in The Worlds Fastest Indian and thinking i could find out more on the internet which led to me doing this and wasting my life!
ran by Lattin and Gillette from 1976 until retired 1991, it was.
SCTA/BNI record mph 213.554 class xxf/gs (gasoline), 1990, but best was (1966 @ 331 which could not be confirmed by a second, return run so ...) 1963 - 302.812 mph, class b/s, running a blown 394 ci Chrysler
( later, after a Chev' , Hammon ran with a Daimler 156 - ?)

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #16 on:** May 14, 2009, 04:37:06 AM »

Pros?

@re · « **Reply #17 on:** May 19, 2009, 07:37:36 PM »

Oh, #9 isn't solved yet? I remember it from an old (1986? 89?) edition of the Guinness Book of Records, where it was listed as the world's fastest steam-driven car, called the Barber-Nichols 'Steamin' Demon'. It did 145.607 mph at Bonneville in 1985.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #18 on:** May 20, 2009, 02:38:35 AM »

Quote from: @re on May 19, 2009, 07:37:36 PM

Oh, #9 isn't solved yet? I remember it from an old (1986? 89?) edition of the Guinness Book of Records, where it was listed as the world's fastest steam-driven car, called the Barber-Nichols 'Steamin' Demon'. It did 145.607 mph at Bonneville in 1985.

That's the car!

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #19 on:** July 10, 2009, 07:09:21 AM »

There is a lot of LSR reference material that is easily Googled (or Bing'd, if that's your bent).

Ray B. · « **Reply #20 on:** July 11, 2009, 09:16:35 AM »

Would you be satisfied by "Autotune Bluebird" for Salty #3 ?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #21 on:** July 11, 2009, 09:22:08 AM »

That's not the name I have.

By the way, "Racingoll Racing" is a photo-shopped mangling of the name of the shop that built it. It's actually _ _ _ _ oll Racing (fill in the blanks)

Ray B. · « **Reply #22 on:** July 11, 2009, 09:39:59 AM »

It's Burkdoll Racing and the car is the Burkdoll Streamliner

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #23 on:** July 11, 2009, 09:47:15 AM »

Quote from: Ray B. on July 11, 2009, 09:39:59 AM

It's Burdoll Racing and the car is the Burdoll Streamliner

Yessir!

Ray B. · « **Reply #24 on:** July 11, 2009, 09:53:56 AM »

Burkdoll, i meant.

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