formatting linkYears ago in a previous life I met a guy at santa pod called sammy who was > in santa pods bar. He ran a rocket car that ran on hydrogen peroxide water > and oxygen i think?> That guy was sammy miller in vanishing point.> It was the only thing I ever saw that truly left me speechless, It made a > 5000 bhp top fuel car look kind of sluggish from the mid strip onwards.
There's another clip of him here with his other car, Oxygen.
Thats even before my time! Were you there?
Pretty nippy that, aye.
lol i was born in '82! what is the santa record?
No idea but do you realise that I was barred from several pubs and had already been banned from driving as well as had several big bikes and been racing at the pod 6 years before you bothered to turn up at all? Seems a bit weird. You cant know anything! Where where you when men landed and walked on the moon? I was wathing it on my dads new fangled COLOUR TV with all 99 valves and wooden varnished shutters on the front! And 2 channels. ITV and beeb 1. And they finished and did a god save the queen at 12. And my gran a had a black bakolite telephone... Really. Her number was 4418... They didnt quite realise they would run out of numbers... You really dont know how FAST things change. Trust me that was not long ago.
I'd have only been eight.
I've got a promotional pen from my Grandads hotel, phone number 16.
You know you're old when you can give the correct year of any car reg suffix without stopping to think. Or you can identify the county of issue from the reg :-)
The time he set in 1984 at Santa Pod was a world record ET on a drag strip of 3.58 seconds at 386.26 MPH, the record still stands today.
dude your like old hehe wish i was a bit older, back when schools were better and taught s*it worth knowing. when cars looked good and when a VW was a VW and not a skoda, seat ect as well!
chav's didn't exist back then either and you never got a stabbing a day reported in the local rag. plus you could go to a pub and club in the 80's with good tunes!
Look on the bright side, in 30 years you'll be reminiscing about how great things were in the noughties...;-)
I was born in '72 so the 80's are sort of my 'fave' decade......
i love the late 80's and can remember quite a lot even though i was only very young back then! love the 80's films and music. back to the future was a classic! and aliens! and i think the first terminator was 80's too
It would have been much faster than 3.5 secs had it not hesitated for a second after leaving the line! The guy is seriously nuts.
"Best decade ever"
But not the fastest 1/4 mile.
But thats because it was under power for about half the strip! The last half after a pop and reignition.
H2O2 is a wonderful fuel, compare that car to any jet car and you can see how clean it is. The guy must be a total nut though, anhydrous H2O2 can strip the flesh from your bones half an hour before you notice what's happened.
Not a dragster, but here's a H202/Alcohol fuelled vehicle:
No, that's why I said on a drag strip. Kitty O'Neil claims the fastest quarter mile ET, I think that was on the salt flats. TBH I'm sure that could be beaten using modern technology, but would anyone be willing to try it on a narrow drag strip? Even I'd be willing to give it a try on the salt flats with miles of run off in every direction.
What's the story with Hydrogen Peroxide now? I assume you can't buy significant amounts anymore since you never see drag cars using it anymore. I'm sure you could make quite a big bomb with it.
Why is it artexed?
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