http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17653-steampowered-car-breaks-centuryold-speed-record.html (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17653-steampowered-car-breaks-centuryold-speed-record.html)
Yap, some pretty impressive engineering on display here. [clap]
That is pretty impressive -- but I've got to give the nod to the previous 1906 record of 127 mph set in a modded Stanley Steamer!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/N041921.jpg)
The driver, Fred Marriott, crashed & destroyed an improved version of the same car the following year at Daytona Speed Week, wadding it in excess of 140 mph :o
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/N041920.jpg)