not your "usual" land speed record

[derby]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17653-steampowered-car-breaks-centuryold-speed-record.html

[roy-nexus-6]

Yap, some pretty impressive engineering on display here. 

[triangleforge]

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!



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