Car Shoots at 800MPH

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This car aims for 800 mph
Converted jet to challenge world land speed record
By GARY ROBBINS
The Orange County Register
Can a 65-year-old man take a 50-year-old supersonic military jet and turn it into a race car that will streak 800 mph across a desert floor, breaking the current world land speed record by more than 30 mph?
Frankly, Ed Shadle of Spanaway, Wash., isn't sure. But with the gusto of a veteran pilot and race car driver, he says he will attempt to shatter the 763 mph record that was set in 1997 by England's Andy Green.
Shadle will challenge the record next fall in Nevada's Black Rock Desert – provided that he continues to pick up sponsors. He needs another $1 million to $2 million to finish the conversion of an F-104 Starfighter jet that was once flown by Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier. To stir interest in the project, Shadle visited an aerospace expo in Anaheim last week and placed the now wing-less plane-turned-car on display.
The car, known as North American Racer, also will be on public display in Yorba Linda on Dec. 3.
Shadle seems confident, although he notes he suddenly has a big competitor. Famed aviator and racer Steve Fossett, who grew up in Garden Grove, has a vehicle and he also will challenge the record next year. We discussed the emerging race with Shadle, who began his racing career in soap box derbies during his childhood in rural Washington

[RitcheyRch]

Hope he can do it.

[Run_em_Hard]

800...wow.

[FryJet]

800mph? One of you ballers could just zip tie a box of bottle rockets to your Rhino and do it alot cheaper. Come on people, lets think outside the box here. :idea:
F.J.

[Havasu1986]

This car/plane will be at John Force Racing Shop in Yorba Linda on Sun. Dec 3rd for Johns annual car show and toy drive.

[SummerBreeze]

Didn't Stan Barrett have the record back in the day??
But the wind came up and was only able to make one pass and came up short on the record books

[TOBTEK]

WOW....thats ALMOST as fast as Andy's new DCB :rollside:

[Hardly Satisfied]

WOW....thats ALMOST as fast as Andy's new DCB :rollside:
Toby, that's something you need

[Misogynist]

Didn't Stan Barrett have the record back in the day??
But the wind came up and was only able to make one pass and came up short on the record books
Supposedly.... but land speed records are sanctioned by SCTA and they weren't there. They "extrapolated" the speed from some radar equipment rather than traps, and there was anecdotal reports of a "sonic boom" during the run. Who knows... that's why the car isn't in the record books.

[ECeptor]

He should put some pontoons on that thing and go for the boat speed record!

[Howie Feltersnatch]

There was a show about this car & the effort to get it going on the Discovery Channel a couple of weeks ago. They've been working on it for 5 or 6 years now. They did a shakeout run on an airport runway & got up over 300 before they ran out of road.

[abraman1326]

I saw that on Discovery a couple weekends ago. It was bad ass. I really hope he can do it. He is dedicated to doing it. Been building that in his Garage for 7 years the show said, and been planning it for 10 years. What a rush...
BRA

[TOBTEK]

QUESTION............ why is there a boom when you break the speed of sound?

[DaddyMack]

here is a pretty good article.. easy to follow...on Sonic Booms..
WHen I was a kid growing up in Vegas.. we had them all the time until they stopped the flights over the city from Nellis.
http://www.sky-flash.com/boom.htm

[TOBTEK]

cool read.....thanks :p

[Sigus]

yeh but can he do it on a treadmill?

[TOBTEK]

yeh but can he do it on a treadmill?
:rollside: :rollside: :rollside: :rollside:
HEY....... write a check to Kirk for his F26 soon please:)
DO IT!!!!

[boatnam2]

so why is it called a car,oh yea it has 3 wheels.pretty cool story but just seems it would of been easier to but a used fighter jet breal off the wings and set record.

[Tom Slick]

so why is it called a car,oh yea it has 3 wheels.pretty cool story but just seems it would of been easier to but a used fighter jet breal off the wings and set record.
Ummmm, isn't that what he did????

[boatnam2]

yea but 7 years to take off 2 wings,things must of been bolted on good.

[Tom Slick]

yea but 7 years to take off 2 wings,things must of been bolted on good.
LMAO :D

[Mandelon]

He only needs one or two million $$$? Heck, he should have Tobtek buy it first, then he could pick it up for half in like six months...... :boxed: