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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
fastest car, on ice... . Bentley - 205 mph
From http://ralfbecker.com/ which might sound familiar, Ralf is the man who makes ChromJuwelen.com
I read about this speed record just last week, but I can't recall where. Thinking a bit about it, doesn't it makes sense to go for speed records on frozen lakes? You won't have to worry about overheating, if you break anything, you don't have to get towed... just pushed, and there are a lot more frozen lakes than other land speed venues (the Australian dry lake Eyre and Gairdner, El Mirage, Bonneville, and Black Rock are the only areas I can think of that you have a long shut down area. The Maxton Mile, the New England Mile, and Ormond are limited if I recall correctly)
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Jay Leno's 1929 Bentley Speed Six

Jay has a couple new cars in his garage, http://www.moparmagazine.com/2008/sept-oct/another_mopar_for_lenos_collection and http://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?p=892 and his motorcycle collection: http://big-diesel.blogspot.com/2009/08/harem-of-leno.html
I haven't looked at this for a while, but it's very good, an has a really good coverage of SEMA http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Hooper Bentley Empress II.... defining depreciation
Advertised for £350,000.00 in 1991. In todays money, according to http://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/result.php?use%5B%5D=CPI&use%5B%5D=DEFIND&use%5B%5D=WAGE&use%5B%5D=GDPCP&use%5B%5D=GDPC&year_late=1991&typeamount=350000&amount=350000&year_source=1991&year_result=2006 was worth £771,303.41 in 2006 ... about what they were asking for a Bugatti Veyron. Yeah, the million US dollar car. So why is it remarkable that it cost equivalent to a Veyron? I just found one up to sell at $85 thousand. 1/10th the original asking price.
Friday, February 27, 2009
A variety of interesting transporters
Via: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=3































