If it would set a Record I would.... and Hey Congrates on the Record
Malcom...
There was a Time when the Healey's also owned a bunch of endurance
records.... there doesn't seem to be the same interest in that here... but
I enjoy hearing about it.... K
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> From: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
> To: LSR List <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Production Cars
> Date: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:04 PM
>
> In Britain it has been accepted that the McLaren F1 3 seater road car is
a
> production unit - if you had $1,000,000 you could buy this Supercar ready
> made from the factory (from the most exotic materials).
> How fast it goes depends upon the location. At Millbrook, England it
> lapped at 195.3 mph average speed. On the VW test track in Germany (a
> straight line flat track) its maximum speed was recorded as 240.1 mph.
At
> Nardo in Italy on a banked oval it went 231 mph. On a 2 mile runway in
> the UK a journalist hit a speed of 211 mph (similar to a run at Maxton).
>
> If you had gold insulation in the engine compartment of your car would
you
> put it on the salt ??
>
> Malcolm Pittwood, Derby, England. (where I do not have a $1 million to
buy
> one either).
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