[Land-speed] Fw: Ford's Hydrogen 999 racer shooting for fuel cell land speed record > Hybrid News

[ed at vetteracing.com]

I can remember the mega-speed peroxide powered drag cars back in the70's (yeah, it was a bit foggy then).... Has anybody run one ofthose on the salt?
Ed



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jon Amo [mailto:webmaster at landracing.com]
>Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 09:52 PM
>To: 'Rich Fox'
>Cc: land-speed at autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Fw: Ford's Hydrogen 999 racer shooting for fuel cell land speed record > Hybrid News
>
>Probably the first was Ben Jordan from Denver Colorado, I think in 1980 give
>or take a year, ran a Hydrogen powered Abarth... Went like 79 mph. Then
>there was the Hydrogen powered Corbra a few years ago at WOS meet. That is
>all I recall...
>
>
>Jon
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: land-speed-bounces+webmaster=landracing.com at autox.team.net
>[mailto:land-speed-bounces+webmaster=landracing.com at autox.team.net]On
>Behalf Of Rich Fox
>Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 10:11 PM
>Cc: land-speed at autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Fw: Ford's Hydrogen 999 racer shooting for
>fuel cell land speed record > Hybrid News
>
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't 6 or 8 hydrogen powered cars run at
>Speedweek some years ago. Kind of had their own competion going within the
>rest of the meet. None of them blew up and i don't remember them being
>treated differently. I know Ford has been there before with that Lincoln
>deal ( What Every Luxery Car Should Be - Fast) and I remember some guys from
>the Canada foundry running a V6 roadster with a Blower telling me they were
>testing different blocks because there was a Blown Tbird super coup comming
>out, and Ford wanted front main bearing fauliers fixed.
>_______________________________________________
>ed at vetteracing.com
>
>Land-speed mailing list
>
>http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/land-speed