[Land-speed] New Land Speed Contender

[Ray Buck]

Woops!  Belay that order.  It's called the TIV (Tornado Intercept 
Vehicle {Mk I...more or less}) and was built for the IMAX filming 
outfit.  Sposeta be a movie released this year about their adventures.

Ray (the mind-boggled) Rat
(I been playin the same piece on the piano for an hour straight tryin 
to get it right.  Musta warped what's left of the brain.  I think I'm 
a idjit for takin up piano playin at the age of 60.  But I started 
playin bass at 57, so what the heck, huh?)


Ahhh, yes.  Mayf clued me in and then it came back.  Mind like a steel sieve.

It was built as a tornado chaser.  Here's a link to a writeup on it 
and a coupla other chase vehicles (it's called IMAX):
http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/tornado-intercept-vehicles.html

I love gettin old and forgetting what I already forgot.  I think.

RtR


At 08:08 PM 2/21/2008, BWANA343 at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 2/21/2008 9:56:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>rbuck at xmission.com writes:
>I found out what it really was and then promptly forgot it.  It's
>built on a Ford F350 chassis, I think.  I have no idea what it was
>doing in that parking lot in Mesquite, though.
>
>Coincidentally, there was a show on a PBS station a few nights ago 
>featuring that very vehicle. It's a tornado chase rig, designed to 
>withstand a direct hit from these types of storms. I'm sorry I don't 
>recall exactly which/where I saw this, but I'm hoping another Lister 
>also saw it.
>It does look like something you'd expect to see parked near Roswell 
>or in Vegas.
>Bob W