Would You Ride or Not?

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Fasten your seat belt!

I only have one question.
Are those tires speed rated for 300 mile an hour

yes
but i am kinda stupid that way....

My dad loved the drags & we used to go all the time... saw most of the big name "show" cars like Hemi Under Glass etc & saw Art Arfons Green Monster several times. Takes big 'uns to strap yourself on the front of a rocket motor & lite it off!!!

BoB

YES

did you see how big that side mounted parachute is [S. safe as all get out
being an old B-47 wrench i'd say jet not rocket, just saying

yep

inna new york minute''

Later

Don't think I'd be worried about the tires as much...

As those Crager SS wheels at 300+.....

Gives new meaning to the term "crumple zone".

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One good thing....

Probably only hurt for a second or two...

I think I'd rather be one of the guys in the seats rather than the guy in the box!

Yep! I've been in worse contraptions...[cl

soltz said:

did you see how big that side mounted parachute is [S. safe as all get out
being an old B-47 wrench i'd say jet not rocket, just saying

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Hey Brother,
Old jet wrench here, too. C-141s mostly. B-52 in training, but that was enough of SAC for me. I was too much of a hippie.

At least with these, if you have a problem, you don't have to look for a place to land.

those 60's era jet dragsters were lucky if they got up to 200mph in the quarter, they were kinda slow off the line.

now the hydrogen-peroxide dragsters of the 70's, that was a whole different banana!!!!

quarters in 3.5 secs approaching 400 mph, average life of a driver in a new rocket car, 3-4 weeks.

Skip said:

Hey Brother,
Old jet wrench here, too. C-141s mostly. B-52 in training, but that was enough of SAC for me. I was too much of a hippie.

At least with these, if you have a problem, you don't have to look for a place to land.

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I hear that Skip but in my case i was a surfer, schooled on B-47 then had to keep 1957 C-130's flying, the C-141 was just a dream back then.

"If you'll hold my beer"

Sam_Fear said:

I think I'd rather be one of the guys in the seats rather than the guy in the box!

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I'm thinking the same thing! No asbestos underwear, no shield, and not much of a place to duck....lol!