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• Abarth Record Bertone
  |Class = Land Speed Record Car |Transmission = 4-Speed Manual
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• Bonneville Salt Flats
  ...nd managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and is known for [[land speed records]] at the "[[Bonneville Speedway]]". ...essdate=21 August 2007 |work= |publisher= |date=}}</ref> The first [[land speed record]] was in 1914 by [[Teddy Tetzlaff]].<ref>{{cite book | first=Don | l
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• Abarth Monoposto da Record
  |Class = Land Speed Record Car |Transmission = 4-Speed Manual
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• Abarth 1000 Pininfarina Record
  |Class = Land Speed Record Car |Transmission = 4-Speed Manual
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• Abarth 750 Bialbero Record
  |Class = Land Speed Record Car |Transmission = 4-Speed Manual
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• Porsche 360
  | 5-speed Manual. ...ngine, 1500cc capacity, 450BHP with Roots supercharger. 4 wheel drive, Top speed - 190 mph. Unfortunately, Dusio had entered financial difficulty, and Cisit
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• Walt arfons
  ...ormer partner in [[drag racing]], and his competitor in jet powered [[land speed record]] racing. Along with Art, he was a pioneer in the use of aircraft je ...owered [[Wingfoot Express]], which held the [[Land speed record|World Land Speed Record]] for three days during the battle between [[Art Arfons]] and [[Crai
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• Mini Marcos
  ...hours of Le Mans| Le Mans]] in 1966 and set four British land speed class records these are the flying mile, half mile, half kilometre and kilometre for cars * transmission = 4 speed manual
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• Art Arfons
  ...ine-engined [[tractor pulling|pulling tractor]]s, before returning to land speed record racing. ...red by an [[Allison V-1710]] [[aircraft engine]]. In 1961 he reached a top speed of 313.78 miles per hour before burning out the [[clutch]]. Arfons sold the
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• Famous Cars
  ===Land-speed records === {{main|Land speed record}}
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• Blue Flame
  ...oken until 1997 when the Thrust SSC jet car smashed it while exceeding the speed of sound (Mach 1). The driver, [[Gary Gabelich]], was of Croatian ancestry ...ied natural gas (LNG), pressurized by helium gas to eclipse previous speed records set with jet engine powered vehicles. The effort was sponsored by The Amer
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• Darracq
  ...On return to Europe the car was sold to Algenon Lee Guinness who set many records over the next few years until the car was retired in 1909 with a broken pis
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• Bill France, Sr.
  ...Daytona had lost its claim to fame. City officials were determined to keep speed related events, events which had been a mid-winter source of revenue for ar
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• Austin-Healey
  * In 1953 a special streamlined Austin-Healey set several land speed records at the [[Bonneville Salt Flats]] in Utah, USA.
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• Benz & Cie.
  ...er automobile with a 3 [[horsepower|hp]] engine, which could reach the top speed of 11 [[Miles per hour|mph]] and a pivotal front axle operated by a roller- ...fil]]'' automobile, introduced in 1903 with 2 vertical cylinders and a top speed of 37 mph. Then, without consulting Benz, the other directors hired some Fr
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• Four Wheel Drive
  ...] (angular force) evenly, while distributing [[angular velocity]] (turning speed) such that the average for the two output shafts is equal to that of the in ...l be matched, torque goes to zero, speed at the rear goes to zero, and the speed at the front goes to double what it should be... making the left front whee
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• Electric vehicle
  *from a direct connection to land-based generation plants, as is common in electric trains and [[trolleybus|t ...d rechargeable energy storage system and a direct continuous connection to land-based generation plants for purposes of on-highway recharging with unrestri
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• NASCAR
  ...neville Salt Flats]] became the premier location for pursuit of land speed records, in 1936, Daytona beach had become synonymous with fast cars.<ref> {{cite w ...o better evade the police. Many of the drivers would modify their cars for speed and handling, as well as increased cargo capacity, and some of them came to
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• MG
  ...n to take several world speed records. In spite of the formal racing ban, speed record attempts continued with Goldie Gardner exceeding 200&nbsp;mph in the ...War II record braking attempts restarted with 500&nbsp;cc and 750&nbsp;cc records being taken in the late 1940s. A decision was also taken to return to racin
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• Brands Hatch
  ...wthorn Bend. The track then loops around the woodland with a series of mid-speed corners, most notably the dip at Westfield and the blind Sheene's curve. Th ...local farmer and landowner, Harry Write. Using the natural contours of the land, many cyclists from around London practised, raced and ran time trials on t
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