Re: [Amc-list] OT- Hot Rod Race

[Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Pete Knight went 4,519 mph 1967/10/03. That's 1 mile in about 0.8 seconds and
about 97,434 hp.

My book shows 5 different V12s in Lincolns between 1932 and 1948 ranging in size
from 267 to 448 cuin.

Ken

Quoting Sandwich Maker <adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> " From: Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>
> " 
> " The rocket race song is "X-15".
> 
> figures; the x-15 rocket plane was big noise in the early '60s.  iirc
> it boosted the winged speed record to the far side of 4000 mph.  the
> only winged thing faster is the shuttle.  nasa is working on some very
> exotic hypersonic planes, but none have flown yet.
> 
> " Quoting Jamie Smith <oconner51@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> " 
> " > The car shown on that site is not the original Hot Rod Lincoln. Check
> out
> " > this site http://www.hot-rod-lincoln.com/
> " > []
> " > 
> " > >From: Brien Tourville <hh7x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:hh7x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> " > 
> " >
> " >http://www.rockabillyhall.com/HotRodLncln1.html
> " > 
> " > 
> " > >HOT ROD LINCOLN by Charlie Ryan & The Timberline Riders
> " > >written by Charlie Ryan & W.S. Stevenson
> 
> thinking - nobody mentioned details, but y'all might be interested to
> know that the 'senior lincoln' of the '30s was henry leland's
> [lincoln's founder] creation, but the junior lincoln, the zephyr
> created after ford bought leland out, was essentially a stretched
> model a / ford v8.  it would be -very-easy- to drop that 12 into a
> ford cousin.
> 
> the big linc didn't survive the war.  the zephyr became the basis of
> the immediate post-war lincolns, including the '48 mentioned.
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