kabman
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Oct 14, 2009 20:51:45 GMT
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While mooching around some land speed record sites I found some links to tether car racing which I'd heard of before but thought it had died out decades ago. These are stuningly engineered model cars that whizz round a circular track tethered to a central pole. Pretty nippy too! There are a range of classes for engine sizes from 1.5cc to 10cc. The world record for the 10cc class is 344kmh  They seem to come in two different flavours: Full on, high tech, minature land speed record cars like these....  and vintage style for the traditionalist, like so...   And my personal favourites....  |
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Siert
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Oct 14, 2009 21:00:15 GMT
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I never head of that before, but it seems to be pretty amazing... Have some more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_carI see you got some of the pictures from here: amrca.com/This is really pretty:  Very nice post! |
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Seth
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markbognor
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Tether car racingmarkbognor
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There used to be a club running at my school (when I was at school) that flew planes simmilarly tethered to a post.
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Seth
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Oct 15, 2009 10:05:25 GMT
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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Oct 15, 2009 10:19:39 GMT
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 8-)just been watching this:
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room. |
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When I was a kid there used to be a tether racing track I could see from the train when I travelled into the city. I wonder if it's still there? Probably not!
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8-)just been watching this:
