|
Off Topic Off Topic - General non-Corvette related discussion. |
|
Share | Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
01-26-2021, 8:57am | #1 | ||||||
Chief Meat Gazer
Charter Member Barn Stall Owner #98 Barn Raising II,III,IV
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Ohio
Posts: 50,739
Thanks: 23,242
Thanked 33,735 Times in 12,291 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $5135124
|
clean CarFax... low miles
Bloodhound LSR rocket car for sale Land speed record contender needs money for 800 mph attempt If you’re in the market for a used car project, have we’ve got a doozy for you. The British Bloodhound LSR 1,000 mph rocket car program has been put up for sale due to a lack of funding caused by the coronavirus pandemic, its current owner said. Auto parts entrepreneur Ian Warhurst saved the decade-old project from bankruptcy in 2018 and shepherded it to a 628 mph test run on a dry lake bed in South Africa in November 2019. Since then, the team has been preparing the vehicle for a shot at 800 mph in 2022, which would break the sound barrier and the current land speed record of 763 mph, set in 1997 by Bloodhound driver Andy Green. Warhurst estimates the cost of the 800 mph attempt to be 8 million British pounds and said he has been unable to find the required sponsorship money to help cover it. If a buyer can’t be found in the next few months, it won’t be possible to make the 2022 window and the vehicle and equipment will have to be mothballed for a potential future effort. Although 800 mph would be fast enough to claim the record, the vehicle has been designed for an even loftier goal of 1,000 mph. https://www.foxnews.com/auto/used-ca...t-car-for-sale |
||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to Mike Mercury For This Useful Post: |
01-26-2021, 9:04am | #2 | ||||||
A Real Barner
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: On the beach
Posts: 31,583
Thanks: 16,759
Thanked 33,108 Times in 11,606 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1025333
|
The car is designed, built, and has run 628 mph, but it will cost another $11 million USD to go 800 mph? Huh???
|
||||||
01-26-2021, 9:20am | #3 | ||||||
10cm member
Barn Stall Owner #90125 NCM Supporter '19,'20
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Houston, Tejas, Estados Unidos
Posts: 80,870
Thanks: 36,576
Thanked 41,069 Times in 17,075 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $2621492
|
|
||||||
01-26-2021, 9:34am | #4 | ||||||
Goldilocks
Barn Stall Owner #905 Bantayan Kids '13,'15
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: My butt's been wiped.
Posts: 30,980
Thanks: 5,226
Thanked 16,607 Times in 7,133 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1009320
|
It won't fit in my garage. I'm gonna have to pass I'm afraid.
|
||||||
The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to Giraffe (He/Him) For This Useful Post: |
01-26-2021, 9:47am | #5 | ||||||
A Real Barner
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: The ‘burg
Posts: 11,254
Thanks: 4,626
Thanked 14,748 Times in 5,008 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $894473
|
Ain’t no C4OTY.
|
||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to Little Red L98. For This Useful Post: |
01-26-2021, 10:02am | #6 | ||||||
A Real Barner
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Down the Shore,New Jersey Elev.3 feet.
Posts: 18,343
Thanks: 4,515
Thanked 10,871 Times in 5,071 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1007997
|
|
||||||
01-26-2021, 10:02am | #7 | ||||||
A Real Barner
Join Date: Dec 2019
Location: Matthews, NC
Posts: 16,919
Thanks: 6,192
Thanked 21,732 Times in 9,108 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $311064
|
I've give 3 fiddy...
|
||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to RMVette For This Useful Post: |
01-26-2021, 10:05am | #8 | ||||||
Goldilocks
Barn Stall Owner #905 Bantayan Kids '13,'15
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: My butt's been wiped.
Posts: 30,980
Thanks: 5,226
Thanked 16,607 Times in 7,133 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1009320
|
|
||||||
01-26-2021, 10:10am | #9 | ||||||
A Real Barner
Join Date: Dec 2019
Location: Matthews, NC
Posts: 16,919
Thanks: 6,192
Thanked 21,732 Times in 9,108 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $311064
|
|
||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to RMVette For This Useful Post: |
01-26-2021, 10:13am | #10 | ||||||
Goldilocks
Barn Stall Owner #905 Bantayan Kids '13,'15
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: My butt's been wiped.
Posts: 30,980
Thanks: 5,226
Thanked 16,607 Times in 7,133 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1009320
|
|
||||||
01-26-2021, 10:29am | #11 | ||||||
Chief Meat Gazer
Charter Member Barn Stall Owner #98 Barn Raising II,III,IV
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Ohio
Posts: 50,739
Thanks: 23,242
Thanked 33,735 Times in 12,291 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $5135124
|
|
||||||
01-26-2021, 4:04pm | #12 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #6969
NCM Supporter '11, '12,'17,'20
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Somewhere in GA
Posts: 25,077
Thanks: 11,234
Thanked 11,493 Times in 5,018 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1071547
|
|
||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to 69camfrk For This Useful Post: |
01-26-2021, 4:08pm | #13 | ||||||
A Real Barner
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: The ‘burg
Posts: 11,254
Thanks: 4,626
Thanked 14,748 Times in 5,008 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $894473
|
1,000 mph won’t happen because science.
|
||||||
01-26-2021, 4:08pm | #14 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #103
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: North Cackalaky
Posts: 25,332
Thanks: 11,791
Thanked 31,301 Times in 10,834 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $108939
|
Is this a kewl Fiddy or A/E go fund me endeavor again?
|
||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to MadInNc For This Useful Post: |
01-26-2021, 4:08pm | #15 | ||||||
Sparkles Flambeaux
Barn Stall Owner #4 Barn Raising I,II NCM Supporter '13,'14,'15,'16,'17,'21 Bantayan Kids '13,'14,'15,'17
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Santa Fe, NM
Posts: 61,433
Thanks: 11,767
Thanked 32,997 Times in 14,148 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $17500122
|
needs a cup holder, and they'll need to fix the cigarette lighter.
|
||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to DAB For This Useful Post: |
01-26-2021, 4:15pm | #16 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #103
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: North Cackalaky
Posts: 25,332
Thanks: 11,791
Thanked 31,301 Times in 10,834 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $108939
|
|
||||||
01-26-2021, 4:20pm | #17 | ||||||
Administrator
Barn Stall Owner #14 Barn Raising II,III Chef NCM Supporter '11,'12,'13,'14,'15,'16,'17,'20 Bantayan Kids '13,'14,'15,'17 Ukranian Famers are the modern day Chuck Norris
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: between here and there
Posts: 25,050
Thanks: 9,360
Thanked 14,303 Times in 5,470 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $17601606
|
|
||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to Rob For This Useful Post: |
01-26-2021, 4:46pm | #18 | |||||||
Goldilocks
Barn Stall Owner #905 Bantayan Kids '13,'15
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: My butt's been wiped.
Posts: 30,980
Thanks: 5,226
Thanked 16,607 Times in 7,133 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1009320
|
Quote:
|
|||||||
The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Giraffe (He/Him) For This Useful Post: |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
|
|
Support the Barn: |
Download the Mobile App; |
Follow us on Facebook: |
||