There’s plenty of efforts to break the ultimate land-speed record using jets and rockets and whatnot, but one team of land-speed racers out of Pennsylvania still has the wheel-driven land-speed record in sight, aiming to run 500 MPH at Bonneville next month using a turbocharged big-block Chevrolet V-8 in their Carbinite streamliner. Here’s hoping Bonneville dries out enough for them to get their chance. (via)
* This week the Historic Vehicle Association began a re-creation of Edsel Ford’s 1915 cross-country trek in a Ford Model T, several photos of which John Heitmann posted to The Automobile and American Life.
* V-8 crankshafts generally come in one of two flavors: the more popular and smoother cross-plane style, and the rougher and more wicked flat-plane style. ProjectM71.com has more on the differences between the two.
* Yamaha generally isn’t known as a carbuilder, if only because early on the company decided to take on a role similar to the Italian coachbuilders, constructing low-volume cars for other carmakers. The company’s first foray into sports cars, however, did carry the Yamaha name, as Banovsky’s Car of the Day recently showed us.
* Finally, while we’ve previously discussed Walter Nilsson’s monowheel, David Greenlees at The Old Motor dug up plenty more photos and information on the mysterious craft.
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