Land Speed Record on Ice

floydjer · February 19, 2009, 10:46:24 AM

O.K................

DrofRockology · February 19, 2009, 11:34:00 AM

suitable ice vehicle for jim demmitt's attempt at the lsr on ice.

Seldom Seen Slim · February 19, 2009, 12:22:39 PM

Whoa, what an old Zamboni (the ice resurfacer). That is the original version -- with the chain to move the ice chips from the auger to the bin on top. These days they use a screw-feed system. And as for the ice dragster -- any idea what it uses for a drive system? I couldn't see a wheel or track -- and with the power that a big blown motor could make -- well, maybe it was a show-only dragster.

thundersalt · February 19, 2009, 12:30:27 PM

You can see the original jeep body that the were made out of.

McRat · February 19, 2009, 12:42:05 PM

Has anyone tried to run a snowmobile on the salt? They do dragrace them at normal dragstrips, and some are pretty fast, in the 9-8 second range on asphalt.

sabat · February 19, 2009, 01:08:35 PM

Quote from: Seldom Seen Slim on February 19, 2009, 12:22:39 PM
Whoa, what an old Zamboni (the ice resurfacer). That is the original version -- with the chain to move the ice chips from the auger to the bin on top. These days they use a screw-feed system. And as for the ice dragster -- any idea what it uses for a drive system? I couldn't see a wheel or track -- and with the power that a big blown motor could make -- well, maybe it was a show-only dragster.

Isn't that a big belt on the back? Behind Betty's boot?

Seldom Seen Slim · February 19, 2009, 01:38:19 PM

It looks like a set of rollers. They could support a belt - especially since that's the way most snowmobile tracks are designed. But I couldn't see the belt per se. Maybe the thing has, I wondered, a studded tire in the center - as a driven device. I guess it doesn't matter -- the photo was only to tease someone, right?

Malcolm UK · February 19, 2009, 01:44:47 PM

Take your eyes of the mini skirt SS Slim and the chromed dragster always does (did) appear to be a teaser rather than a runner. But perhaps those that know will recognise if the tracks on each side- which looked to be off two snow mobiles would work.

I saw the piece in Hot Rod Magazine - so it was Americans teasing Americans on this one. Motor looked to be capable of good horsepower - too much perhaps for the running gear.

Malcolm UK

Seldom Seen Slim · February 19, 2009, 01:56:23 PM

Malcolm- just when I was trying to be a nice guy -- you go and accuse me of letting my eyes stray from looking at Nancy. Ah, what's a guy to do?

I posited a few posts back that maybe this was a show-only vehicle, remember. I don't see tracks - or even a track. The blind side is just that -- can't see anything on the left of the vehicle.

I have seen snowmobiles go fast -- we've got a local "radar run" event on Teal Lake, near Negaunee, Michigan - the next town up the road from Marquette -- and the speeds there, in a relatively short run (under a quarter mile, I think) get well above 125 mph.

floydjer · February 20, 2009, 06:38:25 AM

At first I thought this was one of the flash-backs Jimmy Buffett warned us about. J.B.

DrofRockology · February 20, 2009, 08:06:03 AM

at the risk of coming-off like "pink flamingo" jim demmitt: check out this link:
http://www.xtremecanada.com/Snowmobile%20drag%20history.htm

some of those pics, with the steamlining and white surface, almost...