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Title: New Air Cooled World Record.
Post by: Darren on September 14, 2015, 08:33:42 AM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0nnQUnlPL48&feature=youtu.be

Looks the the Fast guys in So Cal have some work to do...

Would like to learn more about this car, pretty awesome.

Title: Re: New Air Cooled World Record.
Post by: Geoff on September 14, 2015, 09:33:09 AM

Woah!!!!! Insane!

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Post by: bwaz on September 14, 2015, 12:43:22 PM

I think those times were in metric ;)  What a fast car!

Title: Re: New Air Cooled World Record.
Post by: FunkyDrummer on September 14, 2015, 04:21:54 PM

Holy crap that's fast!!! 196 MPH!

Can't believe he kept that thing on the track....

Title: Re: New Air Cooled World Record.
Post by: mitchy965 on September 14, 2015, 04:53:05 PM

what kinda power do you gotta make to go 196?!!!! yikes!!

Title: Re: New Air Cooled World Record.
Post by: silas on September 14, 2015, 06:48:28 PM

wow! outstanding racing and serious congrats to that race team for pulling that off!

the racers name is pety fuser from brazil, here are some more pics of that car and his fb page...

http://www.dragsterbrasil.com/bau/projetos/131028newbeetlepetyfuser/fotospages/fotopg1.htm

https://www.facebook.com/pety.fuser.3

and a thread on the cal-look lounge...

http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,24979.0.html

which also brings up some interesting points...richie webb posted it as "the quickest rear engine air-cooled door car in the world"...i guess these days with so many builds/combos/rules one needs to get specific about what it actually is (example, wouldn't the nail from the lauffers be the quickest air-cooled in the world?). another point that was brought up in that thread was that the pro-mod guys "have their hands tied" by restrictions that keep them from running numbers like pety from brazil? why bother with restrictions? pety just raised the bar...let's see if someone can beat it!  :cool:

ps...i know building a car to race pro-mod makes sense when the class is local and competitive and there are rules & regs to follow...but maybe these new numbers will inspire someone to go bigger/better/quicker/faster!  :cool:

Title: Re: New Air Cooled World Record.
Post by: josh on September 14, 2015, 07:14:23 PM

God damn! That thing plain HOOKS!!!

Title: Re: New Air Cooled World Record.
Post by: jim martin on September 14, 2015, 07:52:24 PM

i was checking that out last night as well
unbelievable and very well done
151 mph in the 1/8th
and it appears to be 100 % street legal

Title: Re: New Air Cooled World Record.
Post by: silas on September 15, 2015, 08:14:16 PM

Quote from: jim martin on September 14, 2015, 07:52:24 PM

...and it appears to be 100 % street legal

street legal with no lights (head, brake, turn)? or am i missing something?

Title: Re: New Air Cooled World Record.
Post by: Chris on September 16, 2015, 06:41:13 AM

I was wondering the same thing Silas,  Jim obviously posted this after having wild dreams about his car

Title: Re: New Air Cooled World Record.
Post by: jim martin on September 17, 2015, 09:21:42 PM

Tuff crowd, no sense of humor
Guess I should of put a LOL