I think the steam record holder is called the Steam'n Demon, or something
like that. It's in the National Automobile Musuem in Reno, NV. Saw it on
the way out to Speed Week this year. It's not to far from the Battery Box,
a 1974 Electric Vehicle LSR car that went 175 mph, and also pretty close to
an early 60's turbine car that ran at Bonneville but didn't set any records.
Henry Deaton
SF, CA
At 09:51 AM 9/7/2001 -0500, john robinson wrote:
>Howdy,
> 145 and change, 1983-84? somebody took a Lear steam turbine (Lear
>was experimenting with a heat transfer fluid called, yeah learium and had
>built a steam turbine engine package for the San Francisco bus company for
>testing, it did OK I think, but wasn't bought by them to use for a number
>of reasons.) Lear died, somebody took the trailer of parts, put it together
>and broke the steam record set by the Stanley steamer of 126.666 MPH (in
>1907 I think?) , ( I kinda was unhappy that the turbine ran the same class,
>but....as it is .... he did do the speed and is recorded....the car weighed
>something like +4500 lbs, had a bunch of batteries in it to power the fan
>for the boiler fire, had a Fiberfab body and blew out a side window at
>something over 145 on a subsequent pass, it's in a museum someplace out
>west...I could look the pertinent info up again, I got it someplace, being
>I'm a member of the Steam Automobile Club of America...
>
>At 08:21 AM 9/7/01, you wrote:
> >Just wondering, What is the steam powered record? Most steamers use a two
> >cylinder engine. Bob in connecticut.........Stanley Steamer country
>
>
> John Robinson, Mechanician
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