chandlerGTi
chandlerGTi UberDork
4/12/17 9:06 a.m.

Wow, I just saw that Big Red hit 253. His cars are just incredible.

T.J.
T.J. UltimaDork
4/12/17 10:07 a.m.

My High School Team names are Big Reds and they still have an indian mascot.

trucke
trucke SuperDork
4/12/17 10:17 a.m.

Who is 'Big Red'?

RevRico
RevRico GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
4/12/17 10:26 a.m.

I thought this was about synthetic blinker fluids truck

NickD
NickD SuperDork
4/12/17 10:48 a.m.

We are talking about R.J. Gottlieb's "Big Red" Camaro, right? The original Big Red.

NOT A TA
NOT A TA Dork
4/12/17 10:51 a.m.

Big Red is a 69 Camaro, named after the gum.

chandlerGTi
chandlerGTi UberDork
4/12/17 11:58 a.m.

Sorry, I figured everyone would know. As above, the car is a stock bodied 69 camaro. He hit 253.xx on the Mojave airstrip. It's a 1.5 mile strip.

NickD
NickD SuperDork
4/12/17 1:28 p.m.

In reply to chandlerGTi:

Yeah, that's cooking. It was impressive enough when Eric Yost went 241mph at Maxton, and that was with a 1800hp twin turbo small block 3rd-gen Firebird. Going 12mph faster with the comparatively bad aero of a 1st-gen Camaro? That engine must be making some steam.

ebonyandivory
ebonyandivory UberDork
4/13/17 6:44 a.m.

I think it was Velocity that had an hour-long documentary on this.

Seems like a looooong, curvy Salt Flat race needing some big cajones to compete.

RossD
RossD UltimaDork
4/13/17 9:14 a.m.

slantvaliant
slantvaliant UltraDork
4/14/17 2:06 p.m.

I'd really like to see Big Red at the Big Bend Open Road Race next week.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid
SyntheticBlinkerFluid UltimaDork
4/15/17 4:56 p.m.
RevRico wrote: I thought this was about synthetic blinker fluids truck

So was I.

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
4/15/17 6:42 p.m.

That flying for something that had the aero of a brick.

"If you don't like Big Red-berkeley you!"

-Ricky Bobby

Furious_E
Furious_E GRM+ Memberand Dork
4/15/17 6:49 p.m.

So we're not talking about Andy Reid then I guess?

Tom1200
Tom1200 HalfDork
4/15/17 7:46 p.m.

We were at the Silver State Classic when they averaged 197 MPH or thereabouts.

Tom

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