Fastest 1/4 ET ever in a car?

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If those rocket powered cars burn hydrogen peroxide then I watched a pair of them at PIR in the mid 1970’s. It wasn’t long after that they were banned. Maybe it was benzene they burned? Something like that. I was probably 10 or so.
Im not positive, but i think it is hydrogen peroxide mixed with another chemical, (that i cant come up with at the moment).
Basically, the same fuel as the ME163 (not the ME262, that was a twin jet), the nazi rocket plane. Very dangerous, lots of failures, scary ****.
Edit: the 163 used methanol and hydrazine hydrate mix, oxidized by mixing with hydrogen peroxide dirivative, c-stoff and t-stoff. Remember the stories of mixing hydrazine in fuel cars?
 
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From what I’ve been told the rocket cars were banned for safety reasons. I guess when you ignite a rocket car it burns whatever fuel it has and shuts of when the fuel is gone. So it relied on the calculation of space needed to get it stopped. Jet cars are shut off by the driver.
The rocket i saw at the old irwindale, essentially ran hard for an eighth mile , coasted to the finish line......and was a full second and a half quicker than a top fuel car....at least.
Top fuel was mid sixes at the time (full quarter), the rocket coasted into the fours.
(Strangely enough, the track record for the new irwindale 1/8 mile, is held by a jet dragster, at a track where the shutoff is marginal for a 140mph car!)
 
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Liquid fuel rockets were controllable , its the solids that were not. Think the 2 outboard space shuttle boosters flying off into oblivion after the Challenger blew up. "Let's light this candle!"
 
Sammy Miller ran those rocket cars for years all over the world, only to get killed doing his "day" job, in Texas. Can't remember whether it was farm/ranch, or oil field.
I lived in NJ back in the '70's, and had an aquaintenship with Sammy.
 
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Wasn't there an urban legend about some guy strapping a military surplus or stolen rocket to a 66 Impala and launching it down a desert road only to slam into a mountainside?
 
Yes, I heard it was a Camaro. They were called RATO. Rocket Assisted Take Off. P lenty of B-47 shots using them although they are also called JATO but iirc there is no air intake (jet) involved, just solid fuel thrust.
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Read that link. It's a great 15 minutes and I believe every word of it. That would make a great movie, like that one about the country boys who made their own rockets. That was pretty cool too.
 
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