The Beast won it's first Best of Show against 41 other cars in the Applied Materials Car Show to support The Capital Area Food Bank. What made this very special to me is the trophy. It was made from a part that promotes uniformity of metal deposition on the equipment on which I used to teach for AMAT... the 300mm Endura2... the number 1 metal sputter tool in the semiconductor industry.
Way to go GT500. Tom was just along for the ride! Nice trophy. Looks more like a wheel than a tooling part.
Congrats Tom!! I've got one of those in my garage, bought it off of Craigs list from some guy in Chinatown. I could barely understand him, and I thought he said gutter tool and I needed some of my gutters fixed so I said deal!
This is a new Dodge Challenger Hellcat, less than a hour after the owner took delivery...you think he might have over estimated his ability to handle 700+ horsepower? If you are thinking it was due to another car, nope...he just lost control and drove it off the road into a tree. https://autos.yahoo.com/news/guy-buys-challenger-hellcat-immediately-totals-143019208.html
congrats! and Terry, trees are stout like that. He must not have been going too fast, or that was a very strong tree. I've seen some of those new muscle cars literally cut that trees in half due to the velocity.
I have a formula that has never been disproven: Horsepower > (Ability x Experience) If the result is "True", the above result takes place. I have 604 hp at the rear wheels and a car that on street tires tries its best to look at the guard rail on shifts from 1st to 2nd and 2nd to 3rd. I can control that due to ability built from years of experience. Daddy buys a 16 year old with extensive experience with soapbox derby cars has to expect this kind of destruction.