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[Toolmaker51]

Yabut... Did the pilot do it one hand on the steering wheel, grasping door frame with the other?

re; 200 mph+, 94" wheelbase, Willy B. Borsch, even 1200' out of the gate, the "Winged Express", later 1960's.
Still years before graduating high school, but remember it clearly. Most sat in view of the starting line, we'd pick spots at the traps to watch and feel it fly through the timing array.
I'd post pics, but the interested will google, a better surprise.

[Frank S]

Yabut... Did the pilot do it one hand on the steering wheel, grasping door frame with the other?

re; 200 mph+, 94" wheelbase, Willy B. Borsch, even 1200' out of the gate, the "Winged Express", later 1960's.
Still years before graduating high school, but remember it clearly. Most sat in view of the starting line, we'd pick spots at the traps to watch and feel it fly through the timing array.
I'd post pics, but the interested will google, a better surprise.

I've seen 130 on a 57" wheel base many times, 97 once in an 8th mile but that was with only 2 wheels.
Wild Willy's reputation was well known to us kids even here in Texas in the late 1960s

[Toolmaker51]

Up On 2 Wheels is fine, long as that's how many you started out with......

Yes, we were kids once. Still may be, having the itch to return to motorcycling. The test would be if I can right it from off its side, and manage kick starts.
Missouri and Kansas are not only adjacent, but outside town have tolerable traffic, and helmets are by choice.
They were duped on the masking paranoia awhile. You know, answering the one so deadly, yet averted by mere hand sanitizer or soap.