Over the winter and spring we changed the rear end gearing from 2.75:1 to a taller 2.47:1 in the Ford 9″ to let the 700hp of the 304.8ci powerplant stretch its legs on the long course. Goal 3 – the ultimate goal for 2021 – was to run 200+! We had come up just short running 174+ the year before.
Goal 2 was to qualify for the 5-mile long course by running 175+mph at the 2 1/4-mile marker on the short 3-mile course. Goal 1 was to set a new record and get our record back. (D = under 305.9ci /B = blown, G = gasoline-fueled, RMR = rear-modified roadster body.) Our record was later bested by 2.21 mph at the SCTA World Finals in October 2020. Last August we set a land speed record in the D/BGRMR class, running 173.429 mph.
The team had three goals in mind for this year’s speed trials. the “Fastest Place on Earth”) on August 7th for the 73rd running the SCTA’s Speedweek, with the ’27 Ford Rear Modified Roadster in tow. The Flying Rose Land Speed Race Team returned to the Bonneville Salt Flats (a.k.a. This August he was back at the Bonneville Salt Flats and recorded his experience to share with the BaT community. BaT user wallyworldmt purchased this 1927 Ford Rear Engine Modified land speed car from Bernard in a 2018 auction, and wrote in January 2021 to tell us of his 173.429mph record in the D/BGRMR class.
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