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"Oxygen" is the vehicle's name, the fuel used in the rocket engine is hydrogen peroxide, a chemical compound with the formula H₂O₂

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And they ran a full quarter Mile! Dam that was cool!

0-100 in .3 sec.!! 12 g’s on takeoff and they can go faster but the human body can’t!

I saw Slammin' Sammy do it in 3.5 seconds @ 350 mph in the 1980's at the Hollywood Speedway in Florida... I missed his first run and he had parachute trouble on his third run that day. I stood at the 1000 foot mark up close to the chain link fence... He ran on Hydrogen Peroxide and his rig had no body, it just looked like a big go kart with ball shaped H2O2 tanks and thrusters... I don't think anybody's had the nerve to produce one of these rocket cars since Sammy... They sold the track soon after that and the developers built condos...!

Wondering why nobody is trying to break thous records with all the new technology we have nowadays. There is enough crazy peope out there who would do it. Are the people not interested anymore in such things like in the 70s or 80s?????

Do you know if the Boston straggler is still alive. My dad used to race it with my uncle, dave Burdett

Yeah your right Jbe thinking back I wondered why I put that and what I was trying to get at...I think I was thinking more about the moisture content in the air...if the air is more humid would that create more drag ?? In other words how does humidity affect drag !!....comparing the above run which was in England to Kitty O'Neils which was in the Nevada Desert !!

HE COULD OF SAVED A LOT OF WORK AND MONEY IF ONLY HE LET OFF SOONER NOT TO MENTION HIS SAFETY. EITHER HE LOST TRACTION ON 1 TIRE OR SOMETHING WENT WEST ON DRIVETRAIN.

@appliedforcellc Also, may I ask what particular "30yr experience" you have with this? I may have some questions that you might be able to answer....

@appliedforcellc ^

I stand corrected appliedforce, I spoke too soon and didnt realize exactly what you were talking about now that ive read back over it, sorry about tha, I need tostop getting buzzed and commenting on here lol. Its nice to see someone like you too that is, or atleast appears to have his wits about him, have a nice day. Its good to know theres still some non-mentally handicapped people that comment on these videos haha.

And to think the NHRA tries to claim Top Fuel dragsters as the fastest accelerating vehicles on the planet. Pshhh GTFO, they just cant stand it that rocket dragsters and jet dragsters are faster. They want their T/F dragsters to be fastest so they banned rocket cars and they limit the jet cars to be slower, I wish these cars were covered more so people would know the truth

@appliedforcellc What? This is a standing 1/4 mile! Can you not see that? There is no reason at all to doubt the passes these cars made. It really isnt hard to fathom that a fucking rocket car would be faster than any piston engine. Look at the Bloodhound SSC, no piston engine streamliner will ever come close. The power or should I say thrust-to-weight ratio and thrust-to-drag ratio of a rocket vehicle is far greater than any piston engine could achieve......

@louswire As said above, its not mislabelled. The cars name is Oxygen, and btw youre the one that appears to have mislabelled, Hydrogen Peroxide is H2O2 not HO2, HO2 would Hydroperoxyl radical

@rael1999 The air is thicker at lower altitude, therefore drag would increase, not be lower. Why do you think jet aircraft are faster at higher altitudes? Duhh Piston engined cars make more power at lower altitudes but aircraft are negatively affected, and so would a rocket car. They dont need to intake air so the thicker air would cause more resistance, ie MORE DRAG

damn

@IamPorterhouse The natural high car was owned and driven by Larry Flickinger. I saw him run a Matin dragway in Michigan and it was unreal off the line.

I heard some other numbers back in the '80s. I was told that the percentage of the solution used was 90%, and the stuff I use on my skin is .01% I believe. And what I was told was that if the 90% solution was spilled on your skin, it would burn a hole in your skin through dissolution, not "burst into flame". Let's not overstate our claims here. I have read about some of Hitler's experiments with this type of propulsion, and the associated disasters suffered by some of his test pilots. Funny!

@IamPorterhouse Those were standing start runs with E.T.'s and trap speeds- not "flying" runs. I know Ky and I believe him.

@crunchdrag Man, that sux :(

@tjohn1986....O'Neills record was not set on a drag strip it was set in The Nevada Desert and more importantly at a damper lower altitude where the drag factor is lower!

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He hated that car!

looks 2 me like dodo did not let off in time.

no you can't

hahhaha holy shit thats fuckin funny

...my bad...

It's not mislabelled. The car's name was OXYGEN. Insightful info, nontheless..

this vid is miss labeled, the car is propelled by hydrogen per oxide, the HO2 is pumped (at high pressure) into a catalyst chamber where it breaks down into water and free oxygen... then it's out the rockett nozzle for incredible thrust. the HO2 that you put on a cut is 0.05% solution... the stuff used in this (and other cars) was 99.9% solution, so powerful that if you spilled some on exposed skin... the skin would burst into flame! . . . nasty stuff!

that nigga is the man rocket car i gotta get me one of those!!

Cars.

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

Sammy Miller a true showman, it was an honour to watch you run, thanks for the thrills.

i saw Sammy Millers "Vanishing Point" at Englishtown Raceway, New Jersey in the early 1980's

Bob Feeler has got a rocket car ! Bob Feeler (rocketcar) VS. Eric Teboul (rocketbike) ... watch?v=czz81Iq8-KI

broken axel.

damn! this is faster than topfuel car's of today. and this was in like the 80's

i really don't understand how the oxygen engine works!!!

This car is so insane! An Saturn V rocket put on wheels. Are these cars still allowed to race in Europe? Since the DragRace in Hockenheim 1988 I have never seen one. Yeah OK...there is still Eric Teboul on his nutty rocket bike...

if you look at all the support vehicles when they turn up, it looks like that guy falls off the truck XD

Nice to see people smiling at the track! Don't see that much now-a-days! What was the big deal with the Jag. eng. back then? Power, cost?

Looks to me like a broken axle.

Sammy's Rocket cars were incredible to see. Although on the whole Sammy use to race just one car at a time, I was there in the early eighties when both Oxygen and Vanishing point ran side by side. Alan Herridge who use to run The Gladiator Funny Car challenged Sammy to a side by side race. Miller Piloting Vanishing Point and 'Bootsie' Piloting Qxygen. Incredibly the Bootsie took the win in 4.1 secs to Sammy's fractionally slower 4.2 secs. Don't think it's ever been repeated.

cool vid!!! what did that thing run

Back Then the record was a 7.75 at 185 in England

anything they can do to reduce weight.

what country made this car

The demise of these particular rockets, was caused by the end of their fuel supply. Hydrogen peroxide is a nasty chemical at the concentrations they ran. One of th two supply companies either ceased production, or went out of business. A truely 'green' car the 80 lb motor, catalyzed the hydrogenperoxide changing it to high preasure steam, and free oxygen.

Wow. Thanks for a great clip. Much appreciated