Nitro rail car doing a hefty wheelstand.  The setup used here runs the 1/4 mile in a hair under 9 seconds with 750 hp.  The rear gear ratio was increased intentionally beyond optimum to get the wheels up for this shot.  Normally, the front wheels come up just a couple inches on launch, depending on how the clutch is set up.

On board the rail car for a wild ride!  Here, the camera is mounted inside the driver's helmet, so this is pretty much what you'd really see during this little blast down the quarter mile. 

More pages:

  1    2  |  (3) |   4   |  5  | >>