Comments on: Seeks 300 m.p.h. With Motorcycle Powered By Auto Engine http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/05/23/seeks-300-mph-with-motorcycle-powered-by-auto-engine/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:00:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Hemmings Auto Blogs » Blog Archive » Modern Mechanix http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/05/23/seeks-300-mph-with-motorcycle-powered-by-auto-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-1846 Hemmings Auto Blogs » Blog Archive » Modern Mechanix Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:40:35 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/05/23/seeks-300-mph-with-motorcycle-powered-by-auto-engine/#comment-1846 [...] Of course, not all of the website’s dedicated to car stuff - most of it’s vintage nerderrific ads and other sundry articles, but every now and then, they reproduce something like the Heavily Armored Police Car from 1935, the auto-engined 300 mph motorcycle, the You Drive a MILLION DOLLAR Automobile article, the SKOOT-MOBILE ad or the prediction of a bubbletop windshield from 1939. [...] [...] Of course, not all of the website’s dedicated to car stuff – most of it’s vintage nerderrific ads and other sundry articles, but every now and then, they reproduce something like the Heavily Armored Police Car from 1935, the auto-engined 300 mph motorcycle, the You Drive a MILLION DOLLAR Automobile article, the SKOOT-MOBILE ad or the prediction of a bubbletop windshield from 1939. [...]

]]> By: Stannous http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/05/23/seeks-300-mph-with-motorcycle-powered-by-auto-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-713 Stannous Tue, 23 May 2006 17:29:13 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/05/23/seeks-300-mph-with-motorcycle-powered-by-auto-engine/#comment-713 He never made it to 300 mph. He got 140 in one direction and to 180 going back in the timed measured mile but broke a gear and was stuck in 2nd gear at 180mph! He never tried again but felt that the bike could have made it to 300mph. It also turned out that the $10,000 prize hee was trying for was a hoax! Read the story and see the bike today here: http://www.allpar.com/history/plymouth/motorcycle.html He never made it to 300 mph. He got 140 in one direction and to 180 going back in the timed measured mile but broke a gear and was stuck in 2nd gear at 180mph! He never tried again but felt that the bike could have made it to 300mph.
It also turned out that the $10,000 prize hee was trying for was a hoax!

Read the story and see the bike today here:
http://www.allpar.com/history/.....cycle.html

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