Sammy Miller blows out the windows of the control tower at Santa Pod in 1982 

At least it wasn't Jimmy Saville.

I was there that day unbelievable, still talk about it today .

I remember the deathly silence after it all occurred, people were in shock !!!

Fake news

​@@chippedtoothtony9665 Are you stupid It blew out the fucking window

+rael1999 I was there too when Sam did the 3.58 standing quarter. If I remember correctly it was a damp meeting where everyone struggled for grip except Sammy. lol

+g7usl ....Yeah lol...of course Sammy didn't need any grip as it's all thrust, apparently the gas produced expands 20,000 times it's volume when it's realised out of the back of the car....I also remember when there was a field of 16 Funny Cars,16 Methanol Dragsters and 16 Methanol Funny Cars all at one meeting and Sammy the Cherry on the cake with his Vanishing Point and Oxygen Cars !

ItzMini Melt Suffering from hydrogen peroxide inhalation? "Allowed" 🤔 You might well be correct in saying there is a speed restriction on JET cars at NHRA tracks/ events. Do not know of any ROCKET cars in action anywhere?

Nobody elsewhere in the world do drag races... So....

@@honumoorea873 ...Err this was in the UK and there are drag racing tracks in Scandinavia, Germany and Australia...as well of course at the home of drag racing the USA.

+Richard Ings i was there on an LC

It ran on hydrogen peroxide its banned now. Probably why you haven't heard of him. The banned it not long after that as it had to be kept cold. If it wasn't kept cold everything around it would incinerate in flames. To my knowledge

Me too

Oh those toilets were terrible. Someone had graffitied " I can't breathe "

that's just fucked

Daniel Kim I think it went back in time for a second to the black and white era.

I dont think its the speed. I think its cause it makes a shockwave and the heat

@@Shangledangle was a joke

xD

@@karazami6594 a good 1 :D

For comparison I live 5 miles from Zmax Dragway in Concord NC, And I hear all the top classes run. Top Fuel and Funny Car rattle my shop.

@@mykemech same i live 3 or 4 miles from Santa pod and can hear the dragster. What's great, by the time the sound reaches us, the race has already finished. Lol. I heart the jet car yesterday. Matter of fact. Anyone that isn't a local would assume the government are doing some secret research with rockets nearby lol

Last time I sat in the end stand at Avon Park watching a demo run of a Top Fuel dragster (can't recall who, though) the exhaust pulses nearly scrambled my guts.

First part lie, last part lie

My brother says that was Fremont . I remember seeing Dave Anderson in the Pollution Packer at Sacramento too . And Paula Murphy at Sears Point .

Urban legend has it that one time at Lancaster Drag Strip, there was a jet show and one of the cars blew a tractor trailer off of its wheels as it was going down the thruway.... about a half mile away or so from the track!.. nowadays there is a wall at the front end of the track because of that 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

@@NCOGNTO So long ago.. but I remember that we were running somewhere in northern/central California when that happened, and clearly visualize the frack running north to south.. so yep.. could have been Fremont since I think their track ran that direction. Did Sacramento run that direction, too?? I know Bakersfield did.. and so did Fresno.

@@FromMyEyesToYours I still make T shirts to celebrate these World's Fastest cars

Didn't happen.

This is actually in the UK at Santa Pod Raceway in Podington.

The top speed is about 317 mph

Sammy Miller still holds the 1/4 mile ET world record for a drag strip at 3.58 @ 386 mph..

When and where ? Think it will an 1/8 of a mile which he ran in Holland.

Yeah Sammy built 'Spirit of 76' in the 70's.

father then pulled us off the banks to get his autograph

it is 1982 Richard, it's the September 1982 World Finals meeting

Might be my memory then.... the pod signs look old . n i remember the bus being white and being blue i dont think i started goin till... 85 86 Means i got to see Sammy tho

No you weren't

Barry Haywood I smell bullshit !!!!!

It's not. This car has a jet engine that provides thrust and moves it.

@@marine4lyfe85 Yeah that was kind of a stupid comment

@@yommish It happens to the best of us.

@@marine4lyfe85 Rocket engine, not jet...

Crazy man. Thx for mentioning.

I believe that too.

His vanishing point was 2002....

Shit and I have a twin rocket engine sat in my garage right now that is 31,700lbs thrust and I'm thinking about putting that on a dragster lol 😆

where was it?

Tʜᴇ Gᴀᴍᴇ Cʜᴀɴɢᴇʀ yes he did 380mph in 3.3 second on a drag its the wrold record and his best time

***** no its on a drag track he reach 380mph in 3.3sec. on the 400m (1/4mile)

jesus sons omg. A veyron gets to 60 Mph in 2.5 seconds. Imagine going 6 times faster in roughly the same time! Must be truly face-ripping

......Kitty was a woman and it wasn't on a drag strip. Sammy's is the fastest recorded time on a drag strip.

It's a rocket car, better get yourself off to Cape Canaveral.

No. You won't find her quarter mile time/speed was ever officially ratified by any governing body (either NHRA or FIA) because it did not meet the relevant stipulations. She did set the absolute speed record for a woman driver (a two-way average of 512.71mph) but the FIA only recognises the outright LSR. It doesn't have separate classes by gender.

@@maunsell24 actually , you could have watched the YT video of Kitty O'Neil to see for yourself . Is Sammys "record" backed up by ANY sanctioning body ? Kitty's is and I have the FIA records sent to me by Dick Keller (Blue Flame / Speedquest on YT) and it's not "gender based" - it's the Fastest quarter mile ever in the POLLUTION PACKER

@@NCOGNTO ​I can't find a YT video with the title you mention. Link please. Furthermore, to my knowledge there is no video footage of her 3.22 run. Even if there were it's not proof of the e.t. Only calibrated timing gear can do that. What has Kitty's time got to do with POLLUTION PACKER? One iteration of that car was wrecked and its driver Dave Anderson killed at Charlotte Motor Speedway in March 1974. Vern Anderson drove another (a different car) to the FIA record in August of that year at Bonneville. That is listed on the official FIA site. Kitty's claimed e.t. didn't occur until 3 years later. Furthermore I did not say that Sammy's 3.58 was backed up by any sanctioning body. If, as you state, Kitty's figure is an official FIA record why is it not listed by them?

@@maunsell24 here you go - look at 6:28 Did I mention I have the FIA printout from Dick Keller who built Sammy Miller's engines ? And the BLUE FLAME . Kitty's engine was a Tony Fox rocket in the POLLUTION PACKER I make T shirts of these cars . ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ImpvGrLq5Qs.html

@@NCOGNTO Thanks for the link. A mere statement in a video commentary is not proof. If the FIA printout you have confirms the 3.22 e.t. then why does it not show up in their OFFICIAL World Record listing for Category C Group TH Class RT Rocket Thrust Propulsion? AFAIK the car she drove to that time was Ky Michaelson's 'Rocket Kat'. It the Fox rocket motor in that car was previously fitted to POLLUTION PACKER that Vern Anderson drove to the FIA official quarter mile WR in August 1974 at Bonneville, so what? It doesn't therefore follow that the FIA somehow recognises her e.t. as the current record.

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