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12th of February 2009 | 16:29 GMT | Alex Oagana
Meet the World's Fastest Limo Driver
STORY HIGHLIGHTS:
- The vehicle is actually based on a well-known kit-car
- It took four years to be completed
- The twin-turbocharged engine puts out 2100 horsepower
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It all started a few years ago and it sounds like the scenario for a very bad B-movie. Businessman David Bruce McMahan, who first became famous a couple of years ago, was riding in a limo which was taking him home from the airport in Indianapolis. He began talking with the driver and pretty soon discovered they both shared a dream. A dream about building a record-breaking street-legal car.
“Building a record-breaking performance car is something I always dreamed of as a kid, ever since I was strapping motors to my Radio Flyer to the time when I was drag racing Studebakers at Paradise Airport,” McMahan told wired.com.
The limo driver's name was Marlon Kirby, and besides driving rich guys from their private jets to their homes he also had his own car tuning company and was a retired competitive wrestler. “So, we exchanged numbers in the limo, and I called Marlon back about two weeks later, agreeing to finance his next project,” McMahan also disclosed. What a soap opera so far, huh?
Well, four years, a lot of money and allegedly a lot of work later, their project is complete and they will even sell it to anyone who can dispose of... wait for it... three million US dollars. A pretty hefty price tag considering the following facts.
The car is actually a British Ultima GTR 720 ex-kit-car which initially had a 0-60 mph time of 2.6 seconds. Kirby scrapped its engine and replaced it with a 434 cubic inch twin-turbocharged Chevrolet V8 that puts out about 2100 hp at the flywheel. He also renamed it Maxximus G-Force.
So, in the end this is just a shed-tuned kit-car whose world record acceleration is attested only by an obscure organization. Is it worth three million bucks? Either the answer, it made Marlon Kirby the fastest limo driver in the world.
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08.11.2009 | 02:21 GMT
Hi Marlon, We don't know each other, however, your car has created a lot of free publicity in the automotive field, The 72 datsun electric still comes out first, but its not good for distance whatsoever. The real reason to contact you is to suggest you actually design and manufacture a single cylinder belt drive, engine to axle, light tube frame absolute minimium weight vehicle, fashioned after the highschool shell competion, where the two winning teams got their cars to go over 2,000 miles per gallon. I am well aware of the highway dept of safty rules and regulations regarding an automobile that travels over the road, and the insurance factor as well, However I believe the time is right to design , manufacture and market a fashionless auto, like henry ford did, a no option car, designed for pure functionality, as opposed to fashion. The realm that all the others operate in. The children of today would buy the car, and eventually the adults as well, the world is involved in an information revolution. Since the cloaked monarchies who own and rule the earth with the iron hand of law, controlling the masses through the newsmedia, and academia, people are what they read see and hear. This preliterate phase of humanity is drawing to an end. The children will unite on the one book and join forces in the search of real truth, their respective leaders who claim they have the truth uncloaked, the future will bring with it a better humanity, One void of Monarchy, currently having abandoned nature and replaced it with fashion and law. The near future will end both, or alter them, suitable to the united approach to our futures, void of the transgenic truths that rule the world of today. I am 66 years old, a vertically integrated industrial artist, who began the industrial career as an IE, went to many military schools and then MSOE, I am familiar of virtually all aspects of automation, and sincerely believe we could bring onto the automotive market, a 3,000 dollar car, and make more money than all the others. And the simplicity of a single design would permit a sales ready car in a short time. J. Cox 361 462 2535