![]() "I thought some day, I'll came back and run." When Webster came to Carson City to look for a home, he drove through the salt flats when Speed Week was running in August of that year. It's my ingenuity and skill against someone else's, without having a fortune wrapped up in it, the fact that anyone can enter." "I like land speed racing because it doesn't take big money or sponsors. He held three records in the D pure stock division, which is recorded on horsepower-to-weight ratio of the car, rather than elapsed time. Webster was successful in drag racing, as well. Webster said he's been speed-record racing about 22 years, about the same amount of time he's lived in Carson City. It has a 303-cubic-inch engine from a 1950 Ford flathead. Webster's Datsun is 20 feet in length, about 36 inches high and sits one-half inch above the ground at its lowest point. The previous record Webster broke was about 161 mph. Before it was a pretty weak record for this division." "It felt good to take it (speed of the car) to where I thought it should be. "I originally had this record, then another person broke it in August, then I broke it again. "It's always nice to know you broke a record," Webster said. Each entry has a "down" speed, when they drive the 3 miles from the start line a "return" speed, and the final speed is the average of the two. When competing in September, Webster's top speed was 188.536 mph. ![]() He holds four land speed records in this car - unblown fuel competition (August 1994, 161.699 mph) blown gas competition coupe (September 2004, 161.098) unblown gas competition coupe (August 1998, 156.701), and the blown fuel flathead competition coupe (September 2007, 184.851). ![]() Webster, 64, a Carson City resident for the past 22 years, drove a "highly modified" 1975 Datsun B210. 13 broke the land speed record in the blown fuel competition coupe division on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. In an automobile that looks more like it belongs in a James Bond film, Dan Webster on Sept.
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