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New Record: Driving Across the US in Less Than 29 Hours
ABCnews.com ^ | 10/31/2013 | Russell Goldman

Posted on 10/31/2013 6:25:00 PM PDT by oxcart

Three men, a souped-up Mercedes, 2,813 miles of American roadway, a bedpan, and a dream.

Ed Bolian, and his team, obliterated a cross-country driving record this month, racing from New York to LA in a heart-pounding 28 hours 50 minutes.

That’s 11 hours faster than Google maps says it should take, and nearly 3 hours faster than the previous record set in 2006 of 31 hours and 4 minutes.

“Honestly, I was so shocked at how much we had beat our target and previous record,” Bolian, a 27-year-old Lamborghini dealer from Atlanta told ABCNews.com.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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KEYWORDS: cannonball; mercedes; record; speed
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To: oxcart

Oh no that’s fine, it’s two stories, just wanted you to see the other one.

I love these guys!


21 posted on 10/31/2013 6:47:02 PM PDT by nascarnation (Frequently wrong but rarely in doubt....)
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To: oxcart

I here they used a different route than the other records were set on.

This is effectively cheatery.


22 posted on 10/31/2013 6:47:21 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mike70

23 posted on 10/31/2013 6:48:27 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: ToastedHead
You mean like "caravan racing" in the UK?


24 posted on 10/31/2013 6:49:51 PM PDT by nascarnation (Frequently wrong but rarely in doubt....)
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To: mkmensinger
They shared a bedpan???

I'd rather eat cheese and take an Imodium.

25 posted on 10/31/2013 6:50:53 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: cdcdawg

They had a long ways to go and a short time to get there. ;)


26 posted on 10/31/2013 6:56:30 PM PDT by Redcitizen (.)
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To: nascarnation

Well, there ya go. I’ll just have to drive on over. At seven miles a gallon, it’s gonna be close getting across the Atlantic...better fill up in West Hampton.


27 posted on 10/31/2013 6:56:43 PM PDT by ToastedHead
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To: oxcart

never forget my san francisco to minniesoda run in 1973,, 1900 miles in 30 hours,, damned near took out two elk in Wyoming in the middle of the night hauling series butt.. went right between them.. they never had a chance to move, , I was boogeying.. no lamborghini tho.. Chevy Nova


28 posted on 10/31/2013 6:58:58 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: MV=PY

During the winter you can do up to around 150mph in the jet stream.

There is an amateur radio ballooning group (CA Near Space Project) that sent up a balloon that went from CA to Algeria, 6,236 miles, in 57 hours for an average of 109mph. It doubled the previous record of 3,361 miles.

News article.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-12/amateur-radio-balloon-makes-record-transcontinental-transatlantic-flight

Original article from CNSP.
http://www.cnsp-inc.com/cnsp-11/

They also had a second balloon that made a trans-Atlantic flight and landed in Morocco.
http://www.cnsp-inc.com/cnsp-18/


29 posted on 10/31/2013 7:00:12 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: MV=PY
That guy with the lawn chair and helium balloons ...

That's the first thing that came to mind for me as well!!!

Eccentric geniuses like this are who we should build statues of, not politicians.

Oh, and don't forget that kid who landed the plane in Red Square back in the 80s!

30 posted on 10/31/2013 7:02:41 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Thanks! Didn’t know about that.

While the balloon w/GPS & transmitter is cool, I’m most impressed that independent receivers turned into the data acquisition system. Nice.


31 posted on 10/31/2013 7:08:26 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Amen FRiend.

Entrepreneur:

a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.


32 posted on 10/31/2013 7:11:17 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: oxcart

Yamaha FJR Sets Continent Crossing Record

On minute Zero, John Ryan was in Prudhoe Bay, on the North Shore of Alaska. 5,191 minutes later, Ryan was in Key West, Florida, having traversed the entire North American Continent, the long way, on his 2005 Yamaha FJR 1300, outfitted with Metzeler Z6 Interact sport-touring tires. And with those 5,191 minutes, or, if you prefer, 86 hours and 31 minutes, Ryan totally destroyed the existing time record for this trip, of 96:01, by a clean 9.5 hours!

http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/608/3739/Motorcycle-Article/Yamaha-FJR-Sets-Continent-Crossing-Record.aspx


33 posted on 10/31/2013 7:12:25 PM PDT by Spartan302 (Spartans never quit, they come back later with more warriors. Asymmetrical Warfare.)
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To: oxcart
"I've been driving all night my hands are wet on the wheel"

Am I really the first one to post this?

34 posted on 10/31/2013 7:12:52 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (You can keep your doctor - if you lock him in your basement.)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Just look at the comments to see how the bedwetters that normally watch abc “feel” about this. Those guys are awesome ! The “commenters”, not so much. Mostly along the lines of “glorifying law breakers” weenie, crybaby, got their asses kicked a lot in high school types : )


35 posted on 10/31/2013 7:15:49 PM PDT by prov1813man (While the one you despise and ridicule works to protect you, those you embrace work to destroy you)
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To: oxcart

The replies at the site are astounding.

Almost all are denouncing the trip.

We as a nation have seemingly lost our frontier spirit.


36 posted on 10/31/2013 7:21:31 PM PDT by FatherFig1o155 ("Most bad government results from too much government." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: mkmensinger

Watch your diet for 2-3 days before leaving, and there is no reason to take a dump for 28 hours. Pissing in a bottle is all you’d need to do.


37 posted on 10/31/2013 7:23:57 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: oxcart
cannonball run photo: Cannonball Run (4) vlcsnap-3157.png

Meh, it was better when Adrienne Barbeau did it.

38 posted on 10/31/2013 7:35:45 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

Thank you. I was waiting for the first Cannonball Run reference;the AB photo is icing on the cake.

That deserves a “well done”!!


39 posted on 10/31/2013 7:53:57 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: oxcart

How come a guy driving too fast is a maniac, but one driving too slow is an idiot?

H/T George Carlen


40 posted on 10/31/2013 8:26:37 PM PDT by logitech (It is time.)
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