TRANSPORTFASTEST BUMPER CAR
Colin Furze (UK) restored
and modified a vintage
bumper car – aka dodgem- that went on to clock a
top speed of 161.476 km/h
(100.336 mph). The
1960s-style bumper car
was souped up with a
600-cc Honda motorbike
engine and driven by BBC
Top G e a r’s The Stig at
Bentwaters airfield
near Ipswich,
Suffolk, UK, on
23 Mar 2017. The
average speed of
a bumper car is
usually 8 km/h
(5 mph).
LONGEST BANANA CAR
The Big Banana Car was
constructed by UK-born
Steve Braithwaite in 2009–11.
The “banana” measures 22 ft
10.5 in (6.97 m) in length and
10 ft 2 in (3.09 m) in height. It
is built on to a truck chassis
using rebar (reinforced steel
bars), chicken wire and
polyurethane foam, which
was sculpted, covered in
fibreglass and painted.
The banana car has a
top speed of 85 mph
(136.79 km/h).MOST VALUABLE GOLD-PLATED CAR
The Sultan of Brunei’s car collection includes more than
500 Rolls-Royces and Bentleys alone. For his wedding
chariot, the Sultan had a Rolls-Royce Silver Spur limousine
customized with a 24-carat gold-plate finish. It came with
a rear coach seat cloth canopy, gold coats of arms and faux-
oak bumper bars. It was valued at $14,000,000 (£9,746,110).
The car is shown here at the wedding of one of his daughters.FASTEST BATH TUB
Between Sep 2014 and Apr 2015, Hannes Roth (CHE)
devoted more than 300 hr to the creation of a mobile bath
tub. He attached a tub to a go-kart chassis and fitted a
120 - hp Yamaha R6 engine into the basin. At the Dynamic
Test Center in Vauffelin, Switzerland, Roth achieved an
average speed of 186.82 km/h (116.08 mph) over his two
fastest runs, and a top speed of 189.9 km/h (117.99 mph).
FASTEST MOTORIZED HOT TUB
On 10 Aug 2014, Phillip Weicker and Duncan Forster (both CAN) drove their creation Carpool
DeVille to an average speed of 52.28 mph (84.14 km/h) over their two best runs, reaching a
maximum speed of 54.8 mph (88.19 km/h) in Wendover, Utah, USA. They had taken a 1969
Cadillac DeVille and replaced the car’s interior with a fibreglass tank. A liquid-to-liquid heat
exchanger with engine coolant heated the Jacuzzi water to 1020F (38.88 0C) in around 35 min.LONGEST STRETCHED SUPERCAR
Conceived and commissioned by Dan Cawley and
designed and built by Chris Wright (both UK), this
7-m-long (23-ft) supercar was made by cutting
a Ferrari 360 Modena in half and adding a
2.89 9 - m (-ft 6-in) midsection, raising the seating
capacity to eight people. It had a reported top speed
of 166 mph (267 km/h), achieving 0–60 mph
in less than 6 sec. The inset shows the
car’s gull-wing doors.OLDEST SAUSAGE CUSTOM CAR
“Wienermobiles” are synonymous with the
Oscar Mayer (USA) meat-production company. The first
custom model was built in 1952 by the Gerstenslager
Company (USA), who fixed a 22-ft-long (6.7-m) likeness
of a hot dog on a bread bun to a Dodge truck chassis.
An original 1952 Wienermobile can be found at the Henry
Ford Motor Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, USA. The Big
Banana Car
has been driven
across the USA, from
Providence, Rhode
Island, to Miami,
Florida.