Way before its time. They were one of the first ppl to really figure out turbochargering

Google Big Red Camaro.

Technically jumped by leaps in the next 20 years .

It would've been legendary to see what Callaway could do with the C8 platform.

Amazing story thank you. Rest in peace mr Callaway 🙏

I think i hear Romulus 3 :) Also love the S85, love the M5/M6, and the G-Power versions. Great little documentary!

While respecting the achievemnets of the Callaway team, it doesn't count for the "Production Car" top speed record, as it wasn't a car they built, it was a car they modified based on a production car. "Outright street legal" top speed record, they shattered the crap outta that!!

Lighter pistons and a carbon fiber monocockpit

Add Twin turbos and n😮s

IDK we had a 4 speed hemi superbird with 2.76 gears drop the torsion bars down to near the bump stops was quite fast with Firestone Blue Streaks similar car ran Bonneville I'll have to do the math on the top speed thewe were well over 200 slowwed down by turns

I thought that car came out in 2008 with the V10??

Best sounding engine (in a sedan) ever!

The operative wording is world’s fastest street car but not the world’s fastest car on the street. In 1938 German race car driver Bernd Rosemeyer drove the Auto Union (now Audi) streamliner to the unheard of speed of 268.432 mph on a stretch of autobahn between Frankfurt and Darmstadt. Never before had anyone driven as fast on a public road. It took 72 years for a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport to break that record in 2010 going 270mph...

Need For Speed 2 intro music is on point!

I can still remember that time and Car well. Callaway R.I.P ❤. 😮

"Mack Larr Inn"

Several years ago I saw and heard one of those monsters in my area , you could feel the ground half mile away shake , the rumble of the engine nasty - we referred it to be the mustang eater . 80s- 2000s . Haven’t heard anything since the two sightings then .

Bruh, someone who has the money to be able to afford an R35 GTR doesn't care how they did it. They care a out the fact that they can make the same modifications to their to achieve such a laptime with that specific car. It's taking an F1 car around nordchleife with a full downforce rear wing, and then the same F1 car going around the traxk with a trimmed down rear wing. The fact ia it's still an F1 car. If I had an F1 car, I have the ability to choose from 2 different rear wings which will give me better or worse laptimes.

Thorough documentary. Well done.

It's just a suped up shitheap it doesn't count . It's not a production car .

I knew it was an e60 M5 just by the unmatched screaming sound of the s85 in the opening of the video. Subbed. I’ll watch the entire video now.

Great video! What a legend. May he rest in speed!!!

Well here in Australia we have the world’s fastest four door sedan the Australian Ford Falcon XY GTHO. And the XA Falcon was faster at 160 Mph so take that bloody yanks.

What if I told you you have the world's longest KZbin intro

Excellent trip down memory lane for me. As a college student in 1988 I deeply enjoyed rubbing it in the faces of the German students that a road legal Corvette was faster than anything built in Europe.

gpower should put the grunt of the diesel to work...

Love the NFS II music

Bmw people speak a bit funny❤

NEED FOR SPEED soundtrackkk Subbeddd

955/957 Cayennes are real legends. Drive unbelievably well and are built like tanks. I sold my original Turbo and should have never...I recently bought another and I'll never sell it. It's really a top notch vehicle

7:5:1 to one omg😭 so imagine 9:5:1 or 10:1 on boost.. 7:5:1 was more than super safe epa wise

Why does nobody remember "Conan", the Corvette? Early 90's they put a V~12 in a Corvette. They had to move the firewall back several inches. I remember they got at least 212mph out of it.

Whats the use of a powerful engine when it breaks down very often and needs a ton of money to repair 😅

@ 3:39 20V per cylinder?

Shit video I to much shit talk not enough car.

nfs 3 soundtrackkkk

This car was an absolute legend that even most so called "car guys" might not have heard of. While most have heard of a Callaway Corvette the Sledgehammer was the Godfather of speed. A true testament to American engineering. Thank you for making such a comprehensive (and compact) documentary about an American legend, Reeves Callaway.

I remember hearing about Callaway turbo kits back then but didn't know about the Sledge Hammer project....Awesome achievement👍

😂 all these people saying they owned one ...more like leased one. Engine gernades its self on a regular basses or the electronics goes poopoo every 6 days. Mantiance and fixing these things will bankrupt you.

😂😂😂😂

The C4 with Callaway bodywork is one of the best looking cars ever made.

You'd think that engineers would have figured out how to reinforce the bottom end of an engine much sooner. Using a ladder shaped brace for the bottom main bearings. Instead they were just adding more bolts 🔩 going from 2 to 4 bolt bearing caps.

These cars is amazing but I live in Australia and the speed limit on our straight motorways is only 110kph and there is no chance in the near future that the law will be changing that. So if I am not a racing car driver on a track, I'm well and truely stuffed. But then I suppose I could join the millions of Australian who are just dreaming tyre kickers.

The NFS HOT PURSUIT MENU MUSIC ❤❤❤❤

I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of days with Reeves, and his teem at a racetrack . Such a great man. My condolences to his family.

Well then I guess my goal is 240 in the Audi 200 avant 20 valve I have no other choice it’s time to bring it back to its prime and redo the whole car

Thank you for this video. I have read these story only in one magazine. The 1988 dezember Hot Hot magazine. The lingenfelter callaway sledgehammer was one of the Hot Hod of the Year cars !!

Thank you 😢

I had my 2001 wolfsburg up to 230 mph, it could've went faster...

Adding this to the twin Procharged playlist. For obvious reasons 😂