Something Evil This Way Comes

The 2012 racing for the Poteet and Main Speed Demon is chronicled in "Something Evil This Way Comes".

[@user-if2xh4qu2v]

Production on this video is better than any modern television show. Thank you

[@kirbyvideo]

Thank you for your comment...it made my day. I shot and edited this...along!! Most productions have a host of production personnel, but budgets just wouldn't allow it.

[@timhallas4275]

The kind of men who do this are old school and humble. That should teach us all something about success. Hard work, long hours, attention to detail, and most importantly, eye on the prize. Never settle for anything less than your dream.

[@martinwalsh4041]

I've watched this several times. still get goosebumps Everytime. I've been a fan of Al Teague for many a year. this team is Carrying On!👍Go Fast/Safe.

[@TheAbeljoseph]

Yeee

[@TheAbeljoseph]

Yeah

[@fredgrove4220]

As far as I am concerned, if it isn't an internal combustion engine and wheel driven, it is not a car. Much respect to these guys.

[@markplott4820]

my P100D can smoke any ICE production car made.

[@joshuasmith7369]

@@markplott4820 I was going to leave a Tesla car comment, but you beat me to it. Tesla roadster 2.0 coming soon.

[@rodneyrobinson1800]

Its not a car. Its a streamliner.

[@thethirdman225]

@ fred grove The FIA doesn't agree with you.

[@johndoyle4723]

Piston powered wheel driven is the best record to go for. These guys showed what years of experience can achieve. Yes jet engines, and rockets can go faster, but the challenge of wheel driven requires a different skill set, these guys nailed it. Thanks for the video.

[@thethirdman225]

Going supersonic requires a different skill set again.

[@roddybrodie7493]

I'm a big block Ford guy (385 series)but, I love the sound of that small block raging down the salt. Also the international truck, wonderful sound of coal burning❤

[@awizardalso]

I love to see how they and anyone want to push to the limits. One of the best ones that comes to mind was Burt Munro, from New Zealand who set many records with a motorcycle with less than 1000 cc engines. Some of the movie 'The World's Fastest Indian' was made at the Bonneville Speedway Salt Flats. Anthony Hopkins played the part of Burt Munro. The real Burt faced many obstacles to actually participate but many others helped get to go for it. It's a good movie

[@mynaimrie]

New Zealand represent. Yes we're proud of him along with John Britten and Bruce McLaren. 👍

[@awizardalso]

@@mynaimrie I also like that 'The Hobbit' and the 'Lord of the Ring' trilogy was filmed in New Zealand. There's quite a lot of wonderful scenic views down there.

[@jayc3110]

That was a wonderful piece of History. Thank you for that great little film. Best wishes

[@mitchilito99]

Listening to those passes in the timed mile is the prettiest music you will ever hear.

[@-DEATHSTROKE]

Must be awesome having several expendable 400mph+ engines hanging about 😮

[@ianschroth6575]

This is a perfect example of why old guys rule!! Age and experience is a heck of a combination.

[@wizzyno1566]

I just got done for speeding at 32 in a 30 zone, then first thing I see on my list is this😀 Simply awesome!

[@TheAbeljoseph]

Bangger it's so amazing one of a og car videos so Amazing.!!!😁👍🏽👌😉

[@summoningdark216]

You can't learn or buy experience. That's why these guys succeed, it's year after year trying and trying to be that little bit better. Hats off to you Sirs!

[@samuellane8691]

R. I. P. Art Alfons.

[@brucecarney4416]

It is noteworthy that almost all of these men are as white-haired as I am. One does not achieve what they have overnight ! Considering Mickey Thompson's accomplishments of so many years ago, only a few MPH less, with so much less tech- but so much more motor is amazing to this day. At 400 + MPH , each one mile per hour comes with a gargantuan effort of time, hard work, and desire to be the best and fastest on the planet. For my money Jets are aircraft that skim the salt. Wheel driven records are TRUE land speed records. That being said, I never failed to marvel at an F-4 on the catapult of the USS RANGER in 1965/6!

[@125AXer]

Great Comment. I am in awe of these guys!

[@Kawiturbo750]

At 70 years old I ran 215 mph on Ted Rich's turbo Hayabusa at the Mojave Mile April 2018. I was ready to drive his new 300 mph bike at Bonneville but Ted Rich and Elaine Carpenter were killed in their new racing Acroduster airplane in Phoenix, AZ Aug. 20, 2018. I have no intention of slowing down.

[@moncorp1]

You didn't mention money. It also takes someone who's built up quit a large bank account over time.

[@skydofinurhead4599]

Or that means they are not much smarter than Mickey after all these years.. Just a observation.

[@Datsun510zen]

Passion drive for sure. I've raced open class solo events for 40 years, I'm sporting lots of white hair these days, and although it breaks my heart, I realize the internal combustion engine's days are numbered. Electric driven vehicles are gaining fast and it kills me to think, but one day all this knowledge we've accumulated will be obsolete. In my world of Autocross, hill climb, and slalom, electric vehicles are already posting fastest times. Prototype for the Tesla Roadster runs a 1.9 sec 0-60 and top speed of over 260mph... in a production car.

[@mikdavies5027]

Good on you, Yanks! for persisting in piston driven records, the driver is one brave chappie.

[@generalkayoss7347]

When rockets and jet engines come into play, it's just a rocket/jet more or less flying across the surface.

[@powerofone1645]

That's one hell of a good engine. Well done team. A great bunch of "get up - get going and get it done blokes"! Great experience and memories. :)

[@quickdeuce]

Poteet is in Yeager company. To hang on to the wheel at those kinds of speed, speeds no one driving a piston car has been IS as was Chuck Yeager hanging on to the controls of the X15. Awesome skill and NO FEAR piloting. [edit] We have to mention the tire companys,, just saw how shredded the tires were after his 439mph pass and WOW! How those tires held together to help Poteed get slowed down is incredible,, absolutely incredible.

[@MDRM68]

Yeager never flew the X-15...he flew the X-1....completely different aircraft..

[@thethirdman225]

*_"Awesome skill and NO FEAR piloting."_* Do you really think these people have _no_ fear? Think again. Only lunatics are completely fearless... oh, and Hollywood heroes.

[@Trackstar2211]

A wonderful and heartwarming accomplishment. Well done guys and great video Ron.

[@michaelhenry3224]

You, by design or accident, got the aerodynamics just right. It doesn't even kick up any dust!

[@bigmikeh]

It's by design, trust me. Not a part on that car that hasn't been looked at very, very closely. You don't go over 380 mph with hold-my-beer-and-watch-this "engineering".

[@SuperChuckRaney]

there is a vid out of the English built diesel powered streamliner ....goes over the aero very closely

[@MmeHyraelle]

They did extensive research to get this design down. Same for the 2400hp engine.

[@DandSCreations]

You all had company in the Drag racing world. My Dad used to own and operate the Main and Martinets top alcohol dragster in the 2000's . We used to hit 267 in a 1/4 mile from a standing start. The name Main likely relates us as it isn't very common. My father passed away last year but I plan to field my own Top Alcohol car when I can make it to a bigger airline and earn a fatter paycheck!

[@mikebtrfld1705]

Saw Thrust SSC in Reno. 1997 sitting on it's trailer just after it broke the sound barrier. It looked like it had been through a war.

[@thethirdman225]

Yeah but that car was pretty beaten up after 66 runs. It had to deal with things that will never be a factor for Speed Demon. Shockwaves to bad things to large panel areas, like the flat sections behind the two jet engines.

[@thegutlessleadingthecluele7810]

any last prayers?

[@13699111]

Thank you for posting this video .

[@shortribslongbow5312]

Outstanding gentleman!

[@davidleversha4898]

Refreshing to see intelligent, passionate Americans these days, doing something real. Fantastic.

[@TheAbeljoseph]

So good!!!

[@bluesharp59]

You guys are Nuts ! Someone got to have the balls lol. Thumbs up and great job guys.

[@jasongregory3950]

Incredible... congratulations 🇺🇲👍.

[@Retroscoop]

Lovely humming sound, clean looking machine... I love it ! Would it go even faster if George wouldn't eat for two three days ?

[@colinmartin2974]

Hats off and bow, that's it...no need to say anything more, just total respect...

[@terriecotham1567]

Amazing people and amazing machines from the racing teams to those who run the event and those who support it. Thanks for posting and helping to inspire people from kids to those at a point in life of just setting in a rocker chair and cant make the trip Thanks

[@stibbs11]

All I can say is you guys are doing Spitfire speed can't believe that you do it on Terra Firma all the power to you love what you do beautiful beautiful car godspeed

[@rickytimms1851]

HELL YEAL...Love you guys...God bless !!!

[@mikevinton5974]

WoW well done Ron 👏 great to see you still racing ! I actually met you in Bakersville many many years ago when you had flatfire at the car show , myself and girlfriend at the time actually went out for a meal you guys in the evening. Great work on the Salt 👍🏻 I'll be keeping an eye out for more . Regard Mike Vinton - England 🇬🇧

[@cardboardrob1]

That's awesome. I would love to go see this race.

[@wrifraff]

I can't imagine what it's like to run that fast. Amazing.

[@TheAbeljoseph]

Amazing

[@plumedargent4459]

The sound of the engine is the best music for this video.

[@chrisbaker2903]

Al Teague's sounds way better.

[@1CLOOOUD]

Really An Amazing muscle engine machine building!!! Cool job

[@johnbecay3686]

good job, you guys!!!!

[@orvh5223]

love to see another like this, now that its 2021, please

[@josephp9749]

Yoda sensing a disturbance in the force...

[@davidhall8874]

Shakespeare wrote "By the pricking of my thumbs, something Wicked this way comes."

[@heineken6120]

that's what it's all about, piston driven speed record!!

[@MartinWillett]

+rafael trejo Right, that's what's left for Americans to go for. The _ah ... but ... but_ quibble records. Since 1983.

[@electricman5010]

+Martin Willett yeah, right ,quibble records. its easy to go 400 plus with piston power. that must be why the brits have done it with all british parts .

[@MartinWillett]

electricman5010 The no quibble land speed record has been held by Britons since 1983. What is the point of the other records? Consolation prizes.

[@electricman5010]

+Martin Willett enjoy your thrust powered everyday road car , and don't forget to take a look at all the 2016 thrust powered road cars from all the major manufacturers

[@MartinWillett]

electricman5010 Breaking records is about breaking records, because they are there. Breaking land speed records is a very inefficient way to research technology for everyday cars. Road cars do not need tyres which can last for about 30 miles and cope with speeds of 400 MPH.

[@Paganiproductions84]

great stuff good luck with the wheel driven record this year

[@KSparks80]

Awesome!

[@3dAlvin]

It was nice to see my old friend "Mike Cook". I haven't seen him since the Blue T-Bird from Thunder Racing.

[@frankdeon6539]

Shredding the tires at 300+ MPH, DAMN.

[@pobinr]

Why dub music on when we want to hear the engine?

[@royeastman5166]

What great endevor well done.

[@oldschoolman1444]

It would be a hell of an adrenaline rush to drive, wooo hooo !

[@RotorMedic7]

GREAT VIDEO!!!

[@RandysFiftySevenChevy]

Great video and Im not saying that because Mike Cook is a good friend of mine. Excellent production values.

[@jamesd5888]

As AC/DC sings...we have the biggest balls of them all!

[@chrisbaker2903]

I'd like to see Al Teague's car run with added turbo chargers instead of, or maybe in addition to, the positive displacement blowers.

[@mpetersen6]

And when LSR cars first went over 400 mph they were using V-12 aircraft engines. Some cars can two. I still think it sucks that the SoCal Timing Association basically banned turbines

[@chrisbaker2903]

Al Teague's 406 car had a single V8 supercharged like a dragster engine but detuned to last the several miles at 8500 rpm.

[@huntsbychainsaw5986]

Hey, its Freiburger!

[@laurac1324]

Why haven't we heard about any of these cars lately what a shame!!!

[@thethirdman225]

This car was crashed in 2014 but I believe it has since been rebuilt.

[@anthony851]

Cool vid. Hi from NZ, Anthony.

[@rusty383]

Wow Fastest Piston Engine with Rubber Tires.

[@TheAbeljoseph]

Your profile is a car why did you take a picture of your car😂😂😂

[@mpetersen6]

If McLaren, Ilmor and Cosworth decided to put the effort in these guys would be toast. It would take them a couple of seasons to get up to speed but as after that. Name one, just one truly international form of motorsports that is dominated by US teams, cars and engines. I'm waiting.

[@chrisbaker2903]

All Chevy or Ford would need to do is have enough backing from the stockholders and they can beat any other racing builder on the planet.

[@mpetersen6]

@@chrisbaker2903 Yah, and they would hire Ilmor, Cosworth or McLaren to do the job. The US race sanctioning bodies are very conservative. The NHRA for example when the guy from Australia came up with a better motor for dragsters that just happened to be OHC they banned it. Nascar. Gotta ban that 427 Cammer. Loves me them thar pushrods. Indy went ape over that pushrod motor Ilmor built for Penske. Ilmor took the rule book and stretched the hell out of it. Get that thing out of here. The Offy cant keep up anymore. We'll just give it more boost. When it comes to automotive engine technology the US still lags behind the rest of the world. The reason in my opinion comes from one thing. Cheap gas. It was easier to just punch the motors out bigger. And they are still doing it with the LS and the New Hemi, aka the Cam Eater. I spent 30+ years working in the US automotive industry and I personally find it embarrassing the way the industry operates. And there's plenty of blame to go around. Labor wants more. Well, that's human nature. But how much is enough. I'd rather keep working than get more and put the company out of business. On the management side its squeeze every cent of cost out and every cent of profit in. OK, I get it. It's a business. Not a charity. But if it costs $1.00 to make a component properly the bean counters will find a way to make it for 95 cents and it won't be worth spit.

[@craighorton8078]

I knew Kenny when I was a KO'd growing up in so cal. He was good then and even better now

[@TheAbeljoseph]

Bro your profile is a dog😂😂😂😂

[@TheAbeljoseph]

It's funny

[@TheAbeljoseph]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@georgewashington938]

I saw the Bonneville salt flats a couple years ago. I was surprised to see it was soggy wet and just under a layer of a few inches of salt is a thick mud layer. The must do their speed runs in the dry season. The area is a stark desert which made me assume it was always the dry season in that area.

[@chrisbaker2903]

The wet season refreshes the surface each year.

[@Madd_Jack]

12:09 , puttin' ice in the cars built-in cooler for a nice cold beer after the finish.

[@camgnilpe9300]

that's way funny dumb ass!

[@tomtincher6104]

Due to the time/space chrono synclastic infudibilum I think the back or tail of the "car" is actually moving faster than the front or nose. Technically speaking the driver is not moving at all while experiencing what he/she feels as zero gravity and timelessness. The speed record is experienced in the collective concsiousness of the spectators in the moment. You had to be there !

[@MrSpanks]

Brilliant achievement! What's going on with those front tyres? At 20:41 (after the outward run), you can see a 'groove' around the centre of the contact patch as if the tyre has shed the rubber? I know he said they were 'experimental' Dunlop tyres but what's going on there?!

[@thefreedomguyuk]

Noooo, that's not evil. It's beautiful and GOOOOOD!!! Only one gripe, the engines sound like music. The music here sound like....evil 😉

[@pilsnrimgaard2507]

This is what makes America the great place it is. These guys are AWESOME!

[@afrog2666]

A few guys running cars in the desert doesn`t make america a great place. It`s a country full of idiots, racists, corrupted politicians, gun toting bible freaks and people who are so ignorant they can`t spell their own name. Their military is basically employed by private corporations and commit atrocities around the world just about every year. The LEADER of the nation is a billionaire tv showhost playboy with the scientific literacy of DIRT, and the diplomatic skill of an avalanche. 160 million are FAT, and even more have no idea what even goes on in the world outside their country and probably not even their city. Institutionalized racism and private prisons being run as a business, inequality and poverty is wide spread and most of the planet think little more of them than being hyper religious gun collectors who may or may not actually *choose* between the sheep and their cousin. "Great" place.. It`s a nation filled with illiterate assholes and juvenile assholes who think "good" means being able to kick someone`s ass, or "justice" or "freedom", is when they invade some shithle to steal their resources or to bomb civilians into oblivion so their companies and come in and rebuild.. "we`re nr.1!" As in, the nr.1 bully in the schoolyard.. Even worse is that these RATS are proud of it.

[@notsanger]

Just let a guy enjoy some cars, geez.

[@camgnilpe9300]

a frog take your country which must be france with a name like froggy and shove it up your asshole! now FUCK OFF! greetings from the USA

[@poruatokin]

@@afrog2666 That is one of the most accurate, succinct and powerful explanations I have heard of the USA since the opening scene from The Newsroom kzbin.info/www/bejne/jH7UlH-Lpr6kqNU Well done sir, have a thumbs up.

[@bluedolphin5792]

@@afrog2666 well get the fuxk out of here!

[@johnsheldon7716]

I would be honored to hold a flashlight under the hood for these guys and then get yelled at for holding it wrong.

[@guysmalley]

Remarkable car and team

[@ericmercury3187]

What a good video of a landspeed car and crew. Well done, ( they detuned the engine by 500hp to get the record? wha?)

[@MmeHyraelle]

on a 2300hp set-up.

[@RenoDeano]

Great video. 421 mph with a 300 cubic inch piston engine.

[@alribee]

Ken Duttweiler. that's all you need to know. In one of those dyno runs got 2500( about) hp from a 300 cube Chevy. HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN? (BOOST)

[@chrismacleod3947]

I need that engine for my Ford Fiesta

[@caesarillion]

I wonder what those engines cost. Great show. Thanks. Paul in Thailand

[@thomasschoon8407]

Them's good old boy hot rodders! Hot damn! 'Turn it on, wind it up, blow it out!'

[@kenfrazee2779]

gtooooohhh

[@peterdarr383]

Beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they were born

[@jenniferf.8833]

The best of the best, Con Grad's. Harry

[@mikervjeep7794]

非常棒👍

[@TheAbeljoseph]

Bro That's a different language

[@user-hb8be5wb4q]

I don’t mind some music to kill “dead” air, time without comment or most important, the sound of a vehicle coming or going by. Thanks for the vlog, great, and thanks for sharing, great! You get a new subscriber and a high five!

[@crucifyrobinhood]

I don't want to sound whiny but I hope we get to hear this thing at least once without the cornball music drowning it out.

[@ransomprigg1047]

I was straining to hear that engine but for some reason all these guys think you've got to run that annoying twangy guitar music. The sound of the car is half the fun.

[@claes5336]

@@ransomprigg1047 It seems like most US produced vids suffers from this disise, we want enginesounds not crappy digital noise

[@camgnilpe9300]

then fucking go to Bonneville and listen until your heart is content.quit whinning and STFU!

[@moneyandtimefreedom3352]

cam gnilpe how about you shut the fuck up quit being a complete asshole anytime someone voices their opinion about the soundtrack.

[@BloodBoughtMinistries]

@@camgnilpe9300 grow up

[@heineken6120]

demon status, epic!!!!

[@MrBobbin01]

rafael trejo v

[@toddclark332]

Cool old men and fast.

[@billyp3136]

Great job gentlemen !!!!! What fuel you using ?

[@PerformanceEngines]

They run alcohol

[@bradleypark1936]

Still a pushrod, single cam, 2 valve engine. I am amazed. Well done fellas.

[@AKorigami]

I love this book, it is my favorite Ray Bradbury book, I don't know why it's posted in this motorcycle site???

[@larryrosa6995]

a sucessful venture.

[@RichardHorsfield]

Huge congratulations to you all from us at Toniq Cars here in the UK.

[@rbatog]

SRP or APS in Phoenix Az? Retirement has been good !

[@johnbowen2963]

good on you! nice

[@tomschweikert9537]

what engine?

[@gregg4164]

The saying is " Something wicked this way comes"

[@thomasleemullins4372]

Wasn't there a Disney movie by that name?

[@thegutlessleadingthecluele7810]

What? ....damn to loud over here!

[@micka3221]

Damned right, if you are going to borrow from Skakespeare, get it right. Next thing thing they'll be saying "in one foul swoop" instead of "at one fell swoop". Or "alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well", instead of "alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio"

[@martcon6757]

These guys are fucking amazing, im in awe of their commitment. One thing that occurred to me watching this, why use air filled tyres? Why not use solid rims and bonded rubber, its been done on many record breakers. If they are shredding the tyres and its an issue wouldn't it be safer to go with a better proven option.

[@innocentbystander3798]

Not getting the "evil" bit. Is it the vehicle itself that's "evil"? I don't understand.

[@danb.3397]

I'VE SEEN THESE GUYS RUN AT THE SALT AND MAN THAT BUGGER IS FAST !

[@TWISTEDScene]

This is awesome I just found out I work for George

[@slit4659]

Not anymore You have just been fired......🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@ianmangham4570]

Now that's real SPEED

[@Tuberuser187]

Driven wheel record cars are so much cooler than jet/rocket LSR cars.

[@mattw7330]

i wish i had the money to build cool stuff like that ..

[@HUBBABUBBADOOPYDOOP]

Does it have to be a piston engine? Would a 4 or 6 or 8 Rotor engine work, or be able to qualify?

[@colleenrose5151]

HUBBABUBBA DOOPYDOOP n

[@thegutlessleadingthecluele7810]

it becomes critical at the sound border

[@TheAbeljoseph]

Bro, you are a fire profile it's cool😮😮😮😮😮

[@thegutlessleadingthecluele7810]

@@TheAbeljoseph Just the sun and clouds. 😃