Sammy Miller in Oxygen Rocket car.

Clip from, www.ukdrn.co.uk RIP. Sammy Miller.
(www.ukdrn.co.uk) Please give this great site a visit for nostalgic drag racing clips.

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[louswire]

The demise of these particular rockets, was caused by the end of their fuel supply. Hydrogen peroxide is a nasty chemical at the concentrations they ran. One of th two supply companies either ceased production, or went out of business.

A truely 'green' car the 80 lb motor, catalyzed the hydrogenperoxide changing it to high preasure steam, and free oxygen.

[crunchdrag]

Thanks for the comment. I can remember the last few times I saw Sammy run He was struggling to get the performance he used to, because he was trying diferent fuel supplys.

[IamPorterhouse]

If I remember right I saw him at Norwalk, Ohio USA in his car called Natural High, 1980-82?. Unbelievably fast. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

I believe that someone should be telling the truth about who holds the 1/4 mile et records, Slammin Sammy Miller, thats who.

I would also like to see someone do a documentory on these types of cars.

[crunchdrag]

Why are these records always held bye fuel cars???

I agree about a documentory on these cars.

[lookn4thepowpow]

What happened in 2002?? :(

[crunchdrag]

Sammy worked in the oil industry & was killed in a accident at work.

[thedonpetrucci]

It's not mislabelled. The car's name was OXYGEN.

Insightful info, nontheless..

[louswire]

this vid is miss labeled, the car is propelled by hydrogen per oxide, the HO2 is pumped (at high pressure) into a catalyst chamber where it breaks down into water and free oxygen... then it's out the rockett nozzle for incredible thrust.

the HO2 that you put on a cut is 0.05% solution... the stuff used in this (and other cars) was 99.9% solution, so powerful that if you spilled some on exposed skin... the skin would burst into flame! . . . nasty stuff!

[aaronzack14]

damn

[CJBoy2010]

1:30 for take-off

[morgan4xl]

@IamPorterhouse The natural high car was owned and driven by Larry Flickinger. I saw him run a Matin dragway in Michigan and it was unreal off the line.

[WilliamBynum11]

@jazzliscious13 hitler was the man..wish he was still alive

[jazzliscious13]

I heard some other numbers back in the '80s. I was told that the percentage of the solution used was 90%, and the stuff I use on my skin is .01% I believe. And what I was told was that if the 90% solution was spilled on your skin, it would burn a hole in your skin through dissolution, not "burst into flame". Let's not overstate our claims here. I have read about some of Hitler's experiments with this type of propulsion, and the associated disasters suffered by some of his test pilots. Funny!

[jetpoweredgriffin]

@IamPorterhouse

Those were standing start runs with E.T.'s and trap speeds-

not "flying" runs.

I know Ky and I believe him.

[PlottRacing116]

Wicked

[TwoEyeCyclops]

@crunchdrag Man, that sux :(

[rael1999]

@tjohn1986....O'Neills record was not set on a drag strip it was set in The Nevada Desert and more importantly at a damper lower altitude where the drag factor is lower!