Hemmings Daily: How to exceed the speed limit by 220 MPH and get away with it

Before embarking on his quest to break the world land-speed record, Rosco McGlashan was an exhibition drag racer who piloted jet dragsters, much like the Arfons brothers. McGlashan also decided - once - to take his act to a public street, as he told the tale on his Facebook page. I was on my way home from a drag racing meeting on Australia's east coast. What the director of this film company wanted was an impossibility. He wanted me to race my jet dragster down a public street on a Sunday morning at very high spe [View in Browser | Subscribe]( [Hemmings Daily] Tuesday, October 22, 2019 [How to exceed the speed limit by 220 MPH and get away with it]( [How to exceed the speed limit by 220 MPH and get away with it]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Before embarking on his quest to break the world land-speed record, Rosco McGlashan was an exhibition drag racer who piloted jet dragsters, much like the Arfons brothers. 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