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Stadium Super Trucks at SEMA 2012

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Robbie Gordon continues to promote his up and coming Stadium Super Truck project at this year’s SEMA show. Gordon is trying to bring back spectator friendly stadium and arena off road racing with small, agile trucks with a lot of suspension travel for jumping. It’s basically Arena Supercross on 4 wheels. It looks like Robbie took the SST out on the SEMA drift course. They definitely are starting to get the setup dialed in because the little truck is extremely agile despite having enough suspension travel to do some pretty extreme 3-wheel cornering. I think they might be on to something pretty exciting with these things. The video has some cheesy editing and some bad words in the soundtrack (**NSFW**), but seeing the truck in action is pretty impressive.


Source: Stadium Super Trucks on YouTube

1906 Adams-Farwell Rotary Engine

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The National Automobile Museum in Reno Nevada brought their 1906 Adams-Farwell Series 6 touring car to Pebble Beach last year. It’s the last car of it’s kind and it has the only working Adams-Farwell air-cooled 5 cylinder rotary piston engine in existence. Rotary piston engine you say? The crankcase with the 5 cylinders rotates around a stationary crankshaft in the center of the engine. The layout used centrifugal force to distribute fuel and scavenge exhaust gases while providing exceptional air cooling. I guess this is technically a rotary radial engine which is rad.


Source: YouTube user EarthAdvocate