"This Sucker Is Nuclear!"

On This Day In History
1904: Henry Ford sets speed record

Quote Of The Day
"Auto racing began five minutes after the second car was built."
(Henry Ford)

A complex man, Henry Ford. A trade union buster who hired a team of security guards lead by boxer, Naval sailor and businessman Harry Herbert Bennett to rough up employees protesting for better pay, he also made the Ford Motor Company one of the first companies in the United States to adopt the five day, forty hour working week. Honoured by Adolf Hitler with the Grand Cross Of The German Eagle for his book The International Jew, he also cared deeply for the health of the nation and established a health care programme to help with tobacco and nicotine addiction. He also sought ways to make cars more environmentally friendly, investing heavily in research into soy based plastics for car parts and corn and ethanol fuels. Sadly, these initiatives were not popular with car buyers.

Henry Ford's 999 set a land speed record of 91.37 mph on the frozen surface of Michigan's Lake St. Clair, but this record was quickly beaten within a month at Ormond Beach, Florida, by William K. Vanderbilt.

What speed could a nuclear powered DeLorean reach? More importantly, could it outrace the atomic battery powered 1966 Batmobile? Well, so far as I can determine, these two atomic beasts have never raced.

Now, Ford VS Ferrari was an awesome movie and it was a crime against cinema that Christian Bale didn't win an Oscar for his portrayal of racing legend Ken Miles. But, there is something even better than that; Barris VS Furst! Yes! George Barris' 1966 Batmobile vs Anton Furst's 1989 Batmobile. Which do you think would win? Enjoy this epic battle. 

SPOILER ALERT!!
My family laughed when I let out an uncharacteristically jubilant oral exultation at the end of the race.

If that has left you hungry for more cinematic automobile racing, here is a video of a Scalextric DeLorean racing KITT.