You can call a spade a spade and a queen of diamonds a cutie, but judging how fast a sand car can be is a spectator sport with no real sense of standards.
Yes, there's usually a rev limiter and only so far you can kick the throttle, but one that a sand rocket lacks is just how fast it can catapult to such measures as the top of Glamis' Competition Hill.
"It's faster than anything I ever wanted to own," says a high-browed Todd Secher of his Buck Goodrich-built Sand Car. "It's about 450 horsepower with 8:1 compression
Almost double the visitors and half the law enforcement as last year may have been a formula for the most violent Thanksgiving weekend ever at the Imperial Sand Dunes.
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