November 2020 • Photos Nestor, Tony and Dave Kommel
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***Rick Yacoucci bumped his existing E/Blown Gas Streamliner record to 284.732mph with a 250ci small-block Chevy on gasoline. Photo Dave Kommel.***

Hot rods, sedans, sports cars, streamliners and motorcycles break a total of 29 records at the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) season finale at El Mirage dry lake, California.

Dave Davidson bumped the AA/BFR record to 254.283mph.

Chet & Rich Thomas set the A/BSTR record at 233.65mph

Tesla-powered 'Electraliner' set record at 182.754mph

Eddie Marlen driving Doug Robinson's unblown Fuel Roadster set record at 245.085mph

1973 Olds Omega

Andy Kisinger in the Olds Omega

Timmy McMaster took a wild ride in his Y-Block-powered Roadster, thru the traps backwards at 158mph

Steve Moody driving Bill Timmings' Nissan 350

Haley Freudiger in the Freudiger and Abarea roadster

It’s has only been a couple weeks since the first SCTA land speed event of the year and already we’ve had the final. Held over two beautiful days in November, the conditions were near perfect with a good 1.3-mile course and light winds compared with the October meet when strong winds obliterated the event.

Rick Yacoucci

The fastest car of the October meet was the Costella-Yacoucci Waters Nebulous Theorem III streamliner with a speed of 268.484mph. In November, driver Rick Yacoucci bumped his existing record to 284.732—pretty amazing when you consider that his ’liner is powered by a 250ci small-block Chevy ‘mouse’ motor running on gasoline, albeit turbocharged.

In total, 18 car and 11 motorcycle records were broken during the course of the two-day event that saw 220 recorded runs. Other records that got bumped that weekend included Dave Davidson in the 911 Roadster that upped the Scott, Smith, Leggitt AA/Blown Fuel Roadster record from 243.283mph to a solid 254.507.

Ali Youngblood set 4 records this year in the Youngblood's Hot Rods Deuce Roadster. Photo Dave Kommel

Youngblood's Roadster is turbo Hayabusa-powered, set H/BSTR record at 169.544mph

The other side of the Hayabusa

Four wheel Kiwi missile has 89ci Harley engine

Amanda Lane in the R.M.H. Racing Camaro

Brandon & Les Leggitt's 'The Beast'

Mark Prothero

Van Prothero engine

Tony Bartel driving the HHHammemann 3-window

Besides all the broken records, the weekend also saw some excitement when cars took an unscheduled spin. For example, Dave Silveira took the Mariani Street Roadster for a spin going clockwise, then anti-clockwise until he drove out of it unharmed.

Ted Carlton taking the Mariani Roadster for a spin. Photos Dave Kommel

The #352 Coe Family Studebaker with Justin Coe at the wheel went for a wild, wiggle-ass ride until he finally straightened it out. Finally, Timmy McMaster went through the lights backwards at 150mph but was maybe north of 160 when his Y-Block-powered Roadster took leave.