Of course, Renault company not only wanted to «refresh» his own record as to draw attention to the beginning of sales of the new Renault production model — sedan Dauphine. And it succeeded in full.
In North America Bonneville races were held Etoile Filante («Meteor»), thoroughly prepared to: a tubular frame with plastic body, 270-horsepower gas turbine engine (it was engaged in the French airline Turbomeca).
With regard to the record of 60 years ago, that in 1956 the car has developed on the road salt lake in Bonneville speed of 308.9 km / h. This was a world record for a gas turbine transport (two out of four, by the way, is valid to this day).
60 years later restored Etoile Filante in Bonneville witnessed a new record — rear-sedan Renault Dauphine installed it in CGC categories (Classic Gas Coupe — it involves cars 1928- 1981 issue with an engine capacity 754–1015 cc.), Speeding up to 123 km / h. It should be clarified that the most powerful version Dauphine — Gordini — had a capacity of 37 hp
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