Race Car Talk

Jesse James, American engineer, stuntman and all around lunatic will be attempting to break a land-speed record for his latest show Jesse James Is A Dead Man, in which he cheats death every week by taking on a different challenge.

James, who is married to actress Sandra Bullock (who starred in Speed, somewhat fittingly), will be attempting to break the world land-speed record for a hydrogen powered car. The silver device he is working on in the picture is a 1960s relic that has been used for attempts on land-speed records before, most notably by Dees-Milodin Engineering, which named the contraption the Streamliner for fairly obvious reasons.

Now, James will be rebuilding it and replacing its Chrysler engine with a twin-turbocharged 9.8L V8 engine from Chevrolet.

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