If you believed the golden age of steam was in the dim and distant past, think again.
This streamlined British supercar that went on a test run at a military airstrip near Chichester last week is about to attempt to smash one of the world’s most enduring records, the highest speed for a steam-driven car.
Known as the ‘World’s Fastest Kettle’, the car is being shipped to America where driver Charles Burnett III will make the record attempt across a dried-up lake bed in the Mojave Desert of Southern California in early June.
The steam-car record of 127.659mph was set by American Fred Marriott in 1906 in a machine called the Stanley Steamer.
He tried to break his record a year later but the car  … Pictures & More
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