By Frank Williams
August 21, 2008
Those wacky Brits– you never know just what they'll try next. From Motor Trader comes a report that farmer Steve Burgess has become the first person to cross the Bering Strait in a land vehicle. He floated across the 56-mile stretch from Russia to Alaska in a Land Rover Defender equipped with pontoons, a propeller and motor. His 10,379-mile trek from his home in Yorkshire was sponsored by Cooper Tires. Back in Merry Olde England, earlier this month Top Gear's James Mays and oenophile Oz Clarke ran a Radical SR4 racing car from 0 ot 60 in 3.5 seconds using "a special distillation of whisky." Bruichladdich distillery manager Duncan MacGillivray said "The exhaust smells much better than petrol. It's a sustainable biofuel; but at £26 a litre, the duty and VAT isn't, so it's not a viable alternative just yet." Of course, that just begs the question of whether the police could charge you with DUI if your car had whiskey on its breath.
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August 21st, 2008 at 12:03 pm
You don’t BURN whisky! Oh the humanity!
–chuck
August 21st, 2008 at 12:17 pm
A drinking team with a racing problem :-)
August 21st, 2008 at 12:55 pm
I was in a pub in England once and the motto there was : “The liver is evil and must be punished!”
August 21st, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I wonder what Customs’ reaction to that border crossing was.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:56 pm
17 golds in the olympics and now this!
Makes you proud to be from the UK!
August 21st, 2008 at 6:36 pm
The Bering crossing is nothing compared to several Cuban crossings to Florida on specially equipped classic American cars and trucks–90 miles (as compared to Burgess’s 56) and packed with people
It makes you proud to be from Cuba
August 21st, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Cuba Libre!
August 22nd, 2008 at 4:07 am
In England we acknowledge that thare are only two good things to come out of Scotland and one of them is whisky. The other? the road south to England
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:11 am
£26 a litre… so when petrol goes over that mark (maybe 2010), Islay will be the new Saudi Arabia?