Powered by a 3-litre 500 hp turbocharged liquid-cooled V-4 that was built from the ground up specifically for taking the land speed record, the BUB Seven reached 350.884 mph (564.693 kph) on the Bonneville Salt Flats in 2006 and became the first two-wheeled streamliner to break the 350 mph barrier.
Chris Carr snatched the record, which had been set just two days prior by Rocky Robinson with his Top 1 Ack Attack streamliner.
Fueled by methanol, the BUB Seven was engineered to provide increased traction control on the Salt Flats. The 21-foot-long body of the Seven was based on the anatomy of a Coho Salmon, giving it very low drag. It featured a monocoque carbon fiber frame with carbon, aluminum honeycomb and Kevlar shell and used a computer-controlled, 4-speed air-shift transmission.
