Joint Venture Modified Diesel Truck is the Worlds Fastest Freightliner

Imagine only 4 cylinders creating 750 horse power more then the V8 in your car!! Now think what 16 of them would do!! That's what our "Joint Venture" modified Freightliner is putting to the ground. Owned by Don Lemmons in Kelso WA. It currently holds the world record for Modified Diesel Truck @ 228.8mph!

Joint Venture was created from a highway hauler Freightliner and outfitted with a huge Mid Engine 16 cylinder 2 stroke Detroit diesel engine taken from a tug boat then "HIGHLY" modified, with 2 blowers, 4 giant turbo's, 2 inter coolers, Boeing 737 rear tires and front tires from a F-15 fighter, one of the strongest roll cages ever built, a really big parachute and so much more... At almost 10 Tons and Creating a vicious sound of its own..... comparing it to a World War II radical Bomber Plane would be an understatement!

Built to run at the best place on the planet "Bonneville", where people from all over the world come to live out their "Love of Speed" by putting that right foot down for five perfectly straight miles and see what their machines will do. Joint Venture made its debut on the Salt Flats back in October of 1990. During that year's run the Joint Venture was recognized with the Bonneville Speed Week Best Performer Award and returned two years later to set the world record at 197.388 MPH, with a separate run of 216.320 MPH and became a crowd favorite through the years at Bonneville Speed Week and Bonneville World of Speed. Now thousands gather to see driver Mark Zwieg release all 4,000+ horse power to make that five mile run and within seconds disappear over the horizon as the speed is announced by the officials. Mark, being a Lockheed Martin Flight Test Engineer knows how to push the limits of speed making him the the perfect choice to control this "Beast"(in Marks words). Joint Venture has held the world record for 18 years, and returning every year, upping the bar many times.

In Dons words "Everyone's gotta have a toy" LOL..

The following is a comprehensive list of the Joint Venture Racing Team's records and
accomplishments at the Bonneville Salt Flats:

• 1990- BONNEVILLE BEST PERFORMANCE AWARD
  
• 1992- RECORD 197.388 MPH
  
• 1992- RUN       216.320 MPH
  
• 1995- RECORD 220.919 MPH
  
• 1996- RECORD 221.409 MPH
  
• 1997- RECORD 224.163 MPH
  
• 2001- RUN       225.678 MPH
  
• 2006- RECORD 228.804 MPH

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