Not sure if this should go in the Power Equipment or the Wood Pile section The world's fastest motorized log is for sale The world's fastest motorized log is for sale Cedar Rocket is a creation by two Williams Lake, B.C., men and made the Guinness World Records book By Andrew Kurjata, CBC News Posted: Jan 12, 2018 3:15 PM A B.C. red cedar on wheels is up for auction after setting the world record as the world's fastest log car. The Cedar Rocket was built by the team at Pioneer Log Homes of Williams Lake, B.C., whose wood-based creations earned them four seasons as the stars of the television show Timber Kings. Although he's usually building luxury log homes, company founder Bryan Reid Sr. came up with the idea for the car after attending the Barrett-Jackson luxury car auction in Arizona back in 2014. "When there's thousands of cars being auctioned off... sooner or later it comes to 'why don't you build a log car,'" he told CBC in a 2015 interview about the project It also helped that he was attending the auction with two people equipped to make the idea become a reality: high school friend and mechanic Gerald Overton of Williams Lake, B.C., and a former client, Louis Horschel of Buffalo Turbine in New York. 'Timber Kings' star makes car out of a single piece of western red cedar The three got to work combing a single Western red cedar with parts from a Mazda RX-8 sports car and turbines to give it juice. They opted to make the car electric after realizing the complexity of keeping a fuel tank in a wooden vehicle. By January 2016, their dream was a reality and Reid was driving the Cedar Rocket around a race track in front of Guinness World Records book officials — the first time it had ever been driven. "It wasn't a pushover," he said. "There was a lot of shaking." In order to qualify for the record, Guinness World Records officials told Reid he would have to complete the track two times within an hour, achieving a minimum speed of 50 km/h. In the end, Reid hit 76 km/h — despite the car's weight of approximately 1,000 kg. After that the car hit the tour circuit, appearing at events across North America and in an episode of Timber Kings. Now, though, it is being auctioned off at the place where it all began — lot #3005 in the 2018 Barrett-Jackson collector car auction, with bids being accepted online and in-person.
