Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Dinner at 100 miles per hour

Perry Watkins from Buckinghamshire has set what he hopes is a new world record for the fastest piece of furniture and it just happens to be a Queen Anne dining table.

The table, complete with dinner trimmings, reached a top speed of more than 113 miles per hour.

via BBC News - Dinner at 100 miles per hour.

In Great Britain, a speed demon hit the road with all the comforts of home.

Perry Watkins, 47, is going for a record on a race track, but his vehicle of choice is a Queen Anne table complete with a silver service.

It hit an average speed of nearly 114 miles per hour, peaking at 130.

Guinness must still ratify the data. The table is competing with a record of 92 miles per hour set by a speeding sofa three years ago.

Watkins says the biggest challenge is the ever-flapping tablecloth.

via ABC

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