Province Newspaper article June 2007

For those who missed it and requested copies, I can only offer you this, it is the text without the photo of Werner, and Peter Diesing and Yuri Tofini of Aggressive Tube Bending.
As follows:
Driven Surrey crew hope car shatters speed record; Golden Hawk could reach 500 km/h Byline: Glenda Luymes Source: The Province
Five hundred kilometres an hour.That's how fast Randy Pierce could find himself hurtling down a racetrack in the Utah desert this summer, hoping to set the land speed record and guarantee Surrey a place in the record books."It will be our first time out, so we're hoping to run the car somewhere over 200 miles an hour," Pierce said yesterday. "But the computer tells us we should be able to go 330 miles."That's more than 500 km/h and a certain record for the makers of the Golden Hawk. A crew of about 25 people, many of them from Surrey, have been working on the car at a Port Kells warehouse for more than a year.Pierce said the streamliner car is almost guaranteed to set a record at Speed Week, Aug. 11 to 17, on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, because there are no other vehicles in the same class."It's a one-of-a-kind," he said.The four-wheeled, steel-framed Golden Hawk is powered by a four-cylinder, 3.9-litre diesel engine, with a turbocharger and nitrous-oxide injection.When it's complete, the car will be loaded on to a transport truck and driven to Utah, where it will be raced on a seven-mile course."We want to establish the record for the four-litre this year, and then come back next year and do better," said Pierce.A truck will push the car for the first mile until it reaches about 100 km/h. By the third mile, the car will be running on its own, and its speed will be measured over the next three miles. At the end of five miles, the car will be shut down and four disc brakes and two parachutes will slow it down.Pierce will be the car's first driver, followed by his next-door neighbour, mechanic Werner Sprenger.Pierce said he's not nervous about the ride."[The car] is like an arrow. It wants to go straight, so it's really pretty safe," he said.Pierce said he's building the car for "bragging rights" and publicity for the automotive industry.A former public relations photographer and dragster racer, the 64-year-old Surrey man now owns www.carpe.ca (Agnew Bailiffs and Financial Adjusters Ltd.) a bailiff company. In 2003, he underwent heart surgery.Instead of slowing him down, the experience has given him the need for speed.The rest is history in the making.
Thanks to gluymes@png.canwest.com for the story.