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Rods Set to Shake the Salt at 2005 Speedweek
Racers have already hit the road for what many consider to be the last bastion of true hot rodding left–the Southern California Timing Association’s Bonneville Speedweek. Officially, the week lasts...
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Foul Weather Douses Racing at Bonneville
Heavy rains at Bonneville August 16 flooded the salt flats with two inches of rain, producing breathtaking scenery, but forcing an abrupt end to racing the following day. According to the Web site for...
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Fight High Prices at the Pumps With a Diesel Bike
A diesel dual-purpose bike? HDT is making it happen. I never thought I’d long for the days when gas was $2.50 a gallon. In an effort to save a few bucks, I take two wheels just about everywhere. My...
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Rains Cancel Racing at Bonneville
photo courtesy SCTA Rain has again spoiled the fun at the Bonneville salt flats, forcing the Southern California Timing Association and Bonneville Nationals Inc. to cancel this year’s World Finals....
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Production Beemer Speeds into the Record Books
Andy Sills of San Francisco, California, reached an average speed of 173.57 mph and a top speed of 176.789 mph after two runs on a BMW K 1200 S A 2006 production model BMW K 1200 S has set a world...
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El Mirage cleanup to take place May 6-7
While the salt at Bonneville gets the lion’s share of attention through the formal Save the Salt campaign, the dry lakebeds, which sit on public land, require just as much maintenance so land speed...
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Breedlove Javelin under restoration
Okay, we know about the Breedlove AMXs – in fact, we have one ready to go for a future issue of Hemmins Muscle Machines. But who knew Craig Breedlove drove a prepared Javelin with his name on the roof?...
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News from the salt
You may have heard that Honda took its Formula 1 car to Bonneville in attempt to set an F1 speed record. They eventually succeeded in recording a flying mile at 400.459 kph (248.8337 mph), with a...
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salty goodness of a different kind
got my hotel, got my plane tickets, got my sunscreen, I’m going to Bonneville! In trying to make sure I’ve got all my bases covered, I came across several Mark Brazeau videos at the SCTA‘s website....
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Bonneville expected to be bigger and drier than last year
All indicators point to a good week of racing out on the Bonneville Salt Flats for Speedweek this year. According to the Southern California Timing Association’s Web site, crews finished a second trip...
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Mopar Nats, day three
No major surprises today at the Mopar Nats, except, of course, the DEATH VAN: Okay, so nowhere on the van did I see that name, but it just fits. The workmanship, excellent; the taste, questionable. I’m...
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Bonneville!
I’m alive. The hotel in Wendover claimed it had free high-speed Internet, but I never found a jack anywhere. In SLC for photo shoots the next couple days, so I thought I’d get at least a few of the...
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Inbox miscellany
Man, you go away for a week and everybody decides to email you. Which is good. I like emails. I’m still going through Mopar Nats (days 1, 2, 3) and Bonneville photos, but thought I’d at least get some...
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the salt gets in you
Culled a few Bonneville photos from what we’ll run in our coverage in Hemmings Motor News in a coming month. I reserved a compact. Hertz gave me a Durango at the same price. I complained not one bit....
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inflating records
We posted about JCB Diesel‘s record attempts on the salt the other day, reporting that driver Andy Green lifted the record in AA/DS to 317.021 mph, putting Green in the 200 MPH Club and the 300 MPH...
View ArticleMore than 92 records set at Speedweek
Fast and smooth salt, along with record attendance, helped propel a number of entries into the record books last week at Speedweek at the Bonneville Salt Flats. The 200 MPH Club, which requires its...
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How fast is fast?
The annual Bonneville Speed Weeks may be about all-out speed, but speed is a relative thing when you’re talking about bikes that are better than 40 years old. Take William Paulovcin, for example. He...
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Muscle Car Masters
Steve Irwin wasn’t the only thing happening in Oz over the weekend. While vintage Trans Am racers made their way around the track at Lime Rock this past weekend (I didn’t go, but I know at least one of...
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envelope artwork
So while at Bonneville, I shot Mike Talcott’s custom roadster pickup hot rod: Look for a writeup in an upcoming issue of Hemmings Motor News. He has an incredible imagination, and he spared not a shred...
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Bonneville videos
Found a couple videos from this year’s Bonneville action (via). The first is a very well done primer on Speedweek. The second‘s kind of interesting. Almost completely taken from a mini-helicopter POV....
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