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NYTimes does Bonneville
Out of the “where have you been for the last 50 years” file: the New York Times covered Bonneville last weekend. More of a primer on Bonneville than expose, what with the author spending a few...
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photog at work
Well, I figure if TA wants to post those pictures of him at work, I should include the latest picture I’ve received of me at work, coincidentally arriving in my inbox the same day. This one came from...
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Gary Meadors should sue!
From the moment I saw the pictures of the recently introduced Mitsuoka Micro over at Jalopnik, I immediately thought of Gary Meadors‘s track roadster, which I saw at Bonneville this year. Actually,...
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bellytanker at El Mirage
Coop has some wonderful pictures of his buddy Bobby Green‘s big day out at El Mirage for the first time with his bellytank racer. Man, that guy lives the life. I don’t see how I could live in Southern...
View ArticleRains force World Finals cancellation
The heavy rains and flooding that has troubled the West over the last week canceled this week’s World Finals at Bonneville. Typically, the Southern California Timing Association’s World Finals falls...
View ArticleFinal El Mirage racing meet sees 15 new records set
Despite heavy winds that blew through El Mirage Nov. 11-12, the Southern California Timing Association managed to close out its 2006 land-speed racing season at the dry lake with 15 new records. The...
View ArticleDVD provides Bonneville experience for those who can’t make it
When it comes to videos of the modern-day Bonneville experience, you can either surf YouTube, or the half-dozen other video sites on the Internet, looking for three-minute clips or you can get yourself...
View ArticleSpeedweek to add third land-speed course
Officials for Bonneville’s Speedweek, the largest land-speed racing event in the United States, are expecting more than 500 entries for this year’s meet and have made at least one major change to...
View ArticleMore than 550 Speedweek entrants break 165 speed records
Another record-breaking number of entrants at Bonneville for this year’s Speedweek combined to break 165 speed records and send 12 more racers into the 200 MPH Club. Despite the last-minute relocation...
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Smoking the salt
The PowerStroke-powered Rocket Ranger ran 215.091 mph at Bonneville, setting a C/Diesel Truck class record Originally, the concept was for the Rocket Ranger to be a gasoline-powered record-setter, and...
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Electrobike breaks AMA land speed record
Kate Ingber rode an Electrobike into the land-speed record books this month, averaging 68.4 mph Electrobike established a new land speed record for electric motorcycles on the Bonneville Salt Flats...
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Four-Links – unearthed Bonneville photos, Black Mustang Club censored, the...
Ryan never rests on his laurels over at the Jalopy Journal, and just this morning he brought us all something terribly cool. Following up on an earlier post, a reader sent along some photos from...
View ArticleGoodwood Festival of Speed to feature early American dragsters
The only thing missing was the floating mountain, that landmark of the Bonneville Salt Flats that racers aim a little to one side of as they power past the bright orange mile-markers. Such was the...
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Bonneville Speedway Museum begins to take shape
Speed fiends have been traveling to a largely out-of-the-way barren piece of land in northwest Utah for nearly a century now in their quests to achieve velocities most other people can only dream...
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Racing Heroes – David Abbott “Ab” Jenkins
Ab Jenkins, refueling during a Bonneville pit stop. Still image from video below. Though names like Craig Breedlove, Art Arfons, Walt Arfons and Gary Gabelich are forever associated with land speed...
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Extra salt, please: the shrinking Bonneville Salt Flats
Photos by the author. The Bonneville Salt Flats are a pretty astounding place, as I mentioned in our recent story on the Grand National Roadster Show’s upcoming celebration of 100 years of land-speed...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 2013 Superformance B-Class Lakester
Running at Bonneville sure seems like a lot of fun, but entails more than a few modifications to the family car. This 2013 Superformance B-Class Lakester for sale on Hemmings.com, however, has been...
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Craig Breedlove laying plans for new land speed record attempt
A rendering of the proposed Spirit of America design. Images courtesy Neil Roberts. It’s been 17 years since Craig Breedlove made a serious attempt at a land-speed record in a car named the Spirit of...
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Stirling Moss conquers Bonneville, 1957
The MG EX181 at speed. Still image from video. Sir Stirling Moss is most often associated with sports car and Formula One racing, but the English driver, considered by many to be the best of his day,...
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SCTA cancels 2014 Bonneville Speed Week
Danny Thompson with Challenger II at Bonneville, August 2014. Photo by Holly Martin/Peter Vincent, courtesy Thompson LSR. As any Bonneville Salt Flats racer can attest, building a car fast enough to...
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