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Danny Thompson and Challenger II to run for record at rescheduled Bonneville...
Danny Thompson and the Challenger II. Photo courtesy Thompson LSR. The 2014 Bonneville Speed Week, commemorating a century of racing on the salt, was supposed to take place from August 9-15, but...
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Show Season Spotlight: Amelia Island
With the new year well under way, chances are a number of you are already putting together a list of potential must-attend 2011 events. Here’s one you can add to that list: the 16th Annual Amelia...
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Four-Links – Old Red, Roy Repp, Salt Watch, American Graffiti
* A reader named Lindsay tipped us off to the story of “Old Red,” the Ford Falcon XY GT bought for cruising the Australian Outback that remains largely original, down to the thorough coating of red...
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Replica of Ab Jenkins record-setting Pierce-Arrow to cross the block
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. Until the 1930s, the international racing community hardly considered the Bonneville Salt Flats a suitable location for high-speed record setting. Montlhery in...
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This day in history: Art Arfons sets his third land speed record at Bonneville
Art Arfons and the Green Monster. Still image from video below. Say the name Craig Breedlove and most with a passion for speed will be quick to point out that he’s a multiple-time land speed record...
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Bonneville: A Century of Speed
As we’ve discussed here before, the broad expanse of salt that makes Bonneville so unique is disappearing, and with it the black line that once seemed to stretch out to infinity, to this point a...
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Danny Thompson and the Challenger 2 return to the salt in 2015
Danny Thompson poses with the Challenger II. Photos by Holly Martin, courtesy of Thompson LSR, unless otherwise noted. It’s never easy following a legend, especially if the weather doesn’t cooperate....
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The softer side of Bonneville: Why it’s not always a good idea to drive on...
Photos by the author. [Editor’s Note: Contributor Mike Taylor’s summer cross-country trip included a stop at the famous Bonneville Salt Flats, where he learned that not every trip to the land-speed...
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Unsalted: Bonneville Speed Week canceled for second year straight
Photos by the author. The day when we will no longer see sanctioned racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats may soon be at hand after the Southern California Timing Association decided on Monday to cancel...
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Mojave Mile to host Bonneville racers after Speed Week cancellation
Image courtesy Google Maps. With hundreds of participants left hanging after the cancellation of this year’s Bonneville Speed Week, organizers of the event managed to secure another location for the...
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A Gathering of the Hopeful: Bonneville Speed Week 2015
Based 2,300 miles away in Greenfield Center, New York, the guys from Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop feel strongly enough about Bonneville’s importance that they once again drove their creations...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – racing at Bonneville in 1989, ride along with...
Ever wonder what it’s like to pilot a fuel streamliner at 256.9 MPH on the salt at Bonneville? Catch fire at 350 MPH? This ESPN coverage of racing at the salt flats in 1989 will give you some idea. *...
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Bonneville Speed Week cancellation spurs proposals for salt flats replenishment
Photos by the author. With the annual Bonneville Speed Week cancelled for the second year in a row—and with other racing events at the Bonneville Salt Flats already nixed or in jeopardy of not taking...
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A new day may be dawning for the Bonneville Salt Flats
Sunrise over the Salt Flats. While flooding of Bonneville is a natural part of its cycle that benefits the salt crust, increased rainfall and the shrinkage and degradation of the racing surface has...
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Bill Burke, hot rod pioneer, passes away at 97
Burke in 1941 while serving as Secretary-Treasurer of the Western Timing Association. Photo courtesy Geoff Hacker. “The Michael Jordan of Bonneville,” Ryan Cochran, proprietor of The Jalopy Journal...
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Utah legislators to Bureau of Land Management: Restore the Bonneville Salt Flats
Photo by loonyhiker. After months of meetings with land-speed racers, mining companies, and federal agencies, the Utah House of Representatives late last week passed a bill urging the Bureau of Land...
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Bonneville racers accuse BLM of dragging its feet after plans for further...
Photo by ceajaegirl. After Bureau of Land Management officials urged patience and recommended another study of the shrinking salt at last week’s Bonneville Salt Flats summit in Salt Lake City, racers...
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Bureau of Land Management investigating Bonneville Salt Flats vandals
Photo via High On Life SundayFundayz on Facebook. A group of Canadians who caused outrage last month after entering restricted spaces at Yellowstone have come under fire again after a stunt of theirs...
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Danny Thompson drives Challenger II to SCTA AA/FS class record at Bonneville
Danny Thompson with the Challenger II in 2014. Photo by Holly Martin; all photos courtesy Thompson LSR. Danny Thompson, son of American racing legend Mickey Thompson, has been trying since 2014 to set...
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Danny Thompson and Challenger II return to Bonneville one last time
The Challenger II at Bonneville in August 2016. Photo by Holly Martin, courtesy Thompson LSR. Last month, Danny Thompson drove the Challenger II streamliner to an SCTA two-way average speed of 406.769...
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