Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. In just a few short years, Danny Thompson did what nobody else in the world has done. Not only did he set a land-speed record for a piston-powered ...
Photos courtesy World of Speed Motorsports Museum. We’ve written a bunch in recent years about the trials, tribulations, and, ultimately, triumphs that Danny Thompson and his Challenger 2 crew experi...
Danny Thompson and the crew of Challenger 2 at Bonneville in August 2018. Photo by Bubb Lannan, courtesy Thompson LSR. Eight years ago, Danny Thompson pulled his father’s Autolite Special streamliner...
Challenger II in 2016. Photo by Holly Martin, courtesy Thompson LSR. In 1968, Mickey Thompson debuted his Autolite Special streamliner, built to set a wheel-driven land speed record at Bonneville. It...
Pumpkin Seed at Bonneville in 2006. Photos by the author, except where noted. It put multiple racers in the 200-mph Club. It’s had multiple land-speed racing luminaries in its cockpit between two sti...
Pumpkin Seed at Bonneville in 2006. Photos by the author, except where noted. It put multiple racers in the 200 MPH Club. It’s had multiple land-speed racing luminaries in its cockpit between two sti...
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 se...