Photos by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Company. Imagine any top-level sports team not only going undefeated through an entire season and, as a result, winning a championship, but also setting a scor...
Bonneville Salt Flats. Photo by Steven Harris. Editor’s note: In response to our November 30 story regarding a recent University of Utah study on the Bonneville Salt Flats, the Save the Salt Foundati...
Photo courtesy Bloodhound SSC. Less than two months after the British Bloodhound SSC land-speed record effort announced that it needed £25 million to keep going, the administrators placed in charge o...
Skidmarks observed at Bonneville in 2006. Photo by the author. Before any season of sanctioned racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats begins, a heavy truck pulls a heavy drag made up of multiple steel I...
Images courtesy Evro Publishing. Books about famous racing drivers and titans of industry abound, but tomes on mechanical engineers are few and far between. Reid Railton was no ordinary engineer, and...
Photo courtesy Bloodhound SSC. While funding issues caused the Bloodhound SSC team to delay its quest for the world land-speed record last year, the £25 million shortfall that the team announced this...
Photo courtesy Team Vesco Racing. Camille Jenatzy might have set his own wheel-driven land-speed record nearly 120 years ago, but judging from the name he gave his steed — La Jamais Contente, “never ...
Craig in his dad’s garage with the Spirit of America mockup, holding his model of the car in its original configuration. Note that “Firestone” is painted on the front wheel. (That’s another story!) I...
The good news? The Wild Cherry van has been restored. The bad news? Allegations that the restorer stole the van have now roiled the vanning community. * Exactly how many Twister Special Rancheros wer...
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...
Not the Corvette in question. Photo courtesy Barrett-Jackson. A Florida man who believes the VIN of his car has been copied successfully sued Saskatchewan Government Insurance to reveal the identity ...
Ed Shadle and Jessi Combs at a test session in 2015 in the Alvord Desert. Photo courtesy North American Eagle team. For 20 years, Ed Shadle spent nearly every waking hour in pursuit of his goal of br...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Up until 2001, nobody had driven a nitro-powered vehicle over the dais at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. It took Art Chrisman, reunited with the 1931 Ford Model...
Photos via Dignity Memorial (left) and Kustomrama (right). Land-speed racers defend their sport as the last bastion of pure amateur racing, in which the participants compete for personal achievement ...
Photos courtesy the author. We who choose to admire art, and perhaps purchase ones that “speak” to us in some way, rarely have a clue about the tedious journey the piece took to get to our eyeballs a...
Images courtesy Long Beach Autorama, Jim Lattin. Like many racers in pursuit of the land-speed record, Frank Lockhart had talent, nerves of steel, and boundless determination. Also like many racers i...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. They should have returned to Detroit with a hero’s welcome. Instead, Lincoln brass essentially buried their employees’ accomplishment – setting a 182 MPH record at Bon...
Last weekend, the Los Angeles Times gathered nearly 20 years’ worth of data on street racing fatalities in the city. Notably absent from the article: Any mention of the access — or lack of access — t...
Roy Fjastad. Image via Facebook. From the drag strip, to the salt flats, to the street, there was very little in hot rodding that Roy Fjastad didn’t touch in the course of his career. Fjastad, who di...
Green Monster, circa 1968. Photo by Bri ham. To this day, Art Arfons holds one rather inglorious record: After crashing his Green Monster land-speed-record car in November 1966, he became the only pe...
A Citroën SM pickup, towing a Citroën SM-suspension trailer, holding a Citroën SM Bonneville record holder. Photos courtesy Mullin Museum. The path to Bonneville’s 200 MPH Club typically doesn’t invo...
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...
1951 Vincent Black Lightning. Photoraphs courtesy Bonhams. Although the Jack Ehret-raced 1951 Vincent is not the most expensive motorcycle ever sold, it is the most expensive motorcycle ever bought a...
A turbocharged 1962 Corvair Monza Spyder heads a line of performance Corvairs. Photos courtesy Corvair Museum. Beloved by its fans, but criticized–perhaps unreasonably–by its detractors, the Chevrole...
Earlier this year, the folks at Moss restored MVC 575, a Triumph TR2 that set a speed record of nearly 125 mph at Jabbeke using its production 2.0-liter engine. * And speaking of historic British rac...