Images are courtesy of Tom Donney. There have always been fine private collections of Saabs in the USA, but as far as we know–unlike in this automaker’s home country –there’s never before been a larg...
Photo courtesy LandSpeed.com. Not much exists on the alkali flats of the Diamond Valley in central Nevada. While cattle ranchers and timothy grass farmers keep to the southern end of the valley, the ...
Photo via Arkansas Department of Aeronautics. Though it lies just west of the Mississippi, the runway at the Arkansas International Airport has been selected as the new home for the East Coast Timing...
Bonneville-veteran 1940 Ford hot rod/racer for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Same owner since ’65, garaged since ‘75in dry desert, Yuma, AZ. Was a dry lakes & B’ville racer for...
School-bus-into-nomadic-camper conversions are becoming more popular, partly due to stirring wanderlust, partly due to rising house prices, and partly due to the changing nature of work, or so they s...
Photo by Rijel. Despite a warning from a leading Bonneville scientist that it might not work, the land-speed racers behind Save the Salt have opened talks with a local mining company to return as muc...
Photo by David Conwill. Anybody unlucky enough to get a noise ticket from the city of Royal Oak during this month’s Woodward Dream Cruise is getting a reprieve thanks to one lawyer’s work, according ...
Photos by Nikolaus Wogen, courtesy Indian Motorcycles. Last April, Dan Strohl mentioned that Burt Munro’s Bonneville Salt Flats record was still standing after 50 years, and that the 50th Anniversary...
Photo by the author. Do the little things add up? That’s the question racers and spectators at various Bonneville Salt Flats racing events will get to ask starting later this year when the Save The S...
Image courtesy The Race of Gentlemen. It takes a big man to admit when he’s wrong, especially knowing the naysayers will be quick to crow, “I told you so.” But that’s exactly what Mel Stultz, founder...
Photo via E Hayes Motorworks Collection. Partly the result of rulebook changes, partly the result of Burt Munro’s sheer determination and resourcesfulness, and maybe partly the result of the respect ...
Photo courtesy East Coast Timing Association. Industrial parks may take the place of airstrips in the East Coast Timing Association’s ongoing search for a new venue – a search that has now postponed ...
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...
Breedlove at the time he received the Spirit of Competition Award from the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia in 2011. Photo courtesy Simeone Museum. “The Bonneville Salt Flats have...
“It will be a sorry day when we no longer do something for the hell of it,” Donald Campbell said as he eyed another run at the world land-speed record in 1960. Then again, Campbell had the backing of...
Artist rendering courtesy Aussie Invader on Facebook. After more than four months, Australia’s Taxation Office has canceled its effort to reclaim a six-figure tax incentive from the Aussie Invader la...
Photo by Steven Harris. Land-speed racers frustrated with the federal Bureau of Land Management’s oversight of the shrinking and thinning Bonneville Salt Flats may no longer have to deal with the bur...
Photo courtesy NHRA Motorsports Museum. While it only took three weeks for Chet Herbert and his crew to build the Beast IV, Herbert’s last and most successful streamliner, Dan Webb’s restoration of t...
Photo courtesy NHRA Motorsports Museum. While it only took three weeks for Chet Herbert and his crew to build the Beast IV, Herbert’s last and most successful streamliner, Dan Webb’s restoration of t...
From the seller’s description: 1952 Buick Super Riviera -Land Speed Race Car “Bombshell Betty.” Bombshell Betty is 1952 Buick Super Riviera-Land Speed Race Car (Gas Competition Coupe vintage engine)....
Archive photo. After a federal judge gave the go-ahead for Craig Breedlove to pursue his lawsuit against the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry for allegedly damaging Breedlove’s Spirit of Americ...
The Henry Ford’s trove of Dave Friedman photos has revealed many gems in the past, so one would expect the most recent digitized batch of Friedman photos – from the 1960 U.S. Grand Prix at Riverside ...
Photo by Tom Kelly. As racers and supporters of land-speed racing at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats prepare to go to Congress with demands for the restoration of the racing venue, the international rac...
Artist rendering courtesy Aussie Invader on Facebook. Setting the world land-speed record requires highly advanced computer engineering models, precision machining, and plenty of derring-do. It also ...