Back in 1989, ESPN sent Peter Graves out to cover the racing at Bonneville, almost on a play-by-play basis with color commentator Rick Vesco. Speeds were high, records were set, and the salt stretche...
The sign in 2006. Photo by the author. Other than the long dark lines that racers follow on their quests for speed and a few drainage ditches, the Bonneville Salt Flats differs from other federal lan...
Bruce Meyer in his 1957 Ferrari 625/250 Testarossa. Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Bruce Meyer, a founding father of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California, is the car...
Photo by the author. Convinced that a salt restoration program conducted in conjunction with the mining company that has removed millions of tons of salt from the Bonneville salt flats will return th...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Last Peaceful Place on Earth follows the people that meet every year on the Bonneville Salt Flats for "Speed Week". They gather for one reason, to go fast. A Vita brevis Films Production. www.vit...
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...
Andrew Rosen’s 1932 Auburn Speedster. Images by Hemmings Staff and courtesy Richard Skeuse It’s mid-June already and that means that the New Jersey rendition of The Race of Gentlemen has come and gon...
I just turned 13 years of age in October of 1959 when a couple weeks later my Dad said, “let’s go look at some new cars.” The local Ford dealer in a Chicago suburb had two 1960 Thunderbirds on the lo...
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 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...
Photo via High On Life SundayFundayz on Facebook. One of four Canadian men charged in connection with a publicity stunt involving an RV driving on the flooded Bonneville Salt Flats earlier this year ...
Photo by Mr. Nixter. Typically it’s a flesh-and-blood living person who takes home a lifetime achievement award, but the judges for the International Historic Motoring Awards, perhaps acknowledging t...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...