Jack working on Nebulous Theorem XII. Photo via JackCostella.com. For 50 years, Jack Costella returned to the salt at Bonneville in what amounted to a decades-long science experiment, probing the lim...
If it appears Geoff Hacker’s been MIA lately, it’s because he was focused on putting together an archive of all of Dan Post’s publications on custom cars from postwar California. Dan Post was there a...
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...
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 ...
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...
We know that Ronan Glon at RanWhenParked has a good eye for unusual European cars of the Eighties, Nineties, and beyond, so we’re always happy to see his coverage of local European events like the re...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, except where noted. Just how fast could a bewinged Dodge Charger Daytona go – without interference from NASCAR, that is? One championship-winning team se...
This past week, as Japanese Nostalgic Car noted, marked the 50th anniversary of Nissan’s GT-R, the sedan with the heart of a race car, designed by Prince engineers working within the company. What re...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To many, land-speed racing is an open-ended license to innovate and push the bounds in the pursuit of speed. Bill Burke took that freedom to heart over a multi-decade ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Star am Retro-Himmel Frei nach dem Motto: «Früher war nicht alles besser, aber meistens schöner» setzt die Motorrad-Industrie seit ein paar Jahren äusserst erfolgreich auf die Karte Retro-Design komb...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...