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As we continue to mourn the untimely loss of builder, racer, personality, host and all-around gearhead talent, Jessi Combs, she’s come up in conversations and references all over the place. And a thi...
As we continue to mourn the untimely loss of builder, racer, personality, host and all-around gearhead talent, Jessi Combs, she’s come up in conversations and references all over the place. And a thi...
Rendering courtesy Bloodhound SSC. Never say never, apparently. Just 10 days after the administrators in charge of the Bloodhound SSC world land-speed effort announced they were scrapping the project...
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...
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...
Photo by CleftClips. One would think the fluorescent orange signs would do the trick. Or perhaps the flashing LED lights mounted to those signs. But the Southern California Timing Association has dec...
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...
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)....
“Bombshell Betty,” a heavily modified Land Speed Record-holding 1952 Buick Super Riviera. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. At a length of just over 17 feet and a shipping weight approaching 3,800 pou...
Miguel Llorente is the former curator of the Al Ain Classic Car Museum in the UAE, but he’s also the explorer that “discovered” the Cuban Gullwing. His dream is to open a new museum, the “Petersen of...
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 ...
Entering the third mile on the Salt Flats in Bonneville starts the timing for setting land speed racing records on the 5 mile course. Ronnie Dunn going fast, very fast in Jeff Brock's 52 Buick.