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Sunday, August 28, 2011
Labels: Bonneville, Cobra Daytona Coupe, Factory race car, GT 40, Le Mans, Porsche, Shelby
Monday, August 15, 2011
Labels: Bonneville, Icon, LSR, Mormon Meteor, movie, racing. LSR, streamliner
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
all from http://5window.tumblr.com but beware that it's changed a bit from being primarily race cars and hot rods, there are lots of nude women, lingerie, etc etc. Yup, that's awesome, but don't let your boss sneak up on you to see what you are surfing the web looking at
Labels: airplane, Bonneville, drag racing, dragsters, dry lakes racing, LSR, Mickey Thompson, Military, racing. LSR, slingshot dragster, streamliner, Tbird, WW2
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Read all about it, and see the rest of the photos at http://www.californiaclassix.com/archive/426.html
Labels: aerodynamics, Bonneville, Coronet, Dodge, El Mirage
Sunday, May 8, 2011
The Bucket List Dream Studebaker Avanti Bonneville and El Mirage record holder originally bought new by Bill Burke... is looking for dreamers w/ cash
0 comments Posted by st at 7:32 PM So if you have money and need to be a co-driver / sponsor and get yourself a place in a land speed racecar- here is your ride! email Dan Sallia at dsallia@yahoo.com or call him at 805-550-7758
Dan has a “Bucket List” with 4 items on the list. #4 is simply the dream to drive a Studebaker at the Bonneville Salt Flats. The first opportunity was a ’53 Coupe, but that fell through. Then a fellow Stude enthusiast contacted Dan. He said that he had just purchased “an old Bonneville car” from eBay. This guy offered to loan Dan the car to fulfill his Bucket List Dream #4.
After doing some research on the Avanti, it was the World Famous #90 Bill Burke car, the same Bill Burke who ran the first Belly Tank Lakester in land speed racing.
Bill Burke bought the car while working for Hot Rod Magazine in 1962. It was delivered to Grantell Enterprises and came with a 229 cu in Paxton blown engine in the car and a 304 cu in engine in a crate. The car was born to break records at Bonneville, literally, as the President of Studebaker assigned the car for this specific purpose, Land Speed Racing.
The above text is excerpted from http://www.myrideisme.com/Blog/burke-bros-bonneville-bucket-list-studebaker-avanti
Andy Granatelli is providing technical assistance, and once the Avanti competes in the next year or two it will spend time in the Granatelli Studebaker museum, among others... like the Wally Parks NHRA museum in Pomona
More information can be found on http://www.racingstudebakers.com/foo/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1855
Labels: Avanti, Bonneville, El Mirage, LSR, racing. LSR, studebaker
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Labels: Bonneville, LSR, racing, racing. LSR, roadster
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Labels: Bonneville, Cobra, dragsters, Ferrari, GT 350, Healey, Indianapolis, MG, Pike's Peak, roadster, Shelby, slingshot dragster, stone woods and cook, Von Dutch, Willys
Would have been good to get to the salt this year... maybe next year
0 comments Posted by st at 7:51 PM image from http://lecontainer.blogspot.com
Labels: Bonneville
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Labels: airplane, Bonneville, Cobra Daytona Coupe, flamejob, Hot rods, humor, Jaguar, Muira, photography, Shelby, VW