Tag: Bonneville Salt Flats
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Danny Thompson Breaks Wheel-Driven Land Speed Record at Bonneville
Mickey Thompson was a mad scientist obsessed with speed. In 1960, he became the first American to go over 400 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats on a wild, four-engined streamliner he called the Challenger I. Mickey came back to Bonneville in 1968 with the two-engined Challenger II, but rain kept him from running. Later in…