Bonneville Speed Week 2012 Starts NOW!!! Friday Nugget Car Show Photos. Racing Photos Tomorrow.
Posted in Gallery August 11, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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Bonneville Speed Week 2012 officially starts in a few hours! We’ve got stories galore that we are following, including our buddy Lee Sicilio’s quest for a 300 mph record in his just finished Dodge Daytona “Wing Car”! We’ll be here all week covering ALL the action from the salt, including Lee’s first runs, The Cook [...]
Event Coverage: Hot Rod Magazine Top Speed Challenge…302 Photos from the ECTA Ohio Mile
Posted in Event Coverage April 30, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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The 2012 HOT ROD Magazine Top Speed Challenge was this weekend, and BangShifter Michael Black was on site shooting photos of door slammers, lakesters, belly tanks, roadsters and more and we’ve got all his great photos here for you to enjoy. We can’t decide whether we like the Studebaker, the Cadillac, or the Monza better. [...]
Bonneville Thursday Update: Salty Italians, Thrashing for a Legend, Sub-Speed Limit LSR Racing and now more photos.
Posted in Event Coverage August 18, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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The So-Al Special Two Banger set a record this morning at 32.419 mph which is “Blazingly slow” according to Freiburger. His best comment was when reciting the end of the run and describing me, BangShift Chad, jumping out of the moving push truck. “Why the hell is Chad getting out of the truck so fast? [...]
Update: 2011 Bonneville Galleries, the Tuesday Two Banger, and Jimmy Shine
Posted in Event Coverage August 17, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Chad hit the salt running on Monday zapping photos and glad handing with hot rodders and gearheads he’d not seen since least year’s running of Speed Week. Tuesday he helped make a 2 cylinder Big Block run, watched records fall, and even talked to Jimmy Shine. Notable action from Monday included the Poteet and Main [...]
Bonneville 2011 Galllery: Friday and Saturday on the Salt and at the Cruise!
Posted in Event Coverage August 14, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Well, it’s on! Speed Week has begun and thanks to the great folks at Spectre we have an opening salvo of photos to show you. Chad will be on the salt ad delivering dispatches as of tomorrow but since we’re not there yet, Spectre hooked us up with more than 100 photos of what’s happening [...]
Bitchin’ Event Gallery: ORSA Speed Weekend – Land Speed Racing on Ice From Sweden!
Posted in Event Coverage March 17, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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This is one of the neater galleries we’ve posted in a while! The photos come directly from Sweden, courtesy of BangShifter Jobergg and they were taken at ORSA Speed Weekend, a huge land speed racing event held on an equally massive frozen lake. The course, as we’ve badly translated, is 1,000 meters long and apparently [...]
Event Coverage Re-Run: SCTA El Mirage July 2010
Posted in Event Coverage January 22, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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It’s LSR season and we’re gearing up for full coverage of east coast speed at Loring, Maine in a couple of weeks. Before we head up into the wilds of northern Main, we’ll share Chad’s great photos from the July SCTA meet held on the historic El Mirage dry lake. The conditions were sunny with [...]
Video Update: Spectre Speedliner goes 415 mph at Mike Cook’s Landspeed Shootout
Posted in Event Coverage October 21, 2010 by Chad Reynolds
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A few weeks ago we posted this item, but now there’s some cool video (below) to see. Already the fastest Cadillac powered vehicle in history, the Spectre Speedliner just went 415.7 miles per hour at Mike Cook’s Landspeed Shootout, presented by Loctite, at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Mike Cook Sr. and Jr. have been keeping [...]
In the Books: We Post Every Single Car Record From SCTA/BNI Speed Week 2010
Posted in Event Coverage October 19, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Spirit of Rett Streamliner Goes 416.9 mph to Break 45 yr old Summers Brothers Record
Posted in Event Coverage September 22, 2010 by Chad Reynolds
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Charlie Nearburg and the rest of the Spirit of Rett landspeed racing team are on cloud nine this morning as they have broken a 45 year old 409 mph record set by the Summers brothers back in 1965. At 414 miles per hour, their two way average on the Bonneville Salt Flats was over 1% [...]
World’s Fastest Electric Vehicle going for FIA World Record on the Salt Now!
Posted in Event Coverage August 23, 2010 by Chad Reynolds
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As we speak, the Buckeye Bullet Electric Streamliner, is slowing down from setting a new FIA speed record of 291 mph on the famed salt of Bonneville. The team stayed for a private FIA record attempt and has been on the salt for the past couple of days. SCTA Impound and Records Official Dan Warner [...]
Bonneville 2010: Spectre Performance puts the Speed in Speedweek
Posted in Event Coverage August 23, 2010 by Chad Reynolds
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The 2010 SCTA/BNI Bonneville Speedweek rocked, and we owe our boys at Spectre Performance, and their 2100 horsepower Cadillac powered Speedliner, for a lot of the excitement. Spectre owner Amir Rosenbaum not only got his license runs completeed in the Spectre Speedliner, but also set two records! He set one of them a couple of [...]
It Came From the Forums: Killer Bonneville Photos from BangShift Member Randal Burns
Posted in Event Coverage August 21, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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While Chad was out chasing the movers, shakers, and headline makers on the salt, BangShift OG member Randal Burns was prowling the pits, lending a hand, and loving life at Speed Week. Randal had his camera at the ready and took a bunch of really cool photos featuring some of the most unique vehicles attacking [...]
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Crank it up Video: Outside Car Footage of Lee Sicilio’s Daytona at 230 MPH at Bonneville
Posted in Event Coverage August 20, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Our video from earlier this week showing Lee Sicilio wheeling his massive, Ray Barton Hemi powered Charger Daytona down the salt on a record qualifying run was met with a great response. The overwhelming theme was that the sound of that big Hemi churning away was magical. Here’s some more footage of the car [...]
Bonneville Speed Week 2010 – Thursday Gallery – Presented by Spectre Performance
Posted in Event Coverage August 20, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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As the final day of competition dawns in Utah, we’re giving you a gallery of action that took place on Thursday. The crews, racers, SCTA volunteers, and even the spectators must be exhausted by this point, so any action that takes place on Friday will most likely be for record runs or a few glory [...]
BangShift Bonneville Video: Catching Up With Poteet and Main After a 400MPH Run
Posted in Event Coverage August 20, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Barring an “out of nowhere” performance from another competitor, the team of Poteet and Main will be taking home the Hot Rod Top Time honors at the close of Speed Week today. They have recorded a 400 mph record and are bolting in the bad boy motor for action today. This is video of the [...]
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