One of the cool “events” that go down during the SCTA’s Bonneville Speed Week is the car show that fills up the parking lot at the Wendover Nugget Hotel. This show is not a structured deal as much as it is a great gathering of hot rods, customs, and neat old stuff that will be on the salt mostly for kicks. As it happens on Friday night, the show serves as a bit of a kick off after a day when many cars went through tech and many racers got their pits set up and people got generally situated on the salt.
The number of cartoonish rat rods was small but there were major amounts of patina and a lot filled with flatheads and hemi engines. Seriously, if it didn’t have a flathead in it, there was probably a hemi in it. There may have been less small block Chevy engines than those sporting spark plugs running into the center of their cylinder heads. Some of the cars had been on the salt as evidenced by their cool crusty exterior and many had not yet turned a tire out there as they had gotten into town during the evening.
We dug the hell out of the gathering and it totally set the mood for what we expect to be a gnarly week of racing action on the world’s greatest natural race track!
SPEED WEEK 2013 GALLERIES
Great pictures Brian. I have not been to Speed Week but would hope some day to take care of that. I have a couple questions about Bonneville , they may be obvious but I just can’t visualize it. How and where do you actually watch the runs? Are there different perspectives at at more than one place on the track? Also, how often do cars make passes? Thanks to you and Chad for Bonneville 101. I have a lot of respect for Speed Week, just trying to understand how it would work as a spectator. Bob