By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Today’s photo comes from BangShift, whose team has been exhaustively documenting Speed Week at Bonneville, which is just wrapping up today. Check out their galleries for a ton of great pics of a whole week’s worth of action on the salt.

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

This guy took a “rust-bucket Alpine” and turned it into a twin-turbocharged 5-liter LSR that ran 192.5 mph at Bonneville last year. It’s nice to see a basketcase rescue turn out that well, but my dad, who sent me this page and who’s building a Sunbeam Tiger that he hopes to run on the salt flats, is a little disheartened by what it’s going to take to get one of these cars up to 200 mph. He’d hoped to also make his streetable! Check out the Alpine’s website.

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

To the surprise of a few of the Speedhunters audience, I snuck the above image into the original announcement of the 2009 Speedhunters awards as a great example of stance. Some of you were confused that I wasn’t showing a stretch-tire-special, but I think this machine is a great example of perfect stance … look at the rake! Continue reading at Speedhunters

By Rod Chong

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

As we got ready to start the Speedhunters coverage of Bonneville Speed Week I was silently hoping there was going to be a Japanese campaign at the event. The legendary Japanese tuning shop Jun Auto’s Bonneville runs are now the stuff of legends, and I was praying we’d be able to find something similar to document at Speed Week. However, when I looked at the Bonneville entry list there were no Japanese teams listed… the closest thing to an Asian based team was an entry lodged from Singapore.

It also turned out that the AMS team was not able to get their Evo completed in time for Speed Week, so we went to the event without any expectation of shooting high end Japanese machines. However everything changed as soon as we arrived and I clocked this blue RX7… Continue reading at Speedhunters

By Rod Chong

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

As a Bonneville newbie, one item that’s become clear to me is that the chassis and engine selection for a land speed record car are two very separate and distinct choices for any car builder. Most competitors combine the engine and the chassis in order to enter what appears to be hundreds of different classes. Often a builder will try and find an overlooked class, build a special car and go for the record. People may even show up at Bonneville with more than one engine in order to set multiple records with one chassis. Continue reading at Speedhunters

By Rod Chong

By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

When we last left Geoff Hacker and the Bill Burke bellytank re-creation that he commissioned, they had just set out for Bonneville. Unsurprisingly, the tank has been well-received by the Speedweek thrill-seekers, and geoff seems to be having a blast. More pics at Hemmings

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

The great Speed Week coverage continues over at BangShift.com. Just check out their latest Bonneville galleries.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Luckily there is some great coverage over at BangShift.com. Check out these pics by Scott Clark and these pics by Chad. Any CarDomain members make it out there? If so, let me know.

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

In 2008, Bonneville racer Ed Goodrich was a huge help to the BangShift.com race team. After our race Camaro’s front air dam was protested, we drove 180 miles to Ed’s home in Idaho, took the rubber nose off another Camaro he had in stock, installed it on our car, and reset the record that had been questioned.

This year, we’ve been trying to repay the favor by helping Ed out any way we can. His ’79 Camaro races in A/Classic Gas Coupe, and he has an injected 496 under the hood that should work well with his new modifications for this year, including an air dam, Detroit Locker, and lowering the car 2 inches.

The record Ed is going for is 237 mph, though he’ll be happy with a personal best of 225. So far he’s only run tuning passes to get comfortable with the car. The best of those so far has been 218 mph. This is an in-car view of that pass on Sunday at Speed Week 2009.

Watch it, then look for more reports on Ed’s success in upcoming BangShift.com Speed Week coverage.

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

The Japanese have an expression “it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive”. In my case the trip to the Salt Flats in the North West corner of Utah was very much in the travelling hopefully category…………..but as if to prove the rule by exception, arrival has been better than the journey.

Set up day concluded with a show of cars in the parking lot of Wendover’s Nugget Casino and of course there is another look at the Plymouth with the Propane pipes, little things in my case………….. Continue reading at Speedhunters

By John Brooks