Bonneville Salt Flats

by "Landspeed" Louise Ann Noeth

Astronaut John Glenn used Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats as a landmark from space, but on Earth, amateur motorsports devotees have used the blistering hot, flat land as a speed laboratory for more than a century. On August 22, 1949, the hot rodders joined the pageant of power with their handcrafted cars, trucks, and motorcycles for a one-time event but never stopped coming back, trying to go faster every run down the multi-mile course. All came looking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467105953
• ISBN13: 9781467105958
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"