Search
- MG Sports Car Driving at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, circa 1950 - In the 1930s, land speed racers everywhere began to flock to a landscape seemingly custom made for their sport: Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats. The hard, white salt provided a smooth running surface while the 46 square miles of open space offered plenty of room to speed up and slow back down. Typically, speed records were based on the average over an out-and-back run.
- circa 1950
- Collections - Artifact
MG Sports Car Driving at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, circa 1950
In the 1930s, land speed racers everywhere began to flock to a landscape seemingly custom made for their sport: Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats. The hard, white salt provided a smooth running surface while the 46 square miles of open space offered plenty of room to speed up and slow back down. Typically, speed records were based on the average over an out-and-back run.
- Ferrari Factory, Modena, Italy, 1953-1975 -
- 1953-1975
- Collections - Artifact
Ferrari Factory, Modena, Italy, 1953-1975
- Stirling Moss, Carroll Shelby, Masten Gregory, Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez, John Fitch, Ernie Erickson at Nassau, Bahamas,1957 -
- 1957
- Collections - Artifact
Stirling Moss, Carroll Shelby, Masten Gregory, Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez, John Fitch, Ernie Erickson at Nassau, Bahamas,1957
- Carroll Shelby at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, 1956 - Carroll Shelby, Donald Healey and Roy Jackson-Moore traveled to Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1956 with a pair of heavily modified Austin-Healey streamliners. Healey's supercharged car averaged 201.10 miles per hour, fulfilling his personal ambition to break the 200-mph barrier. The naturally aspirated car driven by Shelby and Jackson-Moore set several speed and endurance records on a ten-mile circular course.
- 1956
- Collections - Artifact
Carroll Shelby at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, 1956
Carroll Shelby, Donald Healey and Roy Jackson-Moore traveled to Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1956 with a pair of heavily modified Austin-Healey streamliners. Healey's supercharged car averaged 201.10 miles per hour, fulfilling his personal ambition to break the 200-mph barrier. The naturally aspirated car driven by Shelby and Jackson-Moore set several speed and endurance records on a ten-mile circular course.
- Jim Kimberly, Ferrari #5, Andrews Air Force Base, Washington, D.C., May 2, 1954 -
- May 02, 1954
- Collections - Artifact
Jim Kimberly, Ferrari #5, Andrews Air Force Base, Washington, D.C., May 2, 1954
- Jim Kimberly, Ferrari #5, Andrews Air Force Base, Washington, D.C., May 2, 1954 -
- May 02, 1954
- Collections - Artifact
Jim Kimberly, Ferrari #5, Andrews Air Force Base, Washington, D.C., May 2, 1954
- Jaguar E-Type Coupe, Lincoln Center, New York City, March 8, 1966 - Great Britain's Jaguar turned heads in the 1960s with its E-Type sports car, sold as the XK-E in North America. Disc brakes, an independent front and rear suspension, and a racing-inspired monocoque body gave the car technical credentials to match its beautiful appearance. For 1966, the longer 2+2 coupe seen here joined the convertible and coupe already in Jaguar's lineup.
- March 08, 1966
- Collections - Artifact
Jaguar E-Type Coupe, Lincoln Center, New York City, March 8, 1966
Great Britain's Jaguar turned heads in the 1960s with its E-Type sports car, sold as the XK-E in North America. Disc brakes, an independent front and rear suspension, and a racing-inspired monocoque body gave the car technical credentials to match its beautiful appearance. For 1966, the longer 2+2 coupe seen here joined the convertible and coupe already in Jaguar's lineup.
- Official Timing Stand, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, 1956 - In the 1930s, land speed racers everywhere began to flock to a landscape seemingly custom made for their sport: Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats. The hard, white salt provided a smooth running surface while the 46 square miles of open space offered plenty of room to speed up and slow back down. Typically, speed records were based on the average over an out-and-back run.
- 1956
- Collections - Artifact
Official Timing Stand, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, 1956
In the 1930s, land speed racers everywhere began to flock to a landscape seemingly custom made for their sport: Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats. The hard, white salt provided a smooth running surface while the 46 square miles of open space offered plenty of room to speed up and slow back down. Typically, speed records were based on the average over an out-and-back run.