photography on the salt, mecca to hot rodding

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The "Speed Demon" of Poteet and Main, and the Hot Rod trophy for fastest one way speeds in land speed racing

The Brauer & Sons A/FR duece, land speed record holder 2008 Bonneville 257.427 mph, and 2001 El Mirage top speed of the meet

Action sequence an axle shaft breaking during racing around a corner

When turning around this corner the drivers side axle snapped, the tire locked up, and the #18 slid to a stop just out of the path of the racecars that were following The crash and rescue team didn't know what the problem was, and thought they could push it off the course a bit further... not gonna happen with a locked up tire

1964 Porsche 904 Carrera GTS, winner of the 1964 Targa Florio

Some favorites from media day at San Diego's Fleetweek Speedfest, racing, in the pits (paddock) and more

Also see Tere's coverage of Speedfest http://justacargal.blogspot.com/2009/10/coronado-speedfest-09-best-picks-of.html and http://justacargal.blogspot.com/2009/10/speedfest-09-best-picks-of-saturday.html and http://justacargal.blogspot.com/2009/10/coronado-speedfest-09-sundays-picks.html Also see Tere's coverage of Speedfest http://justacargal.blogspot.com/2009/10/coronado-speedfest-09-

White Tiger racing mini Cooper... preshrunk. I love it!

Winner of first Indianapolis 500 Race, it was lighter, more reliable than the competition... and had one thing they didn't. Rear view mirror.

For a 2009 replica of the Wasp; http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/marmon-wasp-indy-500-replica.htmlThis Marmon Wasp won the first Indianapolis 500 Race in 1911... at that time, all race cars held two men, a driver and a co-driver/mechanic. The Marmon was a single seater, unlike every other car on the track which had a seat for a driver and riding mechanic.Marmon figured that shaving the

Racing on Catalina in the summer of '51, Lindley Bothwell brought his brass era racecars, Mobiloil sponsored the millionaires, and everyone had fun

With friends like P. K. Wrigley, Jesus Chavez, Walt Rosenthal, Ralph De Palma, Anholt, and Koehle and corporate oil sponsorship... who wouldn't have a great time on the twistiest hairpin switchbacked roads in America? This photo of a Lindy Bothwell might not be the "Lindley Bothwell" private collector and vintage car racer... but it's kinda coincidental... so i'll let you make up your own mind

Lessons learned about El Mirage

At the intersection of Mountain View and El Mirage rd. At the North end of Mountain View rd, the BLM has a building or two to get your money Look west from the extortion/BLM office building for this hill that is mostly West, the long way aross the lake bed... head directly to it, and don't drive through any cones. They are the markers for the high speed area, and you don't want to interfere with

in the El Mirage return lanes

For all the posts about El Mirage, click on "http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/El%20Mirage"

C / GMS Corvette at El Mirage

For the 2010 photos of this vette: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/05/that-cool-corvette-i-photographed-last.html

The blown fuel roadster 500, looking beautiful against the dry lakebed of El Mirage

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Chevelle that just nails the best look and colors possible, and is doing mid 150 mph, but with bigger tires will be faster... 6 inch tire trial run

This is just one of many posts to display the photos and video I took at El Mirage, for more just click on http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/El%20Mirage

Burt Munro at Bonneville 1968, Hot Rod Magazine coverage

For the Car Craft 1963 coverage see: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/06/burt-munro-coverage-in-car-craft-1963.html