I've been sitting on photos of this wild '52 Buick land speed racer, in anticipation of Misfits and Mavericks month since last summer. With its lead sled style and bare metal finish, the car stood out from the field of Bonneville specials. And given that Bonneville is full of mad-hatter cars, that's really saying something about the unique
Are we drowning in S-Chassis yet? ... I know, I know... too much of a good thing isn't always best is it! Oh well... To break up the monotony I present to you a pickup truck! 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.
For those Hot Rod fans out there.... We bring you this high rez image for your computer desktops. Enjoy! :Rod
Speedhunters as a website has been designed for people like myself who have exceptionally short attention spans... I get bored very easily and constantly need to switch up what I'm focused on in order to feel excited and inspired... So I just can't look at Japanese cars and drift photos all the time. It just becomes too repetitive for my cross
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
You know, I get the sense the Bonneville car builders are all closet inventors; each with their own home brewed speed secrets learned from many years or even decades of running on the salt. For these constructors there are no boundaries... the only limit to a build is their own imagination... At Bonneville it often seems like the crazier the design
Amongst all the American Rods, Customs, Streamliners, Trucks, Lakesters and Muscle cars running down the salt at Bonneville, we actually managed to find a few Japanese cars here and there. Perhaps it's our own bias, or the fact that we know you guys tend to be more responsive to these machines, but we had our eyes peeled for cars of a Nipponese
Most people in the drift world would cite Ebisu Circuit as a bit of a hallowed ground. It's a place where most drifters from around the planet dream of taking their cars for a bit of sideways action. Similarly in Time Attack, most car builders would love the opportunity to take their cars for a run about Tsukuba Circuit to see how their builds stack
We don't tend to focus very much on youtube crash videos here on Speedhunters, but I thought this one would be of interest to you, as we get ready for our Bonneville Speedhunting trip. It depicts the Racing Beat team's ill-fated 1992 attempt at the C/Blown Modified Sports record of 241 mph with their 760 horsepower turbocharged three Rotor FD
Bonneville is normally the hunting grounds for all matter of hot rods, streamliners and other American cars but there have been some high profile Japanese entries at Speed Week over the years. This year, it appears that the Japanese manufacturer flag will be flown by Chicago based Mitsubishi tuner AMS, who've been working with driver/owner Tommy