Showing posts with label land speed record holder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label land speed record holder. Show all posts

Some cars set speed records, but weren't fortunate enough to be savvy enough to get an organization to be there to "Sanction" it, and AAA wouldn't bless a run unless you were a member. Huh.

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 notice the writing on the photo, especially that on the upper left hand corner  very rare to have wire wheels in 1922, they go back to 1908...

Cobb's Railton Special land speed streamliner... why it needed a Utah License plate... Sept 1938 land speed record setter at 353mph

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From what I recall from reading the superb book 'The Fast Set' about the British land speed record racers in the 1920's and 1930...

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