Bombshell Betty, a 1952 land speed racer and two-time World Speed Record breaker, tears across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Christopher Wilson A car sits idle on the Bonneville Salt Flats as ...

These monster engines put out hundreds of horsepower and added some giddyap to the cars they powered. With such an emphasis on speed ... most of the years would land somewhere on this list.

Simple in design but thoughtful in execution is this gooseneck flatbed trailer being sold out of Bennington, Nebraska, which ...

“I treat Bloodhound as a very low-flying airplane,” says Ron Ayers, the chief aerodynamicist for the Bloodhound Land Speed Record project—a Mach-busting car designed to exceed 800 mph.

In 1926, Babs became the world's fastest car by reaching a speed of 171.02 mph.In the 1920s Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire became famous in the story of the World Land Speed Record. The long ...

Land speed racing is a pursuit of ultimate speed above all else. Most cars typically run on huge, flat salt pans, and racers run flat out for miles in a straight line, attempting to push their ...