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Auto Racing > Land Speed
1929 Ford Roadster
Jeff Aldrichs 1929 Ford Roadster was photographed at Bonneville in 1998 at the 50th Anniversary celebration for Speedweek. The Roadster runs a Ford 460 big block and it sits on 32 rails. This hand ...
Price $179.00  
1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe
Ken Schmidts 1932 Ford 3-window couple is flathead powered and ready to run on the El Mirage dry lake during the summer of 2002. This magnificent signed and numbered print is reproduced on high-qual...
Price $179.00 
Ab & Marvin Jenkins: The Studebaker Conn
Ab Jenkins drove for Studebaker in speedway and road races during the late 1920s and early 30s, then took a Pierce-Arrow roadster to Bonneville, Utah, for the first-ever timed run on the Salt Flats. ...
Price $32.95  
Bonneville: The Fastest Place on Earth
"Landspeed Louise" drops the clutch to deliver riveting tales of conquest on the Bonneville Salt Flats. The stories and the early records of the mishaps and victories of countless hot rodders ...
Price $26.95 
City of Speed: Los Angeles and the Rise
City of Speed traces the rise of Southern California's racers and speed merchants from the days of hopped-up Model Ts to tomorrows phenom. Insider Joe Scalzo details the stories behind the race shops,...
Price $40.00  
Dry Lakes and Drag Strips: The American
Illustrated with evocative period photos, this paperback reprint of The American Hot Rod (0-87938-982-6) traces the evolution of the cars built and modified specifically for street, track and salt fl...
Price $24.95 
El Mirage Impressions: Dry Lakes Land Sp
Subtitled: Dry Lakes and Land Speed Racing. A photographic essay of an SCTA sponsored dry lakes meet at El Mirage on a weekend in 1995. Superb photographs place you on that dry lakebed to stroll amon...
Price $29.95  
Land Speed Racer -Peter Vincent
This stunning limited edition print represents the essence of no-holds-barred racing. Bob Giovanne and his son Curt ran this 1927 Speedway Track T Roadster at El Mirage, Muroc and Bonneville througho...
Price $149.00 
Leo Villa's Bluebird Album
This is the definitive photographic record of Donald Campbells legendary Bluebirds, captured through the twin lenses of Leo Villas Stereo Realist Camera, and other images of the time. An amazing bod...
Price $89.95  
MG Record-Breakers from Abingdon Photo A
M.G. established its reputation as a world-class sports car manufacturer by winning races and breaking class speed records. In the 1930s Cecil Kimber, the founder of M.G., ran the fledgling motorcar ...
Price $29.95 
Mickey Thompson: The Fast Life and Tragi
When Mickey Thompson and his wife Trudy were assassinated in their driveway in the pre-dawn hours of March 16, 1988, the salacious details of the crime and the years of legal wrangling that followed ...
Price $25.00  
Racing on the Rim: A History of the Annu
Pioneer beach races held on the rim of the country has been written! READ for the first time how Americans wrestled all the worlds auto speed records from the Europeans. READ of th...
Price $22.95 
RocketMan: My Rocket-Propelled Life and
Since the 1960s, Ky Michaelson's rocket-powered vehicles have set 72 state, national, and international speed records.
Price $27.95  
Stretched Belly Tank by Peter Vincent
Proud owner Norm Benham ran his stretched Lakester Belly Tank at Bonneville in the mid-1990s. The racecar was delivered to its new owner during Speedweek, 2003. This signed and numbered Giclee limi...
Price $249.00 
The Land Speed Record 1898-1919
This portfolio of reports tells how the first Land Speed Record of 39.24 mph was set in 1898 by Count de Chasseloup-Laubat in an electric Jeantaud. And how, by 1919 the record had been officially pus...
Price $24.95  
The Land Speed Record 1920-1929
This portfolio of reports tells how the Land Speed Record criss-crossed the Atlantic during the 1920s. And, how fearless drivers such as Milton, Guinness, Thomas, Eldridge, Campbell, Keech, Lockhart ...
Price $24.95 
The Land Speed Record 1930-1939
This portfolio of reports tells how the Land Speed Record was raised from 231.46 mph in 1930 to 368.85 mph in 1939. Featured are articles on Kaye Don_s Silver Bullet, Sir Malcolm Campbell_s Blue Bird...
Price $24.95  
The Land Speed Record 1940-1962
This portfolio of reports tells how the Land Speed Record was raised from 369 mph to 394 mph by John Cobb in the Railton Mobil Special. Also featured are record attempts by Donald Campbell in Bluebir...
Price $24.95 
The Land Speed Record 1963-1999
This portfolio of reports tells how Cobb_s 1947 Land Speed Record 394 mph still stood in 1963, but was soon broken by Donald Campbell in the wheel-driven Proteus Bluebird. Then entered the jet-powere...
Price $24.95  
The World's Fastest Diesel: The inside s
At the Bonneville Salt Flats on August 23, 2006 the fastest man on earth, Andy Green, sped to 350.092mph in a yellow torpedo-shaped car called JCB Dieselmax, creating a sensational new land speed rec...
Price $32.95 
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