Chet Herbert's streamliner the "Beast IV" is undergoing restoration

The NHRA museum in Pomona, California has commissioned the restoration of the Beast IV Streamliner. Dan Webb of webbautomotiveart.com and his daughter Ashley Taulbert, (well known for the modern recreation of the "Golden Sub", the Remington Modified recreation, the So-Cal Streamliner, and the fully sculpted Wedge Roadster, just to name a few) will be tasked to recreate the Beast IV and are currently making progress.

The streamliner will then be unveiled after the restoration/rebuild at the NHRA Museum in January 2017 during the GNRS

http://scootermcrad.blogspot.ca/2016/06/the-beast-iv-will-live-again.html

Brock's Bombshells Betty Buick is up for sale, and six land speed records at Bonneville as well as a one of a kind streamliner look make it a unique vehicle to acquire

Sold in 2014 to a car flipper, it's now ready for resale. Around $200,000 the seller is hoping for.

Full gallery at http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/11/i-finally-found-brocks-bombshell-betty.html



http://www.dupontregistry.com/autos/listing/1952/buick/riviera/1440220
http://www.thedrive.com/vintage/4254/sell-everything-and-buy-this-1952-buick-riviera

Lou Bingham getting his coupe ready for the run on Bonneville in '53 after towing it from San Diego

The fenders, running boards, bumpers, headlights and hub caps have been removed from the car in preparation for running one of the classes on the salt. The radiator has a piece of cardboard taped over it to aid in streamlining. Even with radiator blocked he only ran the car on the race course and never had a problem with the car overheating since he was running it for such a short time. Look at the doors and you'll see the windows rolled down slightly and cardboard taped at the tops of them. Louvers were installed in the cardboard to meet the SCTA rules that coupe interiors be ventilated.

Photos by Spence Murray, who at the time was editor of Rod and Custom, who did an in depth article of Lou's trip called "Destination Bonneville"

Later, Lou owned Bird Rock Mobilgas halfway between LaJolla and Mission Beach

In 1957 SCTA changed the rules which specified "no chop tops", the cars had to be stock height. So Lou mad a fiberglass cap that extended the top of his roof by 4" so the top of the car was now stock height. In 1958 the SCTA reversed the roof rules, and the cap was easily, and simply, removed without any bodywork to the roof to comply with one stupid rule only in effect for one race season

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51567&page=39

probably the world's fastest Saab...1964 Saab Model 96

Found on http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51567&page=272

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Nice Caddy, hard to believe it's used a pusher

http://s7.photobucket.com/user/DCarr511/media/Speed%20Week%202008/PICT0007.jpg.html
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everything is cooler on the salt

thanks Steve, via http://www.notey.com/blogs/rat-rod

How did these dummys not get their bus stuck?

and do they have any idea how fast their bus is going to corrode now that it's been washed in salt water? 

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2016/06/08/bureau-of-land-management-investigating-bonneville-salt-flats-vandals/
https://www.facebook.com/sundayfundayz/photos/a.1129040293827401.1073741934.186280661436707/1129040390494058/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208868333081477&set=p.10208868333081477&type=3&theater

The stunt, which involved members of the High on Life SundayFundayz group wakeboarding behind a six-wheeled RV on the flooded salt flats, took place in March, according to time stamps on photos uploaded to the group’s Facebook page.