Bonneville Salt Flats 200mph Tapestries

Nice retro grunge styled Bonneville Salt Flats Utah speed way famous for land speed records for cars, motorcycles, hot rods, jet cars and trucks.

Vintage Bonneville Salt Flats Measured Mile & Land Speed Trials emblem

Sharp retro styled Bonneville Salt Flats Utah speed way famous for land speed records held by cars, motorcycles, hot rods, jet cars and trucks. Slightly aged look with distressed design, vintage colors, nice nostalgic vector illustration for the true automotive enthusiast and those who love old school art deco style designs.

Bonneville Salt Flats

Vintage Bonneville Salt Flats Measured Mile & Land Speed Trials emblem

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The Bonneville Salt Flats are a densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah. A remnant of the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, it is the largest of many salt flats west of the Great Salt Lake. Bonneville Speedway (also known as the Bonneville Salt Flats Race Track) is an area of the Bonneville Salt Flats northeast of Wendover, Utah, that is marked out for motor sports. The salt flats were first used for motor sports in 1912, but did not become truly popular until the '30s when Ab Jenkins and Sir Malcolm Campbell competed to set land speed records.

In 1923, George Wight opened an auto parts yard on Gage Avenue in Bell, California. The shop was a combination of salvage yard and machine shop, and it catered to the race crowd in the early days of dry lakes racing. George began removing speed equipment from the junkers he bought. George sold the speed equipment separately under what eventually became Bell Auto Parts. Bell Auto Parts is one of the first, if not the first, speed shop in the United States and it didn't take long before it was the center of racing and rodding activities for the greater Los Angeles area.

Bonneville Salt Lake Vintage Sign.

For the lovers of historic cars and comic book art. The design features reworked comic art that you can use every day. The ideal gift for anyone who is into hot rods, motorbikes or speed trials on the Bonniville Salt Flats

Cool retro muscle car bonneville design

Bonneville utah salt flats

Bonneville Salt Lake Vintage Sign.

One of Utah's most iconic places!

Vintage Bonneville Salt Flats Measured Mile & Land Speed Trials emblem

The Ardun OHV conversion for the venerable Ford flathead was designed by Zora Arkus-Duntov and his brother Yuri as the “Ardun Engine Company of New York” in the late forties. By then the “old flatty” had become the engine of choice for the burgeoning hot rod craze and dry lake racers recognized the potential to extract some additional power from their flatheads. In 1951 a group of hot rodders took their black deuce to Bonneville setting a C/Street Roadster record of 162.61 Mph and the unofficial title of noisiest car on the salt. Later that year, an engine dyno test recorded 303 Hp @ 5250 rpm with 25% fuel which were big numbers for the day.

Venolia Pistons entered the speed equipment market back in 1946 and went on to play an integral part throughout decades of racing history. From countless speed records, both on land and at sea, to numerous national and international racing championships, Venolia Pistons has more than proven their mettle.

WPA poster art of Bonneville Salt Flats, a densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah, United States done in works project administration or Art Deco style.

Fast Ride

This design honors those brave souls who went flat out on the dry lake at Bonneville

Get your heart racing with this an original photo of this 1938 Mooneyes Ford Hot Rod. Shot at the historic Bonneville Salt Flats, this stunning Rod is ready for your closet. Fast cars, original photography.

As an avid dry lakes racer, Paul Schiefer developed his own clutches and flywheels that could take the abuse involved in propelling his racers to increasingly higher top speeds. He set up shop in 1947 and began manufacturing his clutches and flywheels for his fellow dry lakes enthusiasts and as word got out, his products became popular in other motorsports well. By 1956 Schiefer was mass-producing explosion-proof clutches which quickly became the clutch of choice for hardcore drag racers and by the mid-'60’s, the company had become the single largest manufacturer of specialty racing drive train components in the world.

Tom Beatty was a dry lakes racer who later became a speed shop owner. There were a number of speed manufacturers during the 1950s producing racing cams, heads, etc. and Tom worked for a number of them and truly honed his craft. Tom Beatty Automotive Engineering made all kinds of engines for all kinds of go-fast applications, so whether you were breaking records at Bonneville, tearing up the quarter mile in Fremont, or forcing buddy to hang on for dear life at Lake Elsinore, Tom was your guy. From manifolds to superchargers, Tom made it to his exacting specifications which resulted in engines that ran stronger and pulled harder than anything the big name builders were making.

BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS RACING

BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS RACING

Vintage Bonneville Flathead racer emblem in white

An exact recreation of the 1940-50 winged Mercury flathead V8 emblem. Perfect for a vintage rod look.

Landscape

An exact recreation of the early 1960's Falcon Sprint emblem, for a retro Riverside, Bathurst, or Goodwood look.

Sand, Salt, Strip - Hot Rod Holy ground - distressed print

Hot blue old school hotrod. Perfect for the guy or gal that remembers hitting the local cruise spots or taking a run down the dragstrip. This Fat Fendered Rod automotive car design makes a great gift for anyone into autos and cartoons. Great gift idea for any car lover.

One of Moon's most popular accessories in the early days was the Power Shift line of shifters.

E. E. Lohn. Co., or EELCO, was founded in 1956 in Inglewood, California and started out specializing in hardware for hot rods and dry lake racers. They eventually had a whole line of speed parts, but many remember them for their fuel tanks and fuel delivery hardware among other things.

Cool retro hot rod design

Bonneville Speedway 2 Miles to go, Exit 4, photo taken in 1982, digitally processed looks like oil on canvas

Like a lot of people in post-war America, Al Jerauld was an avid hot rodder looking for go fast thrills. He opened Jerauld's Speed Shop in the late '40s in National City, California. From catalog speed parts to many of his own creation, Jerauld's Speed Shop was the go-to spot in the San Diego area for go fast goodies. When he wasn't selling parts and installing them on customer cars, Al was a dry lakes racer who built and campaigned several cars over the years. One such lakester was the infamous Baby Bomb, which sported a destroked and sleeved '37 V8-60 Flathead with a tiny 88.75 cubic inch displacement that managed to turn some impressive speeds. Among Jerauld's many custom designed performance parts, many are still highly prized today.