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El Mirage & Emerson Dry Lakes 1985
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Gary Baskerville
Gary Baskerville, a long Time Hod Rod photograher writer
Gary was a long Time Hod Rod writer and photographer that was always seen at Bonneville when racers were pushing the their machine's limits. |
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Gary Gabelich
Gary set the land speed record with his rocket-powered vehicle "Blue Flame" on October 23, 1970, achieving an average speed of 622.287 mph (1,001.474 km/h). A peak speed of 650 mph (1,050 km/h) was momentarily attained (record speed was 622.407 mph (1,001.667 km/h) on a dry lake bed at Bonneville in Wendover, UT. This record was the first over 1,000 km/h (621 mph) and remained unbeaten until 1983. |
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Save the Salt
To preserve the Bonneville Salt Flats and to promote the use of this historic place for motor sports for all future generations.
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Wendover Welcomes the Racers
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USAF 509th Group
Wendover Air Force Base, located just south of the town of Wendover, Utah, played an important role in training heavy bombardment crews and ushering in the atomic age. The 509th Group was organized December 17, 1944, and trained at Wendover until May 1945, when they left for Tinian Island in the Marianas. Windover was also the training site of the 509th Composite Group, the B-29 unit which dropped the Hiroshima and Nagaski atomic bombs. |
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