Salt Flats Magnets

Sunset on the Salt Flats, Utah by Lyman Creative Co.

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

Vintage Bonneville Salt Flats Measured Mile & Land Speed Trials emblem

Bonneville Salt Flats 200 miles per hour Club Life Member emblem in distressed vintage look

BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS

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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 Utah Vintage

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One of Utah's most iconic places!

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.

Cool retro muscle car bonneville design

BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS RACING

BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS RACING

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.

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.

BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS

Vintage Bonneville Salt Flats Measured Mile & Land Speed Trials emblem

Weber Speed Equipment started out in 1945 as Weber Tool Company, making some of the first aluminum performance fly wheels. As the company continued to expand their speed parts catalog with cams, clutches, and heads, becoming increasingly popular with hot rodders and racers alike, they changed their name to Weber Speed Equipment. Aside from making high quality, extreme high-performance parts, one of their biggest claims to fame was their 'blow up proof' guarantee on their flywheels, something that was a big draw to those pushing higher horsepower and revs in the early days of drag racing.

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.

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.

Bolivia Salt Flats Travel Poster by Lyman Creative Co.

Saltpans within the Strunjan protected marine park on the coast of Slovenia in the Gulf of Trieste, mid September

Saltpans within the Strunjan protected marine park on the coast of Slovenia in the Gulf of Trieste, mid September

The silhouetted figure of a ballet dancer on the salt flats at sunset.

Winged Mercury V8 emblem - hot vintage rod look.

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.

Bonneville Salt Lake Vintage Sign.

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Salt Flats Timing Association land speed racing tee.

Triumph Motorcycle: Bonneville

Last thing you what to do is let the ol' flathead run dry during a speed run, so give it some love with a little old school hot rod lube!

Larry Watson, custom King, Grapevine tribute 1950 Chevrolet Lead Sled Hot Rod. Original photo to show your hot rod pride. Fast cars, original photos.

Landscape

Exact recreation of the legendary Hollywood Motors emblem - the race / hop-up shop run by Max Balchowsky and his wife Ina throughout the 1950s and early 60's. This was the place where deep into the night Balchowsky built his superbly engineered 'junkyard' creations, the most famous being his 'Old Yeller' cars that famously put Maseratis Ferraris and Scarabs to the sword on road races throughout California in the fifties and early sixties. An authentic vintage race / rod look, and one for the true Hot Rod enthusiast who really knows his or her race car history.