Old Crow

This is one of the reasons I am fascinated with Bonneville, stories like the one behind this car.

I don't know the guys that put this car on the salt.

I do know that this is not some old car brought back to life.

It was built in some guy's garage.


There aren't many parts you get to order on a project like this, so there is lots of time and sweat in that slippery belly tank shape.

I looked at construction pictures that show a background not too different from where you probably park your car at night. (Though there were a lot more bits of seventy year old cars in the background, more than might be stashed in your garage.)


So, it is the romantic story brought to life - a bunch of guys, buddies with a similar dream getting together a couple nights a week, building a race car.

Trying to go fast enought to catch up with the dream.

Trying to go faster than a bunch of other folks who were also holed up, doing the same thing for the previous year, trying to catch the same dream.


The Old Crow averaged 135+ on it's record setting runs.