{"id":65144,"date":"2019-09-11T06:56:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T13:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=65144"},"modified":"2019-09-11T07:19:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:19:06","slug":"racing-teams-at-bonneville-speed-week-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/racing-teams-at-bonneville-speed-week-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-65144-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/Mitzi-Valenzuela-DPP_213575-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;65145&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Photographer Mitzi Valenzuela brought her camera to the Bonneville Salt Flats for 2019\\u0026#8217;s Speed Week. Here are the stories of a few of the teams which converged on the Utah landmark.\\n\\nSome information from Jim Lindsay about the awesome roadster you see above:\\n\\n\\u0026#8220;I began my trips driving to Bonneville in my flathead powered 32 roadster about 12 years ago. I was taken by the laid back atmosphere and at the same time tiring of the hustle and bustle of drag racing. I\\u0026#8217;d been following the nostalgia circuits up and down the west coast for years.\\n\\n\\u0026#8220;I home built a roadster with a blown flathead 4 and raced it at Bonneville for two seasons. Then Marty Strode, a Portland metal wizard, built me a rear engine roadster that I ran a blown flathead in. I set a couple records at Bonneville and one at Elmo with this combination.\\u0026#8221;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/Mitzi-Valenzuela-DPP_213579-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;65146&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019 1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;\\u0026#8220;My last run at El Mirage yielded 174 mph but resulted in a badly cracked block. I then hired Don Ferguson to build me one of his blown Arduns. With the new motor and Don\\u0026#8217;s help I averaged 218 mph on a soft track at Bonneville in 2017, and because of it I proudly wear the \\u0026#8220;Red Hat.\\u0026#8221;\\n\\n\\u0026#8220;The photos you took at Speed Week 2019 are of a new configuration of mostly the same car as the rear engine roadster. Marty Strode lengthened the car 20 inches and built the new awesome aluminum body.\\u0026#8221;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/Mitzi-Valenzuela-DPP_213585-min-e1595976009151.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;65148&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019 2&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/Mitzi-Valenzuela-DPP_213583-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;65147&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019 3&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;\\u0026#8220;In the photos from this year\\u0026#8217;s photo shoot are crew members Bob Lick, Jerry Stauffer, and myself. Also pictured are Marty Strode and Chris Copp. Chris, also a metal whiz, helped Marty with the handbuilt nose and canopy.\\u0026#8221;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/Mitzi-Valenzuela-DPP_214759-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;65153&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019 4&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;The following photos are of the Sand Creek Speed Racing team from Minnesota and their build. The members, from left to right in the photo above, include:\\n\\nGuy Henson the truck owner, engine builder (not the one in the truck, however)\\nKris Hughes \\u0026#8211; aircraft restoration specialist (can fix everything)\\nT.C. Worley \\u0026#8211; driver, photographer\\nJeff Schlemmer \\u0026#8211; truck builder (with the help of the entire team of more than 14 close friends)&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/Mitzi-Valenzuela-DPP_214701-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;65149&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019 5&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Some words about the build:\\n\\n\\u201cOur first trip to Bonneville was back in 2016. We have attended every year since and raced three of the four years there. We didn\\u2019t get to make a pass this year. Guy and Kris are first timers at Speed Week, but our team has been out there four years in a row now.\\u0026#8221;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/Mitzi-Valenzuela-DPP_214789-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;65154&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019 6&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;\\u201cWe race a 1977 Datsun 620 Pickup. The truck was Guy\\u0026#8217;s daily driver until we decided it needed a full frame-off restoration (to save it) and built it into the race truck it is now.  It\\u2019s set up for Production Class, retaining the original two-liter L20b engine, currently undergoing its third rebuild to find more power. It\\u0026#8217;s currently fuel injected with a dry sump oiling system, lowered as far as we can safely go.\\u0026#8221;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/Mitzi-Valenzuela-DPP_214739-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;65150&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019 7&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;\\u0026#8220;The transmission is a close ratio 280Z gearbox, the rear end is factory with a Detroit Locker installed and a unique set of gears that was only used in a few special order trucks.  Four wheel disc brakes, fire system, five point harness, full roll cage as required along with all the other tidbits in the SCTA rule book.\\u0026#8221;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/Mitzi-Valenzuela-DPP_214749-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;65151&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019 8&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;\\u201cWe\\u0026#8217;re a few horsepower away from setting a record, but we\\u0026#8217;ll keep attempting until the taco stand in Wendover runs out of food (inside joke for those who haven\\u0026#8217;t attended.) Maybe someday we\\u0026#8217;ll be fast enough to get our photo on the wall at the Salt Flat Cafe?\\u201d&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/Mitzi-Valenzuela-DPP_214819-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;65155&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019 9&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/Mitzi-Valenzuela-DPP_214751-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;65152&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019 10&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Racing Teams at Bonneville Speed Week 2019&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}]\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Photographer Mitzi Valenzuela brought her camera to the Bonneville Salt Flats for 2019&#8217;s Speed Week.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":65145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3697,3470,3699,5029,4879],"tags":[1357,4967,43,4892,1184,51,41,1632,4888],"class_list":["post-65144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galleries","category-news","category-other-racing","category-racing","category-slideshow","tag-bonneville-salt-flats","tag-datsun","tag-ford","tag-galleries","tag-land-speed-racing","tag-mitzi-valenzuela","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-slideshow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Mitzi-Valenzuela-DPP_213575-min.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-gWI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65156,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65144\/revisions\/65156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}