Photos: Bonneville Salt Flats speed records

Here's a photo tour of Utah's famous salt flats, with the vehicles and drivers that made history there.

• ICYMI: The 1914 car that started it all on the Bonneville Salt Flats

The Blitzen Benz in August 1914, when it set a new record for speed at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Image via Utah State Archives Ab Jenkins with his record-setting "Mormon Meteor" Duesenberg in the 1930s. Jenkins, a Salt Lake City resident who went on to serve as mayor, had been building Utah's racing scene since the 1920s, when he raced a train and won. He set several endurance land speed records. Image via the University of Utah British driver Malcolm Campbell became the first person on record to drive more than 300 mph, in 1935 at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Photo: ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images British racing driver and engineer George Eyston wears a gas mask to avoid inhaling fumes in the cockpit of his car, the Thunderbolt, August 1938. Photo: Jeano Orlando/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images John Cobb, another British driver, waves next to his Railton racing car in 1938. Cobb and Eyston frequently broke each others' records on the salt flats. Photo: Bettmann Collection, via Getty Images Racing star Rex Mays drives an Offenhauser-powered Midget racecar to a speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1949, just months before he died in a crash in Del Mar, California. Photo: ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images Donald Healey's modified Austin-Healey "Streamliner," shown here in 1954, set an array of records on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Photo: National Motor Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images German racer Wilhelm Herz with his 500cc NSU Delphin III motorcycle at the salt flats, where he established a new world motorcycle speed record in 1956. Photo: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images New Zealand motorcyclist Burt Munro with the "Munro Special" — aka the "World's Fastest Indian" — on the salt flats following Munro's first record in 1962. Photo: Eric Rickman/The Enthusiast Network via Getty Images/Getty Images Driver Art Arfons stands next to his jet-powered "Green Monster" car, which set records in 1965. Photo: Bettmann Collection, via Getty Images Craig Breedlove with his "Spirit of America," the first car to exceed 600 mph, in 1965. Photo: Bettmann Collection, via Getty Images Driver Lee Breedlove is hoisted up by her husband, Craig, after receiving a telegram confirming her land speed record for women at Bonneville in 1965. All attached captions fail to identify her by her name. Photo: Fairfax Media Archives via Getty. The Blue Flame, driven by Gary Gabelich in a record-setting trial in 1970. Photo: Paolo KOCH/Getty Images NASCAR driver Bobby Isaac set 28 records in 1971 with this Dodge Daytona. Photo: ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images Driver Kerry Mclean takes his novel ''monocycle" for a record-setting 51 mph in 2000. Photo: Dan Callister/Liaison via Getty Images Skateboarder Vaughn Shafer set a world record of 70 mph in 2000 at the salt flats. Photo: Dan Callister/Liaison via Getty Images

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