Auto racing in Utah: the Gary Dean Brown Collection [370]

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Title Auto racing in Utah: the Gary Dean Brown Collection [370]
Photo Number p1238n01_02_232
Description Color photo showing the semi-truck that carries Craig Breedlove's land speed record jet car the "Spirit of America" on the salt flats of Utah at the Bonneville Racetrack. A huge image of the streamliner is on the side of the semi-truck's trailer. Photo taken in 2001.
Creator Brown, Gary Dean
Date 2001
Keywords Race cars; Streamliners; "Spirit of America"; Eighteen wheelers
Subject Automobiles, Racing--Utah--Bonneville Salt Flats--Photographs; Automobile racing drivers--Utah--Photographs; Bonneville Salt Flats (Utah)--Photographs; Tractor trailers--Photographs
Spatial Coverage Bonneville Racetrack (Utah); Bonneville Salt Flats (Utah); Tooele County (Utah)
Latitude 40.807778
Longitude -113.815278
Additional Information Collection contains photographs of various models of racing cars and their owners and drivers in Utah associated with the Salt Lake Valley Racing Association. Some of them are shown in the Rose Park neighborhood where Gary Dean Brown lived; and many of them were taken at the Bonneville Salt Flats raceway east of Wendover, Utah, where many land speed records were broken. There are also photos taken at race tracks elsewhere in the country where Gary Dean Brown worked, including Indianapolis and Phoenix
Collection Number and Name P1238 Gary Dean Brown Photograph Collection
Collection Name Gary Dean Brown
Donated By/Purchased From Donated by Gary Dean Brown.
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Type Image/StillImage
ARK ark:/87278/s6988zpn
Setname uum_map
ID 984905
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6988zpn
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