| Title |
Auto racing in Utah: the Gary Dean Brown Collection [299] |
| Photo Number |
p1238n01_02_161 |
| Description |
Color photo of the red streamliner from Speedway Motors in Lincoln, Nebraska. Speedway Motors was founded by "Speedy" Bill Smith in 1952, and produced a long history of racing and racing vehicles. In this photo, sections of the "skin" have been removed to show the internal mechanisms of the car. Three men are standing near the car which is on a transport trailer in the shade of a portable canopy. Photographed at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1998. |
| Creator |
Brown, Gary Dean |
| Date |
1998 |
| Keywords |
Race Cars; Streamliners; Speedway Motors |
| Subject |
Automobiles, Racing--Utah--Bonneville Salt Flats--Photographs; Automobile racing drivers--Utah--Photographs; Bonneville Salt Flats (Utah)--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. |
| Rights |
 |
| Type |
Image/StillImage |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s61c2nhz |
| Setname |
uum_map |
| ID |
985000 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s61c2nhz |
