Auto racing in Utah: the Gary Dean Brown Collection [146]

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Title Auto racing in Utah: the Gary Dean Brown Collection [146]
Photo Number p1238n01_02_008
Description Color photo shows a group of men including Art Arfons in the center wearing a red jacket and sunglasses, at the Bonneville Racetrack in Utah. Art Arfons' Green Monster jet-powered race car is next to them.
Creator Brown, Gary Dean
Date 1965
Keywords Race cars; Race car drivers; Land speed record
Subject Automobiles, Rocket-powered--Photographs; Automobiles, Racing--Utah--Bonneville Salt Flats--Photographs; Automobile racing drivers--Utah--Photographs; Bonneville Salt Flats (Utah)--Photographs; Automobiles, Racing--Speed records--Utah--Bonneville Salt Flats; Arfons, Art, (1926-2007)--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/s6fr0n91
Setname uum_map
ID 985136
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fr0n91
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