Old Bonneville Pictures

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mid 70's streamliners

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turbine

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more

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more turbine

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another

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last turbine

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strange, any info 

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mid 70's bike

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Vincent sidecar

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Ok, someone else's turn. post them old pics.


Gary Cole   DCWATERJET Z

[Freud]

SR 36 was a project of the automotive development division of Western Washington University.

It was driven by Jimmy Dunn of Everett, WA. He was a motorcycle road racer. Since then, WWU has built solar powered vehicles that

have raced in the USA and Australia.

That twin engined scooter, #29, was built by Tom Elrod. He was one of the early riders to exceed 200 MPH Naked. His earliest twin

engined bike was Harley powered and then his next one had Kawasaki engines.



FREUD

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The Vincent sidecar belongs to Mike Parti.....one of the first sidecar to race at Bonneville in the late 1970's................ along with ours............
Mike Parti/driver/owner....Norm Jamison/passenger........................................................
In later years Mike raced his big bore...big stroke Triumph twin, called "Poison Little" when we were racing our
BSA Triple outfit...............Ah, yes the good old days.   
Mike still has both sidecars on display at his shop in N.Hollywood CA.
However, our BSA got all bent up at a roadracing
crash I had at Laguna Seca raceway....I really liked that Triple...........Oh,well................................

[Rex Schimmer]

Isn't the turbine car Ermie Immerso's car that originally had 4 427 Fords in it and I wil bet that the turbines are the ones in the car that the Fregusons now have.

Rex

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strange, any info 

36SR info taken from VRI's website -  Viking IV is an aluminum monocoque streamlined coupe originally built to win its class at the Bonneville National Speed Trials with an 1146 cc Wankel rotary engine. At one point this car was fitted with a 500 cc Wankel built in the VRI and achieved 55 MPG. Later it was fitted with a 1500 cc turbocharged diesel engine. In this guise it entered the Sea to Sea Econorally winning awards for lowest emissions and best economy as well as 1st overall. One of the unique features of this car was a special 5 speed transaxle with overdrive on both 4th and 5th and freewheel on fifth gear. The VRI began its investigation of low rolling drag radial tires with this car which is now fitted with a 998 cc 3 cylinder turbo diesel. This car can achieve highway fuel economy of more than 100 MPG at 50 MPH in cross county rallies.

Michael

[Freud]

After the last run of the day.

FREUD