RIP, Bill Summers

Bob Summers, left, and Bill Summers, right. Image courtesy Greg Sharp, Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum As recently as a few years ago, Bill Summers still harbored ambitions to go land-speed racing, a testament to his devotion to a sport that he and his younger brother Bob had conquered more than 40 years prior. Bill […]

Construction begins on the 1,000 MPH Bloodhound SSC

As much as has been said over the last few years about the Bloodhound SSC, the car proposed by a British team to not only eclipse the current ultimate land-speed record, but obliterate it by running 1,000 MPH, the car itself has only existed in engineering drawings, computer-generated concept sketches, and as a full-size mockup […]

Records on the wall

By now, we should all know about the Bloodhound SSC, the British land-speed racing effort that aims to set the ultimate land-speed record and top 1,000 MPH in the process. In honor of it, Stefan Marjoram recently created a poster that showcases in-scale profile drawings of each of the vehicles that captured the official world […]