This land speed record car is powered by twin Hemi V-8 engines ... naturally aspirated car in history—and it's for sale. The 1968 Challenger 2 Streamliner was built by racing and promotional ...

Mecum on Saturday will auction the famed 1968 Challenger 2 Streamliner ... or some mad scientist speed demon willing to take another stab at the land speed record and possessing financial backing.

Built back in the 1960s, the Challenger II was supposed to be Thompson’s way of breaking the piston-powered land speed record. A 1968 shakedown proved the car was capable of exceeding 400 miles ...

We covered Thompson last year when he was raising money to complete the car and take ... a piston-powered land speed record with in 1969. For the project, Danny pulled the Challenger II out ...

In 1968, a team led by Danny Thompson’s late racing driver father Mickey Thompson built the Challenger 2 car, with the aim of setting a new land speed record at Bonneville. Thompson senior never got ...

Danny Thompson and the Challenger II were perhaps the second or third car to run on the opening ... of time before he returned to the land speed record game that made the Thompson name legendary ...

The Bloodhound supersonic car reached 628 miles per hour in 2019, but the team hopes to pass 1,000 miles per hour with the addition of a rocket Courtesy of the Bloodhound Land-Speed Record Project ...

The incredible run, which took place on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on Sunday, August 12, makes the Challenger 2 the ... and piloting it to a new land speed record.

The crash occurred as Combs was piloting her jet-powered land-speed car on the ... after setting a record of 398 mph in her jet-powered North American Eagle Supersonic Speed Challenger in 2013.

Racer Danny Thompson set a land speed record for piston-powered ... It was a clutch move on what will be Challenger 2's last run. After the event, Danny told Fox News the car's work is finally ...