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 ...

Mickey Thompson first set his sights on the land speed record at Bonneville ... and makes the Challenger 2 the world's fastest piston powered car. You can ride along with Thompson's record-setting ...

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.

The history-making 1968 Challenger ... record 448.757 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Yet the 71-year-old told Autoweek that he’s been living on Social Security, his wife hasn’t had a ...

believe they have the keys to the first car to smash the 1,000mph (1,600kph) barrier. So lets look back at 10 of the most extraordinary land speed record vehicles to make sporting history.