But now son Danny has done what he’d always wanted to do, honoring his father by taking his creation onto the flats and piloting it to a new land speed record.

This weekend at the same place, his son Danny Thompson—in Challenger II, another car his father built ... of time before he returned to the land speed record game that made the Thompson ...

Racer Danny Thompson recently got a fantastic story to tell when he was taking his streamlined Challenger II land speed car for a test run. Everything appeared perfectly normal, and then things ...

Danny Thompson went 400-plus mph in a streamliner he built on chassis of his dad's 1968 race car Thompson was a boy when his late father Mickey was clocked at 406 mph in 1960 Bonneville Salt Flats ...

Danny Thompson ... has set a land speed record at age 66. And it was a long time coming. In 1960, Mickey hit Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats in a streamlined car called Challenger that was built ...

Racer Danny Thompson, 69, set a land speed record for piston-powered, wheel-driven cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats on Sunday in a vehicle that his father Mickey first brought to Utah in 1968.

In 1968, he returned to drag racing, helping pioneer the completely redesigned Funny Car that Danny Ongais took to ... Mickey Thompson as much as his land speed adventures. Even now, no one ...

Inside the cockpit of Danny Thompson’s record-breaking car ... of “The King of Speed” to his family tree. The son of legendary racer and race promoter Mickey Thompson, the younger Thompson became the ...

But for proof that die-hard internal combustion fanatics continue to push their particular envelope of technology, look no further than Danny Thompson ... wheel-driven land speed record of ...

“This is a car my dad built in 1968,” Danny said. “We took it out of mothballs eight years ago, updated it and got the record. “This is where Land Speed Racing initially started in the ...

Danny Thompson, son of the late, great Mickey Thompson, fulfilled a lifelong dream when he shattered the piston-powered, wheel-driven land speed ... almost full speed to keep the car in line.

In 1968, racer Mickey Thompson went to the Bonneville Salt Flats with an 1800-hp streamliner and a goal of trying to best his personal record of 406.6 mph. Unfortunately, the event was rained out ...