Racer Danny Thompson 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.

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.

DANNY Thompson, set a land speed record for piston-powered, wheel-driven cars, steering his 50-year-old car down the salt flats at over 700 km/h. Racer Danny Thompson, 69, set a 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 ...

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 ...

Thompson’s son, Danny Thompson, pulled the streamliner from storage on the 50th anniversary of the Challenger I run to begin an eight-year restoration and update the car to meet the requirements ...

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 ... 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 ...

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 ...

This land speed record car ... stands today. The car was originally built with twin Ford 427 SOHC engines, thanks to sponsorship support from Ford. As part of Danny Thompson's effort to rehab ...