Bonneville 2013 event pics - better late than never!

Thanks for the pics mate ,never get enough Bonneville .I agree with your choice of favourite car.

 

Your pictures are great. Especially this one.



It ended up coming home with me.

 

Great pics, thanks for sharing.

 

thanks for the pics ,you got one of my roadster in my pits.

 

Thanks for sharing those fantastic pitures. Which Hotel where some of them taken at? The Nugget?

 

Rather Late than never. Great pics. !!! looking at that sky seems like I was right there beside you when you snapped the pics. THANKS FOR THE POST.

 

Very cool, Thanks.

 

First of all, GREAT PHOTOS, thanks for posting!

There's a lot more to the story, but here's a quick recap:

The Tucker was built by Rob Ida out of New Jersey for the movie "Sin City II" due out next year. Ida's grandfather was a Tucker dealer in New York who sold 130 cars and then personally returned everyone's deposit when the company went under. Rob Ida Concepts builds some of the coolest hot rods around and is also now rodding the Tucker reproductions in metal (but check out his "Lower '48" Tucker). Rob Ida also restored the Gyronaut X-1's body with some help from Preston Tucker's great-grandsons, Sean and Mike Tucker.

So both the Tucker and the Gyronaut were designed by the same guy, Alex Tremulis, with 17 years separating the designs. Tremulis also designed Duesenbergs, Cords, the 1941 Chrysler Thunderbolt, American Bantams, Crosleys, Kaiser-Frazers, tons of 1950's Ford Motorama show cars, the Subaru Brat as well as assisting in the aerodynamics for both Arfons brothers, Breedlove, Mickey Thompson and many other salt flats racers of the 1960's. It was always Tremulis' dream to run a Tucker at Bonneville to prove out its aerodynamics. So it seemed fitting that the Ida's fiberglass Sin City Tucker be recycled and repainted into a tow car for the Gyronaut for the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Gyronaut project. It's all for fun, but a fitting tribute to the ancestors of all three families from their 2nd, 3rd and 4th generations of car addicts...

 

Great pictures thanks for sharing for us that can't make it.

 

Thanks for sharing those amazing pics... I can smell the salt!

 

Great Pics! Thanks for sharing.

 

Terrific pics! Thanks for putting them up!

 

Sensational pix, I ain't believin' that Tucker!

 

Glad you got a kick out of the pics, was an amazing experience.
Thanks for the info on the Pinkees built roadster too, beautiful car in the flesh...
See you all there next year!

 

Hey LKR, I'm from Perth and was over there as well. Where are you from? Spent the whole week there and didn't see half the cars that you photographed. Funny how that works. Here's a few of my pics just to keep this thread going.

Here's a couple of Yanks I met.



Here's ashot of the VP Automotive streamliner.



Couple more Rolling Bones cars.



Another car from Old Crow Speed Shop/VP Automotive/H&H



Couldn't find an application form for this club anywhere, but I'm sure they'd accept me!



Interesting, but I'm not sure if I like it...



This thing runs a 256 cube Kenny Duttweiler motor (same as Speed Demon) that makes over 600hp!!!



302 Jimmy in this pick up.



Neat.



There's always one! :lol:

 

Great photos, thanks for sharing them with us. We never get tired of looking at someone Else's look at Bonneville.

 

Hey thanks for posting the pic of my 24 DB Roadster! I drove it there towing my Trailorboat Camper from Central Oregon. Just got it going about a week before I left for Bonneville!

Dave

 

How'd I miss this thread? Awesome pics! Even a couple of my crap box

 

I missed 'em too the first time around, thanks for posting!

 

Looks like you had a great time.
Thanks for posting.

 

Great photos.

 

Thanks! Just what I needed in those dark Winter Days.

 

Hmmm..... missed this one. Nice pix.

 

No doubt you've seen a million pics like this.

 

Never get tired of them.

 

awesome pics, thanks a bunch!

 

Excellent coverage and great pics. complete coverage , my hat is off to you. thanks for taking the time to share your event coverage .

 

Hi mate - I am from the south west on the coast in between Margaret River and Yallingup. Just got back from running a hot rod shop in Vancouver, BC and am moving home again, going to build a belly tanker hoping to make 2015. I will be making the journey out to Bonneville again this year, salt fever and all that
Get in touch sometime if you are going again, we'll have a beer!

I am glad everyone got a kick out of the photos, will take some more this year and share them.

 

I missed this too & it's bitchin', thanks & welcome LKR. Here's a link to my down-under adventure this year;

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=872339

 

Do you have any more pictures of Harold Johansen's '27 Model T? It's good to see he's still at it. That guy is a legend! I can't wait for this year!