- Title: U.S.A.: SPEED WE??? AT THE BONNEVIL???E SALT LAKE FLATS.
- Date: 24th August 1974
- Summary: 1. SV Bike pushed off to start run 0.16 2. GV Body lowered onto sports car 0.19 3. CU Racing car 0.24 4. CUs Spectator takes photographs as saloon car pushes racer off to start run (2 shots) 0.37 5. CU Ed Ranburg tests new type of electric (battery powered) motor cycle 0.54 6. CU Ed Rnburg interviewed: 1.12 7. GVs Motor cycle during run (2 shots) 1.41 COMMENTATOR: The speed freaks have been coming to the salt flats for 25 years. During speed week almost anything with wheels is tested to see just how fast it can go. Some of the large, professionally built and engineered vehicles hit speeds of better than 600 mills an hour, but most of these machines are built and tested by amateurs, and the speeds generally are in the 200 to 300 mile an hour range. Ed Rauourg, of Fontana, California, has been coming to Bonneville since 1962. This year he has brought with him a new kind of vehicle.... a battery powered motor cycle. To Ranburg this week at Salt Flats is the only time and place and amateur can give his vehicle the ultimate test." RANBURG: "It's a hobby you don't have to invest a great deal of money in, and you do actually have the opportunity to come up and set a world land speed record in a particular class. You've got the moxy (knowledge). It isn't a case necessarily of just pure bucks." COMMENTATOR: "Ranburg says his motor cycle has a potential speed of 140 miles an hour. There are no cash awards for new records or class wins. Some of the competitors will take home trophies and will be back next August after another year of tinkering in the garage. Speed enthusiasts have been coming to the Benneville salt flats, in the state of Utah, United States for twenty-five years. During speed week anything with wheels is tested to see just how fast it can go. Some of the large, professionally built vehicles hit speeds of more than six hundred miles an hour. But most of the machines at Bonneville this year are built and tested by amateurs, with speeds up the three hundred miles an hour. Initials BB/2140 MF/TB/BB/2150 SPORT: MOTOR CYCLE RACING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: BONNEVILLE, U.S.A.
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- Country: USA
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