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Ultimate Speed - The Fast Life and Extreme Cars of Racing Legend Craig Breedlove (Hardcover)
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Ultimate Speed - The Fast Life and Extreme Cars of Racing Legend Craig Breedlove (Hardcover)
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An L.A. hot-rodder with a high school education, a family to
support, and almost no money, Craig Breedlove set out in the
late 1950s to do something big: harness the thrust of a jet in a
car. With a growing obsession that would cost him his marriage, he
started building in his dad’s garage. The car's name
was Spirit of America. Through perseverance and endless hard
work, Craig completed Spirit and broke the land speed record on the
Bonneville Salt Flats, setting a new mark of 407 mph in 1963. He
went on to be the first person to drive 500 and 600 mph, breaking
the land speed record five times. In the early 1970s he
turned to rockets and set an acceleration record at Bonneville that
stands to this day. He built a jet car in the 1990s, Spirit of
America–Sonic Arrow, to go head to head against Britain’s
ThrustSSC to be the first to Mach 1. Craig’s subsequent crash at
675 mph remains the fastest in history. Even today, at the age of
eighty, he is going strong with plans for yet another Spirit
of America racer. The ultimate goal: 1,000 mph. Ultimate
Speed is the authorized biography of Craig Breedlove, with a
foreword by Craig himself. A candid revelation of one of
motorsports' most interesting figures, the book is based primarily
on countless hours of interviews with Craig and dozens of people
connected to his life.
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