A Look Back: The Mormon Meteor and other race cars on the Bonneville Salt Flats

(Photo courtesy Price Museum of Speed) Ab Jenkins sits behind the wheel of his original Mormon Meteor, the landspeed record car that raced the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1937, with Ab's son Marv stands by the tail fin. (The car was originally Ab's stock 1935 "Duesenberg Special," later equipped with a 1924 12-cylinder Curtis Conquerer aircraft engine and other aerodynamic features.) The image is seen in the documentary "Boys of Bonneville."

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First Published Mar 01 2013 07:53 am • Last Updated Mar 01 2013 06:18 pm

The Salt Lake Tribune occasionally presents images from its archives and the archives of the Utah State Historical Society in a special series called A Look Back. Today, we showcase photos of famous cars and drivers at the Bonneville Salt Flats between the 1930s and 1970s.

Every gallery of the series is available at www.sltrib.com/topics/lookback.

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