You might be interested in this…my car is the “World’s Fastest 1959 ‘Bonneville” Galaxie 292 Sedan” (unofficial, of course – but no one’s contested the title, nor can anyone I’ve talked to in the SCTA and USFRA even remember a 1959 Galaxie ever running at Bonneville).

I run in the USFRA September meet because I don’t qualify for the SCTA rules for the August meet. The SCTA rules really make it almost impossible to drive your car to the salt, race it, and drive it home. The USFRA has 2 classes that do allow you to “run what ya brung”. I drive 764 miles to Bonneville from LA, race it, and drive it home.

It was on the way to the junkyard when my wife and I bought it 4 years ago. We spent 2 years with it up on jack stands while we rebuilt the whole car from the ground up. We did all the work ourselves. I rebuilt the motor, trans, fuel system, everthing, including sanding the whole car down to bare metal, painting it, and applying a big custom flame job across the hood and all the way down the sides. My wife designed, fabricated, and installed a whole new interior, carpet to headliner.

I’m just putting the motor back together after installing the mods for this year’s Bonneville meet in September…looking for 130 mph+ this year.

Original 292 Y-block, now with 3/4 race Isky cam, headers, high rise intake, etc, etc.

If you’d like to see the car, email me and I’ll send you a pic.

By the way, “salt fever” is a bitch!

I’d been wanting to drive a car I built myself at Bonneville since 1960 (literally). Finally managed to do it for the first time last September (2010).

Andy