Saltflat Racing
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This is a global discussion group for all VW owners and enthusiasts that are interested in salt flat racing and land speed records, it is open for all to join and participate in.
Salt flat racing is currently carried out at a few locations world wide - the most famous of which is Lake Bonneville in North West Utah, where three or four events are held anually. Australia is host to the Annual Speedweek event at Lake Gairdner in the Gawler Ranges of South Australia (See picture above), and South Africa is currently putting together an event at Verneukpan where Malcolm Campbell broke the world land speed record during 1929.
The group aims to promote salt flat racing for aircooled Volkswagens, and provide a place where people can exchange ideas, stories and photos of cars, events and anything related to salt flat racing and it's history.
We are also currently promoting an Australian 36hp challenge event for Speedweek held at Lake Gairdner.
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Last updated on the Novemeber 22 , 2009. This list will be updated as new records are set / broken. The new Ghia 36 category is also included. ___________________________________________________...
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| DLRA / 36hp Australia Rules This thread is for discussions relating to the requirements f | 7 | T-34 Oct 11, 2009 05:29 | T-34 Dec 09, 2009 06:49 |
| 36 Hp Challenge USFRA Hosts the 36 HorsePower LandSpeed Challenge | 3 | T-34 Apr 10, 2009 10:32 | 36hplandspeedracer Feb 04, 2010 09:01 |
| Dick Beiths 1961 LSR Run You might have noticed the video posted in the groups video s | 4 | T-34 Jan 27, 2010 22:32 | T-34 Jan 30, 2010 18:50 |
| Roll Cages Recently found out that the street class has now been stopped | 6 | T-34 Oct 18, 2009 08:26 | T-34 Jan 29, 2010 17:51 |
| Vdubber Project Oval Just secured a deal for the Vdubber 36hp speedweek entry - a | 21 | T-34 Sep 11, 2009 09:44 | T-34 Jan 07, 2010 09:57 |
| Bloodhound Richard Noble & Andy Greens Bloodhound project - hopefull | 1 | T-34 Dec 20, 2009 06:23 | T-34 Dec 20, 2009 06:23 |
| H/BAGC Record Holding Ghia Great article on Larry Monreal's Karmann Ghia at this years B | 1 | T-34 Dec 20, 2009 04:41 | T-34 Dec 20, 2009 04:41 |
| Vintage 1948 Lakester Ok, not a VW, but some vintage speed with a flathead V8 power | 1 | T-34 Nov 30, 2009 04:38 | T-34 Nov 30, 2009 04:38 |
| Belly tank resources With an original P-38 tank recently fetching a lot of $$$'s i | 1 | T-34 Nov 30, 2009 04:23 | T-34 Nov 30, 2009 04:23 |
| Welcome The idea for this group is to see if anyone else has a passio | 3 | T-34 Mar 23, 2009 23:27 | T-34 Nov 19, 2009 21:04 |
| Worlds fastest VW I posted this over on the main forums as it's not really vint | 1 | T-34 Nov 07, 2009 21:44 | T-34 Nov 07, 2009 21:44 |
| Bruce Cooks 1 Club Run Bruce Cook joined the exclusive 36hp Challenge "1" Club durin | 4 | T-34 Nov 06, 2009 06:21 | T-34 Nov 07, 2009 21:42 |
| Verneukpan SpeedWeek Was just cruising the AVWSA forums and noticed that there is | 2 | T-34 Nov 06, 2009 01:15 | T-34 Nov 06, 2009 01:26 |
| 36 HP challenge - Aus Style Was thinking a little about this recently - might look to sta | 15 | T-34 Aug 19, 2009 09:12 | whatnow Nov 03, 2009 06:12 |
| Gear Ratios Been pondering gearbox ratios. Obvious biggest factor for ach | 1 | T-34 Oct 08, 2009 09:04 | T-34 Oct 08, 2009 09:04 |
| Bonneville World of Speed News just in - looks like the event has suffered from a downp | 3 | T-34 Sep 15, 2009 11:36 | T-34 Oct 07, 2009 21:46 |
| http://www.landracing.com/ | 1 | T-34 Sep 12, 2009 09:52 | T-34 Sep 12, 2009 09:52 |
| Speedweek 2010 Finally committed to getting the Ghia up and running for spee | 1 | T-34 Aug 25, 2009 09:01 | T-34 Aug 25, 2009 09:01 |
| Another 36hp Site Found this site - | 1 | T-34 Aug 24, 2009 07:35 | T-34 Aug 24, 2009 07:35 |
| Bonneville or bust Found this site - | 1 | T-34 Apr 10, 2009 10:20 | T-34 Apr 10, 2009 10:20 |
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