All photos are Pete Linhares©2014. His brother Phil, owner of the '34 sedan, provides some context:
"...our recent Bonneville trip. Speed week was cancelled due to rain, the track... had 3 feet of water so no one ever touched the salt. Wendover was full of big trucks and trailers, race cars, etc. from everywhere, including Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the east coast, etc. Everyone had to pack up and go back home.
"We left Wendover early Sunday heading for Tonopah on hiway 6, camping in the high desert out of Goldfield, Nev. We awoke to thunder at 1 AM, and watched the approaching storm from our tent. At 3 AM we got in the car, with lightning strikes all around us for the next two hours and huge thunder claps directly overhead. We later found a hot spring below Mammoth and camped in the rain near Lee Vining and headed home over Tioga Pass.
"The '34 Ford is a great magnet for social contact; at every stop we talked with bikers returning from Sturgis, truck drivers, people of all sorts. You don't get this kind of action traveling in a Toyota Camry!"
"One of the photos shows me with a couple of Aussie journalists with Peter Vincent's new acquisition in the b.g.: the legendary 15 oz. Fuel Coupe.
"During it's Southern California drag racing days it had a 4,500 hp blown Chrysler hemi and couldn't stay on the ground. Peter brought the car to get some advice on preparing it for Bonneville, but I'm afraid the verdict is $$$$$$$$$$$$."--PL
And from Peter Vincent, owner of that fuelie coupe:
"The car has a lot of S. Cal. (L.A.) 60's drag history and still has the original paint. It was re-caged in the 2000's and ran a Donovan 4500 hp 90% nitro engine. Not sure it ever made a full pass, but the funny car cage gets us into Bonneville (with a few mods) which is our goal as long as it does nothing to destroy the original history. We had the car looked at while in Wendover by some very knowledgable people, so I think we are in. What you see in the image(s) is its' last drag race version"--PV
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