Skippy’s Speed Shop

07/28/2025

07/25/2025

We are in the dawn hours of SPEEDWEEK!!! Race teams and Volunteers are scrambling to finish tasks for a successful week! People from all over the world will be invading the little town of Wendover for a week of Gearhead bliss! 1 week until Bonneville Speedweek!!!!

07/09/2025

10-mile

07/26/2024

Here is the latest from salt

07/25/2024

Gear head hobbies will be covering our speed week adventures

Teams are working to get the last items completed on their vehicles. Soon the second wave of workers will make their way to the salt in preparation for Speedweek,taking place in Nine days! Hosted by BNI and SCTA! The gossips on the street are giving rumblings of a possible Turbinator appearance this year!

09/20/2023

World Finals Schedule

08/02/2023

Watch live here. We will be running next week.

Watch or listen to our 2023 event live on Sandhills Express!

06/23/2023

Will you be in Pella for the Bologna Nationals car show on Saturday, July 8th? We are opening our doors again for an open house on Friday night, July 7th, from 4-8pm to kick off a fun hotrod weekend in Pella. If you like classic cars or know someone who does, please share this post and then come on out! We hope to see you here at the shop and then again on Saturday for the show! Our address is on the flyer. See you on July 7th!

04/05/2023

Yesterday April 4th, one of the land speed legends passed away....Craig Breedlove died at the age of 86.

In 1962, Spirit returned the unlimited Land Speed Record to America with a two-way average of 407.45 mph on August 5,1963. Breedlove's Goodyear-backed effort ignited an intense "tire war" with the Firestone-sponsored Arfons brothers that would see the LSR change hands six times in three years.

Returning in 1964, Breedlove became the first person to reach 500 mph on wheels, yet briefly lost the record to Art Arfons. Craig recaptured the LSR at 526.277 mph, but nearly drowned on the record setting return lap. After shredding both parachutes and burning up the brakes at 500-plus, Spirit roared past Bonneville's braking area, shattered a telephone pole, and splashed nose first into a canal. History's fastest vehicle was damaged beyond repair. Days later, Breedlove lost the record to Arfons.

A six-month crash program produced an all-new, four-wheeled "Spirit of America -- Sonic I" in time for Bonneville's 1965 season. Two wild weeks in November saw Craig regain the LSR at 555.127 mph; lose it to Arfons (576.553); then win it back with history's first 600 mph Land Speed Record (600.601). Breedlove's final LSR would endure for five years before Gary Gabelich averaged 622.407 with rocket power.

Craig returned in the late 1960's to break various production car records for American Motors. During 1974, he campaigned a rocket-propelled three-wheeler at drag strips. After setting FIM quarter mile records of 377 mph and 4.65 seconds e.t. with the rocket at Bonneville, he retired.

Now in his fifties, Breedlove seems determined to wrest one more Land Speed Record (633 mph) from another Englishman (Richard Noble). In fact, a five-wheeled jet car -- equipped with 20,000 pounds of thrust -- is now taking shape at the Spirit of America team facility in Rio Vista, California. If sponsors continue to climb aboard, the first man to push the Land Speed Record past 400, 500 and 600 miles per hour could be aiming for 700 and the sound barrier. (Article - Motorsports Hall of Fame)

02/13/2023