Bonneville Racing News

Speed Week 2013: After many months of work to make all the necessary changes and with a brand new engine built by Kenny Duttweiler, we went up to the salt flats in August 2013 to make a few “shakedown” runs before going back in October with Mr. Butler. We definitely benefited from having a couple of…

Speed Week 2012: A year for realization and change – after 2 consecutive attempts to set a record in the F (180 cu in) blown modified roadster class resulted in complete failure; it was decided to make somemajor changes. The owner (Rhett Butler) decided to allow us to change to a completely new and different engine/trans…

Kugel Gen III Hits The Salt! 2011 Bonneville Speed Week was all about the next generation. Not Joe & Jeff – they’re old news, not even Jerilyn – she’s real old news – we’re talking about Jourdin Kugel, youngest daughter of Jeff & Stefani Kugel and Jerry’s second oldest granddaughter. After achieving our fastest speed…

Well, we made it back for the October 2010 meet – didn’t make the August meet this year – too much work left to be done on a new car build for a customer from Texas. The new car was a rebuild of an old salt car from the 70’s. So we were able to…