Making the pilgrimage to the dry lakes has been long standing in the hot rodding community, and support from SRM back in the '80s helped boost support from the Bureau of Land Management to maintain the privilege of running the speed trials.
(left) Mike Chrispyn's yellow coupe saw many different incarnations, beginning all the way back in the 1950s when it was a show car. Mike bought the car in 1979 and, after a complete rebuild, put it back on the street where it belonged.
(right) Ron and Judy Zulpo spent their Missouri summers not bumming at the beaches, but cruisin' the rod runs in their '35 Ford sedan.