Blue Flame Land Speed Record Holder - 622.407 mph

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $14.95

Stock #:1061016
Type: Postcard
Era: Continental Chrome
Artist: Larry Rutherford
Publisher: Dexter Press Inc.
Geo. Mc Co.
Size: 4" x 6" (10.25 x 15.25 cm)
Publisher's Series #: 75283-C

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Shortly before noon on Oct. 23, 1970, the Blue Flame, the natural gas industry's rocket propelled vehicle, set a world land speed record by traveling across the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, at 622.407 m.p.h. The vehicle was driven during its record setting run by 30-year-old Gary Gabelich of Long Beach, Calif.

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