See: Boys of Bonneville Racing on a Ribbon of Salt. I just watched it last week.
Thank you and wow is that car cool and check out it's hauler.
Legendary Bonneville racer Ab Jenkins and son with the Mormon Meteor III and their cabover Federal transporter. Constructed on Duesenberg frame rails and housing a Curtiss Conqueror 1570 CID V12 aircraft engine, the Meteor III ran 161 mph for 24 hours on the salt in 1940, setting speed/distance records that stood for 50 years.