What to say about good old Bonneville. Not the place for the timid or the slacker. Also not the place for spectators or tackle & run racers. Bonneville is all about a long term fight. A fight against the clock, a fight against oneself. The extreme natural conditions dictate that no living creature should ever disturb the peace of the salt, but as you already know, we humans, & specially fast ones, like to complicate things and play a sure death a couple of tricks just to show what we are capable of. (CLICK ON THE LINKED WORDS IF YOU WANT TO SEE OTHER CONTENT) Jeff Brock’s 1952 Buick But don’t be fooled by the need for speed. Speedweek is also an esthetic venture where it is also important to go fast with an attitude. At Bonneville, classic lines meet new design trends in a rad & distinct way we have only appreciated here. Jeff Brock’s Bombshell Buick recordbreaker, (above) ,is a fine example of this fabulous mix & match tendency. Never forget you are in the Nevada border… Digital Milk’s cool duct tape lettering on the Impossible Vans The 1958 Triton delivered all the “enjoyment” you should expect from a british mistress but did well in the end with no major incidents at 104.64 MPH with Commander Prat on the throttle.  We arrived on a stormy friday afternoon, listening like madmen to Gustav Holst’s The Planets in our hearts. Suddenly our Econoline Vans, packed with gear and motorcycles!!! left the tarmac for the desired soft white salt. Yeah!!! we thought… this could be heaven!!! But don’t be fooled… as the welcomed high winds, scattered with rains & electric discharge, only lasted for that afternoon, and the over heating punch, already planned for us, was just about to start. Bird’s view of tracks 1& 2 with their long lines and the pits far ahead on the left side The corrosive Salt was the perfect environment to test the all new El Solitario Red Selvage Overalls, and they proved to be the perfect companion for all your motorcycle adventures You should hear the way this BMW R50 motor revved up… Crazy! 4 tracks; track number 4 is the shortest, (3 miles) ideal for less fast vehicles and mandatory for rookie contestants. Tracks 3 & 2 are longer & closer to the almighty 1, which is 9 miles long and beholds the fastest pushrod vehicles on the planet. George Poteet and his SpeedDemon battling against themselves for the fourth consecutive year, did 417 MPH, becoming the fastest push rods vehicle on earth. Don’t remember this man’s name but he was cool dude and his T120 had bitching details all over it. Also got a record and went home with a big grin. Tyler Malinky and the Low Brow Double Vision. The bike is even more astonishing when you get closer & so is the fabulous crew. They got a record that afternoon and confirmed it the next morning at sunrise. Good! Flames are

    We have always acknowledged that one man’s trash will always be another man’s treasure, but it is in America were this sentence becomes righter than ever.   We were totally astonished by the level and abundance of improvised salvage yards in the, almost abandoned, mid western roads. In one of these sacrificed landscapes, Vincent even scored the roof racks, he had been long looking for, for his 1962 Ford Falcon! Follow the Impossible Team do America with hundreds of photos and tales updated daily on ElSolitarioMC’s Instagram & Facebook

  The gipsy caravan, the Impossible Team. Two Econoline vans, loaded with two motorcycles, crossing lanes towards the Bonneville Salt Flats… Azusa, Mojave, Death Valley, Tonopah, Austin, McGill, Ely… A few thousands miles and many stories to tell. Gotta love the USA. Follow the Impossible Team do America with hundreds of photos and tales updated daily on ElSolitarioMC’s Instagram & Facebook