Ab Jenkins & His Amazing Mormon Meteor | Bad Blonde #Auto History

A man who has set more speed records than ANYONE, the man who put the Bonneville Salt lats on the map, considered one of the pioneers of speed, and at one point was the Racing Mayor of Salt Lake City.. We are talking about Ab Jenkins..

Salt Lake City was known as the “birthplace of speed” at the turn of the century and soon Ab would get bitten by the bug. He’d soon take to racing motorcycles on dirt tracks and cross-country races.

Ab got his first taste of racing behind the wheel in Studebaker racing the Union Pacific train. He won by 5 minutes. And he wasn’t done, he liked it so much a year later he raced his Studebaker again against a train from NYC to San Francisco. He managed that trek in 86hrs and 20 minutes which was 14hrs faster than the train.

Ab nails 175 miles per hour out of the Pierce-Arrow V12 driving across the Uta ...