In 1971, NASCAR banned Chrysler’s winged cars, forcing teams like Bobby Isaac’s K&K to park their fastest rides. K&K owner Nord Krauskopf decided to take the team’s Charger Daytona to Bonneville for one last romp. They’d end up setting 28 world records.
They arrived at the Flats on September 12th, with a few others in tow. An engineer from Chrysler, George Wallace, used vacation time to be there. There was also a USAC official named Joe Petrali.
The entourage spanned a tarp between their trucks for a makeshift garage on the Flats. They drilled holes in the salt with a power drill and stuck in doweled markers to lay out a course … Pictures and more
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