1960 C/D‘s West Coast advertising manager Bill Burke sets a 205.9-mph record at Bonneville in a streamliner powered by a Ford Falcon six.
1978 Don Sherman drives a Kelmark kit car 202.7 mph at Ohio’s Transportation Research Center (TRC) moments before the 737-hp engine blows.
1984 On his fourth attempt, Patrick Bedard qualifies at 201.9 mph for the Indy 500, then crashes on his 55th lap. A 611-hp twin-turbo Pontiac Firebird Trans Am project car created and driven by Csaba Csere runs 204 mph down a reclusive California lady’s driveway.
1986 Sherman’s third Bonneville project, a turbocharged Mazda RX-7, sets a 238.4-mph C/GT (now E/BGT) record.
1987 At a Gathering of Eagles meet held at TRC, Sherman runs 202.5 mph in a tuned Porsche 911