85 years ago today - Sep 25, 1932

The New York Times reports that David Abbott ("Ab") Jenkins has set the land-speed record during a twenty-four hour period, on of the many world records in his "Mormon Meteor" cars. He single-handedly turns Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats into a national speedway.

[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]

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