Rob Freyvogel

NORWALK, OH — It’s a big world, but not even Earth offers many places for 500-miles-per-hour land speed racing. Outside of the famed Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, only south Australia’s Lake Gairdner and Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni provide sanctioned salt flats racing. That’s it. So what’s a guy with a 500-mph fighter jet-looking race car

They built it to be the world’s fastest wheel-driven car—ever. No rockets. No jet propulsion. Just good old-fashioned, turbocharged American muscle. The Carbinite LSR streamliner looks more like a fighter jet than a typical car, but that happens when you’re building and shaping a Bonneville land speed car designed to go 500 miles per hour.