The United States in the late 1950s was car crazy. This was especially true on the West Coast, specifically the Southern California region which was just starting to blossom and grow. It truly would have been a magical time to have been of age to take it all in. Unlike...

Hello. My name is Danny Thompson. I've spent the last two years restoring the Challenger II, a pretty remarkable car that you've probably never heard of.Originally constructed in 1968, it was intended to succeed where a much more famous vehicle, the Challenger I, had failed. Both of these cars were...

All photos courtesy THOMPSONLSR/Holly Martin Danny Thompson's quest to restore his father Mickey's Challenger II Land Speed Record car, chronicled by the man himself here at RACER.com over the past year, has been ?the hardest thing I've ever done, by three- or four-fold,? but the most daunting hurdle " a...