[Land-speed] More Ab Jenkins and Mormon Meteor information

[wester6935 at comcast.net]

A recently published larger format, paperback book by Gordon Eliot White on the Jenkins is "Ab and Marvin Jenkins: The Studebaket Connection and the Mormon Meteors".  It's better writing, a more comprehensive book than "Salt of the Earth" on the 1930's salt runs and the association with the Duesenberg brothers and other racing Ab did in the twenties.  I really appreciate his knowledge and have enjoyed all of his books.  Gordon held a Bonneville record in a sprint car within the last twenty years.  He is curator of the Smithsonian Racing collection and took four of us through the Smithsonian's Silver Hill warehouses to show us what isn't on dislay at the museum.  He was the Washington reporter for The Deseret News in the sixties and early seventies if memory serves.  See www,iconografix.com for information on other well researched books he has written.  Another book he wrote that was published by Motorbooks International is "Offenhauser: The Legendary Racing Engine and the Men Who B
uilt It".

Wes