Click here to get Ab Jenkins’ whole story plus some cool old racing photos in the print edition of Barracuda #11. Utah’s 100 square-mile Bonneville salt flats are an expansive wasteland that claimed the sanity and lives of many settlers during the 1800s. Creeping across the sparse, blinding...

Jeff Wasserman was born in 1943 and grew up in Southern California. Like so many other youngsters of the late ’50s and early ’60s, Wasserman got bit by the car bug during his teenage years and set out to build a hot rod in the garage of his parents. In 1961, while still in high school, he...