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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1451139" data-attributes="member: 1246">Nov. 15, 1965On November 15, 1965 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/utah" target="_blank">Utah</a>, 28-year-old Californian Craig Breedlove sets a new land-speed record—600.601 miles per hour—in his car, the Spirit of America, which cost $250,000 and is powered by a surplus engine from a Navy jet. He actually drove across the desert twice that day, since international world-record rules require a car to make two timed one-mile runs in one hour; officials log the average speed of the two trips. During his first trip, Breedlove zoomed across the flats at 593.178 mph; during his second, the first time any person had officially gone faster than 600 mph, he managed to push the car up to 608.201 mph. &quot;That 600 is about a thousand times better than 599,&quot; he said afterward. &quot;Boy, it&#039;s a great feeling.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1451139, member: 1246"] Nov. 15, 1965 On November 15, 1965 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in [URL='http://www.history.com/topics/utah']Utah[/URL], 28-year-old Californian Craig Breedlove sets a new land-speed record—600.601 miles per hour—in his car, the Spirit of America, which cost $250,000 and is powered by a surplus engine from a Navy jet. He actually drove across the desert twice that day, since international world-record rules require a car to make two timed one-mile runs in one hour; officials log the average speed of the two trips. During his first trip, Breedlove zoomed across the flats at 593.178 mph; during his second, the first time any person had officially gone faster than 600 mph, he managed to push the car up to 608.201 mph. "That 600 is about a thousand times better than 599," he said afterward. "Boy, it's a great feeling." [/QUOTE]

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