Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「Butch Graham spent 40 years restoring his father’s land-speed racer, a car originally designed to reach 400 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats outside of Salt Lake City.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ In the late 1950s, his father Athol Graham built the “City of Salt Lake” using the frame of a diesel truck and a V-12 airplane engine from a World War II fighter. Racers from around the world came to the Salt Flats to try to break land-speed records, and in 1959 Athol was able to take his racer up to 344 mph. During an attempt to break the 400 mph mark in 1960, he crashed at Bonneville going over 300 mph and died.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ “I was just 4 years old,” said Butch, who’s now 64 and lives in Salt Lake City. “I have seen many pictures of the two of us together, but I have no memory of him.”⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ His mother eventually gave the car to a man in Las Vegas, but Butch tracked him down 40 years ago to get it back. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ “When I started restoring it, people who knew my father came out of the woodwork to help me,” he said. “I have had old guys hunt me down, come to see the car, and just start to cry.”⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Butch took every December off to work on the car. On the 50th anniversary of his father’s death in 2010, he brought it back to Bonneville to show it off. A hot rodder helped him get the engine running again.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ “This job has turned into a lifelong project," Butch said. “My plan now is to try to find a museum that can take good care of the car and help celebrate my father’s legacy.” ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Read more at the link in our bio.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📷: @joshuatug for @wsjphotos」12月21日 9時10分