{"id":498122,"date":"2019-04-02T14:33:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T21:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=75872"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:37:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:37:32","slug":"challenger-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/challenger-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Automotive Art &#8211; Fernando Hoyos&#8217; &#8220;Challenger I&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Challenger Land Speed Record Artwork<\/h2>\n<p>Fernando Hoyos pays tribute to Mickey Thompson and his Challenger I, which broke the 400 mph barrier in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>The famed Challenger Land Speed Record project began more than 50 years ago with Mickey Thompson&#8217;s homebuilt legend, the Challenger I. In the decades leading up to 1960, land speed racing was dominated by the British, gentleman racers backed by English motor component companies. America&#8217;s answer to these juggernauts was a young hot rodder named Mickey Thompson, whose four-engined vehicle was fashioned from junkyard parts in the garage of his family&#8217;s El Monte home. In 1960, without the benefits of formal training or technical expertise, Thompson became the first American \u00a0driver to go over 400 mph, and the fastest overall driver in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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America&#8217;s answer to these juggernauts was a young hot rodder named Mickey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":710102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11296,263,11272],"tags":[16904,508,17152],"class_list":["post-498122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-history","category-car-culture","category-members-only","tag-automotive-art","tag-record","tag-car-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Automotive Art - Fernando Hoyos&#039; &quot;Challenger I&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fernando Hoyos pays tribute to Mickey Thompson and his Challenger I, which broke the 400 mph barrier in 1960.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/challenger-i\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Automotive Art - Fernando Hoyos&#039; 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