Author Archives: Jason Bennion
It’s not much of a secret that some of the guys in the Daily Derbi bullpen are as passionate about movies as they are cars, and why the heck not when you consider how frequently the two intersect on the Silver Screen? The motion picture and the automobile both hit American culture around the same [...]
This is very short notice, I know, but given how rarely most people get the opportunity to meet a living legend, I’d suggest you call in sick to work, or do whatever you have to do to be there tomorrow when George Follmer visits Utah’s own Miller Motorsports Park. You kids in the audience are [...]
I’ve been saying for years that if hybrid drive-train technology is ever going to really take off with consumers, the engineers have got to build it into a car that has some sex appeal. The Toyota Prius and Honda Insight are popular enough, I suppose, and they aren’t bad-looking little cars for suburban runabouts… but [...]
A few days ago, this image popped up in my Facebook newsfeed: At first glance, it appeared to be a scan of an old magazine ad. Nothing remarkable about that; the Internet is lousy with them. But the longer I looked, the more intrigued I became. What the heck is this car, anyhow? The triangular [...]
Not to keep beating the same tired old drum, but if you still have not taken in the “Speed” exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA), and you also happen to be a student or employee of the University of Utah, you can get free admission to the Museum this coming Saturday, September [...]
The last time I saw the Mormon Meteor III in person, the famed Bonneville salt-flats record-setter had a constellation of dried spitwads splattered across her canopy and a crushed wax-paper Coke cup sticking out of one of her 12 side-mounted exhaust pipes. This was in the early ’90s, back when this hand-built, one-of-a-kind speedster was [...]
