Brit-beating land-speed-record holder Bill Summers is dead at 75 [Obituaries]

In 1965, with a shiny, gold streamliner they'd built in a shed — and four Hemi V8s — brothers Bill and Bob "Butch" Summers ended the longstanding British rule over the wheel-driven land-speed record. Bill Summers died last week at 75. More »

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