Stanley steamer, with Fred Marriot at the wheel, covered a mile here to-day in 0:28 1-5. This is at the rate of 127.66 miles an hour. A half hour previous to this the wonderful American speed creation did a kilometer in 0:18 2-5, traveling at the rate of 121 miles an hour. Autocoast Vaporizer Ernest Kanzler, the owner of Autocoast, approached Ross (Skip) Hedrich began work in the fall of 1968 with the idea of installing a steam engine in Hedrich's 1964 Indy car for an attempt at the 1906 steam car record. Hedrich directed the program and Richard J. Smith consulted with Autocoast with his engine and steam generator system. The car was intended for the 1969 Bonneville speed week, but was made too heavy and wide for the power plant. Fortunately, an unexpected rain-storm made the salt flats too soggy, which made a credible excuse. Barber-Nichols Engineering In 1985, Barber-Nichols Engineering of Denver used a steam turbine they had designed for Lear and the Los Angeles city bus program to attempt to gain the steam-powered land speed record. The car was run at Speed Week on the Bonneville Salt Flats over a period of several years, eventually reaching a measured speed of 145.607 mph one pass. A fire prevented the return run, and the speed was not recognized by the FIA. FIA land speed records are based on an average of two runs (called 'passes') in opposite directions, taken within an hour of each other, unlike the original Stanley record. British Steam Car Challenge On 25 August 2009, Team Inspiration of the British Steam Car Challenge broke the long-standing record for a steam vehicle set by a Stanley Steamer in 1906, by travelling at at the Edwards Air Force Base, in the Mojave Desert of California. The car was driven by Charles Burnett III and reached a maximum speed of on the first run and on the second, which exceeded all previous single run attempts and records. On 26 August 2009, the same car, driven this time by Don Wales, the grandson of Sir Malcolm Campbell, achieved an average speed of over two consecutive runs over a measured kilometre. (Wales deferred to Burnett for the mile record, although he surpassed it.) This was also recorded and has since been ratified by the FIA. Steam Speed America On 6 September 2014, Chuk Williams of Steam Speed America attempted to