They found him with his nose pressed to the glass framework around "The Mormon Meteor"—"designed, built and driven by ‘Ab’ Jenkins on the Bonneville Salt Flats." The 1930s racer, which had topped two hundred miles per hour in its day, sported a 750 hp Curtis Conqueror engine. Streamlined to the point of phallicism, the racer was fire-engine red and twenty-two feet long—except for the huge yellow Flash Gordon fin behind the tiny riveted one-man cockpit.