Bill Summers (car builder)
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William Ray "Bill" Summers (December 18, 1935 – May 12, 2011) was an American car builder. He and his brother Bob designed and built the Goldenrod, a streamliner
car which held the wheel-driven land speed record
from 1965 to 1991.
Streamliner
A streamliner is a vehicle incorporating streamlining in a shape providing reduced air resistance. The term is applied to high-speed railway trainsets of the 1930s to 1950s, and to their successor "bullet trains". Less commonly, the term is applied to fully faired recumbent bicycles...
car which held the wheel-driven land speed record
Wheel-driven land speed record
The wheel-driven land speed record differs from the absolute land speed record in requiring that the vehicle be wheel-driven; thus, vehicles that use thrust from a jet engine or rocket are ineligible .Until 1963, the absolute land speed record holder was always a wheel-driven car...
from 1965 to 1991.