Bean Bandits Four Days at the World of Speed

Each year in August, land-speed racers from all corners of the globe assemble in Wendover, Utah, a small town just nine miles from the Bonneville Salt Flats. They call this gathering the World of Speed meet, where participants compete in multiple car piston-driven categories, Electric and Thrust (jet car) classes to break land-speed records.

Joaquin Arnett and the Bean Bandits attended their first meet in 1984.

Four days at the World of Speed chronicles the Bean Bandits racing club's 1997 ass...