Movie Review - Bonneville Salt Flat Racer; go fast or go home
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Bonneville Salt Flat Racer;
go fast or go home
Documentary DVD movie by The Kickass Factory
Review by Richard Parks, photographic consultant Roger Rohrdanz
I rank the quality of the DVD, sound and content as a 7 sparkplugs (out of a possible 8).
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Bonneville Salt Flat Racer; go fast or go home is a documentary DVD movie by The Kickass Factory, produced in Wallan, Australia, by Norm Hardinge and Vicki Howard. There are two discs and the story line concerns Australians and New Zealanders as they take their cars to the Bonneville Salt Flats for the 2008 SpeedWeek.
There is a magical and mystical lure to Bonneville, ever since the first pioneers in covered wagon and fur trappers tried to cross the huge inland lake. There is something very exotic about the Kiwis from New Zealand and the Aussies from Australia. It could be that they are at the ends of the earth, or their strange twisting pronunciation of the English language, but I prefer to think of it as the youthful exuberance and zeal to anything that they put their hand to. I am never quite sure what the filmmaker has in mind until I review the movie. The Down-unders always seem to surprise me, so my expectations were high for this movie. There are two discs with about 2 1/2 hours of action, interviews and unrelenting rock and roll music. The music is intense and I suppose the proper genre would be rock-a-billy with an Aussie twist. Most of the music blended in quite well with the video and the music was never a distraction. There were two bands involved; The Flattrakkers and Wild Turkey and one would never have thought they were from Australia without reading the enclosed jacket that came with the plastic disc holders. There were more than 60 interviews, often one interview overlapping on another and for the first hour it was hard to keep track of the various teams. By the end of the second disc I had no trouble understanding which group belonged to which racing team