John Price has produced a movie about Ab and Marv Jenkins and the Mormon
Meteor. Price bought the Meteor III from Marv Jenkins and had the Curtiss
Conqueror engine in the car restored to full running condition. When the
Price Museum of Speed in Salt Lake City is open to the public the Meteor III
will be the central exhibit. John also owns the Al Teague streamliner, the
Teague, Sadd, Bentley roadster and quite a few important racing cars from the
early days of racing up to today. The hour and twenty minute video is
available from Ellen Wilkinson at the USFRA web site for $20. It's worth the
dollars. For a gearhead it is better than World's Fastest Indian. There's
lots of vintage film footage (likely from newsreels) shot on the salt.
There's also some recent interview footage that is good of people personally
involved in the mechanical restoration and from the Duesenberg Museum and the
Smithsonian. I'd recommend it highly for the accurate information in the
video. A nice tribute to Ab and Marv and their contemporaries
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