Speed Week cancelled – put straight by pussycats

There’s something strange going on in Utah. This year’s Speed Week, held at the infamous Bonneville Speedway since humanity, is cancelled. The reason? The usually bone dry salt flats are too wet. And we do not mean it’s been a bit rainy lately – oh no – it's way too wet since the rain has been pouring down like never before, turning the dry lakes into, erm, wet lakes.

So let’s do it with some old scenes dug up from the Utah grounds, hard as stone. They may even be one of the more memorable salt flat scenes which made it to the silver screen – featuring the perfect Friday Lady, too. We're talking about the 1965 flick Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! here. According to one source ‘an unflinchingly exploitative film featuring gratuitous violence, sexuality, provocative gender roles and camp dialogue’. Sounds great to us.

It’s about three wild women challenging unsuspecting men to race them in their sports cars. The late Tura Satana has to be the most notable of them, with her Gothic looks and scruffy Porsche adorned with go-faster stripes. Or do you prefer the nimphs with their equally striped MGA and TR3? Buckle up and see it for yourself to decide.

(text and image Jeroen Booij)

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