Dave Despain sent a great story associated with this excellent piece on Don Vesco’s 1975 Bonneville Land Speed Record attempts.

Quick back story…in the summer of 1975 I took my first real vacation since going to work at the AMA. My wife and I were at a lake in The-Middle-Of-Nowhere Wisconsin and the only person who knew our whereabouts was my mother. About 10pm the first night the phone at the bar rang…it was for me…Ken Squier calling! He had tracked down my mother, then tracked me down and told me I needed to fly to Bonneville to be the CBS pit reporter for Vesco’s record attempt, documented here. I left my wife, flew to Bonneville and sat for three days as the wind howled and nobody turned a wheel. The little interview in this video was, as I recall, recorded during a lull in which Vesco actually took the bike to the line, only to have the wind come up again. When they finally pulled the plug on the attempt I left and went back to work…Squier returned for the second attempt, which resulted in the crash… and but as you can tell from the lack of “on camera” presence, neither of us was there when Don actually broke the record.