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Flamin' Betty's Love for Speed

NPR
Published October 15, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

For the independent Hearing Voices radio project, producer Jim Kehoe profiles "Flamin' Betty" Burkland, a 63-year-old grandmother who loves to race amazingly fast cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

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