Craig Breedlove has settled a lawsuit filed against a Chicago museum he says damaged the jet car he used to set a land-speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in 1964. Breedlove was seeking $395,000 from the Museum of Science and Industry to cover estimated repair costs. 79-year-old Breedlove and the museum say the agreement resolves the lawsuit, but terms of the settlement have not been disclosed.
Breedlove's Spirit of America jet car was freshly repaired from a crash at the salt flats when he loaned it to the museum in 1965.
Breedlove says that when it was taken off display and shipped to his Rio Vista, California, home it was in far worse shape than after the crash.
