Bolinger, the local National Weather Service and the Colorado Climate Center worked diligently on the confirmation process to determine if the newly recorded 115-degree temperature had made history.
Let's take a look back at Western Colorado's racers and race cars of yesteryear. Here's a little bit of everything from Lands End to the Bookcliffs via the lens of photographer Robert Grant.
Is that a young Gary Busey pointing out instructions to the driver from Torchy's Mobilgas...