You'd probably be surprised how few outright LSR contenders have actually died during attempts, especially postwar.
Atholl Graham & Glen Leasher in the early '60's are the only 2.
Indeed,
Art Arfons probably holds the record for the highest speed crash survived in one of his 'Green Monster' cars - ~610 mph!
the right front-wheel bearing seized, pitching the car into a series of rolls that scattered it over four and a half miles of salt.
Craig Breedlove survived a somewhat slower (200mph) crash when the braking 'chute failed:
Well, the North American Eagle
looks great (in a photoshop kind of way). Amazing what a lick of paint can do.
As for 'Sonic Wind', gotta love a project headed by a fella called Waldo Stakes.