Motion Pictures The Sunbeam Silver Bullet Land Speed Record Attempt

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The Sunbeam Silver Bullet Land Speed Record Attempt

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The sheer courage of these drivers behind m***ive engines was immeasurable.

 

Here's another video about the Sunbeam Silver Bullet:

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There are a series of videos on YouTube of the rebuild of the 1000HP Sunbeam, there’s some really interesting engineering in it. First one here:


The Sunbeam factory buildings are still there in Wolverhampton but car production is long gone.

 

I have a Daytona book that covered the LSR attempts in that time era. Way crazy engineering considering they had no CAD, no CNC machinery that we take for granted today.

 

This was a great find last night on this OT Forum I just discovered. Seeing the restored Sunbeam first car to reach 200MPH will be on the lawn at Pebble Beach 2026 if you need a reason to go there.

Bob