Brilliant video. My husband's grandfather, Hugh Rose, was chief draughtsman on the Slug, and my husband was totally unaware of the extent of the footage of the vehicle.
I love your videos, no annoying music, clear narration and well written and researched, many thanks.. It would be great if you could do some LSR of motorcycles from the early and classic era.. Eric Fernihough immediately springs to mind..
I heard a story that the car was initially unstable at high speed and this disappeared when the rear end was modified from having a flat floor to giving it an upswept profile, although this was actually done in order to make it easier to unload down a ramp from its trailer. Supposedly no-one realised at the time but they had accidently given the car a crude diffuser which created some ground effect and stabilised the car. I'd love to know if this is true or just an urban myth.
Wow - I didn’t turn up any reference to that in my research, but the car was apparently a handful in the wind on the beach. Great story if that really was the accidental birth of the rear diffuser!
That is a very interesting story to hear but I don't think this is just an urban myth because the "Mystery" was initially very unstable then it seems to disappear this issue....
I live in Daytona Beach and love the history of racing on the beach. The City developed a history of speed path with engraved granite panels inset into the boardwalk covering 1903 to 1959. Daytona also named a street for Seagrave.
I never tire of watching or reading of the wheel driven land speed vehicles. Cobb’s Napier Railton endurance racer (not particularly lauded as a land speed mile car) with its W12 engine, which has been restored to unbelievably high standards and regularly runs at it’s Brooklands home, albeit purely to show it off and to run the engine. It sounds superb and I can only imagine what those multi-engines cars sound like.
doing the math out, 1 gallon every minute on those engines is 0.417 lb/hp*h, which is actually pretty good fuel efficiency for those engines. Means they could have eeked out more power with some tuning of the carbs.
@@bmw_fantopdrives5501 it's a different story when we're talking about ww1 aero engine, operating on low compression with no forced induction, thus why I'm impressed.
It is hard to believe that this vehicle was built with spare parts and sent to Daytona with hardly any help. Different times with very determined people👍🇬🇧💪
Tf are you talking about? Babbling bs politics into something amazing. There are men and women out there setting records and dying for their passions everyday.
@@jacobvanausdeln1696 I wasn't babbling about politics, I was just thinking about the people that assembled the "Mystery" with spare parts with hardly any financial help from the investors and the pilot with his own money had shipped this magnificent machine and the mechanics to USA....
The craziest part to me was him experiencing a total brake failure at 200mph, managing to survive, and then just going, "Alright, lets change the brakes and do the run with a tailwind!"
It's quite incredible how far auto engineering has come since this car was built. A few days ago Harry Metcalf ( youtube channel "Harry's Garage' ) popped over to Germany and on a derestricted part of an autobahn took his Jaguar Project 8 to 200mph, just for fun and to prove the car could actually do it.
Great video, thanks. A small correction: where you say that a "frontal area.... of 18.7 square feet resulted in a drag coefficient of 0.34 making the car very slippery" this should be "a frontal area of 18.7 square feet (1.75 m^2) and a drag coefficient of 0.34 combined to make the car very slippery". Drag coefficient, Cd, is dimensionless, it has to do with shape not size. As an example, the drag coefficient of an object shaped like a brick is around 1, no matter whether it is an actual brick or a large box with the same proportions as a brick (like a Land Rover). Put another way, the drag coefficient of an accurate scale model of the Sunbeam would also be 0.34. To get the aerodynamic drag on a vehicle we use CdA, the product of drag coefficient and frontal area. The CdA of the Sunbeam would be 0.59 m^2. You are right that's good by modern standards, a Tesla model S has a CdA of about 0.56 m^2 The aerodynamic drag is given by CdA x air density x air speed squared / 2. Another way to think of it is that the area x air density x speed gives the mass flow rate of air into the vehicle. Mass flow x speed x Cd/2 gives drag. The divide by 2 bit has to do with stagnation flow but the joke is that it's there just so a brick has a Cd of 1.
Thank you for explaining that to me - it’ll be very useful in some of the videos I’ve got planned for next year! Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for commenting.
@@ScarfAndGoggles Cool, I've just subscribed, also loved the video on the Segrave's Golden Arrow. To illustrate the points I made above: that car had a higher drag coefficient than the Sunbeam (0.46) but a much smaller frontal area ( about 1.1 m^2) giving a CdA of about 0.5 which is lower than the Sunbeam but not by enough for it to reach 400 kmh.
Thanks for covering this part of the Land Speed Story. It's ironic that Segrave's fame came from making it look easy. Campbell's genius was to make it look hard. I'm still trying to locate a reputed cartoon from the 1930s, when Campbell was shooting for 300mph which depicted an aged Campbell climing out of a motorized bathchair into a rocket powered version of Bluebird with a caption indicating he was aiming for a target in the low five hundred MPH range.
I have a 1962 sunbeam alpine,,was my dream car and I have had it for over 15 years now, and do all my own work including retrofitting a Toyota 5 speed W58 trans with a 65 rear end. so I can cruise highway speeds easly. love my sunbeam.
I well remember my first visit to Beaulieu, as a seven-year-old. I set eyes on this beautiful, beautiful machine - then on Bluebird, and the Golden Arrow - and my lifelong love affair with classic cars, and all things related to this particular era of racing, began.
This car was built in my hometown. The original factory still stands to this day. It's now a set of apartments but they kept the original brickwork. The exterior is the exact same
Mr S&F. Found your channel yesterday and I adore it. This is the type of good content we used to get on the US channel Speedvision back in the late 90s. Keep up the great work.
Longtime subscriber. Love your content!!! You Brits build beautiful machinery. Most times they work, sometimes they don't. But they are always Beautiful elegant things.
I owned a 1962 Sunbeam Alpine 40 some odd years ago. I thought it very old then! It suffered from the typical things a older British sports car do like rust and worn out bearings and electrical issues. I kept her running for a few years it gave me a life time love of cars and small sports cars. So when ever I see SUNBEAM I look and this popped up and as I watch your great documentary I wondered if it was the same company and indeed it was! So cool that my car shared a history with this one. Wonderful to watch. Thank you.
Thanks for getting in touch - so glad you enjoyed the story of Segrave and the Sunbeam 1000hp. There’s also a video on my channel about the Sunbeam Silver Bullet that you might enjoy…
Many thanks forthe video. 3:05 To be mildly pedantic: total aero drag depends on frontal area x drag coefficient (which is per unit of frontal area). Keeping them both low matters.
We tend to take the capabilities of our modern technology for granted, until we see stories like this. Seeing that it took nearly 1,000 hp to propel a car to 200mph back then makes me appreciate the fact that my sports car is capable of reaching 175mph on the 332hp generated by my engine and that it can be a docile and dependable daily driver.
@@felixthecat3n2 I have a 2019 Nissan 370Z 6MT with the sport package. The car is limited to 155 mph via the ECU in the US market, per DOT import requirements. I saw an interior video of the dash of a 2014 370Z automatic running flat out on the Autobahn, where the speed maxed out to about 280 kph(~175 mph). This was on CZcams and you can probably find it if you search. I had a Porsche 944s years ago and I was able to max it out on the highway at about 147 or 148 mph. This was with a 2.5 liter engine that was putting out between 190 to 200 crank hp, the car being surprisingly stable and easy to control. I think that both these cars benefitted from good aerodynamic design to lower drag and reduce unwanted lift at high speeds. I've never driven my Z anywhere near that speed nor do I ever plan to, especially given the poor quality of roads in America today.
That was a great story and wonderful video, I love the original footage and photos. It's sad and somewhat ironic twist that Seagrave met an untimely end and had a sea grave
I love all these land and water speed record breaker heroes, people like these make our lives that much more exciting, what brave human beings, thankyou,
This is absolutely among my favourite channels. The raw courage is not lost on me; having read Campbell Snr's own accounts of his exploits, written in an understated fashion - these doings beggar belief. Thanks for uploading; hope you and yours are happy and well.
Like the motorfreak i am i try to imagine the two V12 engines in the car breathing and roaring for full speed all delivered to a drive chain to the early days flintstone wheels. Well, lets hope it works out to the end of the track. 😄
For those interested. The re-commissioning of the Sunbeam 1000hp is well under way at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu. You can see the car being worked on in the main public hall. When completed the car is heading to the USA for a Museum tour finishing at Daytona Beach 29th March 2027.
So refreshing to find this quality! Well written, well researched, well edited, and bloody brilliant narrator with no trace of getting between you and the information. I knew the name for ever..but NOT this slice of history that really hammered them home as a classic British car maker. It all ended up as cute wee sports cars!
The Sunbeam I had, an S7 and not really a Sunbeam but a BSA, had an achillies heel built in. The phosphor bronze item In the drive train. According to some authors this wore out within 1000 miles on the prototype, so in good British style they detuned the engine for the production version to make it last longer.....
At the time of the LSR attempts the beach was regularly refereed to as Ormand Beach. Daytona and Deltona came later. Local people promoted the record attempts.
I've commented before, I'm an aircraft enthusiast first and foremost, but this channel never fails to knfitm and fascinate. Once again, thanks for the upload 👍
Amazing to think that today's F1 1.6 L racing cars can clear 200 mph at nearly every race track they go to with ease? Incredible how things have moved on. Incidentally my grandfather worked at Sunbeam as a Tinsmith and myself worked in the same building for a different company many years after Sunbeam left Wolverhampton.
A small point. Most of the run was in Ormond Beach, just north of, and contiguous with, Daytona Beach. Ormond Beach is rightly known as the birthplace of speed.
Sunbeam made very fast cars in the early 1900s, we had one compete in our London to Brighton Down Under a couple of years ago, a wealthy graizer here in South Australia imported it in to use between his cattle stations as his current car was not fast enough!! Was the fastest production car available at that time in the Uk.A sports version , would do 80 MPH, currant owner said it ,now fully restored would still go just as fast, but added he hasent been game to try it out. Cheers Mal in au.
3:30 Frontal area DOES NOT determine drag coefficient. They are separate measures that MULTIPLY together to determine the aerodynamic drag of a car (or truck or aircraft).
Those days of early speed records are just fascinating to me so many people chasing records, using plane engines in these cars, just wild stuff. These guys must have been like superheroes to kids of the day
In the late 20s it took this absolute massive beast to break 900hp. Now less than 100 years later we have engines that can break 1000hp with minimal effort and common mass produced 4 cylinders making over 200hp. I bet electric car technology will become amazing before we even go another 100 years
Amazing production. Please look into getting some of the amazing images you have found colorized and create a fade between the two. That would be truly excellent. There are many people on CZcams who would love to do some of your images. Please give it a try.
I always wondered if this story was romanticized to a certain extent. The story is the lads threw her together with spare parts but they had all of Sunbeams engineering, materials and production at their disposal. It seems the company didn’t want it to seem they were investing much into the project for investors sake or otherwise.
Hi there yes there is an ongoing project with the restoration of this car we have won the engines currently waiting to go back together we’re after somebody to film this procedure as it’s rather important land speed car Do you know anyone that makes films about land speed cars Have a chat with Workshops
Thanks for this very informative video. I call my fast car "Turbo Slug", but I had no idea that I had accidently "copied" off this famous Sunbeam! I am not worthy🧐😞
So John went to England and start a motor company while Abigail and his son Jack was being "imprisioned" by the BOI? No wonder Arthur called him a bad parent. Damn...
Yeah they always had at least an inkling about what they were doing, and then from there just rolled with what they had and hoped that skills, reflexes or other talents, or lack thereof (particularly of fear) could compensate for any mechanical shortcomings.
Brilliant video. My husband's grandfather, Hugh Rose, was chief draughtsman on the Slug, and my husband was totally unaware of the extent of the footage of the vehicle.
So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for taking the time to post about your connection to the car.
I am rebuilding a Lea Francis with an engine designed by Hugh Rose. I pass his house in Wolverhampton every day.
That's so cool to be connected to this historic machine
Hey, What kind of drafts does a draughtsman chiefly drink?☺
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How many drafts can a draughtsman chuck if a draughtsman could chuck drafts ? 😃
Cunning stunt.
Say that ten times fast 😹
Weighing in at around 4 tons, makes my motorhome feel like an Ariel Atom! Great video, thank you x
What motorhome weighs 4 tons my truck weighs more than that
They were a different breed back then, especially considering this was achieved 100 years ago.
I love your videos, no annoying music, clear narration and well written and researched, many thanks.. It would be great if you could do some LSR of motorcycles from the early and classic era.. Eric Fernihough immediately springs to mind..
I heard a story that the car was initially unstable at high speed and this disappeared when the rear end was modified from having a flat floor to giving it an upswept profile, although this was actually done in order to make it easier to unload down a ramp from its trailer. Supposedly no-one realised at the time but they had accidently given the car a crude diffuser which created some ground effect and stabilised the car. I'd love to know if this is true or just an urban myth.
Wow - I didn’t turn up any reference to that in my research, but the car was apparently a handful in the wind on the beach. Great story if that really was the accidental birth of the rear diffuser!
Bernoulli’s principal 😀
That is a very interesting story to hear but I don't think this is just an urban myth because the "Mystery" was initially very unstable then it seems to disappear this issue....
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@@chrisvig123 pardon me being a grammar nazi, it's spelt 'principle'
I live in Daytona Beach and love the history of racing on the beach. The City developed a history of speed path with engraved granite panels inset into the boardwalk covering 1903 to 1959. Daytona also named a street for Seagrave.
I never tire of watching or reading of the wheel driven land speed vehicles.
Cobb’s Napier Railton endurance racer (not particularly lauded as a land speed mile car) with its W12 engine, which has been restored to unbelievably high standards and regularly runs at it’s Brooklands home, albeit purely to show it off and to run the engine.
It sounds superb and I can only imagine what those multi-engines cars sound like.
doing the math out, 1 gallon every minute on those engines is 0.417 lb/hp*h, which is actually pretty good fuel efficiency for those engines. Means they could have eeked out more power with some tuning of the carbs.
Aircraft engines kind of needed to be fuel efficent
@@bmw_fantopdrives5501 it's a different story when we're talking about ww1 aero engine, operating on low compression with no forced induction, thus why I'm impressed.
Thank you for another great piece of LSR history. 11:35 This picture really emphasizes where automotive technology was at that time.
It is hard to believe that this vehicle was built with spare parts and sent to Daytona with hardly any help. Different times with very determined people👍🇬🇧💪
Back when MEN were MEN.... Not what we have today
Tf are you talking about?
Babbling bs politics into something amazing.
There are men and women out there setting records and dying for their passions everyday.
@@jacobvanausdeln1696 I wasn't babbling about politics, I was just thinking about the people that assembled the "Mystery" with spare parts with hardly any financial help from the investors and the pilot with his own money had shipped this magnificent machine and the mechanics to USA....
@@redneckswitwheels exactly 👍👍
@@paoloviti6156 There are still plenty of situations like that even today in nearly every facet of amateur motorsport.
Excellent video as always S&G. I can't imagine what Segrave must've felt hauling that tank across the sand at 200 mph.
The craziest part to me was him experiencing a total brake failure at 200mph, managing to survive, and then just going, "Alright, lets change the brakes and do the run with a tailwind!"
I remember when the first 500 GP motorbike hit 200mph , when asked what 200mph felt like the rider said very similar to 199mph
It's quite incredible how far auto engineering has come since this car was built. A few days ago Harry Metcalf ( youtube channel "Harry's Garage' ) popped over to Germany and on a derestricted part of an autobahn took his Jaguar Project 8 to 200mph, just for fun and to prove the car could actually do it.
Great video, thanks.
A small correction: where you say that a "frontal area.... of 18.7 square feet resulted in a drag coefficient of 0.34 making the car very slippery" this should be "a frontal area of 18.7 square feet (1.75 m^2) and a drag coefficient of 0.34 combined to make the car very slippery".
Drag coefficient, Cd, is dimensionless, it has to do with shape not size. As an example, the drag coefficient of an object shaped like a brick is around 1, no matter whether it is an actual brick or a large box with the same proportions as a brick (like a Land Rover). Put another way, the drag coefficient of an accurate scale model of the Sunbeam would also be 0.34.
To get the aerodynamic drag on a vehicle we use CdA, the product of drag coefficient and frontal area. The CdA of the Sunbeam would be 0.59 m^2. You are right that's good by modern standards, a Tesla model S has a CdA of about 0.56 m^2
The aerodynamic drag is given by CdA x air density x air speed squared / 2. Another way to think of it is that the area x air density x speed gives the mass flow rate of air into the vehicle. Mass flow x speed x Cd/2 gives drag.
The divide by 2 bit has to do with stagnation flow but the joke is that it's there just so a brick has a Cd of 1.
Thank you for explaining that to me - it’ll be very useful in some of the videos I’ve got planned for next year! Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for commenting.
@@ScarfAndGoggles
Cool, I've just subscribed, also loved the video on the Segrave's Golden Arrow.
To illustrate the points I made above: that car had a higher drag coefficient than the Sunbeam (0.46) but a much smaller frontal area ( about 1.1 m^2) giving a CdA of about 0.5 which is lower than the Sunbeam but not by enough for it to reach 400 kmh.
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The mathematical term Cd x A is called "drag area" by automotive engineers. Car & Driver magazine lists drag area for all the cars that they test.
Thanks for covering this part of the Land Speed Story. It's ironic that Segrave's fame came from making it look easy. Campbell's genius was to make it look hard. I'm still trying to locate a reputed cartoon from the 1930s, when Campbell was shooting for 300mph which depicted an aged Campbell climing out of a motorized bathchair into a rocket powered version of Bluebird with a caption indicating he was aiming for a target in the low five hundred MPH range.
I had a 65 Sunbeam Alpine with 18,00 miles in 1970 ! Great little car
I have a 1962 sunbeam alpine,,was my dream car and I have had it for over 15 years now, and do all my own work including retrofitting a Toyota 5 speed W58 trans with a 65 rear end. so I can cruise highway speeds easly. love my sunbeam.
Skidded for 400 yards and didn't panic.Outstanding.
And didnt lift until the very end!
These guys had more than just many lose screws, they had skill!
I well remember my first visit to Beaulieu, as a seven-year-old. I set eyes on this beautiful, beautiful machine - then on Bluebird, and the Golden Arrow - and my lifelong love affair with classic cars, and all things related to this particular era of racing, began.
This car was built in my hometown. The original factory still stands to this day. It's now a set of apartments but they kept the original brickwork. The exterior is the exact same
Mr S&F. Found your channel yesterday and I adore it. This is the type of good content we used to get on the US channel Speedvision back in the late 90s. Keep up the great work.
Awesome, thank you!
Longtime subscriber. Love your content!!! You Brits build beautiful machinery. Most times they work, sometimes they don't. But they are always Beautiful elegant things.
I owned a 1962 Sunbeam Alpine 40 some odd years ago. I thought it very old then! It suffered from the typical things a older British sports car do like rust and worn out bearings and electrical issues. I kept her running for a few years it gave me a life time love of cars and small sports cars. So when ever I see SUNBEAM I look and this popped up and as I watch your great documentary I wondered if it was the same company and indeed it was! So cool that my car shared a history with this one. Wonderful to watch. Thank you.
Thanks for getting in touch - so glad you enjoyed the story of Segrave and the Sunbeam 1000hp. There’s also a video on my channel about the Sunbeam Silver Bullet that you might enjoy…
8:49 What a bad ass photo!
Many thanks forthe video. 3:05 To be mildly pedantic: total aero drag depends on frontal area x drag coefficient (which is per unit of frontal area). Keeping them both low matters.
We tend to take the capabilities of our modern technology for granted, until we see stories like this. Seeing that it took nearly 1,000 hp to propel a car to 200mph back then makes me appreciate the fact that my sports car is capable of reaching 175mph on the 332hp generated by my engine and that it can be a docile and dependable daily driver.
What do you drive Jim?
@@felixthecat3n2 I have a 2019 Nissan 370Z 6MT with the sport package. The car is limited to 155 mph via the ECU in the US market, per DOT import requirements. I saw an interior video of the dash of a 2014 370Z automatic running flat out on the Autobahn, where the speed maxed out to about 280 kph(~175 mph). This was on CZcams and you can probably find it if you search.
I had a Porsche 944s years ago and I was able to max it out on the highway at about 147 or 148 mph. This was with a 2.5 liter engine that was putting out between 190 to 200 crank hp, the car being surprisingly stable and easy to control. I think that both these cars benefitted from good aerodynamic design to lower drag and reduce unwanted lift at high speeds. I've never driven my Z anywhere near that speed nor do I ever plan to, especially given the poor quality of roads in America today.
@@videomaniac108 Thank you Jim! I own a Chrysler Crossfire which apparently can do 155mph. The highest speed I've ever done is 120mph though..
@@felixthecat3n2 I remember seeing a Crossfire years ago snd thinking that I'd like to have one.
That was a great story and wonderful video, I love the original footage and photos. It's sad and somewhat ironic twist that Seagrave met an untimely end and had a sea grave
I've read about these speed record battles for years. Your videos are a real treat. Really love seeing this old footage that you have pulled together.
Absolutely superb presentation what a golden age this era was .
Wish we had it back in legal forms, we need a bit of the risks and daring to captivate our imaginations again!
I love all these land and water speed record breaker heroes, people like these make our lives that much more exciting, what brave human beings, thankyou,
This is absolutely among my favourite channels. The raw courage is not lost on me; having read Campbell Snr's own accounts of his exploits, written in an understated fashion - these doings beggar belief.
Thanks for uploading; hope you and yours are happy and well.
Wow it seems heavy, It's crazy to think of the tire technology then and going that fast.
To be fair the car?
Was going in a straight line
. So not relative lateral movement required in the tyres.
But yes still an incredible achievement.
Like the motorfreak i am i try to imagine the two V12 engines in the car breathing and roaring for full speed all delivered to a drive chain to the early days flintstone wheels. Well, lets hope it works out to the end of the track. 😄
Love your writing. Fantastic video as always!
You remarked on how few miles the 1000 HP Sunbeam had done. Well the Golden Arrow did only 12.74 miles in all.
For those interested. The re-commissioning of the Sunbeam 1000hp is well under way at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu. You can see the car being worked on in the main public hall. When completed the car is heading to the USA for a Museum tour finishing at Daytona Beach 29th March 2027.
Very good history of brave men, good engineering, and doing something never done before.
Great production as always! Love your narrations!
That is remarkable That must have been one hell of a thrilling ride to say it mildly wow
Thanks for another superbly-researched and presented story.
An epic machine! Great vid as always 👍
So refreshing to find this quality! Well written, well researched, well edited, and bloody brilliant narrator with no trace of getting between you and the information. I knew the name for ever..but NOT this slice of history that really hammered them home as a classic British car maker. It all ended up as cute wee sports cars!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic history lesson
Thanks for sharing
I’m only an hour from Daytona
Wish I could time travel back to that illustrious day
Glad you enjoyed it
Another fantastic documentary, congrats !
The Sunbeam I had, an S7 and not really a Sunbeam but a BSA, had an achillies heel built in. The phosphor bronze item In the drive train. According to some authors this wore out within 1000 miles on the prototype, so in good British style they detuned the engine for the production version to make it last longer.....
The Slug was amazing, but how about that Super Sentinel Rigid Six Wheeler? That thing looks pretty cool too.
Thank you! Very interesting and well edited video!
And well narrated.
I enjoyed that very much, as always. 😊
Love the technical content, not just pictures, super cool vid.
John Marston: cowboy, Bank robber, father, and bicycle shop owner.
Haha. John Marston was my great-great Grandfather so found it amusing when Red Dead came out.
Fantastic, those were the days, very interesting cant stop watching.
Wow and I always thought the Sunbeam Tiger was the best
At the time of the LSR attempts the beach was regularly refereed to as Ormand Beach. Daytona and Deltona came later. Local people promoted the record attempts.
My uncle had a Sunbeam Tiger.
Man that car was cool...
Man I love your content! Great video as always
used sunbeam low mileage, title in hand. dont low ball me
An impressive car but that steam lorry it was perched on really stopped me in my tracks
Well, I found my new favorite channel.
Thank goodness Segrave didn't crash and get a sea grave.
I like your style. Great channel. Exciting story.
Yes sir, thank you, love this historical stuff.
Excellent video as always , thanks .
Great video so sad that Malcolm Campbells 1935 Bluebird is in America.
I've commented before, I'm an aircraft enthusiast first and foremost, but this channel never fails to knfitm and fascinate. Once again, thanks for the upload 👍
Oops. Possibly, it informs too!
Thanks for your kind words, glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing to think that today's F1 1.6 L racing cars can clear 200 mph at nearly every race track they go to with ease? Incredible how things have moved on. Incidentally my grandfather worked at Sunbeam as a Tinsmith and myself worked in the same building for a different company many years after Sunbeam left Wolverhampton.
Real history for real people! Thank you great job!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
A small point. Most of the run was in Ormond Beach, just north of, and contiguous with, Daytona Beach. Ormond Beach is rightly known as the birthplace of speed.
That was a really cool video about breaking the 200mph record
A fascinating video, thank you!
wonderful video, thank you very much!
Very well done. Daytona is a great beach !
Sunbeam made very fast cars in the early 1900s, we had one compete in our London to Brighton Down Under a couple of years ago, a wealthy graizer here in South Australia imported it in to use between his cattle stations as his current car was not fast enough!! Was the fastest production car available at that time in the Uk.A sports version , would do 80 MPH, currant owner said it ,now fully restored would still go just as fast, but added he hasent been game to try it out. Cheers Mal in au.
thanks for the work. Good chanel.
Brave man and a time of innovation and positive attitude. Current British racing attempts struggle to get funding and public interest sadly.
Could you imagine how they would respond to a modern Top Fuel Dragster back in 1927?!
Ironic that the land-speed record holder named 'Seagrave' ultimately found his grave on the water attempting boat speed records. kinda freaky
3:30
Frontal area DOES NOT determine drag coefficient.
They are separate measures that MULTIPLY together to determine the aerodynamic drag of a car (or truck or aircraft).
Good little vid,very enjoyable.
Thumbs up.
Those days of early speed records are just fascinating to me so many people chasing records, using plane engines in these cars, just wild stuff. These guys must have been like superheroes to kids of the day
Kids of the day? I dreamed about setting a land speed record with an Allison engine in a Bonneville streamliner when I was a kid in the 1970's.
In the late 20s it took this absolute massive beast to break 900hp. Now less than 100 years later we have engines that can break 1000hp with minimal effort and common mass produced 4 cylinders making over 200hp. I bet electric car technology will become amazing before we even go another 100 years
Bravest of brave to do this in the 1920’s man I can’t even imagine stirring into the surf too slow down because the brakes weren’t working at 200 MPH
Check out the Sentinel steam wagon at 11:44
1000hp on spoked wheels seems extremely frightening
This was a fascinating mini documentary. Definitely a sub from me
I love that it was transported to London on a steam lorry.
Outstanding!
Amazing production. Please look into getting some of the amazing images you have found colorized and create a fade between the two. That would be truly excellent. There are many people on CZcams who would love to do some of your images. Please give it a try.
Very well-made and informative video.
Well done, I enjoyed it and kept my full attention start to finish 👍
I always wondered if this story was romanticized to a certain extent. The story is the lads threw her together with spare parts but they had all of Sunbeams engineering, materials and production at their disposal. It seems the company didn’t want it to seem they were investing much into the project for investors sake or otherwise.
the ultimate D.I.Y bild. love your videos thanks
I didn't even knew it was red before watching that video!
Love your videos…fantastic channel…as an ozzy would it be possible to do a video on Rosco Mcglashans’ Aussie Invader’s attempt on the LSR…cheers
Hi there yes there is an ongoing project with the restoration of this car we have won the engines currently waiting to go back together we’re after somebody to film this procedure as it’s rather important land speed car Do you know anyone that makes films about land speed cars Have a chat with Workshops
Thanks for this very informative video. I call my fast car "Turbo Slug", but I had no idea that I had accidently "copied" off this famous Sunbeam! I am not worthy🧐😞
Hard to imagine a soft sand beach as a place to run a world record car.
So John went to England and start a motor company while Abigail and his son Jack was being "imprisioned" by the BOI? No wonder Arthur called him a bad parent. Damn...
They already had a good understanding of aerodynamics and the car reflects this perfectly.
Yeah they always had at least an inkling about what they were doing, and then from there just rolled with what they had and hoped that skills, reflexes or other talents, or lack thereof (particularly of fear) could compensate for any mechanical shortcomings.
Seagraves watching the test, said afterwards, I just stood there and crapped my trousers.
What a sight these runs must of been.
The 1st 200 mile an hour man on land. That would be a great movie.