This Record-Breaking Blue Bird Did 150 MPH In 1925

An Incredible Car That Achieved A Great Feat

As the beginning of the 20th century, basic driving cars were phenomenal. Just have one around the neighborhood was news enough. Thus, riding a car that could clock a colossal 150 mph was extremely newsy and worth mention in the loudest pages.

But Sir Malcolm Campbell’s Blue Bird supercar smashed the world land-speed record garnering a whole 150 mph in those good old days. It was epic.

Ninety years later at the commemoration of this auspicious achievement, his grandson would take the same car for a spin on the same beach donning clothes that very closely resembled what his grandfather had won then.

After pressing the pedal on the 18.3 liter Sunbeam 54-year-old Don Wales said, “It’s quite incredible to think that 90 years ago today my grandfather achieved 150 mph in this machine. To even sit in the car is something special, let alone drive it. I think if he were alive today he would probably be on my shoulder saying ‘go on son, put your foot down more,’ because he was driven by speed.”

Indeed the old man (may he rest in peace) would have been way too proud just to see this monumental machine achieve such an incredible fete all again. The National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire (England) reported that mechanics spent more than 2,000 hours restoring just the engine. History is made of stuff like this.