Ahh, it has cylinder deactivation. Must be quite frugal on fuel then 😂

Scarf and Goggles is the best source of information concerning the Land Speed Racing pursuit.

Congrats for not saying "Lake Ullswater", "Lake Coniston". Bassenthwaite is the only 'Lake' in the Lake District, the others are waters, meres or tarns.

Back in the early sixties my family went on holiday to the New Forest. We visited the Montagu Motor Museum where I remember being well impressed with 'Golden Arrow', Still impressed over sixty years on, Dad was a truck mechanic and a 'Leyland Man', there was a 'Leyland-Thomas' car there and Dad told me the tragic tale of John Parry-Thomas,

Quality post. Thank you.

Amazing engineering 😮❤

Hey where are Mickey Thompson, Summer Brothers, and Al Teague wheel driven speed records.

Captain George Eyston is buried in Saint Mary’s Churchyard in our Village. In East Hendred Oxfordshire 🕺🏻🎶

My maternal Dent family worked for Sunbeam and worked on these cars.

15th time iv watched this

It crashed into the loch ness monster. I thought everyone knew that 🤷‍♂️

Noble is in the realm of Gt British heros like Bader or dare I say Scott. Sadly those days are gone since most young people wouldnt have a clue or care who these people are.

Swear to god that was at the science museum in birmingham for years...I'm wrong. It was Cobbs car that was, and still is, in birmingham. Strange how memory plays tricks.

Beautiful cars...proper cars imo

Very keen to see and hear it run❤

Before moving to coniston they ran on ullswater ( to much wood floating in ullswater to be safe I was told.) They used to decamp to my parents pub ( the travelers rest) on an evening. As a very young boy I was given a tin clockwork bluebird by Mr Villa ( allways mr villa, never Leo, to us lads he showed nothing but kindness A true gent . Ps god do I wish we hadn’t played with that toy to death. Ian h

Thank you ☺️

Was he a narcissist

An old farmer wonders what the turning radius was on any of those vehicles?

My little dingy had a 1.5 hp engine, I went about 3 knots on Coniston. Hats off to Donald.

57 year today 2025.

58 years now almost to the minute since that fatal run. Like most of my age I can remember where I was and what I was doing when I heard of the crash. If only he had refuelled...

I cannot remember this tragic event as I was only 4 but I was aware of it from an early age. Donald Campbell is one of my all time heroes…..there are not many, but he is up there. Maybe Number 1. Anthony Hopkins gave an amazing performance and I remember watching this on TV and being incredibly moved by his performance. Anthony is one of my all time favourite actors as well, as it happens. He did seem to play it with a certain empathy and I am guessing that he admired Donald also. He is a genius actor of course.A great Welshman.I have made my son aware of Donald’s achievements. Makes you proud to be British Thank you for posting this.

Sound barrier broken on land in 1979. Done.

Reviewing the New Years honours list today, I continue to be amazed that Richard Noble hasn’t been knighted.

I've got a dinky Thunderbolt I had as a boy...

26:35 oh I seen how this one ends

What a magnificent machine during its time. I wish I could have been alive during that time to see it run on the salt flats. Respect to all that hunt for the speed record to this day

someone said, Frank Lockhart owned the intercooler invention and registration, is the crap or true, please send any info. GFIF

I seem to get pulled into your videos. I've been to Utah many times. As a kid I thought it would be great to try but I was a kid. I have gone 150 a few times and that's fast enough. I kind of remember that feeling I had 50 years ago when I watch this stuff. Thanks!

Donald Campbell in my eyes, was braver than brave. He was without doubt, a true British hero, and a national treasure. Legend doesn't even come close. RIP D Campbell 🙏🙏🙏

Thats what happens when you have a nutcase with to much money.

I gave up street racing Eight years ago 😢 I moved to a town where there are no stop lights. I have a 1946 Chevrolet flatbed pickup outside setting on a 95 Caprice Ex-Police car chassis that i needs finished up, wiring, gas tank installed and a few other things. Looks Great setting there. I've had several people stop by the Church and ask if it's for sale (no for sale sign but a closed sign) i tell them I'm going to finish it Sometime like old men do. Point is Full Throttle living is deadly and when you figure the potential costs for what you actually get ain't worth it. Especially when you have Grandkids ✌️ ☮️ 🛻

Wonder how they were able to get a sidewinder rocket engine.

Think if they ran these cars today with modern tires, modern gasoline, modern metallurgy and modern engine computing these cars would be a lot faster.

Funding is such a big factor in this competition. Breedlove was working uphill and virtually alone the whole time. Lack of funding, bad weather, engine trouble, etc., just colluded against his breaking the record. The Sonic Arrow is such a gorgeous vehicle and after that high speed U-turn, I;ll bet it could have achieved much higher speeds.

What a man!

Tire adhesion problems, the old 'where the rubber meets the road' scenario.....

You'd have to have "stones of granite" to attempt a world speed record with a car "built from spare parts"!

Thrust SSC had the right idea,, tonnage to keep it anchored on the ground

When I was a kid, used to go to nyc auto show at the old coliseum and saw the 1st and 2nd Spirit of America, and Goldenrod. Craig was my earliest sports hero . Ali was my only sports hero that didn't drive a race car.

Thank you for your brilliant videos. It's so nice to have someone deliver them in a calm fashion with time to digest what you're saying....too many channels just rush through it. Superb channel.

If only it had a sonic boom happen ...

Superb 👍

Fabulous channel. Concentrate on one thing, do it really well and be the best!

Extra - no one else has driven through telephone pole at 500 mph.

This may have changed, but more people have walked on the Moon than those who have driven a car 600 mph.

Great channel, this. My 2p worth is that they were close, but no cigar. Likely the trans sonic drag rise scuppered them.

You look at this car and then look at the Triplex special the difference is stark, the triplex special was built for an older time, it was brute force with basic aerodynamics, it didn’t even have a gearbox, Golden Arrow used modern thinking and design, it was lightweight and compact yet powerful, you can’t beat British engineering.

Not only does this movie suck, I now dislike Donald Campbell. Who cares about speed ove water.