Bluebird Race Car. Awesome car getting pole even with a hand grenade engine great effort. Malcolm campbell had a succession of darracq racing cars in the 1920s which in the fashion of the day he had named flapper i flapper ii and flapper iii it was flapper iii which he renamed after seeing the play.
The name blue bird was originally inspired by the play of that name by maurice maeterlinck and the vehicles were painted a shade of azure blue. See more ideas about blue bird campbell speed. This old girl was built with one thing in mind speed and a whole lot of it.
Apr 13 2020 the land speed water record.
He became the first human being to reach 300mph behind the wheel of an automobile that is if you want to consider the blue bird an automobile. It really does deserve a mention of its own in 1956 donald campbell began planning a car to break the land speed record which then stood at 394 mph 630 km h. See more ideas about blue bird campbell speed. See more ideas about blue bird race cars vintage racing.
