This channel is a good example of how RU-vid shoud be done. It's informative, entertaining, educational, interesting and fascinating. You should be proud.
@@johnsmith-z8y Yes indeed! Leo Goolden has done a fantastic job restoring Tallly Ho in Port Townsend. Currently heading fro Vancouver Island apparently!
The detail of the air start mechanism being removed so that no one would go out taking world records from him is just priceless. Great work as always, can't wait for part 2.
Excellent video. It's great to get up close with such a fascinating piece of machinery. Stan's in depth knowledge of the car is amazing and very watchable. All the best, Mart in Solihull.
Has always been a dream of mine to watch many of the record breakers breathe into life again. This Sunbeam, the Railton Special and Bluebird CN7 are some of my favorites from this era of speed chasing and i'm so happy to see that one of them seems to materialize in the near future. Can't wait to watch it fire up and properly move again!!!
Great film, thank you. Interesting project too. And really good to see they are restoring to running and keeping the patina and noting making a 'new' car!
As simple as a vehicle that it is, it is timelessly beautiful and iconic. It's incredible to me that even at a hundred years old, it's "top trump" specs are incredible, almost 1000 HP, over 200mph top speed! Those are numbers some cars today can't even touch! I'm very happy that they're restoring it. I have yet to view the car in person but would absolutely love to one day and I'll be donating to their restoration. I'm sure the skilled folks that once built it, and the skilled folks restoring it will be very grateful to your videos for sending attention to the restoration.
I am a volunteer at the National Motor Motor Museum and currently helping with aspects of the restoration of the 1000HP. I note that there has been comment about the links with Wolverhampton where the car was built and it is very much the intention of taking the Sunbeam back to its birthplace in due course and certainly prior to the 2027 centenary. The nickname of "The Slug" was coined at the time, BTW, by some of the car's builders and by the press. Presumably still in red / brown (?) primer at the time. Thank you to Scarf and Goggles for making this (Part1!) film. It is greatly appreciated by everyone at Beaulieu. At the Goodwood Festival of Speed from the 11th to the 14th July, the National Motor Museum is running one they made earlier; the Sunbeam 350hp with which Malcolm Campbell set his first World Land Speed Record of 146.16 mph at Pendine on the 24th September 1924 (he became the first to take the record over 150mp the following year). The museum is also running the 1967 Lotus 49 (chassis R3). Over on the Cartier Style et Luxe concours event, the museum is displaying its 1909 Rolls-Royce 40/50 Silver Ghost.
Crazy how cars have changed. Old red there, it used two massive aircraft engines that 500 hp each to make 1000 hp, and then me watching a video on the RU-vid 1320 I think it was drag week or stick week one those some guys from Sweden came over with a twin turbo LS swapped Volvo 850 making 1000hp and on the first day 201 mph.
Amazing stuff, would be great to see it running again. Its funny how even today 1000hp is still a hell of a lot of power, back then i looked at the cars of the time compared to this and the Ford Model A that came out in 1927 had 40hp which i would guess is the average car of the day, the Sunbeam was 25x more powerful. Also funny how now we have special road cars like the Bugatti's with over 1500bhp, always think it would be funny if you could bring someone like Segrave back and show him the Bugatti Chiron or something like that imagine what he would think of it.
Superb,I really love your films, such a great reminder of when Britain was a proud nation, not to mention excellent engineers and fearless drivers, many thanks
I saw Sunbeam at the Goodwood revival last year. I love LSR and couldn't move away from the car for a while. I have never quite managed 200mph but I got to 185 with "only" 410bhp.
Wow! Fantastic! Thanks to you and the team for showing us what is taking place. Looks like they are doing a fantastic job and it will be a mighty impressive thing to see operational again.
It really is! Also, uncannily - I'd already included the phrase "Automotive Archaeology" in a later part of the story, prepped before I published Part 1... great minds, as they say, think alike!
I’ve seen this car twice in person. I had no idea that it hasn’t run for almost 100 years. It’s one of my favourite cars, and am so pleased that they aren’t restoring it, but preserving it and its patina etc.
I've owned seven Sunbeams- still have my '65 Tiger. They were a great company, and I know my own car is named after their Tigress LSR car. Best of luck!
It understand why certain cars get put under glass and this is certainly one of them but it would be great to have the ability to start and run them so this is definitely a step in the right direction. Great news and a great video. 👍
I wonder how vital the armour set could be, since puncturing at such a high speed always leads to deadly rollings🤔In contrast those tire debris should be way less devastating.
If money wasn't an issue an interesting exercise is reconstruction of the engine with modern metallurgy to reduce weight and tune it up for more power.
Another wonderful production of riveting (no pun indeed!) content from the excellent Scarf and Goggles. As a kid growing up in the aftermath of WW2, the heroes and machines of the Land, Water and Air World Record attempts were an ever present obsession so I got my hands on every Dinky Toy of the vehicles I could. Still have a few and always looking for the ones I lost or wasn’t fortunate enough to be gifted at birthdays or Christmas, after the record started being permitted for land borne jet aircraft I lost interest, Donald Campbell’s last Bluebird is for me still the pinnacle of wheel driven machinery of that era.
I always learn interesting things from the Scarf And Goggles channel. This series is especially interesting because it ties in the history with the restoration that is happening now. I look forward to part 2.
Great video, the Napier lion engine of Campbells Bluebird was 24 litre not 22 litre, I have rebuilt one of these engines and understand how incredible they are. Andy
Well done! I was so excited when S&G showed up in my notifications, and it was better than I hoped. What a dream assignment. Looking forward to the next part. Cheers from Canada.
Awesome awesome awesome awesome do you get the idea lol . How amazingly respectful that he would clear coat the chassis to keep the original patina etc and have the gauges re furbished not reconditioned I could hug that guy for the respect he shows to the machine and its builders . Such a golden age and to be able to see the rapid advancement of the engineering it's such a contradiction it has drum brakes cable operated but has over head camshafts and four valves a cylinder and dry sump Awesome Awesome Awesome . Dear sir your channel is without doubt at the top of my watch list you don't just churn out crap on a daily or weekly basis you put out quailty informative knowledgeable content with PASSION ! I await the next instalment with excitement ❤
Thank you, I love this video and look forward to the series. I have visited the museum and seen the Slug and Golden Arrow, it will be amazing to see it run again. I live very near the Lake district and just waiting for the Autumn when the crowds die down, to pay my respects to Donald Campbell and see Bluebird again, yes again, I saw it during testing all those years ago, although I did not see it running, just being prepared.
the U section ladder frame is some what terrifying on a twin engined 1000hp car - my 1959 ford popular had one of those and the handling at 50mph was white knuckle
Not sure - I believe the original runs were on Ormond Beach, but I've heard that the beaches have changed some over the last 100 years! The hope is for demonstration runs at around 70mph (the speed is limited by the available tyres) so not as much space will be needed as for the record.
My late father had Segrave's book "The Lure of Speed" which contains a whole chapter about the speed record attempts made by the Sunbeam company and culminating in the 200 mph record project. At no point in the book is there any reference to "slug" or any other nicknames. The description of the building and setting the record, including the fact that while they were at Daytona setting up the heard of Parry-Thomas's death at Pendine attempting the same record, is a fascinating read and really brought home to me how much they were pushing the limits at the time. For various reasons the car never actually achieved its full potential: Segrave was convinced that it could have gone faster than the (IIRC) 207mph record they set.
just to add, of course the pictures in the book are all in black and white and it was only with the advent of the internet that I found out it was red!
Has any land speed record car ever achieved what people thought it could achieve? On Thrust SSC Ron Ayres said they must aim high because historically they have all under achieved, and that turned out to be true for Trust SSC too due to the shock waves. Ayres felt rolling resistance had been neglected as a source of drag on all previous LSR cars.
Thanks for your comment. In researching the story of the Sunbeam 1000hp, I've found Pathe footage from the period which refers to the cars as "Slug". Not a very becoming nickname though...!
I believe Thrust 2 actually DID more-or-less achieve its design speed (650mph) on one of its record runs, though you're correct that most LSR cars underperform. Ron Ayers' interest in why LSR cars historically fail to reach their design speeds led to a chance encounter with Richard Noble - and the rest is (supersonic) history!
If that car could go in the triple digits weighing as much as it did back then, just think how fast it could go now being reproduced in modern materials.
amazeing car great work but keeping the patina? what is impressive about this car is what it did when it was new the record it set. not how long its been sitting. makeing the gauges proper is what the car deserves. imagine if the victory had a mast rot off but the conservators said well we want to keep the patina of an old ship.
I will have to look at the photos I took when I was at buelli a few years back I must have seen the sunbeam but was in complete ow at the blue birds and gold bird
2:23,those are American Liberty V12's aren't they? I have a text book here on how to cast aluminium published in 1918 which has the same photo. You could look up Australian Norman 'Wizard' Smith who attempted to break the LSR in New Zealand at the same time.
Hi, thanks for your comment. The engines at 2:23 are Sunbeam-Coatelen engines at the Sunbeam works, though they are the same format (V12) and from the same periods as the Liberty V12.
My granduncle Bert Dent was a lathe turner at Sunbeam in the 1920s and involved with the construction of the Sunbeam 1000hp, as mentioned in " My Life At The Sunbeam 1920 - 1935 " by Norman Cliff ( page 50 ).
