The National Motor Museum is taking Land Speed Record breaker Sunbeam 350hp back to Pendine Sands for a celebration at the place it became the world’s fastest car 100 years ago.
Engineers plan to take ‘Blue Bird’ on to the beach for a static photo opportunity and start-up, before putting it on show outside the Museum of Land Speed.
As part of centenary celebration events, Sunbeam 350hp will be on display at Pendine from 10am and taken on to the beach for photographs from 11am to 12 noon. It will remain on show outside the Museum of Land Speed during the afternoon until 5pm.
It’s not the first time that the 1920 Sunbeam has returned to Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire, Wales, where Sir Malcolm Campbell set the World Land Speed Record by reaching 150.76mph on July 21st in 1925.
Following the completion of the painstaking rebuild of its complex V12 engine, National Motor Museum engineers were permitted to run it on the beach at Pendine for the 90thanniversary in 2015. See the low-speed reconstruction of its record-breaking run with Sir Malcolm’s grandson Don Wales at the wheel here.