#donaldcampbell

[greaseandmoonshine]

30 feet of raw power and pure speed #bluebirdproteuscn7 #bluebird #donaldcampbell #landspeedrecord #style #vintage #fashion #luxury #ridefastdrivesmooth #greaseandmoonshine https://www.instagram.com/p/BpGBsaVAieD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n7xf5gxem5gg

[cars4starters]

For one brief, bright, shining moment in 1964 Australia became the centre of world attention — for two reasons.

The first is that on June 12 The Beatles arrived in Adelaide and the largest crowd in the world ever to greet the Fab Four turned out to cheer and scream in adoration.

Some estimates put the crowd at a mammoth 300,000.

The second reason is that in July, Donald Campbell finally broke the world land speed record on the salt flats way out in the middle of the Australia desert — what you and I know as Lake Eyre.

Campbell had been trying to beat the existing record of 634km/h, set by John Cobb in 1947, and before that by his father Sir Malcolm Campbell, since the mid 1950s.

He’d crashed at Bonneville in 1960 in his then new car, the Bluebird.

At that point most people would have given the show away, but Campbell was a driven guy.

The car was rebuilt and in 1962 he decided to come to Lake Eyre — to continue his quest.

Years of drought had made the lake’s salt surface rock hard.

But as luck, or make that bad luck would have it, when he arrived — so did the rains.

The weather washed away any hope he had of having a crack at the record.

Campbell returned two years later in early 1964, with an entourage of nearly 500 people.

And believe it or not, so did the rains — again.

The track never dried out enough to everyone’s satisfaction, but Campbell pushed ahead anyway.

And, on July 17, driving right outside the envelope, along a shortened and damp track, he posted a new land speed record of 403.10mph (648.73km/h).

Then, to cap it off, he went off to Lake Dumbleyung in Western Australia, strapped himself into his huge jet-propelled hydroplane and, on December 31, 1964, sped to a new world water speed record of 442km/h.

He became the first person to hold both land and water speed records at the same time and in the same year.

Campbell died on January 4, 1967 when his hydroplane crashed on Lake Coniston in the UK while he was attempting to lift the record.

The wreck was not found until 2000.

Then in mid 2001 his body was recovered.

Campbell is buried at Coniston cemetery the day after 9/11.

David Burrell is the editor of retroautos.com.au

One shining moment #cars4start For one brief, bright, shining moment in 1964 Australia became the centre of world attention -- for two reasons.

[detroit-88]

50th Anniversary of the death of Donald Campbell.

Donald Malcolm Campbell CBE

‘The Speed King’

23 March 1921 - 4 January 1967

Today mark's the 50th Anniversary when Britain lost one of its greatest and bravest heroes of the twentieth century, Donald Malcolm Campbell CBE aka 'The Speed King'. A fearless patriotic man who put endeavour and prestige before any personal gain to ensure Britain remained at the forefront of world speed records and engineering. After a nine month clinical exploration of his death on Coniston Water for my MArch thesis I can say I have never studied/learnt of a more courageous and inspirational man. This is my memorial to Donald Campbell and the fatal event on Coniston Water 4th January 1967.

K7 Temple - Death of the Speed King

The K7 Temple is a destination and embodied vocation of the event on Coniston Water. The six lake structures are a distorted physical manifestation of Donald Campbell and his Final record attempt. A point in the landscape where all aspects of the Donald story conflates and collapses into six inhabitable destinations where a new understanding of the lake, Campbell and Ruskin can be discovered.

[onlineantiques]

Corgi Toy 153 Poteus Campbell Bluebird Car With Box

[cwhauctioneers]

A group of 3 1/43 scale Pandora Models - 1927 Napier - Campbell Bluebird, 1929 Napier Arrol Aster Bluebird and 1931 Napier Bluebird #Pandora #Bluebird #DonaldCampbell #WorldLandSpeed #Auction 12-October-2016 #Ossett #WestYorkshire Catalogue online http://ow.ly/fvlE3054Fjb (at C W Harrison & Son)

[cwhauctioneers]

A Western Models 1/43 scale WMS42 1935 Bluebird record car, in original box #WesternModels #Bluebird #DonaldCampbell #WorldLandSpeed #Auction 12-October-2016 #Ossett #WestYorkshire Catalogue online http://ow.ly/n81f3054DOE (at C W Harrison & Son)

[cwhauctioneers]

A Western Models 1/43 scale WMS9 1933 Campbell-Rolls Royce Bluebird, in original box #WesternModels #Bluebird #DonaldCampbell #WorldLandSpeed #Auction 12-October-2016 #Ossett #WestYorkshire Catalogue online http://ow.ly/dRMH3054D2H (at C W Harrison & Son)

[k7eternalstruggle]

Death of K7 Bluebird - Final Primer Animation

Analysis of the crash and death of the iconic moment that captured a generation.