Props to the locals for coming out in support of these guys. The English and the Americans don't always see eye to eye but both nations have a soft spot for the adventurous madman.
I played a small part in this I made the tooling for the machine that made the wheel bearings this ran on. The high tech machine that was supposed to make the tooling couldn't get them right so they asked me to try on my 50 year old machine with fine adjustment achieved by hitting it with a hammer and managed to make the tooling absolutely perfect so the finished bearings were perfect too. I never got any credit for it and didn't get to meet Richard when he visited the factory after breaking the record
But YOU know, and there is no greater satisfaction than knowing you achieved a level of perfection that few will ever experience. Personally I would not want to have been credited for my work but just let the results carry the glory. Bravo on the workmanship as bearings give little margin for error.
It's sort of like my role as lead automation mechanic during heavy distribution volume, I made things happen but the behind-the-scenes guys rarely make the credits. You gotta be proud of your work, even if it doesn't get you public acclaim.
Wonderful stuff. Thanks for posting. Yes, this was certainly a very wet year in the American SW: Glen Canyon Dam nearly overtopped and its spillways were ripped to shreds. Both Powell and Mead reservoirs recorded their all-time maximum elevations.
Love the music - almost all documentaries have music that detracts from the content. I would normally say no music is better but in this case hats off to whoever prepared the soundtrack - captured the mood, the countryside and the people ( US and UK)
Kind of brings a tear to the eye. Yes, there's PLENTY of British history to be disgusted and ashamed of but equally I like to think there's far, far more to be proud of. For such a relatively tiny island with a small population just look back over the years at Great Britain's art, culture, industry, science, sport, architecture, inventions, motorcycles, motor cars, aeroplanes, music, charity, as well as it's democracy, sense of 'fair play' and doing the right thing and that's not even mentioning two world wars. Yeah, be proud!
Well said mate, only one comment, every country who has ever done or achieved anything in this world has done things to be ashamed of, it goes with the territory. That said, great comment friend!
Well said! What a country we have with great inventors, innovators, artists and history. They say Britain was built in a shed, that can be said for many things that were invented here. May great minds continue to do us proud!
@@allandavis8201 Yes, I also consider myself English, the Scots and Welsh deserve their own identity as do the English, despite MSM's exerted efforts to label everything racist, what a joke.
One of the final problems the team overcame was the pitch angle of the car. They decided to run with the car slightly nose up to prevent it from digging in to the desert surface. During the design phase for Thrust SSC, they tested the computer modeling software against the data they had for Thrust 2 to double check that the modeling was accurate. They discovered 2 things; 1, the model was very accurate and 2, if they had pushed Thrust 2 9 mph faster, she would have taken off and killed Richard Noble!
"Overcame" is not the correct word to describe this fact. As I understand it the Thrust 2 Team never fully comprehended the true nature of the potential danger behind their engineering decisions. With modern record attempts and the desire to exceed the sound barrier while remaining on the ground this lack of foreknowledge is not just unacceptable it is reckless. The whole notion of "Luck" is baked into the very idea of land speed record breaking, yet the speed has become too great for this old attitude to be carried forward. Any modern attempt at the current outright land speed record must not be just for "the hell of it" it must have some higher purpose beyond the selfish desire for glory by a bored rich person.
@BaronVonHobgoblin You simply don't understand the desire of men like this to to do the nigh impossible. This is the same kind of man and women that put men on the moon. So you just lie in your comfy bed, Karen and criticize those who have the will power and the brain power. Clearly you have never been around nor are you a racer yourself.
Posh git you had a colour telly! Mine was black and white with tuning knobs, you turned it on by slapping the side then had half an hour fiddling with the coat hanger aerial 😂
What a great series, this is exciting stuff I wish it were appreciated today as it was in the 60-70s. I can’t imagine the logistics in moving so many people, tools, and vehicles 7,000 or so miles away. I liked the BlueBird cars, but this car with the intake like a giant mouth devouring time and space is unique and very special.
@Blackie BMW Motorwerks True but in land speed racing there no prize money If your lucky you get a free hat and your name in a book that it nothing more .It not big business just a group of people with a car and a dream
So many things going against them, but this amazing British team never gave up hope. Massive achievement by any standards! Hope the bloodhound team can now do the same and reach 1000mph!🙂
I'm afraid that programme is on hold ,until that other British demon is chased away, i.e. --a lack of finnacial support. as of today 16/05/2023, Bloodhound is on show, ( looking immaculate ) in Coventry Motor Museum, alongside both Thrust 2, and Thrust SSC. Time for another visit there.
@@MrDaiseymaythey will never run that car... They have started a new project with another car. The bloodhound was in development for so long, it's now completely outdated and wouldn't be worth sinking more money into.
The man is an inspiration, he should be leading Brexit negotiations for sure. Seen this car and touched it at Coventry, rather brilliant to see it up close.
Still there is it? Oh good, you''ve answerd my question. I saw it in the early 90's. and wondered if it was still there. Sometimes , these amazing things get loned out all over.
It was an epic struggle and dangerous business, but Richard Noble and Company prevailed. When watching this an old saying came to mind: “that only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun (in a desert)”.
MichaelKingsfordGray my name is Nick Holm and I race cars for a living 🤣🤣 jeeze people 😳 talk about coming out of left field !! Bo you know what burning man is?? It’s a big Rave and orgy where 500,000 people camp on and occupy the dry lake screwing each other and ingesting copious drugs. When it’s over thousands of people leave bikes trailers cars motor homes and littler behind. Also it directly coincides with the best time to attempt land speed records. Richard Nobel, and Andy Green are bad ass dudes no doubt. Personally my hero’s are Craig Breed love and Kitty O’Neal because I’m 🇺🇸. I love and study land speed racing because I have spent my entire life growing up and working in professional drag racing at the top level. I absolutely love LSR history. I’m sorry you both are so miss understood! Check Dick Keller’s channel out is you enjoy LSR. He was the guy that built the Blue Flame and Hal Needhum’s Budweiser rocket. He was also the guy that built the first rocket cars for drag racing. I was born in the late 70’s and remember watching rocket cars as a young child. Kitty O’Neal ran 3.22@394 mph in 1320’ feet . I can’t figure out who I like more.... Kitty or Craig. If either of you are ever at a NHRA national event stop by the Strut Masters Top Fuel Dragster pit ask for Nick I’ll give you some tee shirts🤣😘
@@groomlake51 i struggled to find kitty's record but it turns out she got the all time 1/4 mile but at Mojave Desert! to quote "The car ran out of peroxide before it went through the 500-meter traps, but it still clocked 450 MPH" nice! www.draglist.com/stories/SOD%20Apr%202002/SOD-040102.htm
Back then men had nerves of steel and cars of iron 🧐 Edit : When they strap on a jet engine from a fighter jet to set records, you must be able to say that they have the willpower of titanium as well.
The gypsum surface of the lake is very flat, but far from smooth, with small mounds of dust and occasional softer spots. An incredible place to go that fast.
I have always wondered that when the "loo" went over 630mph and the driver said he wanted to break the sound barrier that that is when Thrust SSC was born or was Richard Noble thinking about it already
It's funny, I watched a bunch of coverage of speed week recently. It's all Americans. It's like the British don't come to the US so the locals think they know what they are doing. Then the British turn up for a few weeks at a dry lake somewhere and put the top record out of reach again. It's a shame Bloodhound won't run in the US, if it runs again. If I have one regret about these records it is that cameras weren't better then. I wish they'd had top class onboard cameras like we have now. Mustn't forget the DieselMax. JCB still has the outright diesel speed record with two of their tractor engines, and they didn't even get into top gear.
I did not realise that the Ken Norris @17:54 was the very same Ken Norris of Bluebird K7 and Bluebird CN7 design fame. Jut found out he also advised on SSC too. Wow that man (and his brother has been directly involved in winning every British land and water speed record since 1955! That is a legendry gent.
@ 37:14 Only the barking mad British would think of locking some poor bloke in a portaloo, strapping it on the back of an American pick-up truck and then tear-arse across the desert at 90 mph whilst he's having a crap!
A succession of Utah governors deserve an atomic kick in their asses for letting the Salt Flats die. In the 60’s the salt surface was 2 feet thick, now it’s 1/4” to 1/2” bare in many spots. They all allowed for the pumping of the salt solution away from the flats so salt and other minerals could be removed. You saw the racing at Black Rock, it’s filthy and soft. On dirt the cars ride 4 or 5” below the surface but at Bonneville they have in the past ridden on a hard surface of crystalized salt.
Condemn All the Politicians who let this continue , I can't believe that the Bureau of land Management or maybe😮 the EPA , It just seams like Money is changing hands somewhere , I believe that the Bonneville Salt Flats are a National treasure and should be Protected for future Generations Too enjoy , It has been the site of some Extraordinary life changing experience for so many for so long , it is hallowed ground for millions of people who have risked Life and Limb too achiev their ultimate goal , too go faster than anyone else has ever gone , in machines that they have built with their own 2 hands , too achieve GLORY
It would be really good if you can make doc in modern time of LSR People like George Poteet and Speed Demon Jessi Combs North American Eagle I can not even imaging to do a doc as near as good as you this is why I ask you. Thank you for making them and keeping the history of LSR alive
I thought that initially too, but then I think GG understood exactly the stress RN was under at that time and acted accordingly ......and I might add, with class!
badreality2, Good Question, the only thing I can think of is that if the chute failed then there was no time to try and deploy a reserve chute, and given that consideration, then a reserve chute was just extra weight that could slow the car enough to miss the record by a fraction of a second, but that’s just my personal opinion.
When all is said and done this car is little more than an updated version of Art Arfons' Green Monster of 1964/65. It never really had any realistic chance of going supersonic, just far too much frontal area for the power available.
@Gar ...frontal area for the power available.... Thrust SSC has a huge power resource compared to the frontal area and even still barely went supersonic. Plus it is a truly hideous gargantuan beast.... too bad some of the other far more elegant ssc concepts were never funded and developed for a real assault on the sound barrier....
One thing i noticed is the women in America love fast cars, as seen on t,v, not lies, i,ve always said girls love cars, and that's why when i passed my test i had a 1,3 escort, red, with alloys and a big back box, the ladys could,nt resist it, they did,nt stand a chance when me and my crew drove by.
Imagine using modern techniques to make the car lighter and the aero to make it stable and hopefully a better power unit. Are people still doing this? Have we broken the speed of sound yet?
15:44 "If only there was someplace else where we could run this car..." Well they got these things, they're called maps. You look at 'em when you're tryin' to find a place to go to. 🤯 And 15:05 I think they had telephones back then too... "Hello ol' chap, I say, is it raining over there in Bonneville?" "Why, yes it is as a matter of fact, rainin' like cats and dogs. You might want to just wait a while to come over with yer fancy shmancy car and not waste all the money for no reason." "Pip pip cherio ol' boy, we'll have a cup of tea and wait for a good weather report." No, that makes way too much sense. Let's just go anyway and waste everyone's time and money.
Props to the locals for coming out in support of these guys. The English and the Americans don't always see eye to eye but both nations have a soft spot for the adventurous madman.
I played a small part in this I made the tooling for the machine that made the wheel bearings this ran on. The high tech machine that was supposed to make the tooling couldn't get them right so they asked me to try on my 50 year old machine with fine adjustment achieved by hitting it with a hammer and managed to make the tooling absolutely perfect so the finished bearings were perfect too. I never got any credit for it and didn't get to meet Richard when he visited the factory after breaking the record
Well, you are appreciated now. One of my friends made the brake pads for every McClaren F1, Simon never gets a mention either.
But YOU know, and there is no greater satisfaction than knowing you achieved a level of perfection that few will ever experience. Personally I would not want to have been credited for my work but just let the results carry the glory. Bravo on the workmanship as bearings give little margin for error.
thanks for your role!! what an awesome feeling to be part of this
It's sort of like my role as lead automation mechanic during heavy distribution volume, I made things happen but the behind-the-scenes guys rarely make the credits. You gotta be proud of your work, even if it doesn't get you public acclaim.
Sweet.!!! It takes many, many hands like yours.! 👍 👍 👍
I had a model of this car when I was a kid. I fell in love with its shape and it will always be my favourite LSR car.
did you know that it inspired the tim burton Batmobile?
I was thinking that when i seen it..... And it has a 'Phantom menace' vibe of influence@@ValladolidArde
Wonderful stuff. Thanks for posting.
Yes, this was certainly a very wet year in the American SW: Glen Canyon Dam nearly overtopped and its spillways were ripped to shreds. Both Powell and Mead reservoirs recorded their all-time maximum elevations.
Love the music - almost all documentaries have music that detracts from the content. I would normally say no music is better but in this case hats off to whoever prepared the soundtrack - captured the mood, the countryside and the people ( US and UK)
Kind of brings a tear to the eye. Yes, there's PLENTY of British history to be disgusted and ashamed of but equally I like to think there's far, far more to be proud of. For such a relatively tiny island with a small population just look back over the years at Great Britain's art, culture, industry, science, sport, architecture, inventions, motorcycles, motor cars, aeroplanes, music, charity, as well as it's democracy, sense of 'fair play' and doing the right thing and that's not even mentioning two world wars.
Yeah, be proud!
Well said mate, only one comment, every country who has ever done or achieved anything in this world
has done things to be ashamed of, it goes with the territory. That said, great comment friend!
Well said! What a country we have with great inventors, innovators, artists and history. They say Britain was built in a shed, that can be said for many things that were invented here. May great minds continue to do us proud!
bushmanpm, I am, very proud to be British, or more accurately for me, English. 😃👍🇬🇧🏴
@@allandavis8201 Yes, I also consider myself English, the Scots and Welsh deserve their own identity as do the English, despite MSM's exerted efforts to label everything racist, what a joke.
Just an incredible achievement. A time when true British genius and determination broke records. What a period !
Fantastic knowing that an industry from my town had a part in this 🥰
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
One of the final problems the team overcame was the pitch angle of the car. They decided to run with the car slightly nose up to prevent it from digging in to the desert surface. During the design phase for Thrust SSC, they tested the computer modeling software against the data they had for Thrust 2 to double check that the modeling was accurate. They discovered 2 things; 1, the model was very accurate and
2, if they had pushed Thrust 2 9 mph faster, she would have taken off and killed Richard Noble!
Imagine the nervous laughter when they figured that one out.
"Overcame" is not the correct word to describe this fact. As I understand it the Thrust 2 Team never fully comprehended the true nature of the potential danger behind their engineering decisions. With modern record attempts and the desire to exceed the sound barrier while remaining on the ground this lack of foreknowledge is not just unacceptable it is reckless. The whole notion of "Luck" is baked into the very idea of land speed record breaking, yet the speed has become too great for this old attitude to be carried forward. Any modern attempt at the current outright land speed record must not be just for "the hell of it" it must have some higher purpose beyond the selfish desire for glory by a bored rich person.
@@BaronVonHobgoblin How is it selfish?
@BaronVonHobgoblin You simply don't understand the desire of men like this to to do the nigh impossible.
This is the same kind of man and women that put men on the moon.
So you just lie in your comfy bed, Karen and criticize those who have the will power and the brain power. Clearly you have never been around nor are you a racer yourself.
RIP John Ackroyd ,brilliant mind and a truly nice guy.
I watched this on my little colour portable back in 1984 . Great memories :)
Posh git you had a colour telly! Mine was black and white with tuning knobs, you turned it on by slapping the side then had half an hour fiddling with the coat hanger aerial 😂
side note : Bonneville after rain looks absolutely amazing
And yet, of all places, why does it happen so frequenly during World speed record attempts?
Only watched it a dozen times, FANTASTIC documentary
And he went back & broke that record.!! AWESOME.!!
Like in the Movies eh?
@@MrDaiseymay it should be a movie.!
1000 British Leyland mini less than a Scalextric car then cant be right ha.. great video sir what an amazing project
......... and in English???
What a great series, this is exciting stuff I wish it were appreciated today as it was in the 60-70s. I can’t imagine the logistics in moving so many people, tools, and vehicles 7,000 or so miles away. I liked the BlueBird cars, but this car with the intake like a giant mouth devouring time and space is unique and very special.
@Blackie BMW Motorwerks True but in land speed racing there no prize money If your lucky you get a free hat and your name in a book that it nothing more .It not big business just a group of people with a car and a dream
Brit engineers are just amazing. Can't wait to hear about the bloodhound ssc
Great vid. They used music appropriately and sparingly. The rest was real footage and real people and a lot of great suspenseful runs. Very good.
Hey, do you know what's the music here?
Fantastic!, thanks for putting this one up on your channel, now to munch my way through your others, keep up the great work.
Thats magic, that.
"Any ambitions left"
"I'd like to break the sound barrier"...
38:05😂
So many things going against them, but this amazing British team never gave up hope. Massive achievement by any standards!
Hope the bloodhound team can now do the same and reach 1000mph!🙂
I'm afraid that programme is on hold ,until that other British demon is chased away, i.e. --a lack of finnacial support.
as of today 16/05/2023, Bloodhound is on show, ( looking immaculate ) in Coventry Motor Museum, alongside both Thrust 2, and Thrust SSC. Time for another visit there.
@@MrDaiseymaythey will never run that car... They have started a new project with another car.
The bloodhound was in development for so long, it's now completely outdated and wouldn't be worth sinking more money into.
outstanding. remember all this so well.
Seen this video a few times now. Always a great documentary to watch.
Every time I watch this Documentary Richard Noble sets a new Worlds Record !
Absolutely brilliant upload. Thanks guys.
Incredible teamwork. Great post.
A couple of camera angles of the car that I hadn't seen before, I understand the design much better now, cheers for that.
So great to see this again! I remember watching it at my best friend's place when I was a kid and being astounded. :)
The car was right hand drive, as it should be. Love and peace.
Great content and presentation. 🇦🇺 😊
44.18 is my lasting memory of this from 1983 and the UK has been untouchable since. Wow thats fast, wow thats really fast, then speechless!
Great stuff
I always love that Brit sense of humor!
The man is an inspiration, he should be leading Brexit negotiations for sure. Seen this car and touched it at Coventry, rather brilliant to see it up close.
I agree with you it's an amazing museum with the 2 fastest cars in the world there also I met Andy Green there once......
Still there is it? Oh good, you''ve answerd my question. I saw it in the early 90's. and wondered if it was still there. Sometimes , these amazing things get loned out all over.
I saw Thrust 2 sitting in a depot in Coventry about 6 years ago.
It was an epic struggle and dangerous business, but Richard Noble and Company prevailed. When watching this an old saying came to mind: “that only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun (in a desert)”.
Marten Trudeau, YUP 👍🇬🇧🏴
My mate always shouted MAD DOG when he'd see me out in the summer, it's my nickname 😂
@@ianmangham4570 ~ It's kinda like Colonel T. E. Larwrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia) who was a great WW1 war hero.
Was there ever a most suitable Name?
Absolutely fantastic vid. Loved every minute except for all those adverts. I’ve never watched a UA-cam vid with so many.
Thanks for your comment - I’ll take a look, there shouldn’t be that many.
Me: "I'm ready to see a land-speed record. "
Documentor: "This will morph into a silent film."
Loving the score. The BBC got it's money's worth with the bass player
I live 2 hours from black rock. Now it’s home of Burning Man. Got to love the old USA
Groom Lake. Never mind about the 'old USA', what about saying well done to Richard Noble for sheer drive and persistence?
Mik Davies what the fuck are you talking about🤷♂️
MichaelKingsfordGray my name is Nick Holm and I race cars for a living 🤣🤣 jeeze people 😳 talk about coming out of left field !! Bo you know what burning man is?? It’s a big Rave and orgy where 500,000 people camp on and occupy the dry lake screwing each other and ingesting copious drugs. When it’s over thousands of people leave bikes trailers cars motor homes and littler behind. Also it directly coincides with the best time to attempt land speed records. Richard Nobel, and Andy Green are bad ass dudes no doubt. Personally my hero’s are Craig Breed love and Kitty O’Neal because I’m 🇺🇸. I love and study land speed racing because I have spent my entire life growing up and working in professional drag racing at the top level. I absolutely love LSR history. I’m sorry you both are so miss understood! Check Dick Keller’s channel out is you enjoy LSR. He was the guy that built the Blue Flame and Hal Needhum’s Budweiser rocket. He was also the guy that built the first rocket cars for drag racing. I was born in the late 70’s and remember watching rocket cars as a young child. Kitty O’Neal ran 3.22@394 mph in 1320’ feet . I can’t figure out who I like more.... Kitty or Craig. If either of you are ever at a NHRA national event stop by the Strut Masters Top Fuel Dragster pit ask for Nick I’ll give you some tee shirts🤣😘
Your a douche nozzle✌🏿
@@groomlake51 i struggled to find kitty's record but it turns out she got the all time 1/4 mile but at Mojave Desert! to quote "The car ran out of peroxide before it went through the 500-meter traps, but it still clocked 450 MPH" nice! www.draglist.com/stories/SOD%20Apr%202002/SOD-040102.htm
Back then men had nerves of steel and cars of iron 🧐
Edit : When they strap on a jet engine from a fighter jet to set records, you must be able to say that they have the willpower of titanium as well.
The gypsum surface of the lake is very flat, but far from smooth, with small mounds of dust and occasional softer spots. An incredible place to go that fast.
I've actually cleaned this very car. My only claim to fame 😟
And Bluebird 👍
I have always wondered that when the "loo" went over 630mph and the driver said he wanted to break the sound barrier that that is when Thrust SSC was born or was Richard Noble thinking about it already
This is the most badass looking top speed car
What a wonderfull team!
Quite possibly the most unlikely and unexpected world sped record that will ever be set.
Justin Roberts, until the next time!!!!!!!!!!!.
I hadn't really noticed this before, but it appears that the Batmobile from the Tim Burton films might have taken some cues from Thrust 2.
Strange that no Burning Man Histories ever mention a word about this --- of course, Gen Z doesn't think there is any history before the Year 2000 ...
>old man yells at cloud
They're too busy inventing new pronouns to label themselves with , far more important apparently
I'm American but I hope that Britain holds this record forever.
Its a old record and has been broken.
The current fastest car is thrust ssc
(Made by the same people)
Markus Orison 🤨really brah🇺🇸bring it home!!
Groom Lake Home? The home of the land speed record is Britain.🇬🇧
Thank you to our American friends for allowing us to use their 'faciliaties' for this fabulous endeavour!
It's funny, I watched a bunch of coverage of speed week recently. It's all Americans. It's like the British don't come to the US so the locals think they know what they are doing. Then the British turn up for a few weeks at a dry lake somewhere and put the top record out of reach again. It's a shame Bloodhound won't run in the US, if it runs again. If I have one regret about these records it is that cameras weren't better then. I wish they'd had top class onboard cameras like we have now. Mustn't forget the DieselMax. JCB still has the outright diesel speed record with two of their tractor engines, and they didn't even get into top gear.
What the he'll are you on about
I wish Britain... was still Great Britain
I did not realise that the Ken Norris @17:54 was the very same Ken Norris of Bluebird K7 and Bluebird CN7 design fame. Jut found out he also advised on SSC too. Wow that man (and his brother has been directly involved in winning every British land and water speed record since 1955! That is a legendry gent.
the drop bass when the thing dives over the curve of the horizon is amazing aesthetic as fuck
Awesome
@ 37:14 Only the barking mad British would think of locking some poor bloke in a portaloo, strapping it on the back of an American pick-up truck and then tear-arse across the desert at 90 mph whilst he's having a crap!
Kinda makes you proud...!
Heck, I'd be having a crap if I was going that fast whilst locked up in a portaloo!
when he said I want to go super sonic and they all laughing! yrs later they aint laughing now lol
A succession of Utah governors deserve an atomic kick in their asses for letting the Salt Flats die. In the 60’s the salt surface was 2 feet thick, now it’s 1/4” to 1/2” bare in many spots. They all allowed for the pumping of the salt solution away from the flats so salt and other minerals could be removed. You saw the racing at Black Rock, it’s filthy and soft. On dirt the cars ride 4 or 5” below the surface but at Bonneville they have in the past ridden on a hard surface of crystalized salt.
Condemn All the Politicians who let this continue , I can't believe that the Bureau of land Management or maybe😮 the EPA , It just seams like Money is changing hands somewhere , I believe that the Bonneville Salt Flats are a National treasure and should be Protected for future Generations Too enjoy , It has been the site of some Extraordinary life changing experience for so many for so long , it is hallowed ground for millions of people who have risked Life and Limb too achiev their ultimate goal , too go faster than anyone else has ever gone , in machines that they have built with their own 2 hands , too achieve
GLORY
The power of a thousand Minis. One thousand horsepower.
What's cool is, this car looks like a car on 4 wheels. From the front view especially. So he is the fastest man in a car not a trike.
And it's got the steering wheel on the right side. That was never in question.
@@MartinWillett - That's a matter of opinion!
What has a car got to do with anything? It’s the land speed record, car doesn’t come into it.
Gary Gabelich was killed in a bike accident in RPV a long while back, when was this made?
It would be really good if you can make doc in modern time of LSR People like George Poteet and Speed Demon Jessi Combs North American Eagle I can not even imaging to do a doc as near as good as you this is why I ask you. Thank you for making them and keeping the history of LSR alive
Thanks for your comment - I hope to feature some modern LSR projects soon.
'Kin awesome ! 👏
Bloody marvelous
I think the blue flame is the best looking LSR car of all time
Sally Nobel is beautiful, wow!
September 2022. Congratulations to all Racers.
Well done ol Chap That was the fastest crapper on Earth
Zvery cool. Loved it
Gabelich saying the car is "nice ".. His car Blue Flame made Nobles look like a supermarket trolley
I recognise a bit of mgb.... The hatch stay looks like an mgb bonnet stay @ 25:50
I think it existed in the 1940s as used on morris and Austin products.
I want that turbo sticker for metro.
Its almost funny that everywhere the Brits go, the rain inevitably follows. :)
True that 😂
Actually, perhaps a bit rude to Gary Gabelich I think - he was being very supportive I thought and certainly parked his ego.
I thought that initially too, but then I think GG understood exactly the stress RN was under at that time and acted accordingly ......and I might add, with class!
See it a Coventry Transport Museum..
Richard is so Nobel
This car looks like a "Green Monster" from the 60s.
Why did they need 16 tracks?
Why was there not a back-up chute?
badreality2, Good Question, the only thing I can think of is that if the chute failed then there was no time to try and deploy a reserve chute, and given that consideration, then a reserve chute was just extra weight that could slow the car enough to miss the record by a fraction of a second, but that’s just my personal opinion.
"Oh, I say chaps, wasn't that spiffing!! Lets all go back to Blighty for tea and medals, shall we?!"
and with a Jaguar Fire truck...
Paint it green and it could pass for Art Arfons' "Green Monster" LSR car from the sixties.
this is the club that Paul and his buddies were in, remember-'Paul"?
Spoiler alert... He does it in the end.! 😉 😉
Fantastic documentary- but that non-stop bass line background music was God-awful
Malcolm Campbell blue bird done 6 miles in 1 minute and then ruchard noble cars done 6 miles in under s minute 644.6 mph
Man was not created to withstand speeds over 25 mph 😂
When all is said and done this car is little more than an updated version of Art Arfons' Green Monster of 1964/65. It never really had any realistic chance of going supersonic, just far too much frontal area for the power available.
@Gar ...frontal area for the power available.... Thrust SSC has a huge power resource compared to the frontal area and even still barely went supersonic. Plus it is a truly hideous gargantuan beast.... too bad some of the other far more elegant ssc concepts were never funded and developed for a real assault on the sound barrier....
@Gar more like bludgeoned its way to the sound barrier and slightly past....
@@68Jaguar420G It did the job tho, didn't it? Function over form. Not everything has to be pretty.
One thing i noticed is the women in America love fast cars, as seen on t,v, not lies, i,ve always said girls love cars, and that's why when i passed my test i had a 1,3 escort, red, with alloys and a big back box, the ladys could,nt resist it, they did,nt stand a chance when me and my crew drove by.
@James Smith i never left any marx on the rds, i was a sensible driver, most the time!!!
someone sponcer me i will hold it down evan a feared im done and would love to set a record on my way home
Ill bet if you put wings on that thing it might even fly!
Take that fabrazy sticker off before your runner I know this long time ago
He should have kept it in 2nd gear rather than going for third on such a short runway..
Environmentalist are never happy.
Imagine using modern techniques to make the car lighter and the aero to make it stable and hopefully a better power unit.
Are people still doing this? Have we broken the speed of sound yet?
He came back and did it with Thrust SSC in the 90's. Though didn't drive it that time. He was behind the idea etc.
Garry an his ego "
Thrust 2 is look like batmobile
Where the revers thrust 🤷♂️
@i. rob r/whooooosh
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Its not the record mate that matters. Its the story. Appreciate that.
It’s the whole story, record, story, everything.
15:44 "If only there was someplace else where we could run this car..." Well they got these things, they're called maps. You look at 'em when you're tryin' to find a place to go to. 🤯 And 15:05 I think they had telephones back then too... "Hello ol' chap, I say, is it raining over there in Bonneville?" "Why, yes it is as a matter of fact, rainin' like cats and dogs. You might want to just wait a while to come over with yer fancy shmancy car and not waste all the money for no reason." "Pip pip cherio ol' boy, we'll have a cup of tea and wait for a good weather report." No, that makes way too much sense. Let's just go anyway and waste everyone's time and money.
Flat tarmac would be much better.