Take a look at this huge project!

[Metalman Sweden]

I just find this site...take a look at this restoproject, and the history :o

http://www.bluebirdproject.com

Amazing that the team keep up yhe work for so long time

Take care!
// Per

[NOHOME]

Project IS amazing, but it might tjust be one of the worst web sites I have visited!

Half an hour on the site and I can't find out what the "Bluebird" was, or why they are doing this?

That aside, hell yes, that is one epic build.

Pete

[Truckntran Bill]

Seems to be a water speed record boat that was wrecked, killings the driver,a Mr Donald Campbell. Divers recently found the Bluebird in 2000? and the surviving family seems to have had the opinion that a restoration of the Bluebird was a more fitting memorial than leaving the wreck to treasure hunters and looters.

[Hotrod1932]

Donald Campbell at one time held both the world land speed record, and the world water speed record in 1964.

Both his boat and his car were called Bluebird.

[steve.murphy]

I found some info on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebird_K7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Campbell
And his dad was pretty famous too.http://www.racingcampbells.com/content/malcolm.asp

[NewOCork]

I guess you have to be of a certain age to remember the Bluebird's legendary runs. In the days of the great record chasers, the Bluebirds, both land and water, were one of the greatest foreign challengers for the worlds fastest. I'm sure that many a young person dreamed of building a faster boat or car and some did, but not many!

Corky

[Hotrod1932]

The chase for speed on land or water is an old one. I remember building a model of one of the Bluebird cars when I was a kid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dQB5OPaFJs

[frank luten]

Hey Ray, It just sunk() in, people asking what Bluebird was, I am getting OLD!

Great effort to rebuild Bluebird!!

Have a great day

Frank

[EddyCurr]

Metalmen Sweden, thank you for posting that link to the Bluebird project.
I was unaware of the mission to restore K7 and am enjoying reading
through the archives.

I am of an era such that along with the later accomplishments of Donald
Campbell, the exploits of the likes of Art Arfons (Green Monster), Gary
Gabelich (Blue Flame), Craig Breedlove (Spirit of America), Summers
Brothers (Golden Rod) and Mickey Thompson (Challenger) were current.
Their successes and failures were riveting drama to me.

It seems hard to believe that these men, once house-hold names, are
no longer recognized far and wide.

As mentioned, Sir Malcom Campbell was Donald's father. It was he who
began the tradition of naming his record attempt vehicles "Bluebird.

There was a tremendous rivalry between Sir Malcolm and his competitor,
Henry Segrave (Golden Arrow). They both set several records on the
sands of Daytona Beach. Segrave ran 231 in 1929 before dying in an
attempt to set a record on water. Sir Malcolm's last run at Daytona
was in the spring of 1935 where he set a record despite tire trouble.
In Sept of 1935 at Bonneville, he became the first person to break 300 mph.

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