Sunbeam 1000hp Rebuild (Part 1) - Restoring the first 200mph land speed car
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
- Henry Segrave's twin-engined 1000hp Sunbeam land speed car is being restored in time for its 100th birthday.
S&G visited the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu in May 2024, to see how things are progressing and to take a closer look at the bare bones of this historic piece of machinery.
In Part One, senior engineer Ian "Stan" Stanfield gives us a tour of the car's chassis and we discover some of the Sunbeam's secrets, hidden for almost 100 years.
With thanks to the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu and Brookspeed Automotive. For more information about the Sunbeam's restoration, and to make a donation to the campaign, visit the NMM's website:
nationalmotormuseum.org.uk/ho...
FURTHER READING (Disclaimer: I get a commission every time you purchase a product through my affiliate links below).
The Fast Set: Three Extraordinary Men and Their Race for the Land Speed Record by Charles Jennings
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Thrust 2: A Memory by Richard Noble
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Thrust: The Remarkable Story of One Man's Quest for Speed by Richard Noble
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Speed Duel by Samuel Hawley
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Goldenrod: The Resurrection of America's Speed King by John Baechtel
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The History Of Speed by Martin Roach
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Railton: Man Of Speed by Karl Ludvigsen
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Donald Campbell: The Man Behind The Mask by David Tremayne
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Bluebird and the Dead Lake: The Classic Account of how Donald Campbell broke the World Land Speed Record by John Pearson
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Leap into Legend: Donald Campbell and the Complete Story of the World Speed Records by Steve Holter
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Bluebird CN7: The Inside Story of Donald Campbell's Last Land Speed Record Car by Donald Stevens
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Parry Thomas: The First Driver to be Killed in Pursuit of the Land Speed Record by Hugh Tours
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Quest For Speed: The Epic Saga of Record-Breaking On Land by Barry John
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Man Against the Salt by Harvey Shapiro
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Ultimate Speed: The Fast Life and Extreme Cars of Racing Legend Craig Breedlove by Samuel Hawley
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Infinity Over Zero: Meditations on Maximum Velocity by Cole Coonce
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Speedquest: Inside the Blue Flame by Richard Keller
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Crusader: John Cobb's ill-fated quest for speed on water by Steve Holter
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Archive: National Motor Museum, Alamy and unidentified sources. All unlicensed / unidentified archive used under Fair Use / Fair Deal. Copyright acknowledged in all material.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:47 History
3:07 Project Overview
4:52 Front Engine
7:43 Chassis RHS
10:20 Chassis LHS
12:20 Cockpit and Instruments
13:31 Wheelarches and Guards
14:52 Outro 
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Nice one Simon couldn't agree more
Well said.... And no annoying Music???👍
Thanks so much for your kind words! Glad you enjoy my content.
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@@user-dl2md2kv4x 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.
Part 2 coming soon!
that crank case casting is a work of art
Its absolutely amazing to see the guts of this monster, it’s a form of art, all working in harmony to produce a 207mph, 1000hp beast
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.
what an amazing video. Thank you so much. "Stan" needs his own channel. what a guy.
Couldn't agree more - Stan is The Man!
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 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.
Thanks for your comment - hope you have a successful time at Goodwood FOS!
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!!!
It's an amazing project - can't wait to hear those V12s!
What a fabulous project!
Bloody smashing guys cant wait for part two. Thanks for posting.
Automotive archaeology. Very, very cool.
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!
Lovely item, looking forwards to pt2. Thanks.
Thank you - Part 2 on its way soon...
An iconic machine. Nice to see it's being restored.
What an amazing restoration project. Thank u for showing it.
My pleasure - quite a privilege being invited to cover 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
Thanks for your kind comment - glad you enjoy my content!
Thank you lads, looking forward to the next installment. I hope we get to hear it in full song when its done! Great channel.
Thanks for your comment. Stan has suggested I return to Beaulieu to film when they get an engine running - it would ben rude not to...!
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!
Very good, this is a fascinating car, I'd love to be there when it runs again.
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.
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.
Saw it at goodwood an awsome beast indeed
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!
This is very cool. Well done.
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. 👍
So glad that you're covering this. We can always rely on you for quality content and I'm so looking forward to restoration news and seeing her run
Thank you - Part 2 coming soon!
Fascinating, I can't wait for the rest of the series.
Fascinating
Fabulous video as always, never get bored of rewatching them
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.
Thanks for your kind comment. At Beaulieu, the Sunbeam 1000hp sits directly opposite Donald Campbell's Bluebird CN7 - it's stunning.
This shows the skill of the engineers rebuilding this vehicle, afterall there ain't know Hains workshop manuals that exist to help
Wow absolutely awesome well worth the wait and thankyou so much very interesting and enjoyable 😀😀😀
Glad you enjoyed it
Amazingly advanced engine
Much more about the engines coming soon!
Really enjoyed this video, thanks. In the last few days I saw a video showing it on a trailer leaving the museum to get it's clear coat.
Thanks for your comment. Great to see the project progressing...!
Excellent presentation. Thank you, Stan. Also, well done getting access to Stan and his knowledge.
Glad you enjoyed it
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 ❤
Thanks so much - Part 2 coming soon!
Great video, thank you. Anxiously looking forward to the next part.
Thank you - Part 2 is almost finished, should be published early August.
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.
Beauty
Master craftsmen; one working on the car, the other producing such high quality content 👍
Wow - thank you!
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.
Thank you. Part 2 almost complete, coming soon!
Excellent. Another lovely series to look forward to.
Thanks - glad you enjoyed Part 1!
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.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video!
Wonderful work and dedication to preserve the history when Britain was a world leader.
AWESOME
Good work as always
Awesome, I love it when you post content.. cant wait for more
Just come across your channel this is fascinating looking forward to seeing this progress
Great video, thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing another fantastic video
You're welcome - Part 2 following soon!
Amazing
As always thanks for great info.
You're welcome!
I'm a subscriber already but really like your channel. I shared & 👍 hoping for more content. Thank You.
Thanks so much for your support. I am already working on Part 2 of this video, aiming for more regular content from now on. Stay tuned!
I was surprised and happy to see a scarf and goggles video on the 4th of July thank you 🇺🇲🧨
You’re most welcome - happy 4th of July!
Amazing! I do so love this channel. :)
Wow - thank you very much!
Wow! Awesome video. Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
@@ScarfAndGoggles The name of the channel is enough reason to watch. Best.
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!
The design, drafting and casting work is absolutely beautiful. Certainly a lost art today. 🙏
It really is!
peak is back on the menu
Awesome !
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
Thanks for the info - can't believe I hadn't spotted the error before I posted the video!
200 mph ,cable brakes ,i don't like going 30 mph on my bycycle with cable brakes , very brave man .
This is so cool.
I would do just about anything for the chance to work on those old engines!
What a great video! Very enjoyable. Thank you. No doubt Scarf And Goggles will see plenty of Swarf And Struggles in the weeks ahead... 😁
😁 Thank you - glad you enjoyed it!
I just wish brooklands track was still complete and in use today.Mind you I would like to have seen board track racing at its peak too!.
Delicious.
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 RUclips 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.
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.
Thanks for watching! Feeling very privileged to be invited to film this project. Part 2 coming soon.
that s well worth doing
Those chipped gears in the gearbox shows us how grand was the power of engine.
Lots more about the car's transmission in Part 2!
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
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 ).
Thanks for sharing - I must confess I wasn't aware of that book, I'll be adding it to my bookshelf!
Just to hear it start up again enough
I hope to be there when they do!
Could you imagine doing 282KPH on skinny tyres and wire wheels......?
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.
3 miles per gallon, just like a modern SUV
Excellent. Where on Daytona Beach will it run? Luckily, I live in East Central Florida. I'd be great to see it run. Thx
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.
@@ScarfAndGoggles makes sense. Thanks
4:15 Doctor Who car 'The Whomobile' in the background 😮
Good spot!
Segrave must have carried them around in a wheelbarrow in front of him.
Been a minute since we've seen ya.
Yes, it's been a while! Life gets in the way... thank you for your patience.
Let’s share our thoughts on the message of the video.
chains snaping is muchless dramatic than you imagine they just squirt off the sprocket like toothpaste - tires exploding is a different problem
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.
some car and some chap who drove it.. Phew
Well done keeping the origional marks and finish, I'd hate to see it restored to as new condition, this car has a soul and in refinishing everything would harm it forever. Those chains and cable brakes put the s-h-i-tut up me! Great video, can't wait to see more on The Slug...
More coming soon!
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.
that the one my great uncle freddie dixon had and cound not do much with it and sold it for scrap but we donot think is was scraped
Hi - thanks for your comment! The car you’re referring to isn’t the Sunbeam 1000hp, it’s this one:
Sunbeam Silver Bullet - Forgotten Land Speed Challenger
ruclips.net/video/4AkF05WYuz8/видео.html
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.
V12 48 valve. 👀
Not running for 100 years should hardly affect it if it has been looked after
Only if they are willing to go to 200mph in it…
so the front engine has a 500hp starter motor 🤣😂😅
That's one way of looking at it! Thanks for watching!
Buly ?! OMG, where did you learn French ?!
Putting clear coat on it is a mistake. That stuff wasn't on there when it was built so it really has no business being on there now. I pray it isn't some high gloss stuff that's an inch thick. Nothing looks worse.
I am confident that they are sensible enough to be very sympathetic to originality. Perhaps they recognized slow degradation of the paint and determined that clear coat was the best option. A satin finish wouldn’t be too noticeable.
That is my feeling as well. Especially when you see the photograph of the car in the 20s.
I'm already watching this again it's only been 3 days. I can't help but think how far away from what people knew at that time in 1927 when this machine shook the floor of the shop. what must those men have been thinking when they heard that thing finally come to life it must have been just a complete out of body experience surreal .I I wish there were interviews with the men that worked in the shop. 🤔🔩