VETERAN RACING CAR IN NEW ZEALAND
One is tempted often to wonder a* to what is the ultimate fate of racing cars after their initial successes are over. Many of them seem quickly to pass from memory, and it is interesting therefore to note that several of the racing cars of a popular firm of manufacturers are still in u*e by, private owners, and are even proving formidable adversaries in racing circles, adding to the successes which they attained in former day*. One of the Sunbeam cars built for the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Race of 1914 is now in New Zealand. Driven by its present owner, this car won the New Zealand Motor Oup in 1925 and established the New Zealand Beach Record of 101.6 mile* per hour. Incidentally, thi* was the first car to obtain a speed of over 100 miles per hour In the southern hemisphere. Since then the car ha* been driven at Oreti Beach, Invercargill, at a speed of 109.09 miles per hour. That a racing car built a* long ago as 1914 should still be accomplishing such remarkable performances is astonishing. The strain imposed on engine and chassis is so great that only a car of the highest quality as regards design, material, and workmanship, could retain it* efficiency as this 14-year-old Sunbeam has done.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 199, 6 August 1928, Page 5
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