Craig Breedlove posing on top of the Spirit of America Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Cinderella

Cinderella

with men talking round a table in the foreground

Seven men round a card table in a Smithfield tavern include two countrymen

28th October 1976

while the ghost of Sir William Curtis watches

Craig Breedlove posing on top of the Spirit of America Size:Standard: 6 x 4in CinderellaCraig Breedlove posing on top of the Spirit of America. Five time World Land Speed Record holder. He started out as a technician in structural engineering. In 1959 he bought a military surplus J47 jet engine, with an aim to design and create his first three wheel 'Spirit of America' land speed record vehicle. In July of 1963 at Bonneville, Utah, he set a new, two way official speed record of 407 mph, to become the first ever to average over 400 mph.