At 8.10am on 17 July 1964 Donald Campbell aboard Bluebird CN7 Proteus set the World Land Speed Record on South Australia’s Lake Eyre salt pans…
I wrote about this achievement a while back, in fact it was my first longer article, click here to read it;
One of the wonderful things about the internet is the constant appearance of material on every topic, in this case a nice batch of photos popped onto it by ‘The Adelaide Advertiser’, here they are, too good not to share.
To celebrate Campbell’s achievement the people of Adelaide turned out in droves- about 200,000 flooded the streets of the small city on 25 July to see and hear Bluebird drive up King William Street to the Adelaide Town Hall. Mind you, ‘Beatle-Mania’ hit Adelaide five weeks before when 300,000 fans of the worlds greatest supergroup flooded into the capital.
Campbell also set the World Water Speed Record in 1964, achieving 276.3 mph at Lake Dumbleyung near Perth in Bluebird K7.
Photo Credits…
Adelaide Advertiser
Etcetera: Adelaide Excitement…
Tailpiece…
primotipo... 
I never saw there car when Campbell brought it here in the 1960s, but I remember seeing it on the Nissan stand at the Adelaide Motor Show circa 1983. I guess we were supposed to think it was a “Nissan Bluebird”!
Lol Etc.
I guess Nissan paid a lotta money!
Mark