Speed record car engine heard again after 90 years
The engine of a car which became the first to exceed 200mph (322km/h) has been heard in public for the first time in 90 years.
The Sunbeam 1000hp, nicknamed The Slug, reached more than 203mph on Daytona beach in Florida, USA, in 1927, with Maj Henry Segrave at the wheel.
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