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Old 07-23-2015, 04:15 PM
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I found measurements for the Bud Rocket Car and the Bloodhound SSC.
(I think the Bluebird is easy to find too)

What you have to watch for is:
copies and replicas.
They sometimes vary in dimensions and design.

Also, measurements are never clear as to exactly what is being measured.
I always wonder if the measures include extra stick-out bits or just the main components.

With Burt's Munro Special, he is said to have built at least two bikes.
I have seen two different bodies (in vintage photos) that he raced at Bonneville.
A New Zealand shop claims to own those two bikes.
An Indian shop, or dealer, or Museum? has one...but I believe its admitedly a copy.
There may be more copies.
And there is at least one bike built for the movie.

Then theres that shop in California, that claims to have two bikes left behind by Munro
when he left the USA for the last time. (because he didn't want to pay to ship them home?).

lol
who knows how many bikes there were, or how many exist now (including copies).
And where they are, and if they are all the same?
And who knows if any of those copies are accurate to the original dimensions.

I read on one website, one of the Scouts measured somewhere over 13 feet.
Which Scout, I don't know.
And to me, in old photos, the body doesn't look that long...but I could be wrong.

...Bloodhound SSC is claimed to have an "approximate length of 13.4 metres"
Exactly what that covers I don't know.
And the estimation is because the car isn't even built yet.
The only car(s) built so far have been promotional mockups.
And the design has changed a few times over the years.

So I ball parked the scale based on that estimate from the Bloodhound SSC website.

I did the same with the Budweiser Rocket Car.
There is a copy of the car that Hal Needham had built, on display in the Talladega Speedway Museum.
There are a number of differences from the race car.
But the display has a sign with a length specification.
I used that as my "estimate for scale".
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