Babs was the land speed record car built and driven by John Parry-Thomas. It was powered by a 27-litre Liberty L-12 aero-engine. Babs began as 'Chitty 4', one of Count Louis Zborowski's series of aero-engined cars named 'Chitty Bang Bang'. As it was built at Zborowski's estate of Higham Park near Canterbury, it was also known as the Higham Special.

Babs was a world land speed record car belonging and driven by John Godfrey Parry-Thomas, the car held the land speed record for both the mile and kilometre in 1926 as well as numerous other records.

2018年7月11日 · The open touring car had to reach 160 km/h (100 mph), just shy of the land speed record which back then was set at 199 km/h (125 mph).

2023年3月17日 · This video, pulled from the depths of YouTube and originally shared by Goodwood Road & Racing, tells the history of a land speed record-breaking race car named “Babs,” and how it was buried on an oceanside beach for 42 years before being revived. Babs’ story dates to the 1920s.

2020年5月23日 · As part of ITV Wales' series, Wonders Of The Coast Path, Sean Fletcher witnessed racing car ‘Babs’ roar down the beach where she broke the land speed record back in 1926. Behind the wheel is...

Thursday the 28th of April, 2016, Parry-Thomas’s car Babs returned to Pendine Sands, South Wales, to celebrate the 90th anniversary of their successful land…

2024年5月21日 · Geraint is talking about his father’s excavation of 1927 Land Speed Record car Babs from the dunes behind Pendine Sands, Wales, in 1969, where it had been dumped upside down in a hole 42 years earlier. The car had crashed during a high-speed run, killing its driver, the engineer and racer JG Parry Thomas, and had then been unceremoniously ...

Using a 450 hp V-12 Liberty aero engine of 27 litres capacity, with a gearbox and chain-drive from a pre-war Blitzen Benz, it was the largest capacity racing car ever to run at Brooklands. Still not fully developed by the time of Zborowski's death in November 1924, it was purchased from his estate by J. G. Parry-Thomas for the sum of £125.

2019年11月8日 · A car with an airplane engine that, after suffering an accident trying to revalidate the world speed record, ended buried for 42 years on the Welsh beach of Pendine Sands. Anyway, they call it for a reason "Buried alive" .

The car was originally built in 1923 by Count Louis Zborowski as the fourth of his Aero engined Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang cars. Being the last and the largest he named it the Higham Special. The car was named 'Babs' and after carrying out a considerable amount of work he took it to Pendine for a crack at the landspeed record.