November 16, 1965 Bonneville salt flats, US
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Craig Breedlove walks away from his Spirit of America Sonic 1 land speed record machine having made history. Breedlove achieved 600.601mph across the measured mile, beating his existing 555.485mph effort set two weeks earlier. The new benchmark would stand for five years, before Gary Gabelich’s 622mph run in The Blue Flame in 1970.