Don Vesco
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Don Vesco was an American businessman and motorcycle racer who held multiple motorcycle land-speed and wheel-driven land speed records. In his lifetime, he set 18 motorcycle and 6 automobile speed rec
Vesco with his Silver Bird streamliner at the Bonneville Speedway
"Big Red" at Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum
Don Vesco on the "Project 200" high-mileage motorcycle designed by Matt Guzzetta
Silver Bird (streamliner)
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Silver Bird was a motorcycle land-speed record setting streamliner motorcycle. It was powered by two motors delivering 240 horsepower. It was the first motorcycle to set a speed record over 300 miles
Don Vesco
…becoming the first person to ride faster than 250 mph; in 1975, when he pushed past the 300-mile-per-hour (480 km/h) milestone for the first time with "Silver Bird"; and in 1978 at 318.598 miles per hour (512.734 km/h) in a twin-turbo powered streamliner "Lightning Bolt", a record that stood for 12 years. In 2001…
Silver Bird c. 1974 with shorter stabilizing fin than on the 1975 record setting run