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G'DAY

23,000 kilometres over four months on a 1959 Velocette"

I MET Stuart Hooper at Speed Week on Lake Gairdner last year, as he prepared The World’s Fastest Velocette for what would be a record-shattering 193mph run. That’s 310km/h in the new money, on a pushrod Pommy, which inspired it.

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