{"id":634478,"date":"2026-04-27T17:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/634478\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:14:08","slug":"land-speed-record-car-babs-returns-to-pendine-sands-for-centenary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/634478\/","title":{"rendered":"Land speed record car Babs returns to Pendine Sands for centenary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emma Parry Clements, his great niece, said stories would be told of her great uncle at family tea times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s amazing to see this turnout and him honoured in this way,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It was a part of history but I feel a part of it today standing here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the accident, the car was buried in the dunes, where it stayed for 42 years before being recovered in 1969 and restored over a 16-year period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Racing engineer Owen Wyn Owens undertook the work at his garage in Capel Curig and Babs has since been displayed at the Pendine Museum of Speed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His son Geraint Owen drove Babs on two laps of the beach earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was just an idea he had to dig the car up because [Parry-Thomas] didn&#8217;t have the same recognition as Malcolm Campbell and my father wanted to change that,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Parry Clements, his great niece, said stories would be told of her great uncle at family tea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-634478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}