Don Vesco pilots the Lambky liner, 1996.
Vincent brochure announcing the 1953 models. Of the Rapide we read, "Nevertheless even this amazing, tractable, fussless, reliable machine is still faster than any other standard motor cycle in the world (except the Black Lightning and Black Shadow), as proved convincingly at scores of events in nearly every country, but most notably at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah when Marty Dickerson established the American Class C Record at 141.72 mph in the summer of 1952."
Of the Lightning, we read "As just one instance of its speed potential we quote the establishment of the U.S. National Maximum Speed Record at Bonneville Salt Flats at the remarkable speed of 156.58 m.p.h. with a privately owned Black Lightning."
Linking these individuals is their devotion to a single mistress, Speed.
