2019-09-01 Vanity Fair UK

Nearly 53 years after her fatal crash on

Coniston, Donald Campbell’s

resurrected Bluebird K7 is still rattling

teacups. As Bill Smith, her restorer,

plays tug-of-war with her new owners,

the battle for control of the famous

hydroplane fires up

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By

RORY ROSS

Photographs by

ADAM FUSSELL

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