Flying Corkman: Go and break my 40-year-old land-speed record

"The bike was bouncing up and down, and jumping from side to side."

Mel Nolan (right) and Denis Collins, team manager, at the Carrigrohane (Straight) Road, Cork, with the National Aluminium Turbo Honda Special on the 40th anniversary of breaking the Irish Landspeed Record and the World 1,000cc. Picture: Denis Minihane.

A legend of Irish motorsport, the speed-merchant nicknamed the Flying Corkman, has urged someone to break his 40-year-old Irish land-speed record.

Mel Nolan, 75, from Togher on the city's southside, said he knows it can be done as the city marked the 40th anniversary yesterday of his record-breaking feat on the Carrigrohane Road four decades ago.