That's cool as Hell, thank you. I'll bet the exhaust from those monsters would kill the damn virus that I've got in my lungs.
I want a car that will set the damn grass on fire. I see even Leno has to poor-boy a car off the trailer. The first car lets you look into Hell. Awesome video, thanks.
Thanks, really I enjoyed that. - Fantastic ! My wife also watched it and now appreciates that hotrodders are not the craziest car enthusiasts out there...........
That's the best six and a half minutes I've had for ages. We think a Big Block in a Model A is good. These guys leave us for dead.
I followed the restoration if the Fiat S76 on Facebook. It's specifications are amazing. I don't remember exactly but I think it makes maximum power at about 400 rpm.
Lots of un-burned fuel coming outta them pipes!!! I probably like the Blastolene Special the best; just seems more drivable in general. I am Butch/56sedandelivery.
That 200hp Darracq V8 is regularly raced in historic events. There seems to have been a bit of a wave of builds in the "Edwardian Monstrosity" vein recently. I think a number of people are revisiting the idea of a huge engine which can be built light because it is extremely understressed in a matching feather-light chassis, because it is so diametrically opposite to the way modern cars are going. There is something very deeply refreshing about them. Of course some of these approach an overlap with territory occupied by passenger cars in albeit very limited series production, like the Bugatti Type 41 (12.8-litre straight-8) and the Hispano-Suiza Type 68 (or J12; 9.4-litre or 11.3-litre V12s.) Someone remarked how the coachwork on the Type 41s tends to hide the bulk of the car by avoiding wacky proportions, which gave me the idea of a Deuce roadster scaled up by 50% or so. I come back to the idea sporadically but I've never got round to drawing it.
I love "The Beast of Turin". When somebody describes an engine as Belching and Farting, they're talking about this car.
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