This came up on Facebook from Top Gear - a 100-year-old Fiat with a 28.5 litre (yes, really) four-cylinder engine. Built for land speed records.
Only two ever made, and the surviving body of one has been mated to the surviving engine of the other. The engine is started up for the first time in over 100 years at 1:55 (after some herculean effort from the man cranking the engine )
And the noise... bloody hell. Sounds like Satan's lawnmower. And you can see all the explosions happening inside it!
- "I'm going to write a very stiff letter. A VERY stiff letter. On cardboard."
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Sounds great though.
What a Beast.
Brave man to crank that!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
There's some home-grown monsters, I'd love to go see them somewhere but last time I tried I failed to find event listings etc.
One with a 24-litre aero engine
http://www.xrstyle.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?31124-VSCC-Curborough-speed-trials
Somewhere there's a great article with a bunch of pics on the first one - note oak chassis... them were't days etc.
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You get a wow for that lot.
Remember "The Beast"? Cant think of the guy's name that built it, John summat? It was a kind of stretched hatchback with a Rolls grille........and a RR Merlin engine. Road legal too.
Errr, dunno! I know it caught fire and had to be rebuilt at one point.
Found it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHp58Ss5GvM
Hi boogieman, I do remember that, there's also a fella who built a Rover SD1 with a tank engine that was the Merlin engine in a different guise... had ginormous chassis rails Saw it at a show a few years ago part-done.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein