Yes, when not speed was the premier concern, but stopping the cars as brakes were only rudimentary! A doctor friend of my fathers showed me a book of old racing car injuries from the 1920's of men who had come to grief on the old wooden course at Brooklands who has great big splinters right through them!
You need quite the pair of balls to race back then, and i would love to see it come back, you know like racing for people who has gotten life in prison, build their own stuff and race it, you win a season and you get to live a lot better.
The Beast of Turin is such a beautiful monster! If someone ever made a 10 hour long video of just it’s idle, I’d have it on constant loop while I worked.
@@esphilee Atleast with bikes you don't have a heavy piece of shit pinning you down. Just get off the bike when losing control and slide with your bike gear.
Going 200 MPH in anything other than a airliner is a ballsy proposition. You should try it... While your young enough to enjoy it. Keep in mind a stock Hayabusa only does 180 or so, and that's F#_## terrifying.
Designwise all the Napiers are stunningly beautiful, but my favorite definitely is the Railton. The Lancia - of course thanks to the genius engineer Vittorio Jano - is technically my favorite!
Great to see Bluebird in that finish... a lovely flat satin after years of being oily-ragged! Hasn't yet been got at and buried under 12 coats of lacquer! 🏆🇬🇧
6:36 The Fiat with chain drive and no chain guard whatsoever ! Don't hang your arm outside the cockpit....one broken chain at speed and they'll be calling you "lefty".
Amazes me how fast cars evolved within decades of the 1st cars to be made (1880s if im not mistaken) Back then it was engineering and design evolving quickly and now its technology thats taking over
My mom had a relative that owned a Duesenberg, where, even as child at the time, she said the engine had a very distinctive sound. Decades later a Duesenberg was driving through our neighborhood, and without even giving it a look, she recognized the car make from that distinctive engine sound.
love how they said that Fiat Isotta-Fraschini has "...just 250hp and 3,000 lb/ft - yes, thats a not a typo" but in the official sign behind the car at 7:05 it clearly says 250 hp and 820 lb/ft so... yeah Cars and Engines... it actually WAS a typo
Absolutely amazing cars, the sight and sound of these is just so absolutely wonderful, history, mechanical still running and great to see. Thanks so very much for this video, wonderful!
Yep, that's called the "decompression method", and was used for large displacement engines with huge cylinders such as this one. The problem with such large engines was that turning them over with all the valves operating as normal required far too much torque, which in turn would need a ridiculously large starter motor and an even more ridiculously massive battery to power it. So to get away with a more normal sized starter motor and battery, the engine was fitted with a lever which would hold all the exhaust valves open, while the intake valves still operated as normal, so the engine would still draw fuel/air mixture into the cylinders, but not compress it at all. To start it, you would pull the decompression lever while the starter cranked the engine over, getting it spinning fast enough for starting, then you would suddenly release the lever, causing some of the cylinders to immediately regain compression, and that would start it. A similar method was sometimes fitted to cars with more normal sized engines which also had a hand-cranked starter, to make the engine easier to turn over by hand. In that case, the starting procedure was basically the same, just with hand-cranking the engine instead of an electric starter motor. Another method of starting large aero piston engines was the "inertial starter", which used a big flywheel which could be engaged or disengaged with the engine. The flywheel would be spun up to high speed while disengaged, either with a small electric motor or with a hand-crank. Once the flywheel was turning fast enough, it would be engaged with the engine via a reduction gearbox, using its stored kinetic energy (aka inertia) to turn the engine over fast enough to start it.
I've seen one of the two FIAT S76 in Turin! What an amazing car! I would love to see the Napier-Bentley and all these beasts from the early days! Thx for sharing
I just love these old race cars, but they seem like they would be exhausting to drive for a few minutes, driving them in a race must have been brutal for the driver.
Race drivers back then would lose they mind with todays tech. Just the tires alone would blow they mind. Imagine going 120, 130 on tires 9 inches wide, inner tube, no radials, no tire within a tire. No thanks. Lol them dudes back then was insane an I love it.
I love how at 7:09 you can see in the background the banner says 250 hp 820 lb/ft but your description says 3000 lb/ft. I trust the guy who owns the car more.
That 1935 Duesenberg Model J Special was, to me, "The Cream of the Crop." Saying that in such supreme beautifully handbuilt company is a mouthful, but she is jaw-droppingly gorgeous, to the nth-degree. In a world of cars that are full of mind-blowing electronics, the elegance of a handcrafted masterpiece of yester-year touches some of us in a way words can't describe.
That particular "doozie" had a curtiss conquerer v12 from a curtiss condor put in it for a while, and progressively larger tailfins, until they built a new chassis just for the aero v12 and broke even more records. With its dohc i-8 reinstalled and was used on the road for years by a progression of owners. Both cars still exist. There was no middle car, the first car had 2 different motors and two names.
A few years ago - I read about what I think was a local fatal drag race. The man who died was an older man. He pulls up to a younger guy and revs the engine or however drag races start. The light turns green and they both go. I like to think the old man won, but he lost control of his car and crashed into some trees in a single-car accident. He died about a week later. The other driver did not flee. He was charged with drag racing, and they may have added homicide to that since it was an illegal race. He was charged, but I don't remember if it went to trial or what the outcome may have been. But I thought, how awesome is that. The old dude went out on his own terms; he was in his 80s. I'm sure it was not pleasant, especially for his family. But I've seen the alternative, people who have lost their minds and identities in a hospital until they die of bed sores. Go old dude, go!
Yeah that sounded wrong. The Fiat s76 with the 28.3 liter engine makes 300 hp and 2000 ft-lbs of torque. But that is because its a 28.3 liter 4 cylinder, obviously the torque would be off the charts. But this car has a 16.5 liter 6 cylinder so while the power might not be far off, the torque would be substantially less due to the differences in displacement and stroke.
I imagine the statement comes from this video: ruclips.net/video/H9Yww_nYuFA/видео.html Where the owner of the car says the vehicle is making around 3000 pounds of torque "At the rear wheels"- Which depending on the gearing, wouldnt be surprising.
Cool to see the car driven by Nuvolari! He and Fangio were my all-time favorites! Nuvolari drove with a broken leg once, & came in second. Then coining the phrase that 2nd place was just the 1st looser. To Tazio, he either won or lost. Period. It never seemed to phase him that Varzi didn't like the lowly mechanic because he wasn't a Professional man of some sort. Varzi even went so far as to try to ban anyone but professional men as F1 drivers. What a jerk.
As an ALFA fan I have seen and heard many of these famous old race ALFAs. They were incredible works of art. In their day they were pretty much unbeatable and won the first F1 race.
I imagine the statement comes from this video: ruclips.net/video/H9Yww_nYuFA/видео.html Where the owner of the car says the vehicle is making around 3000 pounds of torque "At the rear wheels"- Which depending on the gearing, wouldnt be surprising.
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I love how they just put airplane engines in these cars, need more horsepower well planes go fast. Great to see these vehicles are still appreciated.
Who do you call to fix it? Where do you go for parts 🤔
@@demurevilleneuvewinslet8235 fix it yourself, make them yourself
with skinny tires obviously for weight reduction
I’d say they took off the wings instead.
@@undpqbnu you are correct
one can only imagine what was the feeling during those races back when those cars were new... not miles per gallon but gallons per mile, lol
@Not Hitler getting paid to work was also cheap
😂
Yes, when not speed was the premier concern, but stopping the cars as brakes were only rudimentary! A doctor friend of my fathers showed me a book of old racing car injuries from the 1920's of men who had come to grief on the old wooden course at Brooklands who has great big splinters right through them!
@Isaiah Bennett A British Chieftion Tank takes 4 Gallons to do 1 mile ,,. !!
The power to tyre width ratio on some of these is eye-watering
Lmao, like +250hp on bicycle tyres
You need quite the pair of balls to race back then, and i would love to see it come back, you know like racing for people who has gotten life in prison, build their own stuff and race it, you win a season and you get to live a lot better.
@@Rawsawn that sounds borderline barbaric. I love it.
@@mrbrightside3722 🤣🤣
And the lack of roll bars.
Do you like these OLD RACE CARS ?
Yes
Yes
Yes. I love them
Absolutely
Yes
The Beast of Turin is such a beautiful monster! If someone ever made a 10 hour long video of just it’s idle, I’d have it on constant loop while I worked.
Why not just "Fiat"?
I love how Brutus shakes VIOLENTLY on start-up. Also, love seeing that blue bird on the beach. :D
Malcolm was my great uncle
The beach, I believe, is Pendine Sands, the venue of a lot of record-breaking in the early days.
Love how it's essentially an engine, approximately 4 wheels underneath and a seat strapped to the back of it! :D
What
I was about to say nice comment but then I saw the original you ripped off from
I love these brutal sounding and yet refined engine. A beautiful technique! In a time when a car and engine where built by hand
When the car is 6.5m long and 5m of that is just the hood
That red alfa, after the beast of turin fiat.... Purrs better than most modern cars!
The red Lancia sounds like a fire breathing monster too
I prefer the 037 lancia
Fiat still can't build decent looking cars lol
One of the earliest (or perhaps the earliest, correct if I'm wrong) DOHC engine cars.
It sounds like a broken rx7 what are you saying
The Rolls Royce Handlye Special is truly one of the most beautiful cars ever built surely
Man, these awesome classic race cars never gets old. Absolutely cool 🙂
Honestly, I had no clue these old cars were such a beast.
ruclips.net/video/-L3P4tjxXoU/видео.html
You are welcome😉
It must have been terrifying to handle those huge beasts in a race !
That Rolls-Royce towards the end... such a beautiful sound.
Cool to see that in some of these, if you flip over while making a turn, the first thing that comes off is your head.
At least with a safety belt, the driver knows his balls are safe. Now imagine bikers, both head and balls are at risk.
I know huh he was like I know how to make a fast car I'll just put a airplane engine on a car then can surely decapitate you of it turns over
@@esphilee Atleast with bikes you don't have a heavy piece of shit pinning you down. Just get off the bike when losing control and slide with your bike gear.
Going 200mph in a Rari: *weak shit*
Going 200mph in one of these: *balls of steel*
truer words never been said
Rari? 🤣
@@arewethereyet6413 ferrari?
Potatoes and Trucks say the grown up words then. Rari sounds childish to be honest.
Going 200 MPH in anything other than a airliner is a ballsy proposition. You should try it... While your young enough to enjoy it. Keep in mind a stock Hayabusa only does 180 or so, and that's F#_## terrifying.
Oh the good ol' days of racing! A time when you were able to literally put an aircraft engine on 4 wheels and call it a racecar.
totally agree. so interesting. a time of experimentation.
Probably because it’s a racecar, just with a big engine😛
And now people putting aircraft engine on 4 wheels and it break the speed of sound, but not many people are mad enough to want to do that. =)
@@Fe7Ace especially with laws and restrictions you have to by pass if you want to do it legally
and blow up or break every bone in your body flying out of the car
Great to see these vehicles are still appreciated
Which one do you LIKE THE MOST?
Brutus
Designwise all the Napiers are stunningly beautiful, but my favorite definitely is the Railton. The Lancia - of course thanks to the genius engineer Vittorio Jano - is technically my favorite!
@@Lajos279 Couldn't agree more
Great to see these machines still preserved and running.
“Each spark creates an explosion”
The first engine: “Explode? OK!”
"They didn't specify how many pieces"
Its nothing short of amazing what humans have accomplished in just 150 yrs of our existence. The 1850s on has been momentous.
Great to see Bluebird in that finish... a lovely flat satin after years of being oily-ragged! Hasn't yet been got at and buried under 12 coats of lacquer! 🏆🇬🇧
6:36 The Fiat with chain drive and no chain guard whatsoever ! Don't hang your arm outside the cockpit....one broken chain at speed and they'll be calling you "lefty".
Gonna be difficult to do when the designer decided to put some of the control levers right on top of said chain drive.
flyinwalenda it has a chain gaurd, its just so incredibly tiny that it wouldn’t do anything
Amazes me how fast cars evolved within decades of the 1st cars to be made (1880s if im not mistaken) Back then it was engineering and design evolving quickly and now its technology thats taking over
Engineering is technology
My guess he is thinking of mechanical engineering v.s. computer and entertainment gizmos. Just a guess.
@@mkshffr4936 yea you're right, my bad since i just realized how i worded it wrong
Same here.
Absolute PRICELESS collection of cars on show.
Old but gold, Those the engine sound really awesome
The Mormon Meteor Duesenberg(8:55) sounds buttery smooth. Love that sound.
My mom had a relative that owned a Duesenberg, where, even as child at the time, she said the engine had a very distinctive sound. Decades later a Duesenberg was driving through our neighborhood, and without even giving it a look, she recognized the car make from that distinctive engine sound.
I have to say, that the 1905 Flat looks scary fun.
this has the feel of my 2006 Lincoln town car........ cut from the same cloth I'm sure............ !
love how they said that Fiat Isotta-Fraschini has "...just 250hp and 3,000 lb/ft - yes, thats a not a typo"
but in the official sign behind the car at 7:05 it clearly says 250 hp and 820 lb/ft
so... yeah Cars and Engines... it actually WAS a typo
Absolutely amazing cars, the sight and sound of these is just so absolutely wonderful, history, mechanical still running and great to see. Thanks so very much for this video, wonderful!
Der absolute Wahnsinn. Diejenigen die sich da damals rein getraut haben und mit Vollgas über den Nürburgring gefahren sind... Absolute Helden.
wow the Lancia D50 was a beautiful car and special!!
6:45 love the 1905 Fiat bit I'm more impressed by the fact that there is a GM Future liner next to it
wished they had shown more of that Future Liner... those were so beautifull
Great video. That Rolls Royce Handlye Special is gorgeous.
Old race cars are the Best race cars!🏁
I love the Design from the Oldtimer and the Sound is amazing.
The Hall-Scott 'The Four' to me is what I would take home. Damn that thing is AWESOME.
I've always loved these kinds of cars. Very old engine start ups and old tractors, gets me going.
Have to say, I'd never have considered Buttercream Yellow a good sports car color, but the Duesenberg pulls it off nicely!
I thoroughly enjoyed watching and especially listening to that!
04:46 - 04:47 perfect startup sound for old racing car😃
One of green peace's favourite videos.
The way that BMW engine started was so old time its crazy
Yep, that's called the "decompression method", and was used for large displacement engines with huge cylinders such as this one. The problem with such large engines was that turning them over with all the valves operating as normal required far too much torque, which in turn would need a ridiculously large starter motor and an even more ridiculously massive battery to power it. So to get away with a more normal sized starter motor and battery, the engine was fitted with a lever which would hold all the exhaust valves open, while the intake valves still operated as normal, so the engine would still draw fuel/air mixture into the cylinders, but not compress it at all.
To start it, you would pull the decompression lever while the starter cranked the engine over, getting it spinning fast enough for starting, then you would suddenly release the lever, causing some of the cylinders to immediately regain compression, and that would start it. A similar method was sometimes fitted to cars with more normal sized engines which also had a hand-cranked starter, to make the engine easier to turn over by hand. In that case, the starting procedure was basically the same, just with hand-cranking the engine instead of an electric starter motor.
Another method of starting large aero piston engines was the "inertial starter", which used a big flywheel which could be engaged or disengaged with the engine. The flywheel would be spun up to high speed while disengaged, either with a small electric motor or with a hand-crank. Once the flywheel was turning fast enough, it would be engaged with the engine via a reduction gearbox, using its stored kinetic energy (aka inertia) to turn the engine over fast enough to start it.
You know it’s real work when they include the fire extinguisher in the shot!
8:10 John Hammond on his way home from Jurassic Park. Lol
Lol if anyone heard that in jurassic park, they would feel like a new dino has just been made.
That Alpha sounded superb .
I’ve always wanted a BMW that explodes when it first starts
Look no further then the 2007 m5
Haven’t we all?
Isn't that most beemers?
@@ToeKnee666 😂😂😂 not until the first start after their warranty expires. Follow Tyler Hoovie much? Hahah!
@@dylanmckinley2068 Haha good one :P
I've seen one of the two FIAT S76 in Turin! What an amazing car! I would love to see the Napier-Bentley and all these beasts from the early days! Thx for sharing
I just love these old race cars, but they seem like they would be exhausting to drive for a few minutes, driving them in a race must have been brutal for the driver.
I want one...the 46 liter 12 cylinder monster. My Leftist neighbors would love it!!!!
Race drivers back then would lose they mind with todays tech. Just the tires alone would blow they mind. Imagine going 120, 130 on tires 9 inches wide, inner tube, no radials, no tire within a tire. No thanks. Lol them dudes back then was insane an I love it.
That lancia is gorgeous!
my god the engine at 8:31 sounds like a background track for a horror movie. how is that even mechanically possible?
It's a Merlin - what else needs to be said :-)
It's the shitty phone it's being recorded on. The exhaust is so loud the device can't pick up the sound properly
@@No5elfCTRL that and probably the extremely long and weird exhaust pipe which changes the sound
Beast of Turin is my favorite old race car. Fun to watch doing a run at Goodwood.
One should always appreciate the unique sounds of any motor... it's called engine respect.
For me, it's the Blue Bird.
"The Four" sounds like it's constantly trying to start when idling
I love how at 7:09 you can see in the background the banner says 250 hp 820 lb/ft but your description says 3000 lb/ft. I trust the guy who owns the car more.
Nice old race cars man they look mean too. Would have liked to see these machines on the track back in those days.
That 1935 Duesenberg Model J Special was, to me, "The Cream of the Crop." Saying that in such supreme beautifully handbuilt company is a mouthful, but she is jaw-droppingly gorgeous, to the nth-degree. In a world of cars that are full of mind-blowing electronics, the elegance of a handcrafted masterpiece of yester-year touches some of us in a way words can't describe.
That particular "doozie" had a curtiss conquerer v12 from a curtiss condor put in it for a while, and progressively larger tailfins, until they built a new chassis just for the aero v12 and broke even more records. With its dohc i-8 reinstalled and was used on the road for years by a progression of owners. Both cars still exist. There was no middle car, the first car had 2 different motors and two names.
That Silver Royals Royce with the Merlin engine......I need that car. Just the SOUND!!!!!
6:23 I would never drive that in 200 km/h, Suicide mission more then 100%
I would, nice experience
Well you only live once...
A few years ago - I read about what I think was a local fatal drag race. The man who died was an older man. He pulls up to a younger guy and revs the engine or however drag races start. The light turns green and they both go. I like to think the old man won, but he lost control of his car and crashed into some trees in a single-car accident. He died about a week later. The other driver did not flee. He was charged with drag racing, and they may have added homicide to that since it was an illegal race. He was charged, but I don't remember if it went to trial or what the outcome may have been. But I thought, how awesome is that. The old dude went out on his own terms; he was in his 80s. I'm sure it was not pleasant, especially for his family. But I've seen the alternative, people who have lost their minds and identities in a hospital until they die of bed sores. Go old dude, go!
I was thinking exactly the same 😂
YOLO
So glad this popped up! wouldn't you love to own one of these
The sound of the Rolls Royce-Merlin is otherworldly. WW 2 aircraft engines in race cars and fuel tanks at Bonneville. Beautiful.
7:10 Caption says 3,000 lb ft torque
Banner says 820.....
That's because research is optional.
Literally just spotted the same thing 😂
Yeah that sounded wrong. The Fiat s76 with the 28.3 liter engine makes 300 hp and 2000 ft-lbs of torque. But that is because its a 28.3 liter 4 cylinder, obviously the torque would be off the charts. But this car has a 16.5 liter 6 cylinder so while the power might not be far off, the torque would be substantially less due to the differences in displacement and stroke.
I imagine the statement comes from this video:
ruclips.net/video/H9Yww_nYuFA/видео.html
Where the owner of the car says the vehicle is making around 3000 pounds of torque
"At the rear wheels"-
Which depending on the gearing, wouldnt be surprising.
You can read the captions? You must have SuperVision.
That Lancia is the most stunning machine I’ve ever seen
0:10 Never smoked cigarettes before? Well now you have had 5 cartons worth instantly.
these cars look so sick
I feel like i'm about to watch them do a wackey races
My thoughts exactly lol
Sharen get the cereal
Come to the Nürburgring, Oldtimer Grand Prix.
That Lancia D50 is so awesome looking
“EXTREME BIG ENGINES!!”
“Alfa Romeo 8c 2.3 liter”
On that era, it considered as big
Halu Yolo no that would be considered even smaller than it would be today lol. They made massive engines back then.
@@dylanlivingston1302 well at least the size is big XD
On time
And the Lancia D50...
All these, that’s what engines should sound like, no soft limiter on these
Imho, the Lancia D50 has the most beautiful form of all racecars. All the proportions feel right.
Awesome video! Just need a part 2 when they are on the track, flat chat 😊
4:50 10 Liters on 4 cylinders. Man one cylinder has more displacement than my car's whole engine!
The Fiat "Beast of Turin" shown in the video is also 4 cylinders but 28 litres!!
@@couttsy222 Christ.That must be a low revering lump? I know the wright duplex 3350 was nearly 60 litres but had 18 pots and they are big!
Fantastic video Thanks Peter Western Australia
I love these clips of Greenpeace fund raising events. More please :D
Lol. Love it
that blue bird is gorgeous
I'm 60... Love these cars .
How the hell do you expect me to read that text????
Im 19 and can barely read it either lol
I had to keep pausing because I wanted to read it but also see the car.
The most satisfying sounds I have ever heard 😌
8:32 that is the coolest sounding idle I've ever heard
Sounds like compressed audio from a bad microphone
That is severely compressed audio, not the actual sound
Love the exposed rockers!!
2:25 when I saw the guy scratching the shit outta the paintjob with the hood I literally gasped. Lol
I would have beat the snot out of him...(I was looking for this comment)
Crazy how far technology has come
imagine Koenigsegg building an engine like this with modern technology and optimization, it would be a rocket
they kinda already are xD
That first engine is PERFECT, for my Honda CRX motor swap ! 🥰❤️💕😆
Cool to see the car driven by Nuvolari! He and Fangio were my all-time favorites! Nuvolari drove with a broken leg once, & came in second. Then coining the phrase that 2nd place was just the 1st looser. To Tazio, he either won or lost. Period. It never seemed to phase him that Varzi didn't like the lowly mechanic because he wasn't a Professional man of some sort. Varzi even went so far as to try to ban anyone but professional men as F1 drivers. What a jerk.
Tazio also ran by motorbike and after an accident, not yet restored, he had made plaster while in the saddle!
The Alfa Romeo sounds so... perfect
As an ALFA fan I have seen and heard many of these famous old race ALFAs. They were incredible works of art. In their day they were pretty much unbeatable and won the first F1 race.
that lancia d50 still looks modern!
Regarding the first engine..."there wasn't a shortage of these engines" or "There was a shortage of these engines"?
Great video! Thanks!
Last car was beautiful. Cool vid btw 👍
Look at some of these gigantic lumps. THEN look at the tyres they ran on. Utterly insane. Bonkers.
You´re wrong, the first car (Brutus) wasn´t build shortly after ww2. It was build by the Technik Museum Sinsheim. It´s just 20km away from me.
So when was it build then?
Was it build in 1981?
Mango the cat but when was it built
@@marien4495 it was build between 1998 and 2006
Love that rolls Royce engine sound
6:50 your caption says 3000lb/ft 'not a typo' but the poster behind the car says 820lb/ft 🤔
Yeah imagine 3K torque on a chain drirve.
I imagine the statement comes from this video:
ruclips.net/video/H9Yww_nYuFA/видео.html
Where the owner of the car says the vehicle is making around 3000 pounds of torque
"At the rear wheels"-
Which depending on the gearing, wouldnt be surprising.
The Railton and the Handlye. Wow.
I've read somewhere that someone managed to fill the tank of one of these... the US invaded his car.