Jess, it is incredible. Love the patina on the red paint, which looks hand painted on the leaf springs. Also the rivets all over where the parts are seemed together. Gives it that "steam punk" feeling of the time it was built. Have you ever wondered what these race cares would look like with wider tires? How they would perform with them, and with the addition of disc brakes?
In reference to hand crank starting a beast: This post includes a video of hand cranking an 18 liter V12 Sunbeam engine in Sir Malcolm Campbell's Blue Bird. http://theoldmotor.com/?p=113572
that's minor... the hand start attempt on the Blitzen benz was a couple minutes of priming the cylinders, etc etc etc for each TRY to get it to start, it was opposite from the Blue Bird video, 4 or 5 minutes of prep, one minute of run. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-it-takes-to-start-blitzen-benz-2.html
Jess, it is incredible. Love the patina on the red paint, which looks hand painted on the leaf springs. Also the rivets all over where the parts are seemed together. Gives it that "steam punk" feeling of the time it was built. Have you ever wondered what these race cares would look like with wider tires? How they would perform with them, and with the addition of disc brakes?
ReplyDeleteI never thought about it... good question! Skinny tires like these must have been squirrelly as hell around corners
DeleteThis is beyond beautiful and I wonder what the engine displacement is. I know I would not like the job of crank starting this beast.
ReplyDeleteIn reference to hand crank starting a beast: This post includes a video of hand cranking an 18 liter V12 Sunbeam engine in Sir Malcolm Campbell's Blue Bird.
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that's minor... the hand start attempt on the Blitzen benz was a couple minutes of priming the cylinders, etc etc etc for each TRY to get it to start, it was opposite from the Blue Bird video, 4 or 5 minutes of prep, one minute of run. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-it-takes-to-start-blitzen-benz-2.html
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