Magnificent to see a 115 year-old car being raced competitively ... and giving a damn good show of itself.

@garniful

2 жыл бұрын

i guess it has more torque than my hyundai sonata

My God...! Nothing more than an engine, 4 wheels and an upturned bucket to sit in. Huge respect......

@caiolucasnovais3676

2 жыл бұрын

Brain car

The 1905 Darracq HP - Most of What You Need, None of What You Don't.

@caiolucasnovais3676

2 жыл бұрын

Brain car

What a great piece of engineering. As a vehicle tech I love all things like this. Great handling as well from an era that didn't have computers but lots and lots of hands on knowledge and experience ❤️

Looks like so much fun, I love this crate with it's exposed rockers and pushers...

He purposely oversteered to whip it around corners superbly what a show !

@lawrencefanta9812

2 жыл бұрын

Very nicely done.

Purring like a kitten.....much quieter than expected. Respect for the driver's ability to wrestle it around those tight turns !!

This is absolutely fantastic to watch.

Magnificent to see a 115 year-old car being raced ))))

Yes sir, that’s a real car indeed!

I would like to repeat this design - the engine from Zil-130, wheels from a motorcycle, some boards, a garden chair - it seems that this is all that is needed.

The man is a legend, his GN Thunderbug is fantastic and him and his son are really decent folk too

I just checked Wikipedia, this was one of the first V8 engines ever invented for automotive, the only earlier one being Rolls Royce, and then Antoinette for aeronautical applications. I had no idea the V8 cylinder configuration was that old since most cars of that era used straight configurations. I love how you can hear the cam lobes clicking against the push rods.

@jwboatdesigns

Жыл бұрын

There are still a whole lot of people who think that Ford invented the vee eight, I hope that this video and your comment here helps set that misconception right.

@A_Bit_of_Thought

Жыл бұрын

@@jwboatdesigns Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Ford was first to build a V-8 block from a single casting. There were other V-8 engines, but the block was several pieces bonded together.

I love the whole thing, but that was a clean engine design. I would assume a mountain of torque, since it moved the vehicle at pretty good speed at not much more than an idle.

Can you imagine what an absolute miracle of technology this would have been to the casual observer in 1905? It woulda been like watching us launch a rocket to Mars today. Full disclosure: I'm amazed how fast it was!

@julkitan3017

2 жыл бұрын

I agree so much... and this powerful beast machine looks extremely good and scary too... we tend to forget how advanced ( in a way) they already were in the early 1900's... seeing those new industrial technologies progresses back then and a decade later going through the 1st World War must have been quite intense and scary for the people living back then.

That's some incredible high grip for tires at that size...!

@fabrb26

2 жыл бұрын

The car only weight 900kg that's why

Awsome car, phenomenal camera work!

That engine runs cleaner than a VW golf

@germanCrowbar

2 жыл бұрын

You must be an high educated engineer.

@garniful

2 жыл бұрын

@@germanCrowbar indeed, he is

Now that's brave... very brave! Awesome car

The pointy water tank makes it more aerodynamic.

@jeffsmith4789

2 жыл бұрын

And I thought it was the fuel tank.

@charliemarkovic4301

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffsmith4789 I thought so too but the fuel tank is behind the seat.

@jeffsmith4789

2 жыл бұрын

Charlie Markovic. You are correct. I missed it. Jeff

@simonbaker8776

2 жыл бұрын

With a million lbs of torque I don't think it matters if it's as aerodynamic as a potting shed guys lol, awesome machine

Great video. You never feel so alive when you are so close to death.

That man had balls to race each other back in the beginning of the 20th century only on a frame, almost no suspension, tiny brakes only on the back wheels, but important - a huge V8

What a fantastic car. And the driver is really good.

Beautiful bit of engineering

What an awesome looking machine..

Best sound ever.

liegt wie ein Brett👍👍

👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 maravilloso !!!!! Excelente trabajo !!!!.... Gran trabajo de restauración y Gran pilotaje para un vehículo sin ninguna estabilidad. Saludos desde Argentina

Valve covers? We don't need no... You know how it goes. What a lovely old girl.

Loving it👍👍👍

For a 1905 car that is quick

That sound tho

A very early 'Alfa Romeo'... technically ;) I love the sound ! Lively little thing too

What a monstrosity, but an amazing one. Beautifully simplistic.

spectacular

That engine always makes me chuckle - It's like a Chevy 409 designed and built by cavemen. Or at least blacksmiths.

Love to see this car in person one day.

no seatbelts, no cage, no window nets, in fact no bodywork at all....damned, I need one on those!

@burlatsdemontaigne6147

2 жыл бұрын

Early racers refused to wear seatbelts . They reckoned that if they crashed they would have a better chance of survival by being thrown clear of the blazing wreck 🔥

@juanpindonga405

2 жыл бұрын

@@burlatsdemontaigne6147 Smart people...and very very very brave

The last time I saw a car like this, it was being driven by Dick Dastardly with a grinning dog at his side.

It seems that older cars like this should have some type of plaque or document showing all of its owners. There has to quite a history there.... if the car could only speak.....

200 hp is pretty hot for 1905. The Model T came out in 1908 had 20hp.

Beauty!!!

I would like to see a modern version with the lifter exposed like that!! Work of rolling art!!

so cool. funny how the engine was lugging it the whole time.

WHAT A RIG! Look at how many safety features hadn't been incorporated back then! Every feature we see today was born from a vat of blood. I love this, would love to drive something like it - but that driver has NERVES OF STEEL to go as fast as he did! In a wreck, that steering column would impale him so deeply, it'd get his next of kin!

It's surprisingly quick.

It must have been so EXCITING driving a bunch of those all together back in the day.....I mean year.

graceful

1900~ old aged guys tried to risky their lives to know how essential all safety equipments for a moving vehicle we use today are Respect 🙇🏻‍♂️❤️

@gooseknack

2 жыл бұрын

The best safety devices to appear were four wheel hydraulic brakes, seatbelts and the human brain that made safe driving possible. As many today seem to lack a brain, we now have more chips in a car than a computer network!..🤣,... distracted and brainless drivers are the issue today and some drivers are old enough to know better. I do agree, much respect needs to go to the early pioneers who drove cars at speed, often with no brakes, roll cages nor seatbelts. That's why we call them "legends"!!!

@C64Lover

2 жыл бұрын

@@gooseknack Yeah, you just revived my remembrance about a wreck race, where I've lost brakes and had to hit cars in front of me to slow down xD

Wow! look at him go!

He drives crazy fast!!!

Hey Mark - Chapeau for this ride with this infernal machine - I only drove a Healey once at the Nürburging. Never before without a brake booster and without any kind of steering assistance. I panicked, my hands were damp and I was about to have to fetch new laundry after the round in the Hotelroom. Hey man - your ride is an extremely strong and impressive performance!

@TheMrBezo

2 жыл бұрын

Balls of steel

Love it!

much much faster than i expected

Amazing...

Crazy skills

Wow that was fast! Didn't I see this at Goodwood Revival recently?

he was walking that thing!

Wow...that was almost exhilarating.

Rarisimo!! Embrague en el diferencial, balancines afuera, 8 cilindros y si tiene 200hp es un contrato con la muerte!! Jajaja!! Muy bueno y revolucionario!

it's like 2 motorcycles fused together by an engine

I need one!! :)

Super quel song !!!!!!!!!

200hp but about 700ft/lbs of torque at a lazy 1500 RPM.... amazing what 22.5 litres of displacement can do, even with suuuper low compression

Definitely better engineered than our 2010 GMC Acadia.

This thing would do over a ton .... It makes playing with landmines look safe.

So one roll over & your musterd ?

Wowww

❤️️❤️️❤️️❤️️

I love how he is reaching to the back, to the fuel tank. As if he is turning on the NOS in a Fast & Furious movie.

@weaselman24

2 жыл бұрын

You have to pump air into it to force fuel down the lines. No fuel pumps back then

@weaselman24

2 жыл бұрын

@anonymous yeah and bouncing. Just look at British trials driving

@weaselman24

2 жыл бұрын

@anonymous My missus is my navigator in my race car. She's awesome with pace notes.

🧠+🚗=this thing>>>>🏎

Lol I could only imagine having this in forza

So that was built in and around 1905........given our cheap and plentiful modern tools literally within a 15 minute drive, current mechanical knowledge and technology...I still could not build that thing from scratch today. It boggles my mind that they did that back then.

👍👌 πολύ καλό

I wanna drive that.

driver: How many liters per km do you need? car: Yes

What's the crash rating on this bad boy?

I know the tyres are skinny, but they're still vastly better than the tyres of more than a century ago.

That torque at 0:48!

@fandazbahna2346

2 жыл бұрын

the chasis how twisted

@stranraerwal

2 жыл бұрын

whom are you trolling...???

Sé puede decir qué fue el primer auto de Fórmula 1?

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Talk about low end power!

Vehicle dynamics

200hp, and no front brakes.

a very quiet v-8

Класс колесница из кин дза дза !

@sergei8726

2 жыл бұрын

Праворульная)

КЛАСС!!!

I hope it doesn't turn over...

👍

Did you say Torque ??!

@alexdebua2666

2 жыл бұрын

Tractor

@davidfoster1762

2 жыл бұрын

No . I said TORQUE !

I WANT ONE JUST LIKE THIS! Where can I buy one? Oh I forgot, I'm more than a century too late.

*Amazing!!! At 25,422cc, 200 bhp was possible at 1200 rpm. :-O*

@jakubkrcma

2 жыл бұрын

@@hayloft3834 yes

Классно водила телегой управляет ☝️👍👍🔥

@nuwache

2 жыл бұрын

Отваливает дай бог

@user-bl3xi2bi6w

2 жыл бұрын

@@nuwache наваливает и заваливает 👍

That is a lot of hp in such a small car omg

Instead of a red cross, this chap should have a pair of large brass balls painted on his helmet!

Back in the early 1980's there was this guy that pulled some similar looking shit with an old 500c.i. Caddy and took it drag racing. Not much more than a bone stock frame, engine, drivetrain and seat. He only stopped when he got popped by tech for going too fast without a cage.

clutch all corners

wow keren

That is god damn scary. That's what we call "scary".

Судя по конструкции двигателя это мотор с новой Лада x-ray

@user-yn8em2rz5l

2 жыл бұрын

Базариш братиш )))))

@user-ur3vc8im1d

2 жыл бұрын

Если бы это было так - было бы хорошо.