Now imagine 5 of them racing alongside 5 Mercedes powered by straight 8 supercharged engines. With many Alfa Romeo, Maserati and ERAs chasing too.

@TheRCScotsman

3 ай бұрын

Heaven! The Mercedes supercharged straight 8s were masterpieces of engineering.

@ChR0nos_7734

3 ай бұрын

those Mercedes W25's had engine attached to the supercharger

@sixtenfredriksson1224

3 ай бұрын

Not to forget the Bugattis

@alexk8792

2 ай бұрын

And in an era where Enzo Ferrari hadn't yet founded the company that bears his name.

@nightstorm5914

Ай бұрын

@@alexk8792 same for porsche; BMW had some races win too in that time

The guy sitting there on the Autounion is one of Germany's greatest racing drivers. Le Mans winner, countless championships in touring cars, Formula 1 driver Hans Joachim Stuck. His father was a driver for Autounion and drove this Type C in legendary battles against the Silver Arrows... as far as I know, the Autounions are all replicas because the originals were lost in the war...

@kevinblankenburg4816

3 ай бұрын

They were not completely lost. I know back in the 90s where Audi could secure a Original, in pieces, from Lithuania or Latvia. *Edit* I just looked it up. Audi owns 3 of the 5 surviving cars.

@ericd7532

3 ай бұрын

I thought one was found in Russia?

@JoriDiculous

3 ай бұрын

@@ericd7532if they 'found' it in the early days of the 90's it would still be the Sovjet Union, and no. Sovjet and Russia is not the same.

@berndbrakemeier1418

3 ай бұрын

so what?@@JoriDiculous

@23GreyFox

3 ай бұрын

@@JoriDiculous Small difference for now.

I think I recommended this car ages ago. Not only were the wheels small, the whole architecture of the weels and the rubber itself was completely different. So 550 hp in a cigar tube without safety-anything, old suspension, drum brakes, old rubber and no downforce at all is what we're talking about. This is terrifying.

I used to work for TV. Once I had the job to get the sounds of passing by F1 and old racing cars on a car show in my town centre. They gave me a directional microphone for that task. Mika Häkkinen was in the F1 car. Then there was a Silberpfeil from Mercedes from the 50s and when this bad boy passed by me I got hot metal pieces thrown into my face from the three exhaust pipes on the right side of the car. That was the coolest job I ever did for TV. The sound I captured was spread around the entire place for everyone to hear. This was in Stuttgart 20 years or so ago.

Found some more details on this monster. Its got a 6 liter V16 with a roots supercharger. 520hp and a weight of only 820kg The top speed is around 195 mph with the regular bodywork and 211 mph with the streamlined bodywork.

The guy on the rear wheel at min 9:05 is Hans Joachim Stuck, known as "Stritzel". His father was Hans Stuck and he drove the Type C with twin tyres very successfully in hill climbs. Now, for your pleasure, you have to listen to the "Stromlinien" Auto Union. It puts everything in the shade. It was a record-breaking car, was about 430 km/h, in the 1930th

@barath4545

2 ай бұрын

Yes sadly, right after it went 430, it flipped and killed Bernd Rosemeyer, argueably the greatest talent of the 1930s German drivers along with Caracciola. He was an insanely good driver, but the aero that people knew little about in Jan 1938, flipped the car and with nothing at all protecting Rosemeyer he was instantly dead. Just a bit of wing/downforce would have saved him. But as for raw horsepower, then yes, 750 hp an absolute beast in 1938.

@ferrari2k

2 ай бұрын

Strietzel ;)

@nightstorm5914

Ай бұрын

@@barath4545 well, technical their knew about aero and streamlining, but not much about drag/downforce; sad story RIP also wasn't Auto Union warned about the wind by the Mercedes driver before the run? maybe I am remembering wrong

You should also check Mercedes-Benz's "Silver Arrow" and 500K/540K of this period.

8:59 the name of the driver is Hans-Joachim (Strietzel) Stuck, a well-known and successful German racing driver

@Karl-me4mh

3 ай бұрын

And his father raced the Type C back in the day.

@37Sheridan91

3 ай бұрын

and @IWrocker had seen him on the Audi Transam and Audi Imsa video. Stuck was one of the 3 drivers alongside Röhrl and Haywood

BRM (British Racing Motors) made a front engine'd 1.5litre V16 car with 600bhp for the early days of F1 which revved to 12,000rpm. One of which has been restored & run at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK. A glorious sounding engine which can be heard on a few videos on YT. It was designed in the late 1940's & was raced until the mid 1950's. A very complicated engine but not very reliable. Wiki has a load of info on this car & engine.

@PrivateCustard

3 ай бұрын

If you can find a video of the BRM being properly revved, please reply with the link. Most of the modern runs with decent mics are restricted revs, and it breaks my heart!

@NiklasJohansson70

3 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/mI6BsqZ8fty3qKg.html @@PrivateCustard

@colingoode3702

3 ай бұрын

BRM also did an H 16 engine in the 1960's.

@MartinFransson

3 ай бұрын

@@PrivateCustardI think this video is one of the best. Only sound. The way it screams at around 2:20 is awesome kzread.info/dash/bejne/pIaC0bSlfM_ZdJs.htmlsi=uG7oXW1hQSe5VJa1&t=139

@thatdudeinorange5269

3 ай бұрын

Used to have the BRM V16 as ringtone. Many callers wondered why it took me so long to answer, had to have it go through the gears first 😅

Apart from the racing cars, there were no other car with the name "Autounion" until the end of the Second World War. The four sub-companies produced under their own, old brand names. These were “Wanderer”, “Horch”, “Audi” and “DKW”. Each brand name served its own market segment, similar to how American vehicle manufacturers do today. “Wanderer” represented the luxury brand and “DKW” manufactured vehicles for the common people. All brands also had their own logos, with the four rings always included. After the war, only “DKW” with their two-stroke engines were produced. The other brand names disappeared. However, the Autounion's four-ring logo was still used. In 1957, the first cars with the name “Autounion” came onto the market more for image reasons. At this point, Autonion was also bought by Daimler-Benz. From 1962 to 1965, “DKW” small cars were produced again, such as the DKW F12 Roadster. As before, all types were equipped with two-stroke engines. The era of two-stroke engines then disappeared forever in 1965, along with the "Autounion" and "DKW" brands, when the Volkswagen Group purchased Autounion from Daimler-Benz. Only then was the old brand name “Audi” revived, although the four rings of the Autounion continued to be used. So not all cars that wear the four rings are Audi.

Holy Moses! That car can brake all the windows in the Empire State building, even the ones on top floor.

I‘ve seen it live at Klausenrennen. Taht sound was earth shaking and gave me goosebumps. Double wheels on the back were used for hillclimbs. I would say 550 hp was easy enough with a weight of 750 kg, less than half of a Nissan GTR - by the way that V16 did 200 mph. Imagine doing that with literarily no brakes. By the way the BRM V16 has maybe the best ever V16 sound

@edwinbartels9360

3 ай бұрын

Just googled it and it said the C model had a top speed of 270 mph, or over 430 kph. That's fast!

at 9:00 he is Hans-Joachim Stuck retired F1 driver, he was one of the IMSA Audi driver too

@bennyhannover9361

3 ай бұрын

Yes and famous Porsche Sports Car Racer in Group C on Brun Porsche 956 , he was 3rd at Spa 1000 kilometers 1984 together with Walter Brun and Harald Grohs

@bennyhannover9361

3 ай бұрын

And he was 1st on Imola 1000 kilometers together with Stefan Bellof 1984 956 KH

@uncle_matula

3 ай бұрын

@@bennyhannover9361 yes I know, I've been watching F1 and other motorsports since the early 70's, the reason I mentioned IMSA is because Ian knows it

In 1937 was a Speed Record, from Autounion, about 406 km/h on the german Autobahn.

@Z0RDR4CK

3 ай бұрын

During record drives on January 28, 1938, Rudolf Caracciola reached an average speed of 432.692 km/h // 269 mph _(towards Darmstadt 428.571 km/h // 266 mph - return towards Frankfurt 436.893 km/h // 271 mph) on the Frankfurt-Darmstadt Autobahn (a section of today's A5)._ This was the highest speed driven on a public road until November 4, 2017. The same day Bernd Rosemeyer - a famous german driver, died trying to beat this record.

I think i was 12 years old when one of these cars passed me by and shift down with Zwischengas (between-gas) on an Historical-Car Race on the old Nordschleife. You were able to stand on the inside of the the old Gerade-Gegengrade Track on a Grass-Hill in 1977. It blows my stomac away...but so intensiv and nice ;-)) You will never forget this feeling (as i) !!

@2Hunky

3 ай бұрын

Wow , i'm getting old. That was in 1969 !

The guy from minute 9:05 onwards would have to be Hans-Joachim Stuck. He is a professional racing driver who also raced in Formula 1. His father was a racing driver and drove the Auto Union Type c V 16

@theRealccb83

3 ай бұрын

Hans-Joachim "Strietzel" Stuck

@dirkp.6181

3 ай бұрын

Yes, it's Striezel.

@GoldenCroc

3 ай бұрын

Yep, hes a legend and well known around the world, but perhaps a bit more so a few decades ago.

@kevinblankenburg4816

3 ай бұрын

It is actually the very same car that his father drove.

@kohlenstoffeinheit5298

3 ай бұрын

STUCKIIIIIII!!!!!! 😝

Now imagine racing 10 or 20 of these on the Nordschleife; or through villages on old tracks like the Coppa Acerbo...there is some old 30s black and white footage of some of the original GP races on YT - you can see they can't put the power down - so they tend to slightly drift these monsters through the corners... its pure madness... If I am not mistaken one of these cars also won the Vanderbilt Cup in the US.

@jimmyincredible3141

3 ай бұрын

For example YT link dOm7ier9K6U shows the drifting, tight courses, and the visitors just standing next to the track...footage sadly also shows quite clearly why the political climate these races happened in makes it a problem for a YT reaction...

It's truly amazing how someone like you, who has watched the NASCAR series up close, reacts when hearing a car from the 1930s. _Well, this isn't just any car, it drove alongside the original Silver Arrows._ Now imagine how people reacted to this car in the 30s... back then people still mainly drove around in horse-drawn carriages. They were witnessing future live.

The dual wheels were for hill climbs only. Grand Prix mode was single wheels only.

I love the look and sound of 1930s Grand Prix cars. They're all so brutal, yet beautiful. Raw engineering.

Imagine you're at a racetrack and a pack of them comes up the straight. Under full load and shifting up the gears. Pure goose bumps.

For something truly nuts, look up John Dodd's "The Beast". Home built originally with a tank engine. After that crashed and caught fire, he rebuilt it with a 27 litre Merlin engine and road registered! It was in the Guiness book of records as the worlds most powerful car in the 70s. The car was sold recently for £72k.

Great machine! some short historical explaination about Audi: Auto Union was a car-group like GM for example. Wanderer is one part of this group and bought the development work to that race car of Porsche (at this time known as an engineering comp.) The cars like the Typ C were made in the plants of Horch (wich was the first company founded by August Horch - his second company after leaving Horch was Audi). The for rings stood for Wanderer Horch, DKW and Audi. After WWII the east-located Auto Union has been "re-born" to supply businesses relating to the DKW vehicle fleet in Europe and only 1965 the first "new" Audi has been released. So there is a gap between the east car-maker tradition and the modern car brand Audi.

You should check out the new Donkervoort F22, it's the 21st century bullet car, it has 500 hp, only weighs 750 kilos, 100 km/h in 2.5 seconds and 200 km/h in 7.5 while being a manual, it shattered the existing production car record for dynamic cornering power, clocking 2.3G of lateral acceleration and it's road legal, so the ultimate driving experience and you really have to work to drive this car! 💥🤯 The specs don't lie! 🤷🏻‍♂️✌🏼

The first V-16 production car was built by Cadillac in 1930.

@fromgermany271

3 ай бұрын

But optimized in a different way 😂

For the time those tires were considered "ultrawide"... 😆

18:28 this full stream record racer was the car that Bernd Rosemeyer died in in January 1938 at 430 kmh or 270 Miles per hour when upstream made the car lift off from Autobahn at Frankfurt and the car turned over and he was virtually decapitated… a disaster..

@feedingravens

3 ай бұрын

On one side yes - on the other side no suffering. When the car took off all he had time for is to think "Oh s" - the hit he did not experience any more.

@bennyhannover9361

3 ай бұрын

The tragedy was that Rosemeyer was not really keen on doing the record trial but Mercedes had already announced to make one a little later when weather was better and Auto Union was under pressure to make its trial because Mercedes Engine had between 50 and 70 extra horsepower… So the nazi institution NSKK built up pressure that lead to accident..

It is not just the power but the torque and low weight. According to Wikipedia the type C specs are as follows 485-520 PS (357-382 kW; 478-513 hp) @ 5,000 rpm 882 N⋅m (651 lbf⋅ft) @ 2,500 rpm 824 kg (1,817 lb) This combined with the tyres explains wheel spin at over 100mph

The car you see is the endurance build. There is a Type C with Zwillingsreifen in the back (quad-wheel setup at the rear axle) for Bergrennen (hillclimbs). The dude at 9ish minutes is Hans-Joachim Stuck, a german racing legend, son of the Bergkönig Hans Stuck. He drove in pretty much every league from F1 to DTM to endurance - past his F1 career he drove mostly for Audi. There was also a streamline version with covered wheels, it can be driven in Gran Turismo 4. Remember, this car was build inbetween both world wars. This was the pinnacle of german madlad engineering. Auto Union was a conglomerate of several manufacturers/ brands - Horch, Audi, DKW, W Automobile.

Januar 1938 zum finalen Geschwindigkeits-Duell der beiden. Mit 432,7 km/h über die Reichsautobahn, heute der Autobahnabschnitt der A5 zwischen Frankfurt/Main und Darmstadt. sorry for German, but these Car was an Monster !!!

Cadillac has made a V16 too, but got topped by the Duesenberg straight-8 4 valve per cilinder supercharger with it's 400HP as the ultimate car. The 20's roared in more than one way, especially at the top end with lots of insanely rich people before the war at both sides at the pond. V16's, superchargers, multivalve, mid engines, 250 mp/h, hybrids, front wheel drive, folding rooftop convertibles, ABS (crude), pop up headlights, it all happened already before WWII.

If you like insane engines check out the BRM V16. It was basically two 750cc V8s connected lengthways and supercharged. It produced up to 600hp. They also built a normally aspirated 3L H16 ie two flat eights mounted on top of each other.

The version with the double rear tires is the so called Bergrennwagen, made especially for mountain races, driven by Hans Stuck...

I live close to Brooklands which is an old bumpy race track in England that they used to race some old beasts on. Standing on the track and seeing the cars in person really tells you what kind of men(And some women) used to race back then. Absolutely crazy!

As an Audi fan this is my all-time favourite car. It was perfection on wheels. Even replicas cost millions on auctions. Great video!

2:11 this is why racing got so deadly in the 30s, engine technology developed way faster than brakes and suspension, so they were putting more and more powerful units into cars that still had the same brakes and suspension as the earliest sports cars from 20, 25 years before

@MilosBrajkovic-rc3ik

3 ай бұрын

Clever comment sir! 👍

The real shocker is, that Mercedes Benz had a real beast in development at the time they raced for the top speed record against Audi, the T-80, a 3 axle aeroplane driven beast. Sadly it was lost in WW2 and couldn't set the projected record of around 750km/h because they repurposed the engine for a fighter plane, but it would have produced something along the lines of 2.2 MW(around 3,000hp). They restored one Chassis and are displaying it in a museum, looks almost like a spaceship

@rasmuswi

3 ай бұрын

THere's a lot of people who try to persuade Mercedes to build a T-80 from the drawings, to see how fast it would be. SO far, they have refused.

@changsangma1915

2 ай бұрын

​@@rasmuswi.....yeah for a company that made the AMG Project 1 hypercar i wonder why they refuse to.

@Nobodyisperfect-us6pk

Ай бұрын

@@changsangma1915 Because the T80 will be a killer. If anything will go wrong at 700 or 750 km/h or even at "only" 400 km/h, there will be just nothing left, also no driver; this was perhaps acceptable in the 30th but we are now in the year 2024. They have had the engine power, perhaps also just enough knowledge of aerodynamics, to do it, but in the 30th or begin of the 40th, they have had not the needed quality for the rest, like modern steel and alluminum alloys, springs and dumpers, breaks, torsion bars e.g. So in best case, there will be a 50/50 chance of a record or a several kilometers long debris field. Or a record and the kilometers long debris field just after the record has been broken.

I just couldn't hold it 🤣🤣seeing your reaction! But I have to admit, this is one of the freakiest sounding race cars ever, they knew how to build engines then. Much better sound than modern F1, and these even do have not that much more power, let's say the average car is the difference. Scary yes! The type C could reach over 200mph! Another freaky sounding Audi, and one of my favourite all time motorsport cars is the Audi S1 Quatro rally car, and then the one that went up Pikes peak with Walther Röhrl setting a new record back in 1987, you could do an episode on that one as his driving technique was insane and never seen up to then.

BRM did a V16 in 1947 (British Racing Motors supercharged 1.5-litre (90.8 cu. in.)) and an H 16 2,999 cc (183.0 cu in) in 1966. vids of them running are about om KZread

Sounds like a hungry T-Rex

@superaids404

2 ай бұрын

Yes, it sounds like Cthulhu.. 😄

The car with the double rear tires was designed for,Back than, the famos uphill races. Simular to the US Pikes Peak hill climb. With its 520 hp and a huge torque from 6005 cc worldwide, the Type C was the world's most powerful formula racing car. The year 1936 was the most successful in Auto Union's racing history.

9:12 Hans Joachim Stuck was racing the famous Audi 90 Quattro IMSA GTO

I had a poster of the type C for years hanging in my bedroom growing up. Fun to see it here. I also had a Audi R8 GT poster that said "vorfreude ist die schönste freude" meaning "The best joy in the world is that of looking forward to something fun (joy of anticipation)" I am still waiting for my R8 GT...

Audi kept the tradition of wheelspin. The 1986 Audi Sport Quattro S1 in full power configuration had wheelspin up to 3rd gear, but on all FOUR wheels😁

8:58 That is Hans-Joachim Stuck, former F1 driver and (Vice-)Champion for Audi in the IMSA, paticipated in the TransAm Audi 200 and was DTM Champion (Audi V8). His father (!) Hans drove the Auto Union Typ A to D between 1934 to 1939.

on that topic i just recently watched a documentary about the 1930's Grand Prix racing and the rivalery of Mercedes and Auto-Union. It's probably too long to react to, but really interessting nonetheless. It was called "1930s Grand Prix - Hitler's Supercars - History Documentary" on KZread

This car sounds almost as good as the 1934 Mercedes W25 Silberpfeil, watched some videos of it going up Klausenpassrennen a couple of years ago and could not believe the sound of that Supercharger straight 8

@arconeagain

3 ай бұрын

I love straight eights.

Yes, man! Finally the Auto Union! Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has driven one. My suggestion is a video called 7 minutes of pure Ferrari 250 GTO Hillclimb bliss. It's a symphony. This sound series is so cool! Keep it up! ✌🏽🤘🏽

the driver in this film is Hans Stuck.....that one who won many TRANSAM & IMSA Races with Audi and his Dad drove this V16.....named the hillking

@JHakala-xx4sb

3 ай бұрын

T80 was also designed by F. Porsche

The Auto Union Stream liner that you showed near the end, acheived 268.432 mph! The driver lost his life when the car was blown off the road by the wind! You should check out the post war BRM V16. It had a V16, 1.5 litre (90.8 cu. in) super charged engine that produced 600 bhp at 12,000 RPM! It sounds amazing, a real screamer.

I was not expecting that Audi to make that sound... Crazy

It's raw. When it gets further away, its still loud but the echoes make it sound like an actual monster. You could scare your kids with stories about that noise?

There is a video from 1962 Hermann Lang driving the Mercedes W125 from 1937 on Nordschleife of Nürburgring with commentary from F1Champion 1962 Graham Hill… when you see this 600 bhp in motion you are scared

This was a product that was a consequence of the Luftwaffe R&D department. Germany had banned R&D in most of the airfield, so they do this kind of things, developped technology in various areas that was meant to be used in aircraft machinery.

The first speeding act ever was written around the time when this car is created. The man was ripped from the newspapers because he "flew" with 13 km/h... So, this car is a monster!

Wow!...that thing sounds like a big cat purring!

9:03 This is Hans Joachim "Strietzel" Stuck. Very popular German race driver. He drove in the F1 series. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim_Stuck

the first race car was a Typ A (1934, 295 HP) . That one has two exhaust. At 4.00 min that was a Typ C/D (1939, 520 HP) . That was the version for Hill Climp Races and not for Race Tracks. It has two tires per side at the rear, Typ C, the race track car has one per side. The Auto Union race cars were also the first Mid Engine Formula Race Cars. At least, at the end, thats a Streamliner with 407 km/h (252 mph) Top Speed on the Autobahn ;) between Frankfurt and Darmstadt. Still today there is a memorial stone for Bernd Rosemeyer, who dies at that high speed run.

Of the 4 Auto Union racing cars, the Types A, B and C, used from 1934 to 1937 had supercharged V16 engines, and the final car, the Type D used in 1938 and 1939 (built to new 1938 regulations), had a supercharged 3L V12 that developed almost 550 horsepower.

One of my all time favorite cars. Love the dually rears! V16’s have the absolute best “v8” sound. I could listen to auto Unions and BRMs all day

11:28 It just sounds like a raging mad bear roaring its ass off while blasting around in the forest hills. Absolutely insane sound!! :D

I want 1... I imagine the neighbours wouldn't take long to circulate the petition to get that noisy thing out of the street. Wow. Best sound ever!

T rex sound. The special thing about the Auto Union is that the driver sits absurdly far forward and the giant engine works directly behind the driver's seat. German drivers today report how scary it is to drive the monster when the whole car is behind the back and there is absolutely nothing in the front. Nevertheless, Voila, the very first F1 configuration in racing, made in 1936.

Silberpfeil 🚀.... greetings from Germany 😎

My favourite sounding car is the Aston Martin Vulcan, not only a beast but I think a fantastic looking machine. Not an old car but built without loads of electronics.

One of the silliest things Top Gear ever did was recreating the Theme music (Jessica) using car engine noises as the notes !

Now you need to check out the Mercedes W154 from 1938 - supercharged V12, over 150 hp/L, and sounds even better.

By the way, Auto Union cars were also called Silver Arrows, the colours were sorted by country, for example: Italy - Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini - red. England - Jaguar, Bentley, MG - green. France - Bugatti - blue. And Germany - silver. Silver because the white paint was scraped off the car before a race to save weight, revealing the silver aluminium. And yes, that was a Mercedes.

my top 2 cars for noise would be this, auto union and the 7-litre V8 McLaren M8F Can-Am .. awesome brutes!!

If you like this you might like to look at Bernd Rosemeyer who drove his Auto Union streamliner to the unheard-of speed of 268.432 mph on public roads in the 1930s

I've seen old F1 cars race on the NurburgGP track, I've had to run out of a small concrete garage as someone started an actual NASCAR inside it, and still that V16 sounded louder.

09:10 This guy with the balls made of steel is called Hans Joachim Stuck, AKA "Strietzel" he was a teammate of another guy with balls made of the same material named Walter Röhrl AKA "the tall one". Both of them have a little idea about driving. here are a few successes: Europe: 1. victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (1986) 2. victory in the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring (1988) 3. victory in the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (1985) 4. victory in the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring (1985) 5. victory in the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) (1984) UNITED STATES: 1. victory in the 12 Hours of Sebring (1986) 2. victory in the IMSA GT Championship (1985) 3. victory at the 24 Hours of Daytona (1986) 4. victory at the Trans-Am Championship (1984) 5. Victory at the Road America 500-mile race (1985)

at some point you have to check out werner - das rennen, it's a race between an iconic german comic author and motor sports guy and his buddy in a red porsche. brösel, the comic guy built a motorbike with like 16 chainsaw engines (no joke), its a german subculture classic! keep it up, great content!

@strykerm1180

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, the Red Porsche Killer is great

Nice content. ❤ mby bro please react a Bruce Wilson? some Scanias 3 in USA . Also good series to react when Bruce go to Finland.

That sounds like a T-Rex is emerging out of the forest and roaring: believe me im really hungry

Have to tell you , one of the AUTO UNION (1939)v12 race cars went up for sale at Bonhams (Pebble Beach) in the USA. It finally sold for over $3,000,000! (It was originally up for sale at Christies in London but was withdrawn because Christies could not prove its provenance- probably only one or two left in the world)

04:43 Econommic "alarm clock "... ride with this race car on street early morning ca 6 AM and never ever nobody get late to work or school.. LOL:

That's so great about this series, we are not searching for the best sounding car, we are just enjoying the best sounding cars!!!!!!

In the 80ies, there where a lot of crazy cars, like Ferrari F40, Bugatti EB 110, Lamborghini Countach. And one car with 16 cylinders. Cizeta Moroder V16T. And you should clearly look to Mercedes Benz Silver Arrows from the 30ies. Very impressive cars, too.

This "F1" car developed by Ferdinand Porsche was the very first step to put the engine behind the driver, what was an extreme early time to predict the future, when You consider even in the 60ies F1 had the engines still in front...

Back in the 30s, tires were basically bmx bike tires, torque regularly outdid traction, and grip/turning was more of a hint than a cutting turn-in.

@MilosBrajkovic-rc3ik

3 ай бұрын

Diagonal tires.

These cars were a demonstration of Germany's industrial might in the 30's. The German government used motor racing as a way of doing R&D for their military complex, since they couldn't develop weapons due to the signing of the Versailles Treaty after WW1. They spared no expenses for these cars and went completely balls out on the engineering front using inboard brakes, forced induction with two stage supercharging, independent suspension, mid engine layout for better weight distribution and streamlined bodies for better aerodynamics. Things that we now take for granted in race cars all the way back in 1930's. The Auto Unions and Mercedes Streamliners were both recorded hitting a top speed of nearly 400 km/h (250mph) in 1937! There is a record of a moment during a race where Bernd Rosemeyer, a Auto Union driver overtook someone while going 200 mph and having two wheels on the grass at the same time! Unfortunately for Rosemeyer, his life was cut short in 1938, dying during a top speed run where his Mercedes Streamliner hit 270mph, but lost control due to strong winds. He was just 28 years old.

There were some v16 two stroke detroit diesels. Look for 16v71. All of these two strokes sound insane. 3v53 oliver tractors. 6v71 semis, 16v71 big bud tractors. There is plenty of content for you with these detroits.

Would recommend looking into the BRM V16, nothing has made me stop and stare as much as that car - the noise coming out of it you’d never think it only has a 1.5L engine

They might look slow, but the topspeed was actually 340 km pr hour og 210 Mph..and that is crazy

The Type C was built to the 750kg regulations (1934-1937), which didn't limit the size of the engines, but the maximum weight of the car. The Type D was built for the 1938 regulations, which limited engine size to 3.0L supercharged. The Type C beat the Mercedes-Benz W25, but was well beaten by the Mercedes-Benz W125. The Mercedes-Benz W154 dominated 1938 and 1939. You definitely need to react to the Mercedes-Benz GP cars of the era.

Dual wheels where used in hill climbs. As a driver you had to be able to control drifting on corners (also straights). It has to be remembered these engine designs where destined for aircraft. These cars where seen in the UK at GPs at Castle Donington and hill climbs at Rest and be Thankfull and Glen Coe in Scotland in the 30's. The Germans in the 30's where also after speed records hence the super streamlined cars.

Ian, if you ever get to Germany, the Technikmuseum in Sinsheim (and maybe Speyer) is a must stop for you. That is also where you can see the Brutus car that you watched a while ago. You can also see a Concorde and TU-144 (Concordski) next to each other.

Ian, the Bugatti Veyron uses a W16, which is a slight misnomer it is if you consider a V8 as having two banks of 4 cylinders offset from each other from a common block at from 60° to 180° (although above 170° could be called a Boxer), however Volkswagen (who own Bugatti) developed their VR (Verkürzt Reihenmotor or shortened inline engine) which is any configuration of between 3 and 8 cylinders, shortened the crankshaft length by having the cylinders offset at a narrow angle of 15° and then laterally, with three camshafts (an inlet cam either side of the midline exhaust cam). So take a pair of VR8 engine blocks then offset them from each other by 60° on a common crank. Other V16's in use include the classics from the 1930's from Cadillac (which was virtually two Buick straight-8's on a common crank at 45°), and the Marmon Motor Car Company. Then in the 90's Cizeta-Moroder developed V16 to be mounted transversely, and in the 2000's Cadillac built a "Sweet Sixteen" concept with a hand built engine, and BMW built V16's for the Rolls-Royce EX100 prototype (intended for serial production in the Phantom).

Ian, I love your enthusiasm.

May I sugest reacting to...."the beast-John Dodd" or the Tyrell P34 six wheeler or the Brabham BT46 fan car, or even the new Speirling McMurtry. Apologies if you have already.

Jan de Rooy the man how almost won Paris Dakar in a semi! 1988

The BRM V16 sounds even better dude!

This thing is like an earthquake! Strietzel Stuck is the man!! 👍👍👍

I was in my 20s when I was shocked at how a tuned 560SEC with "only 450 hp" felt when my friend lent me his car over a distance of just under 250 meters aka approximately 270 yd or 870 feet, I was so fast at 170 km/h aka 105 mph in the city that I never wanted to drive a Mercedes like that in a city again... this "thing" was purely a driving machine for the "Autobahn" or the race track Of course he wrecked this horsepower monster on the Autobahn... and of course in a spectacular way by taking off with a multiple somersault in the rain.

Horch means "hearing" and Audi(o) too. Go on guy.

Thank You! 😊 I waited for this most brutal one! 👌👍😁 its like the B787 is the "other side of Hell"

Cadillac also made a car with 16 cylinders back in the 30's known as the Cadillac V-16 or just Cadillac Sixteen, and then they made a woking prototype of one in 2003 as a homage to the original!

This is a B type, the C type was the last V16 Auto Union GP, it had 16 almost vertical exhaust stacks, straight out the top of the engine cover. The Auto Unions and Merc pre war GP cars were collectively known as the silver arrows and were literally like seeing a space ship at the time because they were just so advanced. They were a quantum leap in technology and speed, being capable of over 200 mph on the longer circuits. Nothing, not even the Italian cars were remotely comparable. The Auto Union was arguably the most advanced because of it's layout, rear engine, driver in front of it, the precursor of modern single seater race cars. At any grand prix they were effectively in a separate race to all other cars, they just raced themselves. Had WW2 not intervened, there would have been a technological arms race in GP racing.

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