Vintage shots from days gone by!

Could that gizmo on the side fairing be a cylindrical oil cooler? Ifn so, pretty clever, eh? Anyone know? Gary

 

This particular Maserati was supercharged so that would be the intercooler.

 

I see. Was it used to cool the incoming air, or to cool the water or oil that then cooled the blower bits? Gary

 

Very cool! I saw Miller run many times at Woodburn. I was just thinking about this car last night!
Thanks!

 

Because of its design I'm pretty sure that the one in the photo is an air-to-air intercooler. There are also air-to-water intercoolers. Here's a link that mentions a little bit about intercoolers toward the end.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/supercharger1.htm

BTW, the Maserati brothers used some very innovative design tricks on these particular race cars. There was no belly pan as such in the cockpit area; only a cast X- box across the frame rails that also doubled as the car's oil tank. There was a foot box area for the driver but otherwise the seat was just setting above the open areas in the "X" where you could look down and see the track go by if you wanted. If you dropped something in the cockpit it was going to fall directly onto the racetrack.

 

OK

 

Touche! Thanks to you as well for the many cool contributions for my eyeballs to focus on lately!

 

I haven't kept up with this thread in a long time and now it's going to take forever to follow through the last third of the postings!

 

Great retrospective of Herk. Thx Rootie