Art & Inspiration Aero-Engined Vintage Racers

Wow, what a thread! The photos on it are top notch!

I was searching thru some old threads and came across this one. Nice to see it has had some life lately.

jimdillon- thanks for all of you insight!

 

The air cooled patton tank motors (Blastolene Special) are laid out a whole lot like this motor.

 

Landspeed cars of old featured lots of aero-motors for power.
Here's the Mormon Meteor lll with Liberty engine.



Then there was Henry Seagrave's Golden Arrow


Or any of Malcom Campbell's Bluebirds

 

I just saw a program where Campbells Bluebird boat and his body were recovered from a lake 35 years after his crash and death.

 

WOW!!!!! what an awesome thread !!!!

 

CHITTY-BANG-BANG 1 1921

<!--keytext-->The first racing car of Count Louis
Zboroswki.Chitty 1, a chain-driven
lengthened Mercedes chassis with a 23
litre six cyinder Maybach aero engine.

 

What a cool post....some of these cars are fabulous.
I got a ride in the above speedster(chain drive and all) down at Kingsbury. I offered him a ride in a Stearman for a ride in his car.....said he was kind of scared of flying, or something like that, but he would take me for a ride......."flat out across the aerodrome".....spinning the tires all the way(with that chain down there, under us).....for such a low horsepower car, the torque was amazing.....Hell, flying is much safer than riding in this speedster.....I Loved it!!!!......and Thanks again for taking me around the patch, if you are reading this post.
Skot

 

This is amazing inspiration for four wheeled mayhem. If a fella was looking for and aero engine where might one start? Those early engines with their exposed pushrods and valve train are amazing.

Thanx to all of you who posted up pictures.

I REALLY need to build something like the very first car pictured in this post.

Thanx again
Jaysin

 

Looks like a Christie Front Wheel Driver, car has cast bronze front wheels.

 

I agree there are some great pics. FB you have dug up some really great pics. I agree with 37 on the Christie Front drive. With the front weight bias that must have been a handful to drive. I also really like the #8 car in post #200-appears to be Joe Dawson in the National. Great action shot. I will have to make some time and dig up a few pics myself. In the meantime keep up with the posts and pics- a great era-Jim

 

Jim,Thanks for the really interesting Reply.From what I understand,Ralph DePalma's 1914 car 'may' have been a twin to one that was run unsuccessfully in Germany in 1913 with the Aero 6 . Vibration causing major problems. They also had a twin throat carb,years before the idea caught on anywhere else.

have you ever spoken with the archive people at mercedes? . There's lots of stuff there in Stuttgart from Both Daimler and Benz ( for those who don't know,they were two seperate companies) but only those with something to offer get chance to really dig into the records.
What is really amazing is that so much stuff survived two World wars.

Regarding finding an old aircraft engine....good luck! . I know a guy who always wanted an aircraft engine to polish up and display in his house and ended up with a Tatra V8 . Interesting but not quite the same. I did know a guy some years ago who had made a hobby of collecting WW2 Daimler DB601 Aircraft engines ( I have pictures here of the car DB built with one in it for record braking but it was never run ...WW2 and all that ).Many are found where they crashed,many feet below ground. Finding an antique aero engine is an art in itself.
I always liked the look of Sydney Allards Steyr V8 engine..

Not an aircraft engine but an aircooled armoured car engine.And for those who wondered,the previous pic was a Vuaxhall OHC...ha ha

 

Seen at Classic Le mans last year.

 

BABS

 

Heavy!

 

My GOD! This is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy crap, its like 20,000 leagues under the sea meets 1920s racing! WOW!!!
I want to build one!!!!!!

 

Anymore photos of Lockhart's early ride there??? Very interested in it!!!

 

what is that?
and does anyone know why the oldetimey pictures always have the cars leaning forward and the wheel all oval?