Very good story-amazing tech for the time. The Book is available on Amazon-like the link- but not cheap at $140.
Those Auto Union liners and the Silver Arrow are quite bigger, but the Xydias So-Cal liner a near match....
I've seen the T80 in person. It's HUGE. Feels more like an airplane in scale if that makes sense. And, of course, the So-Cal car is pretty small. It's thought that there is a 200mph difference between two so long as the Merc/Porsche can stay on the ground.
WOW.......that is so intriguing in so many ways !! Would love to see it in person ........or better yet......maybe Mercedes could at least fire up the drivetrain for a static display ?? Thanks again
The REVS Institute in Naples has a Silver Arrow that went 247.176 MPH in the standing mile in 1939. Thanks for the videos, enjoyed it.
In relation to today you have to remember that the engineers who mfg'd and worked on these way back when did so with machinery of that day - Bridgeport manual mills, Soutbend manual lathes, Lodge and Shipley manual chuckers, Gleason Hob Cam Driven Gear cutting Machinery.....etc etc.. All built with the test of time. No CNC machines - all manual. No digital gages - all dial or thumbwheel, True Machinists. What was produced back in terms of machinery used is truly remarkable. The industrial revolution and the intellectual/ mechanical/ design imagination of men back then is very impressive.
Have to look at that film. Always remember feading that in the early days (?) they wanted to do a speed test trial. Rather shut the road they blocked one side, for a few miles, by having dozens of soldiers lined up to place lane barriers for X number of miles. The command was given, barriers placed, tests run, and barriers removed.
Eggzactly how most landspeed racers are still built to this day! It wasn't until the modern money infusion of Poteet and the Marianis etc that you saw things going super high tech in their fabrication. I love the fact that guys like trepanier are being hired to build rides that push the envelope. One of the most notable parts are the CNC wheels on the Mariani roadster. Pure art, that I am sure my kid paid for in dried fruit!
The car is on display in the Mercedes museum. It was amazing huge car I was surprised about hat large size
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