Following my passion for interesting cars, engines, machines (including the odd tractor, traction engine or boat etc) and all things engineering (with a just few random things thrown in for good measure like a mechanical calculator, 18th Century cannons).
Guy told me that was weight…from what I understand that was probably optimistic seen a forum where one albeit with a supercharger and some fuel weighed in at just over 700kg, still light but not 500kg.
Super racer, he really has a nice face, I would like to hear the 1000 jap running, maybe you will be able to see him next weekend at the retro grand prix in Puy-Notre-Dame in France! THANKS
Wonderful ! This is its big brother - with a 1908 JAP V8 aero engine in a 1914 GN chassis ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8ks2e_pjasQ.html
This was built by my boys great grandad, the man driving the tractor and trailer is their dad, they are very lucky to be able to see these things and watch and learn all t
Love the close up views. Terrific video. Phrase from the tune Honeycomb. "He took a hank of hair and a piece of bone And made a walkin', talkin' Honeycomb" Thank you.
That was on pure methanol he felt 80bph on petrol would be realistic. It was off a record breaking bike I think he said possibly from Australia 🇦🇺 (but might have to confirm that)
A truly fantastic machine. Absolutely bonkers piece of functional art. A very pure single minded build. Would love to see thebeast run. Thank you for sharing this :)
I would always drive past it and wonder what it was, so when I started to learn to fly at Tatenhill and asked my instructor about it and found out it was the buccaneer
I have had nothing but trouble with my Suzuki df2.5 which I have had from new for about 4 years (about 30 hours use). The motor exhaust valve got stuck causing the push rod to fall out of position. The dealer was able to fix this without taking everything apart. I have had a lot of trouble getting the outboard to start and it kicks back like a mule. Recently I decided to investigate myself - I found the spark plug was incorrectly gapped (at over 1mm). This was factory supplied so a quality control issue. The service dealer had also overfilled the oil which did not help either. I replaced the spark plug and removed excess oil and for the first time it starts second pull. Maybe it’s OK now, however, I would not recommend this outboard after all my trouble with it.
Incredible restauration. I handle one of this engines water cooled version in my farm as electric generator. Unfortunatelly soon the electric starter blows and have ti use the inertial start. Good machine.
Capone's car is dark green with black wings. The armour plating has been removed. The Secret Service used it whenever the president was in Chicago in the early 30s.
Mines runs on heating oil, the rounded square thing behind the carb and exhaust is the vapouriser and it crosses over inside so the exhaust heat will heat up the fuel
