The Limit of Our Sight - (Parry-Thomas & Babs, 1927) -- It's Not the Car Ep. 23

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Once, a long time ago, a brave man went to a beach and tried to drive faster than anyone ever had. He did not survive.
This is his story.
Perhaps you saw the date in this episode’s title and thought, “The 1920s? Prehistoric! Swipe left, bruh, yuck!” Which is definitely a take.
Some people think the past is a dull place. Nothing to do with who we are or where we’re going.
Those people are-if you’ll pardon my French-stupid.
This show’s format rotates weekly, because squirrel. This episode is our monthly deep dive into an epic moment from racing history. In this case, the story of Welshman John Parry-Thomas and the 180-mph stack of steel and chains that killed him.
Related Trivia: A RU-vid commenter asked how old Sam is. Sam is 43 years old. Everyone who hears that is surprised. (Insert joke here.)
This episode was produced by Mike Perlman.
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@jonathanellis1842 Месяц назад

Parry was Welsh, born in Wrexham North Wales, His parents moved to Oswestry Shopshire when He was five years of age. Oswestry is in England but is a border town and has in its history been both in Wales and England. Wrexham has a new buzz around our football club the 3rd oldest in the world 1864, now owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McEhenney of Hollywood fame. Thank you youtube for finding this for Me.

@olsurferguy1 Месяц назад

The American built Allison V-1710, a V-12 engine that powered the early models of the P-38 and P-40 to name a couple, was 28 liters (1710 cubic inches) the bore was 5.5 inches and the stroke was 6 inches. The pistons were about the size of a coffee can, to give you a perspective on the size of these impressive engines.

@ReginaldRennsport 2 месяца назад

I loved the obvious emotion on display during this story. I enjoy every episode but this one kept me leaned in and had a lot of weight to it. Well done team!

@owl-vibes 3 месяца назад

best motorsport podcast by a far margin!

@towgod20 3 месяца назад

Love the show, great work!!! Sam, would love it if you could move the camera off the desk, it shakes when you move, makes us motion sick- LOVE THE SHOW!!!

@BSNFabricating 3 месяца назад

These shows keep getting better and better. Keep up the great work!

@aaronberga8803 3 месяца назад

Thoughts. Yes, Jesse Combs. Doing what she loved to do. Dale Earnhardt, and the refusal of Nascar to wear a Hans device, which Ross feels naked without wearing was malfeasance by the Nascar safety board. Lessons are learned the hard way, but that was inexcusable. Then again it was his choice, the option was available. Looking forward to your take on Indy. Background, I was a huge Nascar fan in the late 80's to 90's to 00's. Mark Martin is my favorite driver ever. After he retired, I sort of fell out of full fandom, still watched some of F1, Indy, and Nascar. To the dismay of my wife, I was all in on Kyle Larson pulling off the 1100 that weekend. I have recently over the past few years become a minor Larson fan boy. He can literally drive anything, and be great at it. The comparisons of him to the AJ Foyts and Mario Andretti's of the world seems insurmountable, as that was a very different time and place, but it still fascinates me. Would like to know your thoughts.

@michaelgillett5477 Месяц назад

I had to laugh watching your thing on RU-vid about Land speed and Parry Thomas just been at Goodwood today and we have the 350 hp Sunbeam loudspeaker on display and running down there. I don’t know if you know this but we are also restoring the thousand horsepower, Land speed Sunbeam to running condition hoping to get it to Daytona for 2027 forest hundredth anniversary and next year we’re taking the 350 hp Sunbeam to pin Sanden for its hundredth anniversary. Just thought you might be interested us crazy Brits are still doing it see you, Michael

@recrudesce Месяц назад

You don't need a massive wingspan to lift a 27l engine, nor would the aircraft go slow - the Spitfire had a 27l Merlin engine in it and a wingspan of 12.2m, and that thing went ~400mph at full chat.

@ashlockyer4098 Месяц назад

Wow ... some stuff to point out here 🙂: Wales and England are both part of Great Britain ... aero engines even back to the first world war were built using aluminium so were not that heavy for their displacement ... the Supermarine Spitfire and the P51 were both powered by 27 litre Rolls Royce Merlin engines the latter built under licence to Rolls Royce in the US ... and neither of those aircraft had to have huge wings or flipped over from the torque. My qualification aside from having a Welsh mam? My Grandfather worked for Supermarine who built the Spitfire 🙂