name that tune---

[Pedro_The_Swift]

[loanrangie]

Jag, BRM ?

[Pedro_The_Swift]

BABS.

no, its true,,


Goodwood Landspeed Record Display


"There were many others as well, but none could top Babs---

With its huge 27-liter Liberty engine, it set a record of 170 mph in 1926 before crashing the next year. The driver didn't survive and the car itself was buried in a hole in the beach for a number of years. It was finally dug up in 1969 and restored. And Babs was here this weekend, all 20-something feet of her. The best part of that story is that Babs was fired up, to the appreciation of the crowd, and run up the hill all weekend. Oversteering in the rain and everything."



nothing like 27 odd litres of engine to help get it sideways,,,,

[Quiggers]

Is that a chain drive? Crikey

GQ

[100I]

that does always amaze me to see racers of that era (and later for that matter) and they didn't think that rolling a car with no rollbar protection might give them a bout of death.

[loanrangie]

A friend of my dads built a veteran racer out of a 1920's french car and fittde it with a 1914 WW1 Hispano Suiza aircraft V8 of 14 ltrs that put out 1000 hp at the rear wheels . One day he was driving it from Winton after the historic race meet and suprised some yuppie in an BMW M3 down the hume .