The 44.5-liter, V-12-powered, Mercedes-Benz T80 would have made a land-speed-record run in January 1940 had the Nazis not kicked off World War II five months earlier. Damn Nazis. Amusingly, here it is as a speedboat. [via Strange Vehicles]

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