Well, at least there is no doubt of what will happen when you roll this baby. The thickness of your skull--which has to be pretty thick to even think this is a good idea--is the only thing keeping you alive, and of course however thick it is, the salt flat is going to grind it down to nothing--
and doesn't this guy realize going bareheaded will get him a potentially lethal melanoma in about five years?--wait. I don't think he's a long-term-thinking kinda guy.
PS This is very well written, Sam. I like the cut of your gibberish!
@tackett: Who needs long term thinking? As Anthony Hopkins as Burt Munrow said in "World's Fastest Indian", "You live more in 5 minutes at 200 miles per hour than most people do in a lifetime".
Amen, Burt Munrow. Now, who do I make the check out to?
Boxed frame rails? Front brakes? That shit's for losers. And look at what's holding up the body-a stick, with some bailing wire wrapped around it!. Look long and hard, Lexus LFA fanboys with your fancy-ass roto-molded carbon fiber hood-holders. Read 'em and weep.
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What seems to have happened was that Robert Eberan von Eberhorst, the Rekordwagen's designer, accidentally invented ground effects-the very same phenomenon utilized by Jim Hall's Chaparrals and Colin Chapman's late-Seventies Formula-1 Loti (the 78 and the 79). Only the Auto Union's chassis rigidity was not up to the task of handling the extra g's and not falling to pieces. Which does fuck up your aerodynamics at 270 MPH.
If you ever happen to be in Shanghai, take a ride on the maglev train that makes a 20 mile run to Pudong International. Its top speed is exactly the speed at which Rosemeyer was killed-and which, raced and survived by Caracciola an hour and a half earlier-is still the standing land speed record on a public highway.
I made a video of it two years ago. The yakking is in Hungarian but you may enjoy the very disturbing sight of sweeping past an expressway with all the cars going backward at 200 MPH:
@bigblockautoX: Skinny bias-plies, weighed down by the driver's enormous balls. Some Auto-Union racers were "duallies," and even with four rear tires they had trouble putting all the power down on tight circuits.
The Wired article had a good point: Rosemeyer never drove another car. When Nuvolari, the other master, joined Auto Union in 1938 after Rosemeyer, it took him many races to get a handle on the evil handling of the car. Of course, Auto Union was by then using the smaller V12 in the Type C chassis so that may have made a difference.
Bernd was a reluctant member of the SS and as a German racing driver was also required to be a member of the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK). I am, of course, happy that Nazism is dead, but I must confess, that it would be slightly great if the NSKK showed up at local autocross and SCCA events in camo'd VWs and death's-head openface helmets, just so I could strap on a fedora and ram them off the road.
"Ach! Ve vill lap you next time Herr Jones! Aiieeeee!!"
@boosted-lego-wagon: Sounds okay to me. Make sure you wear the Indiana Jones hat, though-- it's the only way you'll be able to top Nuvolari's German-stomping at the German Grand Prix. You'll get bonus points for doing this in a Triumph Spitfire.
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and doesn't this guy realize going bareheaded will get him a potentially lethal melanoma in about five years?--wait. I don't think he's a long-term-thinking kinda guy.
PS This is very well written, Sam. I like the cut of your gibberish!
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Amen, Burt Munrow. Now, who do I make the check out to?
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Definitely nice price.
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I know it's Hollywood and all, but he needs more of this:
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Body rivets round headed believe to be WWII AN430
Sand Cast Harman & Collins Magneto
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What seems to have happened was that Robert Eberan von Eberhorst, the Rekordwagen's designer, accidentally invented ground effects-the very same phenomenon utilized by Jim Hall's Chaparrals and Colin Chapman's late-Seventies Formula-1 Loti (the 78 and the 79). Only the Auto Union's chassis rigidity was not up to the task of handling the extra g's and not falling to pieces. Which does fuck up your aerodynamics at 270 MPH.
If you ever happen to be in Shanghai, take a ride on the maglev train that makes a 20 mile run to Pudong International. Its top speed is exactly the speed at which Rosemeyer was killed-and which, raced and survived by Caracciola an hour and a half earlier-is still the standing land speed record on a public highway.
I made a video of it two years ago. The yakking is in Hungarian but you may enjoy the very disturbing sight of sweeping past an expressway with all the cars going backward at 200 MPH:
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"Ach! Ve vill lap you next time Herr Jones! Aiieeeee!!"
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