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    eBay Hotness: Flathead-Powered Belly Tank Lakester

    Last Flight Of The Silver Comet: Bernd Rosemeyer's Fatal World Speed Record Attempt

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    Image of thunder; now eta-powered thunder; now eta-powered
    11/25/09

    In reply to eBay Hotness: Flathead-Powered Belly Tank Lakester
    Sweet!
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/25/09

    In reply to eBay Hotness: Flathead-Powered Belly Tank Lakester
    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!
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    Image of tackett tackett
    11/25/09

    @Novaload: That's not salt, actually. It looks like El Mirage or Black Rock (which will mess you up just as much as salt).
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    DoctorNine promoted this comment tackett was starred tackett was unstarred
    Image of mechimike mechimike
    11/26/09

    @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?
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    Image of Turboner Turboner
    11/25/09

    In reply to eBay Hotness: Flathead-Powered Belly Tank Lakester
    I vote crack pipe ;)
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    Image of jbh11126 jbh11126
    11/25/09

    @Turboner: Naaa.

    Definitely nice price.
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    Turboner promoted this comment jbh11126 was starred jbh11126 was unstarred
    Image of Turboner Turboner
    11/25/09

    @jbh11126: My ;) indicated sarcasm :) Driving it would be kind of like hitting a crack pipe, though.

    #tips
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    Image of jbh11126 jbh11126
    11/25/09

    @Turboner: Do you think it's addictive?

    #tips
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    11/26/09

    @jbh11126: I hope so.
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    Image of jbh11126 jbh11126
    11/26/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Let me hit that shit.
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    Image of VeeArrrSix VeeArrrSix
    11/25/09

    In reply to eBay Hotness: Flathead-Powered Belly Tank Lakester
    That video makes me not want the thing... seriously my 9 year old niece makes better iMovies starring Polly Pocket and Build-a-Bears.

    I know it's Hollywood and all, but he needs more of this:
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    Image of okidokedork okidokedork
    11/25/09

    @VeeArrrSix: I loved that movie! I never get tired of watching it =) Heart-click for you.
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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    11/26/09

    @VeeArrrSix: Movie of the year (it came out), and possibly the Decade.
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    Image of Buckster Buckster
    11/26/09

    @VeeArrrSix: Great Movie.
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    Image of VeeArrrSix VeeArrrSix
    11/25/09

    In reply to eBay Hotness: Flathead-Powered Belly Tank Lakester
    I am Lakester. I am made out of a tank.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/25/09

    @VeeArrrSix: I am Lakester, and my tank is full of flathead.
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    Image of VeeArrrSix VeeArrrSix
    11/25/09

    @AmishJohn: Much better.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    11/25/09

    In reply to eBay Hotness: Flathead-Powered Belly Tank Lakester
    No radiator, just a big tank. Wonder how long it takes that flatty to overheat.
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    11/25/09

    In reply to eBay Hotness: Flathead-Powered Belly Tank Lakester
    Well it's no parking lot, but very cool nonetheless.
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    Image of jbh11126 jbh11126
    11/25/09

    @mr_dude: Parking lots FTW!!
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    DoctorNine promoted this comment jbh11126 was starred jbh11126 was unstarred
    Image of powermatic powermatic
    11/25/09

    In reply to eBay Hotness: Flathead-Powered Belly Tank Lakester
    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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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    11/25/09

    @powermatic: You know what's scary? Drum brakes, and wire wheels with little Moon hub caps.
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    Image of Sth002000 Sth002000
    11/25/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Eh, he's only going to use the brakes once a run.
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    Image of alowishus wants to run a Saab Sonett III at LeMons alowishus wants to run a Saab Sonett III at LeMons
    11/25/09

    @powermatic: That stick, it's used to thwack LFA fanboys.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    11/25/09

    In reply to eBay Hotness: Flathead-Powered Belly Tank Lakester
    '27 Ajax water tank cap
    Body rivets round headed believe to be WWII AN430
    Sand Cast Harman & Collins Magneto

    Sexy.
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    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    01/29/09

    In reply to Last Flight Of The Silver Comet: Bernd Rosemeyer's Fatal World Speed Record Attempt
    Here is a very technical and utterly fascinating account of Rosemeyer's accident:


    [www.kolumbus.fi]


    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:


    [auto.indavideo.hu]

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    Image of 413wedge 413wedge
    01/29/09

    In reply to Last Flight Of The Silver Comet: Bernd Rosemeyer's Fatal World Speed Record Attempt
    wtf did they use for tires on those things???
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    Image of Armand Armand
    01/29/09

    @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.
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    Image of Adidac425 Adidac425
    01/29/09

    In reply to Last Flight Of The Silver Comet: Bernd Rosemeyer's Fatal World Speed Record Attempt
    Can I say that I LOVE the automotive history articles?
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    Image of Miscellanea Miscellanea
    01/29/09

    @Adidac425: Seconded. I am yearning for more.
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    01/29/09

    In reply to Last Flight Of The Silver Comet: Bernd Rosemeyer's Fatal World Speed Record Attempt
    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.
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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    01/29/09

    In reply to Last Flight Of The Silver Comet: Bernd Rosemeyer's Fatal World Speed Record Attempt
    An other exemple of when "sex was safe and cars were dangerous"
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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    01/29/09

    In reply to Last Flight Of The Silver Comet: Bernd Rosemeyer's Fatal World Speed Record Attempt
    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!!"

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    01/29/09

    @boosted-lego-wagon: I hate Autobahn nazis. (floors accelerator and aims)
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    Image of Armand Armand
    01/29/09

    @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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