Beautiful. I have a diecast 1/43 scale model of it. I got it cheap more than 35 years ago in a damaged packet, it was missing the top half of it's plastic fuel tank so I machined it a new one from brass bolt using my drill as a lathe, and I mounted the model on a piece of wood. The information on the packet said it had held the land speed record, from memory, in either 1905 or 1906.
Engine, drive line, frame, steering, axles, brakes, tires, seat, and fuel. Nothing else. Motor sport in its purest form. Don't want to die? Don't screw up!
Back then they had to build race cars to handle well because tire grip was almost non-existent, the tiny contact patch and hard rubber caused the need to compensate with handling
The relationship that man has with the car is quite astounding. You cannot underestimate the importance of the familiarity with your machine and your faith in its ability to remain consistent in its handling and operating characteristics. Most people never know what it’s like to “feel” their machine and to predict and read what it’s going to do. That was an amazing display of skill.
How on earth could anyone give this video a thumbs down, haters everywhere. Freaking amazing car, what was she, 1905 or something with 200BHP WOW and at about 2000rpm or so. My mum's old double bed frame was thicker than the frame on that beastie. 😀👍👍👍
**Yeah, and those early drivers didn't make squat, compared to the inflated salaries of modern drivers! As safety conscious as today's Nascar drivers and officials are, I'm surprised they don't make the cars remote control, so the drivers can 'race them' remotely, while sitting in Lazy Boy recliners inside enclosed, air conditioned luxury owner's boxes, with a joystick and maybe a masseuse! Of course they also NEED yet another HUGE increase in pay, to go along with the greatly reduced "risk factors" of racing!**
Amazing how a 25 liter car can be so light and produce what must have been an ungodly power to weight ratio for the time. For any time for that matter. Also interesting how the basic motorcar chassis and engine layout was already determined by 1905.
It's hard to believe it's been 100 years since motorcars racing came along ..... we are all used to it, and just over a century of history behind it now in 2021 ..... I would like to be around in 2121 to see what is driving, flying and sailing around this world ..... 😁👍❤🇺🇸
Extremely late to the party thanks to the UA-cam algorithm again 😂, that is some seriously impressive performance for a car from 1905. Yes it does look like the driver is holding on for dear life😉 but some fantastic footage of a fantastic car (or be it a chassis with and engine and seat) in a great environment 😃
Good grief: 1550 cubic inches making 200 horsepower at only 1200 RPM? Can you imagine the torque?! If they turned it up to 2000 RPM you'd have the first internal combustion engine on the moon...
@David Sanchez Wrong my friend, if you lock your front tire panicing while going in a corner you are fucking dead my friend!!! Front brake lockup is the largest cause of sportbike deaths, and injuries. The world's fastest sportbike (Hayabusa GSX-13 and the Suzuki GSXR come standard with it, go ahead lock that front tire up at 185 mph. and see wtf. happens!! The racers at the Isle of Mann in England ALL utilize ABS. Call me gay if you like bit my 2011 Triumph Rocket 3 with 2.3 liter has it, however in 2010 Triumph eliminated ABS. for one year just to find out it was too dangerous and in 2011 brought it back. Nuff said!!
C’était une 8 cylindres en V, alésage 160 mm, course 140 mm. Cylindrée : 22 518 cm3. Deux soupapes en tête commandées par tige de culbuteurs sur chaque cylindre. Allumage par magnéto. Puissance maximale: 200 ch à 1 200 tours/minute. Transmission par embrayage à cône. Boîte à 2 vitesses. Commande terminale par cardan. Roues à rayons. Poids : 1 000 kg.
No lumbar support seats or collision avoidance and defenitely not a self parking or driving, no safety restraint system including airbags. Who needs that shit anyway!!! 👈 😝
As crazy as I "am" and as fun as this looks, I can see this working artifact is operating at the knife edge of speed and control with all the same safety as she had her first date. Not for me. But once I listened to her alive, I would most likely give it hell! Good to see someone who is willing to give it a go!
That was worth two minutes of my life to watch.
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The Darracq makes 200 hp at only 1200 rpm. According to Spicer's torque calculator, that equates to 875.3 pounds of torque. 😲
25 liters gives a lot of low rpm torque!!
I love it. Seems to me that it drifts in the corners due to the high torque. Great driving skills!
Sounds like truck numbers, TBH.
Just think seeing this for the first time in 1905 , amazing
Beautiful.
I have a diecast 1/43 scale model of it. I got it cheap more than 35 years ago in a damaged packet, it was missing the top half of it's plastic fuel tank so I machined it a new one from brass bolt using my drill as a lathe, and I mounted the model on a piece of wood.
The information on the packet said it had held the land speed record, from memory, in either 1905 or 1906.
Engine, drive line, frame, steering, axles, brakes, tires, seat, and fuel. Nothing else. Motor sport in its purest form. Don't want to die? Don't screw up!
Don't forget to fill the oil tank.
It's also the non-assumed and non-revealed, main marketing line of the dodge viper !
Hunts By Chainsaw you missing tha gas tank bro
Don't forget the head lights and the mirror.
A seat a seat, we would ride these babies standing
For a 1905 car, that handled incredibly well around the tight corners.
@Jesse Link 2 thanks! It's a formula enterprise, from scca
Not only that, it's a car that was built as a land speed car. It was never built to go round turns.It goes around turns quite well though!
@@kasuraga damn
Back then they had to build race cars to handle well because tire grip was almost non-existent, the tiny contact patch and hard rubber caused the need to compensate with handling
The earlier machines weren't so good.
Drivers heart rate is faster than that engines rpm lol
The relationship that man has with the car is quite astounding. You cannot underestimate the importance of the familiarity with your machine and your faith in its ability to remain consistent in its handling and operating characteristics. Most people never know what it’s like to “feel” their machine and to predict and read what it’s going to do. That was an amazing display of skill.
As crude as it is it still makes more power than most v8 of the 1980s
My Corvette had 190hp.
@@fredgervinm.p.3315 This thing has 200hp 😉
It's wild, right? Put this and a 1986 Camaro at a light and have them race to the next one--the Camaro's gonna be embarrassed and then some, lol
Are you f*ckin serious. This is the coolest thing I've ever seen. Man machine. It's a 8 cylinder Sportster on 4 wheels. All respect
NYC 😎
I don't think a man driving a car can be more fundamental than that.
Awesome.
Every 8 year old dreaming of owning a go-kart needs to see this bit of history. very nice audio
This thing just put a huge smile on my face. 😆
This thing is insanely awesome I love it. & old mate drive's it like a champion too
200 hp. Pretty damned impressive for 1905.
Nah,
@@user-sq2hg7nh9u shut up stupid!
@@roverwaters3875
Doubt he pulled 200hp out of his ass, but now I gotta go google some spec its too bad there wasnt much in the description.
They wouldnt have said "Two hundred horsepower" back then.
It would have been: The power of two hundred horses!!
Haha the old ads were great!
Daaam you wasn't fulla bull...
land speed record approaching low 120mph
And up to 200hp at 1200 ripums.
It looks remarkably well balanced in the turns. I thought it would understeer like crazy.
amazing! a 25 liter go kart!
That will teach Mario! LOL!
How on earth could anyone give this video a thumbs down, haters everywhere.
Freaking amazing car, what was she, 1905 or something with 200BHP WOW and at about 2000rpm or so. My mum's old double bed frame was thicker than the frame on that beastie.
😀👍👍👍
Not a chance, it would kill those tires.
@@DarkLinkAD you have no idea.
@@christopherd2100 525ftlb torque at 2000 rpms, and hes shifting while moving a snails pace.
I dont buy it.
@@DarkLinkAD You should probably do a little research on it before you call BS. The claims are legit
I thought he was just gonna do a nice slow exhibition lap!! Lol that thing was a beast..chassis was twisting when he was revving the engine
Man has huge balls, no safety cage, seat belt just nada😉
Back then, most men had huge balls....
And a short life
**Yeah, and those early drivers didn't make squat, compared to the inflated salaries of modern drivers! As safety conscious as today's Nascar drivers and officials are, I'm surprised they don't make the cars remote control, so the drivers can 'race them' remotely, while sitting in Lazy Boy recliners inside enclosed, air conditioned luxury owner's boxes, with a joystick and maybe a masseuse! Of course they also NEED yet another HUGE increase in pay, to go along with the greatly reduced "risk factors" of racing!**
(@PMcL) I think you've ground that axe down to the handle.....
Haha I'd not want a seatbelt on that, it'd be safer to fly off in a crash I'd think
It's pretty much at an idle the whole way around there.
Going 3 times faster than my car....engine just idling :D I love it
Amazing how a 25 liter car can be so light and produce what must have been an ungodly power to weight ratio for the time. For any time for that matter. Also interesting how the basic motorcar chassis and engine layout was already determined by 1905.
that's a machine ahead of its time
Pretty cool. He handled that old car extremely well.
Great speed at such low revs
Beast of a motor and he gracefully maneuvers that beast through the corners! Just fantastic!
No bullshit on this "car"... 4tires and a great engine! Thats it
I wish that was still an option when buying a car in the US!
It only takes 8 working parts !
Like some toyotas
He shoulda had an oil can and squirted down the valvetrain on the fly to pick up 20hp more 😝
Wow what a machine.
It's hard to believe it's been 100 years since motorcars racing came along ..... we are all used to it, and just over a century of history behind it now in 2021 ..... I would like to be around in 2121 to see what is driving, flying and sailing around this world ..... 😁👍❤🇺🇸
That was bad ass, thanks for sharing!!!
Thats awsome especially for 1905
RPM's low - Torque high - and nothing that's not needed to get from A to B. Loved it, thank you!
You could lose the police in that. The way it takes corners.
UMMM
That's the most amazing car I've ever seen.
I have to build something similar to this. I love the simplicity!!!
Two things. 1st: The suspension was far more "compliant" than I would have guessed and 2nd: No Seat-belt? GOOD CHOICE!
The torque! Imagine how terrifying this kind of speed was in that day.
Was?! Shits still terrifying in that thing! XD
looks like a motor with a chair on it
Extremely late to the party thanks to the UA-cam algorithm again 😂, that is some seriously impressive performance for a car from 1905. Yes it does look like the driver is holding on for dear life😉 but some fantastic footage of a fantastic car (or be it a chassis with and engine and seat) in a great environment 😃
That looked like a damn good time
Good grief: 1550 cubic inches making 200 horsepower at only 1200 RPM? Can you imagine the torque?! If they turned it up to 2000 RPM you'd have the first internal combustion engine on the moon...
That thing is beautiful!
That had to be absolutely mind blowing in 1905!
When engines didnt need to turn faster than 20 RPM...
It just went brap once and was halfway around the track lol.
Torque pig, thats a good thing.
We need to make cars like this with modern technology
@@privategramcracker01 true
@@privategramcracker01
Not worth it. You would need to get through a lot of gears in order to get up to highway speed.
@@blackdeck9112 With that kind of torque, you could get by with a 2-speed automatic.
I've always wanted a V8 with a saddle on it.
Mark a great friend and a brilliant driver!!
Absolutely awesome, especially given the technology.
Legend has it that there was an advertisement saying that this was the safest car on the planet in 1905. According to Ralph Nader.
I want one.Like,yesterday!!!!
ABS, Stability Control, Traction Control, Air bags, roll cage: Are we jokes to you?
Stfu
@David Sanchez Wrong my friend, if you lock your front tire panicing while going in a corner you are fucking dead my friend!!! Front brake lockup is the largest cause of sportbike deaths, and injuries.
The world's fastest sportbike (Hayabusa GSX-13 and the Suzuki GSXR come standard with it, go ahead lock that front tire up at 185 mph. and see wtf. happens!!
The racers at the Isle of Mann in England ALL utilize ABS.
Call me gay if you like bit my 2011 Triumph Rocket 3 with 2.3 liter has it, however in 2010 Triumph eliminated ABS. for one year just to find out it was too dangerous and in 2011 brought it back.
Nuff said!!
I was looking for the brembo brakes peeking out 😂
I guess him stopping is a whole other vid
Well....it does take a LONG time to stop from ludicrous speed. It took Spaceball One a week and a half just to slow down to turn around....
1900's mechanical engineering is AWESOME😊👍❤
So much admiration for the driver, just wow.
I love that he's not afraid to dance with that old girl some in the corners. :)
now this would be fun to take through the drive through
A dangerous tool in the wrong hands.. what a wonderful creation
Fairly flies along!
Love the sound of this thing!!! After market cam hah
Sounds just like the 307 I had in an 86 olds cutlass. It was a beater of beaters.
That has to be like driving a tractor on acid
A little quick research came up with 1550 cu. in. or 25,442 cc's, that's a big motor idling along...first car to top 120 mph, AWESOME in it's day...
Right car, right enviremont,right clothing,wrong helmet...But still a beautiful spirit of racing.
C’était une 8 cylindres en V, alésage 160 mm, course 140 mm. Cylindrée : 22 518 cm3. Deux soupapes en tête commandées par tige de culbuteurs sur chaque cylindre. Allumage par magnéto. Puissance maximale: 200 ch à 1 200 tours/minute. Transmission par embrayage à cône. Boîte à 2 vitesses. Commande terminale par cardan. Roues à rayons. Poids : 1 000 kg.
no tc no ps no abs,no rc,what a legend
No lumbar support seats or collision avoidance and defenitely not a self parking or driving, no safety restraint system including airbags.
Who needs that shit anyway!!! 👈 😝
LOL what is the Rev range of this vehicle it didn't sound like an went over 1500 RPMs
This beast looks like it could be the inspiration for Cleetus McFarland's bodyless "Leroy" corvette.
👏👏👏que hermosa bestia.. gracias!
Pretty quick for the age of it
That looks like a deathtrap, though looks amazing as well...
Very amazing car with very nice sound
Chitty, chitty' bang bang, we love You! Lol
Those valves sounded lovely
"LOOK MAAAAAA. . . . .NO BRAKES!!!"
Verry skilled driver!
Love that deep sound :-)
Wow, that thing really moves considering it's age.
Love watching the open rocker arms
When you are a commuter but you live in 1905.
Amazely wonderful to be one of the first 1 Formula
He’s ringing it out !!!
That is just the scariest thing I've watched in a while! Took some mighty big cahones to race something like that!
Work of art
Never seen an engine quiet like it, really neat
Excellent skills!
Amazing 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Amazing to see that ancient beast let loose :D
1905 racing model still working 😲😲 crazy💀💀☠️
As crazy as I "am" and as fun as this looks, I can see this working artifact is operating at the knife edge of speed and control with all the same safety as she had her first date. Not for me. But once I listened to her alive, I would most likely give it hell!
Good to see someone who is willing to give it a go!
Thing was barely above my motorcycles idle speed.
Que bueno que debe estar manejar eso
My floorboard is an old cattle fence.
Your argument is invalid.
Wicked little car . Driver was having it also
Holy smokes bill, I bet he was doin 25 or better! He's nuts!
That is pure motor sport !
Am I seeing OHV V-8?
That was amazing
Wow. Just wow.
Very Good!
Impressive aerodynamics.
That's coolest man i'd ever seen