some beautiful fast cars from the past

Saturday, October 1, 2011


first picture is a 1912 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost London to Edinburgh machine. second we have the Fiat Mefistofele land speed record car from 1924. this is followed by a picture of the Fiat's 21.7 liter Fiat aircraft engine which puts out 320hp at 1800 rpm. for the next picture is a 1931 Duesenberg-Cummins diesel Indianapolis race car. this car finished in 13th place. it was driven to the race and from the race and did the entire race as well on one tank of diesel. it was the first diesel powered car to run in the Indy. last is the famous Marmon Wasp winner of the first Indiapolis 500 in 1911.


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