Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

1SlowVW said:

11GTCS said:

I saw an article yesterday that Ferrari once provided an F-1 V12 engine for a racing hydroplane.

Come at me bro. 

You talkin to me?  

Yoh!  It's time to get down!!

160 HP circa 1958.   These are probably the infamous "dock buster" direct reversing engines.  No neutral, just a kill switch between forward and reverse.   Want to stop?  Just stall the engine and start it back up going the other direction.  What could go wrong?

Karl Kiekaefer was undoubtably a brilliant engineer but he had his quirks.

aircooled said:

Yoh!  It's time to get down!!

Yup, you'd need those hearing protectors...

In reply to 11GTCS :

The Yamato I rebuilt this summer is like that . No water pump so it can't cool at idle. No neutral, no recoil assembly, holds enough fuel for 7-8 minutes...maybe.  It all makes sense once you realize they are designed for spec boat sprint racing in Japan.

The duces high is cool no doubt.

Piston engined race boat? That's cute.

11GTCS said:

aircooled said:

Yoh!  It's time to get down!!

Yup, you'd need those hearing protectors...

I love the seats in the second boat. Might as well have comfortable view of your death happening. 

It's our 34th wedding anniversary today and we're celebrating a day and overnight at this place in Narragansett, RI:

Windy day by the seawall:

The remains of my Beefeater martini at Trio Restaurant:

Poured some wine on our balcony. Annie's silver Sonata in the background.

Then drinking it on the veranda. The lights off in the distance are of the Newport Bridge and the City if Newport, RI, about five miles across the water from where we are on the mainland.

Also British Racing Green.

Sadly, likely replaced by the turbine driven pump at the bottom. 

ultraclyde (Forum Supporter) said:

11GTCS said:

I love the seats in the second boat. Might as well have comfortable view of your death happening. 

In case you are curious those are Packard license built versions of the Rolls Royce Merlin (early versions had some reliability issues)

Olee Sheet mon!  Another cool way to die!  (just walking along a sidewalk.....)

Fall fun.

11GTCS said:

Also British Racing Green.

Sadly, likely replaced by the turbine driven pump at the bottom. 

Turbine pumps at bottom are more likely to be condenser water pumps. Steam from low pressure cylinder exhausts into a condenser which is in a vacuum and raises effective steam pressure in engine plus recovering steam to be reused as feedwater in boiler.

914Driver said:

Olee Sheet mon!  Another cool way to die!  (just walking along a sidewalk.....)

They were in the way.

914Driver said:

The only car Ive owned that I miss was an AMG W126

914Driver said:

Olee Sheet mon!  Another cool way to die!  (just walking along a sidewalk.....)

Canadair 415!

I don't like the Hotlink thread to go too long without updating.

?Que?

In reply to 914Driver :

I've got no clue.

Sometimes the picture you get when you don't know you're taking it can be interesting. I like this for some reason.