Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 02/21/2020 at 08:23 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Paris-Nice, 1919

Let’s get this Friday started.

pip bip - choose Corrour > ttyymmnn 02/21/2020 at 08:33

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good morning and WTF is that?

ttyymmnn > pip bip - choose Corrour 02/21/2020 at 08:34

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Some crazy ass race car from 100 years ago. Mechanic position looks rather precarious. 

vondon302 > ttyymmnn 02/21/2020 at 09:14

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Morning

Stance the early years

ttyymmnn > vondon302 02/21/2020 at 09:23

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Death trap, the early years. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 02/21/2020 at 10:16

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I can kind of excuse the belt-driven steering, but the exhaust pipe at the mechanic’s back is a crime.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/21/2020 at 10:17

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Do you know what the cylinder is behind the mechanic’s head? Oil reservoir? I’m guessing the fuel is in the big box at the rear.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 02/21/2020 at 10:25

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No, I think the tank is a fuel tank. Gravity feed, with a shutoff petcock. The box behind looks to be made of wood, and probably has breakdown tools and other items.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/21/2020 at 10:30

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Doesn’t seem like much fuel.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 02/21/2020 at 10:47

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No, but at something like 570 miles from Paris to Nice, they would have been stopping very regularly anyway, and probably had gasoline stores at regular intervals - could conceivably have taken enough for the journey, but probably trying to stay light. If that amounts to a 5" round by 18" (average) fuel tank, it’s a half gallon, and even assuming the efficiency was poor, they should have been making 50mpg, so it’s not a crippling lack of range by those days’ standards. Say they were making 20mph on dirt and/or cobblestone roads, and stopping every hour to refuel and check the machine would be about right.

Granted in the US we were doing things like the 1911 indy 500 *eight years* before this, with a 500 mile endurance run averaging 74mph, but the indianapolis motor speedway French roads were not, and a 9.8 liter straight six that is also not. At all.

There were also likely enough some fuel containers in the mechanic’s trunk.