Car Speed ​​Record-breaking gambot

The story of the business record-breaking speed has been going on since long. And this gambot bodied car was one of the perpetrators.

The story about the car called Mefistofele was started in 1908, when Fiat introduced the SB4 chain-driven Grand Prix, after seeing action this car on the track racing, a man named Sir Ernest Eldridge from England and then buy the car in order to turn it into a record breaking pace.

However, there is one problem, Eldridge was still considers the original engine with a capacity of 18 000 cc is too small. Finally, Eldridge also change their engines standards with aircraft engines.

Finally, this Fiat also has a new engine that is equipped with a liquid-cooled with a capacity of 7.21 liter inline six-cylinder with konvigurasi are able to develop the power to 320 horsepower at 1,800 rpm.

After the kitchen runway addressed, Eldridge then begin to look chassis used SB4. Eldridge extend the chassis which underpins this car with the chassis apply some parts of a bus in London to accommodate the new engine a longer and heavier.

Name Mefistofele himself obtained this car on July 12, 1924 because the reporters who witnessed the first action of this car made shocked by the smoke and explosion generated huge machine.

Eldridge was reap business success after getting the best moment with the Mefistofele carve the world speed record in Arpajon, France. Although the length 5.1 meters long and weighs more than 2 tons, this car is still able to reach peak speeds up to 234.98 miles per hour.

This is the last record of a speeding car and broke the world speed record on public streets. After Mefistofele, all the record-breaking pace carried out starting from the circuit of public roads, desert to desert salt.

And despite record Mefistofele only lasted for 32 days, the fame of gambot car is still able to survive more than a century since its birth.

In 1969, Fiat boss Giovanni Agnelli bought from the heirs of Sir Mefistofele Eldridge and sent to Italy. In the land of pizza that the car was then experiencing major restoration and is one collection that shows the company's history in the Centro Storico Fiat in Turin.

source : detik.com