The Sound Of Nitro | The Jalopy Journal The Jalopy Journal

So Covid is nevertheless kicking my ass a little bit, but you cannot maintain a mainly superior guy down – especially if he is sniffing nitro. I cannot come across any of the stuff, so in a stupor I resolved to do the up coming very best factor and sniff out some audio of a Nitro fueled flathead.

Matter is, I remembered this movie from about a ten years ago but YouTube experienced stopped indexing it and queries ended up turning up nothing at all. It took me hrs of heading through email archives until I eventually observed the e mail from 2012 with a connection. Amazingly, the movie was nonetheless there. Look at it out:

https://www.youtube.com/enjoy?v=WLFTO0Bx9-E

Dope, ideal? For the lifetime of me, I simply cannot recall who owned the motor vehicle at the time of the online video. I guess the virus has already moved to my brain… but I can try to remember anything else about it. The roadster was at first developed/ran by Sandy Belond (of muffler/exhaust fame) on 58% Meth(anol), 20% Nitro, 20% Gasoline, and 2% Castro Oil. A combination so powerful that the flathead ran about 125mph in 1942 at Muroc and a lot of nowadays contemplate it the speediest pre-war roadster ever created.

Irrespective, a few of issues stand out to me:

1. Globally, the early 60’s Ferrari V12 is regarded as by lots of as the most effective sounding motor of all time. I’d like to argue that “fact” a bit as I don’t know that you can make Nearly anything audio as good as this small flat motor.
2. Sandy Belond is another person we definitely require to talk much more about. He lead an outstanding lifetime, accomplished every thing from almost nothing, and was one particular hell of a superior guy by all accounts.

In any case, I will be far better by future week… The audio of this motor assures me of that. See you then.