Friday Update, February 17, 2012

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Pluto

... very impressive ! Maybe you can add some indy cars of the 1940s as
controlable vehicles later on, something like this here:
http://www.carguynation.com/deals/bo...1940sbook.html
then we could do some racing.

I'm all with you on the basic idea, and that sure is a great looking car, but why on earth would we like to have an american Indycar for our BoB setting when the coolest and best looking racing vehicles ever built where done in Europe in the late 30:ies? The silver arrows by Mercedes and Auto Union (Audi these days)...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Arrows

A quote from that wikipedia article:

"By 1937, the supercharged engine of a Mercedes-Benz W125 attained an output of 646 hp (475 kW), a figure not exceeded in Grand Prix Racing until the early 1980s, when turbo-charged engines were common in Formula One. The Silver Arrows of Mercedes and Auto Union cars reached speeds of well over 300 kilometres per hour (186 mph) in 1937, and well over 400 km/h (249 mph) during land speed record runs."

Imagine sitting in a car like this with 600+ hp over 400km/h...