Re: 9-main bearing inline eights

Posted by su8overdrive On 2015/10/29 16:33:27

Then you know about the Alfetta and other GP straight eights of the era. Mercedes-Benz campaigned a straight eight as late as 1955 which was leading Le Mans 'til the awful crash that killed 80 spectators that year. Mercedes immediately withdrew leaving the race to Jaguar.

Have often wondered why M-B fielded a straight eight so late in the game, but have found no conclusive engineering discussion to date.

Keep us posted and please share pictures of the finished project. All best.

BTW, GP racer Count Trossi, who owned all manner of era straight eight super cars, road and track, was a Packard distributor in Italy in the '40s, enjoyed his '47 Super Clipper much as Ettore Bugatti preferred an earlier Packard Eight on business trips over his own skittish but beautifully wrought products.