LaBestioni

[aeronca65t]

LaBestioni.....I love stuff like this....

More info here:
https://www.tomstrongman.com/ClassicCars/LaBestioni/Index.htm

Note: LaBestioni is a modern-day recreation that pays homage to FIAT's "Beast of Turin".
LaBestioni has "only" 14 liters. The "Beast of Turin" had 28 liters and "normally" shot 10 foot flames out the exhaust.

 

[DART]

I find the claim he would drive it to Starbucks a little hard to swallow. I doubt an unmufflered 14litre engine is going to very welcome on the streets.

 

[tony barnhill]

&, you know, somebody will pay the $250,000 he's asking!

 

[swift6]

Think it has enough gauges?

Love the radiator cap though. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif

 

[coldplugs]

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LaBestioni.....I love stuff like this....
...LaBestioni has "only" 14 liters...

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I love it. It's one of those cars Peter Ustinov would have called a "Hot favorite in the Voiturette class" in the Grand Prix de Rock.

(Translation: Hot favorite in the small car class in the Gibraltar Grand Prix - actually referring to the Monaco GP)

We need more folks like this with an imagination, skill, a sense of humor, and bags of money.

 

[Steve_S]

I saw this car at a show about a year ago here in LA. Took some photos of it. See here: https://www.mgnuts.com/temp/labestoni

 

[kennypinkerton]

So... is it a 3-cylinder? wierd.

 

[jlaird]

Supose all those gages work? Wonder what they could all be for?

 

[aeronca65t]

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So... is it a 3-cylinder? wierd.

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It's a six with Siamese exhaust ports.
Each piston has four spark plugs (you can see them in Steve's pictures).

 

[jlaird]

Heh, either that (3 cyl) or 12 very small ones.

However the write up says, six-cylinder engine, and three exhaust pipes the size of downspouts