1905 Darracq

[MCLAREN KID]

Earlier this year I visited La Vie En Bleu at Prescott Speed Hill Climb. On the way back home I saw a 1905 Darracq World Record Car on the way to Sundays event. I did some research into this and found that the car comes from Lutterworth and is owned by Mark Walker. Further research showed that the car had a 25 Litre engine, producing 200HP. Does anyone know how many were built and what the value of this car is now?

Edited by MCLAREN KID on Friday 28th October 18:30

[MCLAREN KID]

[AndrewW-G]

How many = 1 like that, it's a factory built special, the chassis was based on the standard road chassis

How much = doesnt matter

[davepoth]

Speed record was 125mph in that.

Although I imagine that was limited by the aero resistance of the driver's enormous cojones.

[0a]

I love!

Anyone got the latest octane with the RR Ghosts? I'm a modern car man, but I loved reading the experience of these 100+ year old cars.

[benjj]

Absolutely love the arrowhead rad on it, never seen that before.

[williamp]

He also owns and races this 1907 Grand Prix panhard- one of the earliest grand prix cars still in existance. Being overtaken by this on the M1 was quite something!!



I can highly recommend a trip to Mallory park for the VSCC races. Some weird and wonderful cars racing- how about a 24 litre W-12 engine car, with three sets of four stubby exhausts belching flame.

[Kiltox]

davepoth said:

Although I imagine that was limited by the aero resistance of the driver's enormous cojones.

[thinfourth2]

MCLAREN KID said:

WANT !!!!

You can keep your veyrons and other cack i want one of those

[Major Fallout]

Now you're talking my language!

[soad]

benjj said:

Absolutely love the arrowhead rad on it, never seen that before.

Looks like artillery shell!

[Major Fallout]

williamp said:

I can highly recommend a trip to Mallory park for the VSCC races. Some weird and wonderful cars racing- how about a 24 litre W-12 engine car, with three sets of four stubby exhausts belching flame.

This guy (Chris Williams) also has a car called Mavis http://youtu.be/eAvJb0_VXHE 42-litre Packard-engined Bentley.

He is what you can quite safely call eccentric. I sold him a small 20's aero engine in september, so I'm sure he has other cars on the way.

But the time i met him before that, he was walking around in his bowler hat with a big hole in the top. One day out shooting someone had blown a hole in it with a shotgun. (I guessing he didn't have it on at the time.

I have a few friends with cars like this. One day I will take the next step from old racing car, to old aero engined racing car. As soon as mine starts to feel too slow.