Saturday, February 1, 2014
Video: Jay Leno Checks Out a Fire-Breathing 1910 Buick Bug
How do you think a 100-plus-year-old car behaves on the road? Its pretty hard to imagine something like this is even possible, right? Well, in the latest episode of Jay Leno’s Garage, the Jay took a look at a 1910 Buick Bug. The car was delivered by Jeremy Dimick of Flint’s Sloan Museum and the test drive is pretty interesting.
The 1910 Buick Bug was built as a race car and drew its power from an overhead-valve, four-cylinder engine that delivered a total of 57 horsepower. Though that power is low by today’s standards, it was actually pretty good back in its day, and it helped get the 2,600-pound racer to a top speed of about 105 mph.
During the video, make sure that you pay close attention to the its four exhaust pipes, as the spit fire like today’s supercars when the Bug is idling.
Check out the video to see what Leno thinks of the 1910 Buick Bug.
Video: Jay Leno Checks Out a Fire-Breathing 1910 Buick Bug originally appeared on topspeed.com on Friday, 31 January 2014 12:00 EST.
David Piper Nelson Piquet† Nelson Piquet Jr Renato Pirocchi Didier Pironi
No comments:
Post a Comment