The pleasure of YouTube (and its curse ) is stumbling across stuff you never even knew existed
But where there’s a specialist interest there’ll be YouTubes
So, this thread is for those YouTube vids that are, er… weird or wonderful
To kick off…
Ever wondered what it would be like to drive the world’s first gas turbine car from more than 70 years ago on a race track?
Nope, me neither
But Georg Mayr-Harting, an obsessed and talented twenty five year old Austrian engineer, did.
And because the original is in the London Science Museum, and will never be driven again, he had to build his own
An exact replica
using original engineering plans
and original parts including a Rover gas turbine engine
and he wants us to share in the pleasure he obviously gets from driving it flat out on a race track
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2020/06/28/the-worlds-only-turbine-powered-rover-jet-1-replica-built-by-a-25-year-old-who-tracks-it