Starting the "Beast Of Turin"

1910 28.5 litre FIAT S76.
Duncan Pittaway firing up the mighty "Beast of Turin".
Goodwood Festival of Speed. 7 July 2021

[@reginalddentry7338]

I had an older woman buy a a car from me. It had to be be a manual transmission . I asked why are you sure. She said yes the kids.nowadays can’t steal a stick shift ,because they wouldn’t know how to drive it.

[@startingbark0356]

Most cars in europe have manual because the automatic versions are too expensive

[@antonfloor344]

Both true

[@gillespriod5509]

Only in America people cant drive a regular gearbox car😂

[@Redgrant80]

Fake and gay. (if she really did say that its still gay)

[@DB.scale.models]

​@gillespriod5509 That is not true at all . You have to order a car with a manual transmission from the factory it takes months to get the car. Corvette comes with a paddle shifter manual very spendy .

[@jimbos3421]

You’ll notice the old dude turning it over did not start it that way, a booster magneto fired one cyl. to get it running. The younger guy is laughing because he don’t have to crank it! Benz inline 6 W.W. 1 engines started like this, among others.

[@JohnIllenye]

You do have to pull it into compression before it can fire from cold

[@LEnzo-yg3im]

The man in Levi's 501 is Kevin Costner ...😊😊😊

[@markroberts4048]

Not for the faint of anything!

[@williamavery9185]

Perfect for nipping to tesco express.

[@moschettiflavio3635]

I wonder if the legal owner of the engine, the polytechnic of Turin, still want it back after all those years since it was stolen swapping it with a fake one...

[@robertwoodliff2536]

And it's a shame that the Merlin could not have been 4 cylinder......

[@Kevin-oh2je]

Don't use it if there is a fire

[@AlpoB.]

Downsizing to 4 Cyl. Its ok for me :)

[@rk9motorsport59]

The fact that this work of art has 4cyl and is 28.5l is absolutely INSANE. 290hp with over 2000ft-lbs of torque through those narrow back tires from something that's over a century years old...absolutely phenomenal.

[@williambarry8015]

That thing is phenomenally smooth considering the displacement and how fast its revving.

[@robertheinrichvonseyfenste267]

pistons like 7 L buckets...

[@AltanirvesTeokwitlaoselotl]

Most cars back then were like that, and it's a car, not a work of art 🤦🏽

[@flamingfrancis]

Italians always think of all the necessary refinements....note the chain drive on this side, it also drives a rotisserie for the bbq on the other side.

[@colinreid3544]

Glad to see he's wearing his 'Furze' Safety Tie - Can't be too careful :-)

[@superkas]

If the devil owning a car... that's gonna be this car.

[@althejazzman]

What worries me more about any of this is that Duncan is always wearing a tie. I hope he doesn't get it caught in something.

[@Bulletguy07]

One thing for sure......NOBODY will bother trying to steal that......it's too much like hard work!!

[@kevinbirge2130]

I agree with the owner. This is the coolest, most beautiful, greatest car ever made.

[@davidaustin2172]

Ticks over about 120 rpm, redlines at 1200. Love reverse gear, wind the wheel backwards whilst sitting in drivers Seat.

[@voornaam3191]

This is NOT a Seat. Mind your punny typo's. Nine out of ten are not able to read what they just wrote. Let alone edit a typo.

[@sequentialtt0415]

@@voornaam3191 says the one who edited his typos.

[@markhealy9361]

Crikey! I would not fancy having to crank that! Duncan Pittaway is a fabulous character though...we need more of him.

[@tuxedo-fish3148]

A Model T misbehaving when you're cranking will break your thumb. I'd imagine the Beast would just straight-up delete you.

[@sheldondrake8935]

I wouldn't wear a necktie within a meter of this thing

[@daledavies2334]

I would imagine a compression release lever is there somewhere. When rotated it pushes down on the exhaust rocker, lifting the exhaust valve off its seat a bit. Old Caterpillar engines with the pop motor starter had those. Even at -50°C you could get the pop engine running and let it warm up a bit. Meanwhile check fluid levels, fill fuel tank and release compression. Starter gear in low and engage the clutch. Now the diesel is turning over without fuel injection and the starter engine exhaust ran through a pipe in the intake manifold to help preheat the intake air. Then you could sit in the truck and have a coffee from your thermos. This is getting the thick oil warmed up and pumping. Now go out and change to high gear in the starter and go have another coffee. After about 10 minutes more or so the diesel is loosening up, so you can climb up and push the throttle lever ahead to idle fuel position. The diesel will start poping in the exhaust and blowing smoke rings. Eventually it will kick the starter bendix out. Turn the starter engine fuel off and shift to neutral. Idle the starter down and let it run out of fuel to let the float drop and not bounce and flood the starter engine. The float bouncing would hammer the needle and seat out. Left the diesel warm up some more before hoing to work.

[@gerrycarmichael1391]

A 4 cylinder engine with the same displacement as a Merlin!

[@barryphillips7327]

27ltr 4 cylinder long stroke engine MONSTROUS TORQUE 128mph at around 1200rpm in top gear. A TRUE BEAST in every sense of the word!!!!

[@forzettocorsa]

As a 26 year old, this is still my all time dream car, I’ve always wanted to ask Duncan at the FOS if I can crank it for him 😂 to be fair though it looks like it would snap my arms in half

[@SH-gr1bc]

I'm upvoting because of the gay innuendo...

[@michaelhartzell9758]

I believe it has a spring starter of some kind storing the energy than letting it go to turn the beast over.

[@jservice6594]

@@michaelhartzell9758 Yes, I'm very curious about that.

[@legoferrari14]

Thankfully for the many of us whom this car is out of reach for, there is a dev team of modders for Assetto Corsa that is working on immortalizing the car in the sim. Historic Sim Studios have done the 3d renders but now it's a matter of optimization, physics and sounds.

[@forzettocorsa]

@@legoferrari14 it’s been tried before but never come to light, the only problem is animating the drive chain from the engine to the axel! Let’s hope the version you are on about makes it to the game, if you need physics for this I’d be more than willing to write them up if you can point me in the direction of where to contact the modders making the project

[@moschettiflavio3635]

Reverse gear? Reverse gear is for the weak. For those who want to go backward. We want to move forward. if you have parked in the garage forward you have to go through the wall. (and with an engine like this it would not be a problem and you would certainly do it faster than turning the wheels by hand ....)

[@poly_hexamethyl]

That looks like the automotive equivalent of the Gee Bee airplane :-)

[@nunyanunya4147]

SAY GEEVES! I THINK ILL JUST WALK!!!! SHALL I ANNOUNCE YOU SIR? .... DONT THINK THATS NECESSARY OLD BOY!

[@ttburn6338]

Starting the "Beast" separates the men from the boys.

[@rockets4kids]

Seven liters per cylinder. Let that sink in.

[@jamesjustin5095]

Hand crank 1700 cubic inches.

[@benjimc1]

Each cylinder is a sink

[@peterherrington3300]

What's the compression ratio , I assume extremely low .

[@flamingfrancis]

Red or white?

[@deletesoon70]

Sounds like a Buddy Rich drum solo!

[@Tim2716]

I can smell the fumes of this car, through this video.

[@charlesharper7292]

Saw this car being started viewed from the left side. When she fires, the engine rocked violently to the right, fired up and spit fire like a red dragon! AWESOME!!!

[@karelpgbr]

Some Italian lad full of Limoncello and a brain made from spaghetti thought this was a good idea, and I agree!

[@ronaldspencer547]

It has the special "impale-o-matic" steering wheel!

[@costantinoromano3415]

Bellissima macchina!

[@jimcrawford5039]

what a machine indeed!

[@Chr.U.Cas1622]

👍👌👏 I absolutely love this famous beast! It's as simple as can be: Manual reverse gear! ;-) :-) At low rpm one can really hear each and every cylinder firing. Best regards, luck and health.

[@barryphillips7327]

Look up other videos of it, of the left hand side, NO exhaust NOTHING just two holes watch closely you can see the valve stems in this BEAST!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@daveh3777]

Love the reverse gear. 😅

[@NJPurling]

To drive that through the Blackwall or Tyne Tunnels... The staff at the other end wondering what the hellish cacophony of noise is until the Fiat bellows past them spewing tongues of flame like a demon escaping Hell. Or a near-empty motorway in the early hours. 70mph in top gear at only 300rpm. Driving this car in anger requires balls of an altogether different degree than a F1 driver. 290BHP doesn't sound a lot these days, but 2000ft/lbs of torque as well and tyres that look like they came from a motorcycle of the same era.... I think it was Mr Pittaway that likened driving the car to wrestling a Gorilla. Even on a DRY road it must be a handful with the long wheelbase.

[@davidwebb2318]

Good job the weedy kid didn't try to turn the engine over. He would never have managed it!

[@joergmaass]

Every Fiat 500 driver wants this engine...

[@voornaam3191]

I simply LOVE those Italians, for selling a TWO cylinder engine Fiat 500. The four cylinders are very very very boring.

[@juniorarts-pinturas3265]

Uma bomba.

[@globaleye8]

Not the ideal car for a bank job ! 😁

[@tjm3900]

Can somebody explain the starter on this. I thought for a minute he was going to crank it over compression.

[@nevm3619]

Cranks to get fuel into cylinders then trips buzz coil ignition. Engine then fires and runs. Model T can do this with the buzz coils.

[@A_Bit_of_Thought]

@@nevm3619 Is there a compression release mechanism to make the monster size engine easier to crank?

[@mySelf-yx4hw]

Does it have some sort of wind up starter ?

[@nameless5413]

everyone *made varyations of reasonable sports cars, some turbocharged, some not but usualy fairly conservative* italians *made S76* .... because Italians are just that special kind of mad adventurers we all need in engineering. if this was pure field of science they'd be Herbert West - doing the impossible because they bloody well can!

[@ociepa5521]

Son moteur est plus gros qu'un moteur de camion de 44 t ! 4 cylindres avec une cylindrée unitaire de plus de 7 litres ( cylindrée d'un gros V8 américain !! ) c'est les écolos qui vont pas être contents !!

[@ngauruhoezodiac3143]

At 28 litres that must be heavy to crank. Does it have decompression valves?

[@someone46018]

What is that chain made of to support 2000 pounds of torque?!!! 🤯

[@rudolphbondefangerer5513]

Thank God, my Fiat Doblo is way easyer to start than that thing...

[@ginobonamente4669]

Fiat, insegnò al mondo come si costruiscono i capolavori!!!!!

[@us4747]

Tutti hanno fatto la loro parte, chi più...chi meno. Forse Fiat ha anche sfruttato le industrie rubate ai Borbone che era a quel tempo la terza potenza al mondo. Hanno fatto in modo da distruggere anche la fabbrica di motociclette avviata negli anni della II guerra mondiale nella provincia di VV e che dava fastidio alla concorrenza perché troppo buone... Fiat imparò presto a distruggere gli avversari con quei mezzi.

[@Dodger2879]

I'd love to see this up against today's F1 cars. Let's see Max Verstappen pull his childish moves against this rock on wheels. What a beautiful sound! Thankyou.

[@vipervidsgamingplus5723]

As soon as a modern f1 car gets around this, the race is over. A modern F1 car handles corners better, has better acceleration, higher top speed, better brakes, more responsive throttle, and on tracks, better lap times. You wouldn't have to really consider this car as more than an obstacle on the track. If all of them were in cars from the same era as this, it would probably wipe the floor with them.

[@Dodger2879]

@@vipervidsgamingplus5723 Did you work that out all on your own? Well done!

[@markgoddard2560]

I started a car once.

[@petersavage4207]

Did the guy in the tee shirt have any clue whatsoever 🤔

[@scopex2749]

No good for getaways from a bank job……..

[@ovalwingnut]

Wow. Hard core! Clearly it used one of the Titan's engines, yes? Very COoL. You got to love "reverse" :O)

[@martinalejandrosilva4837]

Simplemente hermoso

[@jonhg92]

although i was supposed to watch the awesome record setting 28 liter car, i couldn't help but watch the semi-trailer volkswagen at 0:47

[@thedoctor2102]

Fuck they’ve tuned beautifully

[@kiwikeith7633]

Okay, I admit exaggeration - BUT my first thought was "Good Lord - that could power a container ship!"

[@andrewlawson5779]

I'd call it the terror of Torino

[@donnyrover1]

good god , it looks and sounds like its from another planet brought back by flash gordon , incredible machine .

[@flamingfrancis]

Now you know why gymnasiums were not easy to find back in the day. I can well imagine the youth of today not knowing what the crrank handle is for and trying to find a place at the rear.

[@anonymous-ts5ih]

I love that this beast is more safe to handcrank start than a Tin Lizzie.

[@jamesdecross1035]

What a monster!

[@garrisonnichols807]

So what type of car is this?

[@christopherd2100]

Believe it or not this is a fiat.

[@armorer94]

@@christopherd2100 can't be. They actually got it to run.🤣

[@Kevin-oh2je]

Get it to do a burnout

[@nealefrazer4247]

Trembler coil ignition amd then switch over to Mag...

[@michaelhartzell9758]

I see this was filmed 7 months ago or at least posted then. I hope the BEAST is up and running well inspite of the pandemic. That thing is my dream car ( I could walk to work before getting it started ) with its belching and burping that coffee can sized piston motor can come and hide in my garage. What a treasure to have that still running. I'd love to see it in person!

[@WendelRLima]

Were exaust mens ?

[@brianhealey5286]

One has to love watching the gas drip out of the carb before cranking...a bucket list experience for anyone who love racing cars.

[@neiltitmus9744]

If i was ever lucky enough to have a car like that i would buy a starter

[@roccocorbino3279]

Like the chain drive … this one is for you Costa and Peter

[@gjmob]

Is that Ben Collins? The original Stig.

[@richardmckrell4899]

So he has to charge a spring of some type to start it?

[@williamsporing1500]

I wonder how much that beast weighs? Fabulous car!

[@voornaam3191]

That's no use. The medieval 21st century people still use their local stone as a reference. You need to check in which state they are, to convert their medieval units to metric. Most annoying.

[@TheArpny2k]

1,650 kg (3,638 lb)

[@LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1]

I would like one for Christmas

[@Ярикводила-х2м]

не знаю как вас но меня смушает с какой силой из карбюратора льётся бензин

[@xerxespamplemousse6622]

Electric vehicles will never, never, ever inspire the same excitement and thrill of ICE beasts like this. Just as there is no modern diesel locomotive that inspires and thrills as the big steam locomotives do.

[@mathijshelder8354]

awesome

[@walterfanborba434]

Naqueles tempos a chave do carro era a manivela

[@Fly4aWhiteGuy]

What fuel does it use?

[@jonnun7713]

what a beautiful beast!

[@marshallman1au]

What an AMAZING car!!!!

[@FreiheitInDeutschland]

Bus a telsa Car. Works always

[@madcarew5168]

All that sound smoke power down to a chain drive!!!

[@rogerjenkinson7979]

Chain drive and no cowl. Didn't Parry Thomas die when his chain drive snapped and decapitated him?

[@parishaydaressences3359]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jorgefernandez-mv8hu]

What a beast!

[@johnholzhey8149]

28.5-liter inline-four was capable of providing an impressive 300 hp

[@Schlipperschlopper]

Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Now they even want to slow down all the gas pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime. "Bundesabgasbespaßungsverbot" in German. :-//

[@johncfalk]

Yeah as of now this isn’t true.

[@Schlipperschlopper]

@@johncfalk Its not so easy, sadly also China dictates the end of use of all combustion cars worldwide. Its not about the environment....Chinas boss Darth Xi told most politicians that they wont do any business with underdeveloped countries that still allow CO2 emitting traffic, aircrafts, ships or combustion based industry after 2030...I am sure USA and UK also will be forced by China to 100% electric traffic because today no industrialized country can afford sanctions by China.... China just rules the world and wants to sell lithium and e cars...:-(

[@philippepanayotov9632]

This will never happen in the poor parts of the EU. In Bulgaria and in the Balkans in general, we still drive Euro 1 and 2 cars. We will drive cars with ICE for at least another 50 years. Petrol engines can run on natural gas. The conversation is affordable. Nobody can deprive millions from motorisation.

[@benjimc1]

Your information is incorrect, the sale of brand new ICE cars will be banned but expect them to still be buzzing around well into 2050

[@Schlipperschlopper]

@@benjimc1 well the greens and China just dont accept combustion vehicles after 2030, the female vice president of Friday for future Mrs Reemtsma stated that FFF cant garantee that there wont be fanatic climate activists shooting their pumpguns on motorists using the german Autobahn if the people do not stop using ICE cars quickly.... Now tell me who wants to die using an ICE car because of FFF terrorists?

[@Kaghemsuha]

Duncan stole the engine of this car.

[@ingvarhallstrom2306]

Could you please expand on that?

[@Kaghemsuha]

@@ingvarhallstrom2306 Sure. That engine was at the Capetti Collection in Turin under the responsability of the Politecnico of Turin, On the 2nd of march2005 that engine was borrowed ( Why?????For a restoration that should be involve the Bath University) to Duncan that gave back , on 11 of decembre of 2006 , a not working replica. Unfortunately only In 2016 a certain Leonardo Sordi discovered that that engine wasn't the orignal one; an expertise certified that was only a replica ,a really good replica , made of brass ; for making more difficult bolts unscrewieng was used a special glue, there wasn't any signs of usury and dimensions were bigger than the original .Carabinieri invetigated but too many years were passed and for the lawsuit was too late.

[@ingvarhallstrom2306]

@@Kaghemsuha Interesting. I want to know more about this. It would be interesting of they opened up a full investigation.

[@nbrowne73]

@@Kaghemsuha Well regardless , at least the engine is up and running and beeing used rather than just collecting dust in a collection ..

[@us4747]

Even the Piedmontese are thieves and have plundered southern Italy, the Kingdom of Naples, of all its riches. They carried out massacres and raids that nobody wants to talk about now and they called it "unification of Italy"

[@boataxe4605]

You’ll notice that it has two seats. One is for the driver and the other is for the original Fix It Again Tony.

[@studiocalder818]

First In Any Trial

[@boataxe4605]

@@studiocalder818 Except for the trial of 1970’s Chicago street’s. I know of one that failed that trial miserably.

[@M0butu]

I thought 2nd seat is for the coal shoveler.

[@barrycarleton1298]

I still recon you should fit original exhaust pipes as per the first one.

[@bolabillargmail]

“The Beast of Túrin” Most curious! I don't remember Glaurung being red, but it certainly has the size and the firepower parts to a T.

[@kdogger]

A man of culture

[@simonz28]

if i ever get the chance to go to goodwood , this is seriously the only car i want to see , what a thing of beauty

[@CesareSpina-i9b]

Sembra un grande giocattolone

[@62cripple]

'Kin love this beast ......!💖🇳🇿🍻