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Listening to that engine run made the hair stand up on the back of my neck!
I can't imagine how scary driving the Beast above 60mph would be, never mind north of 100mph. Drivers back in the 1910s had to have big brass ones!
As a friend of mine quipped, this is obvious evidence of the owner keeping straw in the cylinders to keep it warm during the winter. You would have to see the number of old Alfa engines in my friend's collection of agricultural barns with such internal 'furnishing' to fully appreciate the joke ....I wonder what those "glowing cinders" are that come flying out of the exhaust?
What an AMAZINGLY WONDERFUL machine!