{"id":696555,"date":"2010-03-20T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=41009"},"modified":"2010-03-20T11:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T15:00:25","slug":"1935-monaco-trossi-radial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/696555","title":{"rendered":"1935 Monaco Trossi Radial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-41010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/1935-monaco-trossi-radial\/monaco-trossi1935\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-41010\" title=\"Monaco-Trossi1935\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monaco-Trossi1935-500x342.jpg?resize=500%2C342\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re looking at the most insane car ever built. It&#8217;s a 1935 Monaco Trossi racer with an air-cooled, two-stroke 16-cylinder radial engine driving the front wheels. Just picture it\u00a0howling down the straight at Monza at 150 miles per hour, looking like a lit cigar on wheels, engine roaring, headers glowing.<\/p>\n<p>It was the brainchild of technician Augusto Monico. It was built on an aircraft-style space frame and rocked independent suspension all around. It also had hydraulic brakes, a rarity for the time. Unfortunately, the car had 75\/25 front\/rear weight distribution and suffered from uncontrollable oversteer. It never actually raced and was only driven a few times during the testing phase. Today it&#8217;s locked up in the Museo dell&#8217;Automobile in Turin, its version of Arkham Asylum. Will the batshit car ever escape and get a chance to vaporize its front tires and kill race car drivers? One can hope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/eI0TEnp5J0_gI5LbBIeBIY5Izlg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/eI0TEnp5J0_gI5LbBIeBIY5Izlg\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/eI0TEnp5J0_gI5LbBIeBIY5Izlg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/eI0TEnp5J0_gI5LbBIeBIY5Izlg\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re looking at the most insane car ever built. It&#8217;s a 1935 Monaco Trossi racer with an air-cooled, two-stroke 16-cylinder radial engine driving the front wheels. Just picture it\u00a0howling down the straight at Monza at 150 miles per hour, looking like a lit cigar on wheels, engine roaring, headers glowing. It was the brainchild of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2VcL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}