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Understanding the Maserati 8CTF's Supercharged Inline 8 Engine and Cockpit

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Indy 500 Legends Testing Day: Inside Access! Classic Race Winning Cars Back On Track

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The 1939/1940 Maserati 8CTF, known as the "Boyle Special," is introduced as the only fully Italian-built car to win the Indy 500. Its supercharged inline 8 engine is shown, featuring numerous Maserati logos stamped on various components, including the gearbox. The cockpit reveals a unique design with the driveline running straight underneath the driver. The dashboard includes a "Benzina" (Italian for fuel) gauge, with an added English translation of "Fuel On." The large, beefy spark plugs are also noted.

Goal: Observe the unique engineering and cockpit features of an early European race car.

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tank that they used in aircraft also we've got our 19391 1940 Indianapolis 500 winner this is still to this day the only fully Italian built car to win the Indie 500 it's got a supercharged inline 8 Maserati and this was a Grand Prix car so it was not a you know Indie 500 built car but wilver Shaw saw the performance and so of the Grand Prix circuit tracks over in Europe and went to uh Bole the team owner and said if you get me this car I guarantee we'll win the race he almost won three races in a row with this um if it wasn't for a wire wheel collapsing in 41 but you can see Maserati stamped their their logo everywhere on the gearbox I'm sure you saw on the valve covers here as well it's just very very elegant chassis very elegant design is a benzen Italian for fuel on so they had to put the English translation there I'm guessing know how to work it either that or it's a brand name oh see oia that must be oil benzen must be fuel cuz that's on the gauge there too and you can see in comparison to the rasers that came a few years later the drivetrain going straight underneath the driver oh yeah I'm on my way to speaking Italian now I just look at some cars and you can look at this and just yeah so when I run out of gas somewhere I could be like benzen and they'll know they'll know I'm stuck how many times have you taken your vehicle somewhere to get something fixed and they tell you what's wrong with it and they fix something and it doesn't even fix the problem you had I bet that's happened to all of you at least once having a diagnostic tool like Carly can help you figure out what's wrong with your car instead of taking it to somebody who's going to charge you a lot of money to do the exact same thing 375,000 mil on this truck and it's got one of these Carly's app and scanner can provide manufacturer level diagnostic itics let's find out what's wrong with Elvis it's going to be several things yep it says we got a bad glow plug see this is cool it gives you all this diagnosis that you don't have to search for yourself if you don't know what a glow plug is in my case it tells you exactly what it's for typical code readers do not do this you can also do battery health check which in my case my batteries are a few years old and they're at 80% after a day of data login so it's pretty good sometimes those errors can be caused by random electrical bugs or moisture or something so Carly you can clear them and see if they come back then you know the problem is real…

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