The Beast - former Rolls Royce-badged Merlin / Meteor-engined car

PPC might have put one in a Rover SD1, but this was started in 1960.

Once listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most powerful road car:



Caught fire and was rebodied by 1980:



Rolls Royce got shirty, court case lost, & duly imigrated to Spain.

This was in Evo, Dec 2008, though grille (initials of owner) long since changed:



Check the drifting outside the High Court @ 3:32:

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there was a brief write up in ppc a couple of years ago.

 

I read about it there too.

Apparently still lives in Spain, but he brings it over every year for it`s MOT...

 

I bet he does.... !

I guess PPC must have referred to it.

Did a search on the net before posting and various Meteor engined things around. Three chassis done at the time of the yellow one, plus various Chevys around and a proper open wheeled racer (Goodwood/Brooklands style of car).

 

yea i remember seeing it in PPC and that bit about bringing to the Uk each yr for its MOT.

 

Jay Leno`s Tankcar?



It uses a 30-litre Patton tank engine, whereas the PPC SD1 uses the 27-litre Meteor tank engine (with Dodd`s car using it`s more famous sister, the Merlin)

Utterly nuts of course, but I`d love it in my garage...


Also, you`d think that searching Google with `PPC SD1` would take you to their site...

Nay, this was top of the listings!

Also this linked from the above.

 

K plate... means it's tax exempt too

 

I think it's a Meteor too.

 

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6-wheeler chassis c/w Merlin (not Meteor) made by the same guy who did the Dodd chassis:



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Loads more on the Beast here:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Beast-27-litre-Merlin-aeroengined-Car/86107059499

 

One of my local engineers has a plan to build a 4wd version of this using the 2500hp Griffin engine.

 

And people say the Vr6 is too big for a mk2.....

 

Fear not!