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that dunt count! it int a piston injun
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yeah but think of the POWER!!! if pushed it can take off then just go strait up, and is not exactly a small bird is it
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wheey they have finaly restored it. its quite close to me i think its at a place called Bruntingthorpe. Amazing plane. that p-51 and helicopter looked very expensive :O
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heres some splurge about the one i was looking for but i was unable to get a vid of it
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Michael Wilcock of Sussex, England built the Swandean Spitfire Special[1], using a Merlin XXV engined acquired from a a scrap yard for fifty pounds. The engine was installed in a home-brewed chassis confected from two Daimler Dingo scout car chassis. The car was run in the Brighton Speed Trials[2] in 1953, and was sold to James Duffy of St. Louis, Missouri in 1956. As of 2005, the vehicle is still in St. Louis, where it is undergoing restoration.
In the 1960s, Paul Jameson put a Merlin engine (some say it actually was a Rover-built Rolls-Royce Meteor, which was a de-tuned Merlin without superchargers and with steel components replacing some aluminium ones) into a chassis he had built himself. He did not get around to building a body, and sold the car to Epsom automatic transmission specialist John Dodd, who fitted a fibreglass body based on the shape of the Ford Capri and named the machine "The Beast[3]. Originally it had a grille from a Rolls-Royce, but after complaints from R-R themselves he had to change it. According to Dodd's account, he once drove past a Porsche driver on the autobahn who then called Rolls Royce asking about their "new model". The Beast was once listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most powerful road car. The engine came from a Boulton Paul Balliol training aircraft which would give 1,262 hp (941 kW) at 8,500 feet (2,600 m). No supercharger was fitted to the engine in car so it "only" delivered about 850 hp (630 kW). The car used a General Motors TH400 automatic transmission. The Beast is alive and well in Marbella, Spain and is still owned by Dodd. It is still taxed in the UK; a DVLA search shows the engine capacity as 27000 cc.
In the mid-1970s, Jameson designed a second Merlin-powered car. This one had six wheels - two in front and four driven at the rear - and a mid-engined layout. The vehicle was featured by the British weekly motoring magazine "Motor"), and is said currently to reside in a museum in Sweden.[citation needed]
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Michael Wilcock of Sussex, England built the Swandean Spitfire Special[1], using a Merlin XXV engined acquired from a a scrap yard for fifty pounds. The engine was installed in a home-brewed chassis confected from two Daimler Dingo scout car chassis. The car was run in the Brighton Speed Trials[2] in 1953, and was sold to James Duffy of St. Louis, Missouri in 1956. As of 2005, the vehicle is still in St. Louis, where it is undergoing restoration.
In the 1960s, Paul Jameson put a Merlin engine (some say it actually was a Rover-built Rolls-Royce Meteor, which was a de-tuned Merlin without superchargers and with steel components replacing some aluminium ones) into a chassis he had built himself. He did not get around to building a body, and sold the car to Epsom automatic transmission specialist John Dodd, who fitted a fibreglass body based on the shape of the Ford Capri and named the machine "The Beast[3]. Originally it had a grille from a Rolls-Royce, but after complaints from R-R themselves he had to change it. According to Dodd's account, he once drove past a Porsche driver on the autobahn who then called Rolls Royce asking about their "new model". The Beast was once listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most powerful road car. The engine came from a Boulton Paul Balliol training aircraft which would give 1,262 hp (941 kW) at 8,500 feet (2,600 m). No supercharger was fitted to the engine in car so it "only" delivered about 850 hp (630 kW). The car used a General Motors TH400 automatic transmission. The Beast is alive and well in Marbella, Spain and is still owned by Dodd. It is still taxed in the UK; a DVLA search shows the engine capacity as 27000 cc.
In the mid-1970s, Jameson designed a second Merlin-powered car. This one had six wheels - two in front and four driven at the rear - and a mid-engined layout. The vehicle was featured by the British weekly motoring magazine "Motor"), and is said currently to reside in a museum in Sweden.[citation needed]
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av gorra pic of "the Beast" somewhere up in the loft. saw it at a car show at ally pally years ago.
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The Mustang was originally built to a British war Office specification by the Americans, but with its Allison engine was under powered, so as with many of the truly great planes of the second world war it only came into its own when some one stuck a Rolls Royce Merlin into it. Then with the addition of disposable under wing fuel tanks it had the range to escort the poor buggers who were sent out in Flying Fortresses (my father in law being one of them) to bomb Germany in daylight.
Two extra Merlins were added to the Avro Manchester to produce the Lancaster.
Sounds a bit like British Leyland chucking the 3.5 V8 lump into anything they wanted to improve (Triumph Stag, MGB GT, and of course lopping off two cylinders for the Metro 6R4 rally car)
I used to live under the flight path of the V bombers when they were our nuclear deterrent. They used to practise low level flying over the Yorkshire dales, and occasionally one would underestimate the hill opposite our house. You'd see black smoke pouring out of all four enegines, and the windows in the house would rattle like hell.
Two extra Merlins were added to the Avro Manchester to produce the Lancaster.
Sounds a bit like British Leyland chucking the 3.5 V8 lump into anything they wanted to improve (Triumph Stag, MGB GT, and of course lopping off two cylinders for the Metro 6R4 rally car)
I used to live under the flight path of the V bombers when they were our nuclear deterrent. They used to practise low level flying over the Yorkshire dales, and occasionally one would underestimate the hill opposite our house. You'd see black smoke pouring out of all four enegines, and the windows in the house would rattle like hell.
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wow that must have been noisy. my grandad used to fly in them as navigator.
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One of the joys of living out in the country near military bases others were squaddies learning to drive in series Landys, or driving along the nice roads the Army had widened to allow Chieftan tanks to be driven by squaddies, when cresting a hill you found yourself looking down the business end.
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wow all we get from living next to RAF wittering are A-WAC's and Harriers which are gone in a flash. and the ocasional scorpion tank.
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it werent actually the williams gp. it were frank williams himself
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Remember a good quote from one of the drivers of the 6R4 during a usual cold RAC rally in wales when asked if the cold affected him he said" not with a 6 cylinder lump behind my shoulder" course most of the car was fibreglass.
Also noted that pictures of Dodds beast are without a Rolls Royce Grille as Rolls Royce took exception to him using one, and took him to court
Also noted that pictures of Dodds beast are without a Rolls Royce Grille as Rolls Royce took exception to him using one, and took him to court
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How did they cool that thing, I thought it would need extra gill slits, grill looks tiny in proportion to the body,
