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There are machines that spawned not sober calculation, not a specific goal or set of circumstances, and the pure and beautiful madness. What could be better than to put on the car 12-cylinder 27-liter engine from a fighter aircraft during the Second World War? Is that the place under the hood of the reactor nuclear submarine. But the dreams of the founders of the Beast engine submarine left to someone else, and made themselves one of the most irrational and incredible machines in history.

The car, which is known as The Beast (in translation - the beast), is strongly associated with its owner named John Dodd. Why then do we write - the creators? It's time to look at the history of the Beast. Initially the idea of ​​merging the aviation engine fighter of the four wheels of a vehicle is not owned by John Dodd. In the 60s a Paul Jameson got hold of the engine Rolls Royce Merlin, and was obsessed with the idea to build a car with the engine.





I wonder what to park in a car with the hood of this length, but still without power steering? From the grille to the windshield - 3 meters! And instead of the engine thrust can be, for example, the Toyota iQ and Smart.

Such engines volume of 27 liters were installed in many aircraft during the Second World War - for example, the famous British fighter Spitfire. This particular instance of an aircraft engine under the hood of the Beast moved from the fuselage trainer aircraft Boulton-Paul Balliol. During the transplant, he lost the blower and lost a bit of power - it has about 800 forces against the 1000 low from earlier versions with one supercharger. A later version with two successive supercharger issued in 2000 airplanes "horses" in the afterburner mode.



Paul Jameson independently designed and manufactured a unique chassis with front suspension from the Austin A110 Westminster sedan, and the rear of the limousine Jaguar XJ12. On it he found the engine, and to continue working on the car had to go to the Semi automatic transmissions guru John Dodd. Dodd had his company for maintenance, repair and completion of "machine" and an enormous engineering experience in this area, so this task has become for him a worthy professional challenge.



John Dodd had based three-step "automatic» GM TH400, strengthened him in a mad torque monstrous "heart" of the Beast and modified gear ratios at low speed motor (idle - 120 rev / min, "cutoff" - 2800). It so happened that in the course of work on the machine engineer transmissionschik fired up her idea and her father Paul Jameson project was not averse to sell it - so John Dodd became the owner of the future of the Beast. By the way the name of The Beast, he gave the car is.



At that time, the car was not the body, so the order was made fiberglass panels, which as a whole resembled its forms coupes Ford Capri. A radiator grille has been borrowed from some Rolls-Royce, which later gave rise to a lot of funny stories, while Dodd delivered a lot of troubles. Later in the garage Dodd was a fire, but the car survived, except Capri-like body. John did not lose heart and appealed to the bodybuilder studio to him blinded new body. This time was chosen format huge winged "shed", but Rolls Reuss grill was still in place.



John loved to walk its updated and is now even more brutal beast on German autobahns - smaller expanses of it just did not suit. Once merry Dodd again playfully "drove" a powerful driver Porsche, and the owner of the German sports car uyazvlёnny contacted the company Rolls-Royce, to find out everything about their new super-fast model. Rolls roysovtsy very upset to learn that their compromises some fool on a homemade rocket bullet and went to court.



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