Road going Chevy P-51 for sale on ebay

I’m rolling about helplessly laughing Kansan – cant beleive you picked on the accuracy of the paint scheme….mate….honestly… 😀 😀

I was reading the link posted by G-ORDY and honestly I can’t believe the amount of historical material that went to the States.

Alex

Have a look at this link for a single-seat Merlin-powered car on Brighton seafront in the 1950s!

http://www.findonvillage.com/0761_the_swandean_spitfire.htm

Also, Jay Leno (a chat show host to our international friends) has a Merlin powered older Rolls Royce chassis…now a two seat roadster.

’34 Rolls, mate of mine did the re-body for him.

Aero-engined cars are nothing new.
Several “specials” were built in the UK post-war (WWI that is). In the US, cars were designed for the Curtiss OX-5.
I believe ther is a couple of Merlin powered cars currntly in the UK.
Also, Jay Leno (a chat show host to our international friends) has a Merlin powered older Rolls Royce chassis…now a two seat roadster.

Well… i think that paint job is cool 😎

And i would love to find out what it must sound like both beside it and driving it !! 😉

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Tone down the rivets and take out that red stripe on the national insignia and I’ll go along with you.

As for the sound – amen!

You should hear the V8 and V10 pickup trucks with the optional muffler accessory (ie no muffler at all – sometimes because it’s rusted through and there’s no equivalent to the MOT test in Kansas) – wonder if this thing has any silencing??

Rob

Well… i think that paint job is cool 😎

And i would love to find out what it must sound like both beside it and driving it !! 😉

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I wanna see that when you’re done!! 🙂 Where do you put the invasion stripes on a Ranchero?!

Same place as that ’55 Chevy, The rear wheel arches are 30inches so easy to measure out. The checkers on the nose will be 4.125in sq on the hood, er, bonnet & a tad wider where they go over the edge of the fenders. The hood is from a GT so it has a scoop thats angles like the Sgt’s stripes, the line of checkers will follow that angle over the side so they go about halfway back to the middle of the front wheel arches. The hood will be OD behind the scoop & the scoop itself is already flat black.
Something about the shape of a ’70 Ranchero that just lends itself to that paint job.
Did think about a Spit design, but it wouldn’t look “right”…. I think those old Ford P100’s would possibly work with a Hurricane paint job…or Tiffy? Guy at Van Nuys airport has a shark mouth on his Honda S200 (or whatever the hell those little 2 seaters are called)

& this coming from aguy who’s painting one of my ’70 Ranchero’s as the TFC P47… :rolleyes:

I wanna see that when you’re done!! 🙂 Where do you put the invasion stripes on a Ranchero?! Someone here has put two big black stripes down the middle of their white 2005 Mustang hardtop but I don’t think it’s an invasion stripe somehow.

Somewhere in Mexico there’s a 70’s Ford Mustang painted as “Old Crow” (the P-51, not the Whisky). Think I saw it on ebay.

Rob / Kansan

erm….. rather a lot of “panels” on the front of that thing….

Paint is a bit OTT.. & this coming from aguy who’s painting one of my ’70 Ranchero’s as the TFC P47… :rolleyes:

Still, you have to say the quality of workmanship looks very good….if nothing else 😀

For a $70,000 paint job they might at least have got the correct USAF cockarde/star-and-bar.

So the Autralian Government didn’t prohibit its export? Is this a new (laborious) way of smuggling historically sginificant Merlins out of Oz? 🙂

Why a 55? Couldn’t they make it fit in a Camaro? 🙂

Rob / Kansan

Firebird: your signature is quite fitting for this subject 😀

As for the Chevy, surely there are cheaper ways to kill yourself? (Probably less fun though)

I once heard about a guy sticking a P & W 985 radial in a pickup truck, the engine was powerful enough to absolutely DESTROY the rear end on the pickup…I can’t IMAGINE what this monstrosity would do..

Probably not a problem in this case, as IIRC, this ‘thing’ was built with a rear end as fitted to a Top Fueller or Funny Car and they cope quite well with almost 6,000hp.. 😉

Still, you have to say the quality of workmanship looks very good….if nothing else 😀

Good freakin god…..ya gotta be kiddin…I once heard about a guy sticking a P & W 985 radial in a pickup truck, the engine was powerful enough to absolutely DESTROY the rear end on the pickup…I can’t IMAGINE what this monstrosity would do..

M

I could see Steve Patterson in this. 🙂

Mark

I

WANT

IT

NOW

(and the car would be nice as well…)
BARNOWL

Shakes head and wanders off in abject amazement :confused:

Moggy

Strewth…look at that !! 😮 😮

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It’s just… blasphemous? 😮

*takes a long breath…another one…another one*

…ok, anybody fancy a hop to the other side of the pond to unbolt that poor Merlin outta that provocation on wheels?

Alex