A bit disappointing really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plszQppI11c&index=2&list=TLlEh2pVlfFKEyMjAxMjAxNg
Moggy
By: Robbiesmurf - 1st February 2016 at 19:47
Wasn’t the Meteor a converted Merlin, to be used in armoured vehicles ?
Did a later “Beast” have an actual Merlin ?
The Meteor had about 80% commonality with the Merlin and RR swapped the factory with Bristol for their ‘jet jobbies’.
By: Wokka Bob - 23rd January 2016 at 21:15
I seem to remember, way back in the fifties/sixties, the ‘Brighton Run’ along the sea front, a chassis with a merlin on it that went like stink. Put my Panther 600 sloper to shame!!
By: j_jza80 - 23rd January 2016 at 16:48
This is more like it 🙂
By: Moggy C - 23rd January 2016 at 12:55
It’s a Rolls Royve Meteor, not a Merlin 🙂
Well no. It was a Rolls Royce Meteor, which might go some way to explain why I went to the trouble of putting the apostrophes around ‘Merlin’ in the thread title? 😉
Moggy
By: AlanR - 23rd January 2016 at 10:47
Wasn’t the Meteor a converted Merlin, to be used in armoured vehicles ?
Did a later “Beast” have an actual Merlin ?
By: DC Page - 23rd January 2016 at 04:37
Here’s another one with a Meteor engine that’s not quite as ugly. Beautiful teak boat tail, and it sounds great.
By: j_jza80 - 22nd January 2016 at 20:54
It’s a Rolls Royve Meteor, not a Merlin 🙂 I used to work with the chap who built it, it’s an incredible thing to behold, but is pretty pointless really 😀
By: stangman - 22nd January 2016 at 20:24
John Dodds “The Beas”t on Top Gear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxMxFE37Sxw
By: John Green - 22nd January 2016 at 15:11
Bentley
By: charliehunt - 22nd January 2016 at 14:52
Napier-Railton, for one!
By: J Boyle - 22nd January 2016 at 14:31
Remember that using aero-engines in specials wasn’t unheard of in the post WWI days.
By: John Green - 22nd January 2016 at 11:37
I think that this must have been the same chap who would, on occasion, run this beast up and down the runway at Biggin.
By: AlanR - 22nd January 2016 at 09:58
I remember a chap by the name of John Dodd doing something similar back in the early 70’s (?)
It looked like a super sized estate car with a Rolls Royce Merlin, complete with RR radiator etc.
He was taken to court over the use of the RR radiator. So he took it to Spain for a while.
Bringing it back with a different front end.
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