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Re: The Beast
« Reply #15 on: 22 June 2008, 01:21:44 »
There's footage I've seen somewhere ,maybe on you tube now , of two guys in hooped sweaters and bell bottom jeans  in the sixties firing up an Avro engine  fitted to an old E93 Ford Popular and using a prop for propulsion,it's absolutley hilarious .
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Re: The Beast
« Reply #16 on: 23 June 2008, 20:23:04 »
Hey Lizzie, where do you think he fitted the battery on The Beast.   ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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« Reply #17 on: 23 June 2008, 20:27:54 »
Fookin ek!! just seen that!!! what a beast!!! I really want that!!! Hands off lizzy!  :y
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« Reply #18 on: 23 June 2008, 21:56:27 »
Wasn't there a story about an American who strapped a jet engine onto his motor and hit the gas pedal.... followed by the brake pedal... which then melted the brakes, blew out the tyres and the car then flew of the road.... the authorities had to identify him through his dental records after they'd extracted his teeth from a rock....

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Re: The Beast
« Reply #19 on: 23 June 2008, 22:21:40 »
It's something of an urban myth ...

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html

But the JATO engine reffered to is the Jet Asissted Take Off additional engines strapped to the side of a Hercules C130 ( 4 each side ) that help get 175,000 lbs of aircraft airborne in less than 250 ft ..... damned impressive.. :)

The rest of the Darwin awards can be accessed from that site as well .. use the links on the left hand side ... :)

Enjoy the stupidity of your fellow man ..  :)
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« Reply #20 on: 23 June 2008, 23:55:50 »
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Fookin ek!! just seen that!!! what a beast!!! I really want that!!! Hands off lizzy!  :y

Might be too slow for Lizzie if it only does 200 mph  ;D ;D ;D ;D
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« Reply #21 on: 24 June 2008, 00:55:26 »
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Fookin ek!! just seen that!!! what a beast!!! I really want that!!! Hands off lizzy!  :y

Might be too slow for Lizzie if it only does 200 mph  ;D ;D ;D ;D

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« Reply #22 on: 24 June 2008, 01:11:24 »
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Fookin ek!! just seen that!!! what a beast!!! I really want that!!! Hands off lizzy!  :y

Might be too slow for Lizzie if it only does 200 mph  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Yes, but I would get rid of that stupid bodywork and the chassis; in fact everything but the engine!  Then build a new car around the engine with modern road holding abilities and using ultra light, extra strong materials (Titanum Steel?), with the largest fuel tank possible (it is already converted to LPG for back up).  I believe the car (in the sixties) reached 250+, so with modern bodywork, turbo technology and electronics to match you must get up to 300+, that's if you had enough skill to hold it on the road!  :-X :-X  

All dreams of course as you would have to spend F1 scale money on it, so you would need to be a billionaire or find some very wealthy sponsors; an Arab oil shiek or three! ::) ::)

I think really the engine belongs in a Spitfire, and I would settle for a Ferrari! ;D :y
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Re: The Beast
« Reply #23 on: 04 July 2008, 14:19:52 »
I didn't realise, until a friend at work commented on aircraft engines fitted in cars, that there was so much interest in John's car.
We first looked at the Napier Bentley on the web, then I remembered John and his amazing car when I lived and worked next to Malaga airport. I was with a German mate buying fuel at the Rosaleda gas station next to the industrial estate near Malaga airport. We watched incredulously as a tall man was trying to pull the radiator out of a white silver shadow. The car was parked under the gas station's canopy. He looked like he was having a towing job so I asked in Spanish if we could help. "Sorry mate, don't speak the lingo" was his reply.
I explained that I was English. He laughed and we extracted the radiator and took it to a workshop in Malaga. After that we worked with him on many occasions and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I learnt a lot of tricks from John, but the best part of it was about 1983 or 4, when we took a drive through Benalmadena in that hot and noisy car. I remember him getting me to prime the carb with a Fairy Liquid bottle of petrol. He wouldn't let me drive it but then I've never been much of a fan of automatic transmissions. It had a Turbo 400 from a Cadillac if I remember correctly, and indeed did have a lot of poke
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