55 Chevy with a twist

Dave81 · Post by **Dave81** » Thu May 23, 13 11:05 pm

Bet it handles like a pig, but my god do i want to drive it!

Seen some interesting and weird engineering and engine swaps in the past

This = Winner.......Mental!

Carl · Post by **Carl** » Fri May 24, 13 8:37 am

Nice but nothing new. In the 70's there used to be a yellow merlin engined Reliant scimiter doing the rounds, I remember seeing it at a custom car show at Southend Aircraft museum (no longer there) I tried to find a pic of it. It had a huge long bonnet and Rolls Royce grill, but RR complained and I think he had to take the grill off, dont know what happened to it as not heard of it for years.

Carl · Post by **Carl** » Fri May 24, 13 8:51 am

Found this though

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topi ... P%21&mid=0

Don · Post by **Don** » Fri May 24, 13 8:56 am

Carl wrote:Nice but nothing new. In the 70's there used to be a yellow merlin engined Reliant scimiter doing the rounds, I remember seeing it at a custom car show at Southend Aircraft museum (no longer there) I tried to find a pic of it. It had a huge long bonnet and Rolls Royce grill, but RR complained and I think he had to take the grill off, dont know what happened to it as not heard of it for years.

Hi Carl, the yellow Merlin engined car did look a little like a Scimitar but was in fact a one off car built by John Dodds, father of Paul Dodds who is a member of Surrey Muscle. John still owns the car and it lives in Spain. If you go on the Surrey Muscle web site and go to 'The Beast' it makes some fascinating reading, especially the court case about this car. Links to some great vids too.

Pete_B · Post by **Pete_B** » Fri May 24, 13 11:21 am

My Dad used to know John quite well, apparently he and his wife used to use it more or less as.a daily driver..... :-o

Don · Post by **Don** » Fri May 24, 13 11:34 am

Pete_B wrote:My Dad used to know John quite well, apparently he and his wife used to use it more or less as.a daily driver..... :-o

Yes I heard that story, cant possibly imagine how much gas you would have to feed it to drive it daily. I remember Paul bringing the car to the Guilford Cruise and i'm sure he mentioned 2 or 3 to the gallon - if your lucky!

Dave81 · Post by **Dave81** » Fri May 24, 13 12:50 pm

Carl wrote:Nice but nothing new. In the 70's there used to be a yellow merlin engined Reliant scimiter doing the rounds, I remember seeing it at a custom car show at Southend Aircraft museum (no longer there) I tried to find a pic of it. It had a huge long bonnet and Rolls Royce grill, but RR complained and I think he had to take the grill off, dont know what happened to it as not heard of it for years.

I know the one you are on about.....Have seen it many times!

Difference compared to the Chevy is that, as Don has pointed out, the Dodds car was custom built for it. The Chevy has retained its outer dims......an engineering marvel in itself!. Then they added a blower to the Chevy.........

Absolutely Mental........Hats of to both for making monster machines!

Up there with Leno's tank car!

adrianp · Post by **adrianp** » Fri May 24, 13 12:57 pm

God bless some of the 'nutcases' from my homeland

That car is insane.

adrian.

Dave81 · Post by **Dave81** » Fri May 24, 13 1:13 pm

Another mental man.

This time mopar.....Blown Hemi anyone.......