Hand-Built Speedster With a 27L V12 Tank Engine Will Do 204 MPH… if You Dare

the drive ^ | 8/28/21

[mylife]

If your taste runs toward long, strapping aluminum cars with a massive engine stuffed inside, the Meteor 27-liter V12 Special is your love connection. It’s delightfully stocked with a Rolls-Royce Meteor engine lifted from a Centurion tank, the chosen battle vehicle of the British Army. It loves long drives on the beach and welcomes the stares as it rolls by.

Before you embark on an affair with this custom hand-built vehicle, know that this is an expensive date: it has a 25-gallon gas tank that gets only five to ten miles per gallon. You'll also want to note that it can't be run to its full potential of 204 miles per hour unless you get some proper tires for it, because the current set is rated for 135 mph. It doesn’t come with a chassis number or engine number, either, and it needs a little TLC. But it has a tank engine. I approve of your elopement.

[mylife]

Pure steam punk fun!! way better the a British ferret scout car... but it could use machine guns and grenade launchers.

[mylife]

[Pollard]

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Jay Leno will probably end up buying it.

[Pollard]

Beat me by 12 seconds. Funny that we both picked 800px width

[mylife]

the original was very large

[Pollard]

He’s already got a hand made stainless steal car with a V-12 but it’s a GMC V-12 from the 60s.

[nevergore]

OMG.....it’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

[mylife]

good on Leno.

[Bob434]

Lol yup. What a collectjon he has

[mylife]

Its got no wings mate!

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[mylife]

Or Jeremy Clarkson

[mylife]

Outstanding!!!

[Pollard]

Something a little more refined; 1950 Ferrari 166 MM Barchetta Touring

Full size; https://www.jpgcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/1950-Ferrari-166-MM-Barchetta-Touring.jpg

[Impala64ssa]

Think of what this gas guzzler could do to our fragile planet! Think of Karen Longstocking's feewings!

Otherwise, BADASS!!

[nevergore]

Maybe...maybe not.......

I’d have to drive it to prove one way or the other..... :^)

[mylife]

really? a belt to hold down your bonnet?

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Hey, Italians liked their leather. It’s a fashion statement.