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Hairy Dan

Member Since: 25 Apr 2013
Location: NW Durham
Posts: 1426

1998 Defender 90 V8 Petrol 50th Auto Chawton White

The Beast 27 Litre Merlin V12 for sale

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I remember reading about this car in Street Machine all those years ago and watching Top Gear when they covered it, well it's now up for auction at Car and Classic https://www.carandclassic.com/auctions/197...ast-8bEqL4 John Dodds who built the car really was an excentric Englishman and I don't think we will ever see anything like this again

Car and Classic Video

Top Gear video from 1998

Cheers Ian
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4th Mar 2023 4:04pm

lohr500

Member Since: 14 Sep 2014
Location: Skipton
Posts: 1328

2013 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Santorini Black

That is spooky !!

It was only a couple of days ago that this link was showing in my Facebook feed.

https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/1466171617487927

Same registration number on both the Facebook car and the car and classics car .

I wonder if he got his knuckles rapped from Rolls Royce over the grille on the 1st version?

4th Mar 2023 4:33pm

Hairy Dan

Member Since: 25 Apr 2013
Location: NW Durham
Posts: 1426

He did, they took him to court over it, they mention it in the video. He drove the car to court and "broke down"

in Fleet street in front of all the newspaper offices and then when the judge said he had a cavalier attitude he turned up to court on a white horse. It sounds like he was absolutely bat-

crazy but in the good way

Cheers Ian
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4th Mar 2023 4:37pm

markb110

Member Since: 22 May 2010
Location: Guildford
Posts: 2655

Well that's a bummer

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4th Mar 2023 6:12pm

Moo

Member Since: 01 Oct 2021
Location: UK
Posts: 1436

Perfect addition for Jay Leno's garage.

4th Mar 2023 6:35pm

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17588

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Stornoway Grey

I remember that too, one of the most revolting creations in the history of motoring, what a waste of a Merlin! The sort of thing which sadly, you cannot "un-see".

I'm prepared to accept however that it is possibly the ultimate monument to British eccentricity, and I hope it finds an appreciative new home (and remains out of sight there).

lohr500 wrote:
... I wonder if he got his knuckles rapped from Rolls Royce over the grille on the 1st version?

Worth remembering that Rolls themselves had a run-in with Sizaire Berwick around 1914 over the design of the grille, and if my memory serves me right it was established that SB had registered the design and RR hadn't. Eventually a settlement was reached which resulted in the SB grille gaining a shallow "V"-shaped profile, RR's version remaining flat.

4th Mar 2023 6:51pm

custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
Posts: 20599

I saw that a while ago too, nice engine but doesn’t look nice GBR
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4th Mar 2023 8:21pm

LandRoverAnorak

Member Since: 17 Jul 2011
Location: Surrey
Posts: 11324

lohr500 wrote:
That is spooky !!

It was only a couple of days ago that this link was showing in my Facebook feed.

https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/1466171617487927

I love the way that they casually jump in a 700hp home built car and don't even both with seat belts

Darren

110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak

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5th Mar 2023 8:39am

Mountain_man

Member Since: 09 Dec 2011
Location: Right side of Offas Dyke
Posts: 756

Been following these mad Swedish guys fitting a "similar" engine in a more modern car. Slight better looking end result but still not without problems along the way.

https://www.youtube.com/@TheMeteorInterceptor/videos

5th Mar 2023 12:55pm

Hairy Dan

Member Since: 25 Apr 2013
Location: NW Durham
Posts: 1426

Jonny Smith has been driving it also

and despite what markb110 mentions above it is exempt if you go to the TFL site

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It's up to £40K on the auction at the moment with 6 days to go

https://www.carandclassic.com/auctions/197...ast-8bEqL4 Cheers Ian
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9th Mar 2023 10:28pm

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