Yes,it does

I'm going to say "claimed" 200mph, is there any proof it actually did it?

@@eyesodd Not as far as I'm aware , but let's not let that get in the way of a good story !😂😂

@@Doug791 Of course not 😄. He was clearly a bit of a BS'er, not only claiming it would get to 200mph, but that was "cruising" 😂 Either way you've got to admire him for creating it regardless.

@@eyesodd If you couldn’t make a 700hp car go 200mph…

Look up the Michigan Mad man, EJ Potter, he was installing Alison V12's into cars in the early 60's. His first was his dads Mopar,with a marine gear box .....Before that he built Harleys with Chev V8's. America has a few eccentrics too.

Have you never seen a black cab or a double-decker bus

@@Mercmad I knew him; he was a fascinating guy. Brilliant mind, very talented. He used to race his motorcycle a couple miles away from my home when I was little.

You should of seen Jimmy Savile He had the Royals secrets and had sex with kids and got away with it That’s the most British thing

B.S

Fantastic? Yes, but only in the sense that almost every single thing he claimed about it, was the product of his imagination. This vehicle's capabilities weren't his only fantasies. That he thought _other_ people really would fall for his manifestly ridiculous claims, is as just as tragic. 😆

I really admire guys like this who can create things like this.

He seemed shook, like he'd just been told a world war had broken out or something. 😂

No it wasn't. You really think he had no idea leading up to that?

This was broadcast in 1974. I'm not surprised he was shocked, especially while still trying to process an airplane engine in a car. If my mate pulled up in his new car, opened the bonnet and showed me his nuclear powered car and announced it has 5,000 horsepower I would probably have the same reaction today.

@@gottliebdee263 He seemed genuinely surprised that it was an aircraft engine after all. If he really didn't know about anything other than car engines, 700bhp was off the charts back then. The 'normal' Rolls-Royces had about 260 I believe, and even Astons and suchlike were only in the 300s...

Yeah, when you consider that in Britain in the 70s, anything over 100 was considered decently powerful, 700 would have been pretty insane. The irony was that it was seemingly downrated from the original which would have been well into 4 figures, presumably to preserve whatever transmission he could get hold of...

Isn't he the guy that would travel the world fixing problems with GM autos? Turbo 400, and T/H 350s.

@@moyadapne968 He's also the guy that RR took to the cleaners

@@sichere The outcome was as follows; "Ultimately, Dodd - who provocatively wore a sweater with the interlocking Rs emblem to court - lost the case and, as a result of his animated ‘interjections’ during the proceedings, was relieved of his house and numerous other possessions, including a twin-engined aeroplane, for Contempt of Court."

@@jocramkrispy305 yep, I misread the comment. Immediate 🤦‍♂️

@@sichere apologies I misread your comment you were perfectly correct. I’ll try and be more circumspect in future and learn to read properly.

Wow so fascinating! Do you know anything about the owner and the car now?

A beast

@@44magnum73 The car passed down to his son. I believe it retired to Spain with the owner. I have seen a few tv items about it since the bonnet was lost in a fire. The remake has a different design which I don't feel is a stylish. Having been around the car, I felt that the interior was almost wholly Ford Capri, maybe the 3 litre GT which was a very popular performance car at the time. A few additional buttons, but definitely could not be mistaken for Rolls Royce. At the time, everyone marveled at his skills in marrying the automatic gearbox. It was after all his business (gearboxes), and this car was the greatest advert for that. Interestingly the houses were about 500yds from the home of James Hunt.

@@gkkes I saw a video of it recently and it has a horrible front design and the engine sounds sickly.

'70s **

😁

Almost exactly what I thought 😂

Who did who? 🤣🤣

Cross breeding can create some beastly things ! 😎

A Capri certainly made a donation here for sure! It`s now a convertable Capri !

wasnt he forced to rename it the john dodd special after rr sued him?

not many videos still exist of the first body i first saw the beast at belle view car show back in the 70s, and then at doncaster show 20 years later with the new body ,love it !!!!!!!

Yes, it's still in his ownership in Spain. He had it out for a run two days ago.

@@chasermalloy7406 what a joy to know that he still lives and enjoys driving the beast.

even if he was running 11's back in those days, thats extremely fast!!.

I also saw it at Santa Pod. I assume it was at the same meeting. Windscreen out of a jensen and rear window out of a 3 wheel Reliant if I remember correctly.

Wasn’t running anywhere near 10’s in later years, was at the pod a few times early 2000’s.

Interesting fact. I mean, you could've left the 2 pence off the end and it would've still been as impressive. 🤣

He was offered that by an American, but its souly British and he intends to keep it that way 😃

@@alexg1778 🤣🤣👍

I lived round the corner from the owners house in the 70's. My Dad bought the family home in 71 for £12k. They are about a million today.

suzanne soosie dod, is i think his daughters channel she films him in his eighties driving the beast, its a station wagon this time.

She has a little understeer, he almost t-boned that little Mustang 2.

@@rancon265 Yeah! Though the other car was a mk1 Capri

" Towards the end of his life " ? He had the car out for a run there yesterday.

John Dodd, proud eccentric Englishman. Never - not once - a "dude". Are we clear?

They took him to court accusing him of having a "cavalier attitude" so at the next hearing he rode there on a horse. He rebuilt it without the RR grille, it still runs to this day and both car and maker last time I checked, live in Spain. This is well publicised.

@@BaddaBigBoom Legend 🤣

I believe the German police got upset because of the speed it was doing on the autobahn and sent Rolls-Royce a letter asking them please not to test the new cars on the autobahn

@@steveosborne2297 ahh right 😃

The Rolls-Royce car company was sold to Volkswagen Audi but now makes only Bentleys because the aero engine company still owned the name, which they sold to BMW. So it seems having a RR aero engine was not enough to allow him to use the RR grille and badge.

neither do I, tyres not rated to that for a start

Worse than that is the consumption figures… 27 liter, v12, Merlin engine, 12/13 mpg???? No way

@@MrRodBraga I don't know so much, it's a h*ll of a lot lighter than the tank the engine originally came out of, and with the right gearing it would barely be ticking over at 30-40 mph. Could be surprisingly efficient.

@@MrRodBraga - Yeah, I'd be surprised if it did more than 5 mpg tbh.

@@Jimbo8012 exactly what I was thinking. V12s drink fuel, old ones doing barely into double figures. This engine is older and 4+times the size! I think the guy was a bit of a BS artist as several of the things he said in this interview sounded far fetched to say the least. Insane car though, I don't understand why he feels he needs to BS as just the truth is plenty incredible.

I think the body was built by a company called FGR, (fibre glass repairs)

Hopefully it's in someone's barn

The same guy still owns it, pretty remarkable really.

@@Hamtheman88 . It would be nice to see it out on the road. It would be worth a pretty penny now. Those motors are rare. What site do you go on to get the information on her. Thank you

Jay Leno would love to buy it today!

@@fidelcatsro6948 me to. A real eye turner. Rolling in the roller.

Centurions used a Meteor (essentially the same engine as that) so it's not too surprising on that end The speed is insane, surprised he didn't have multiple reverse gears for that

...it was controlled by a centurion tank governor !? Thanks, squire!

Actually homer had a Pontiac GTO

it was designed by Appu actually..

Yes, you would need rack and peanut steering to cope with a heavy engine like that .

Lol

I saw it in Krispy Kreme drive thru in New Malden. This version is definitely better looking....... But the noise is unreal

@@StoffelDilligas ah, New Malden, I remember it fondly. I went to Malden Manor junior school.

"John Dodds had the speedo calibrated to show 200mph when it was doing 150mph" - was he really such a shallow cheat?

@@LaurieWilliams-lk8fc No, it really was faster than a Veyron. Hey, I've got a London Bridge for sale.

@@moyadapne968 "Hey, I've got a London Bridge for sale." How about a quantity discount? Would you sell me 2 for the price of 3?

After a fire, it was rebuilt with new bodywork in beige.

Yes, Merlin is supercharged and runs avgas (100 octane). Meteor is NA and can run on then pool petrol (74 octane).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin_alternative_uses#The_Beast

Also many parts were used from Merlins once their flying hours had been used up !! Tis better to have a crankshaft failure 2 feet above the ground rather than 12000 ft !!!!

I did wonder about using lower-grade fuel. I'm not an expert, but it wasn't my understanding that most airplane engines were happy with it (except for Russian planes).

He did say the charger had been removed.

You don't understand power and torque. Your understanding of drag is partially wrong.

@@SalveMonesvol You, my friend are talking nonsense. Most people don't " understand power and torque " and you are clearly among them. MY description of drag is a simplified fundamental statement and the approximate 300KPH where it rises exponentially is completely correct. Show me how it is " partially wrong " Are you just a kid perhaps ?

@@chasermalloy7406 Event though I see how what I stated wasn't pleasing to hear, notice I didn't make it personal. POWER required to overcome Drag increases with the cube of speed, no matter if it's at 100km/h or 300 km/h. This only changes when approaching transsonic speeds. You only notice it more at high speeds because rolling ressistance and other losses that increase mostly linearly with speed become negligible with respect to air ressistance. Regarding torque, it's irrelevant. The important factors here are power and transmission loss. For the sake of argument, let's assume no transmission losses. You could have an engine with infinite torque and 10HP, as long as it's also turning infinitely slow. You could also take a motor with almost no torque and get an output of as much torque as the mechanism can take using harmonic drives, screws or a series of gears. Torque. Is. Irrelevant. But if you want to take into account, this would be why we talk about it: Do you know why truck engines have a lot of torque? Just because of efficiency. Large diesel engines can achieve higher thermal efficiencies, and they need less gearing than a small high rpm engine, which is more efficient. For high speed applications, you would have the inverse problem. A car with an engine with 2000NM at 1.000 rpm would need lots of gearing to reach high speeds. The closer you are to direct drive, the better (efficiency wise). Probably you already knew many things I said here, but this way it will be more usefull for anybody who finds it. I hope you just got mixed up. Maybe you have hands on knowledge and just never did calculations on aerodynamic ressistance... which result in a force (that needs to be equal to wheel torque) at a certain speed... and speed is distance over time... so force times distance is work... and work over time is... exactly, power.

@@SalveMonesvol " Not pleasing to hear " ? I'm not displeased, I'm just amused. And I didn't make it personal at all. I merely asked if you were a kid. I notice you chose not to answer that so I'll draw the obvious conclusion. So, all of your straight from textbook comments do not contradict my post. Your suggestion that torque is irrelevant isn't even worth responding to particularly as applied to this car. You can be assured that for road vehicle speed purposes the aerodynamics always hit a critical wall at around 300kph for most conventionally styles sedans. So copying stuff out of a book doesn't prove you understand it or know how it applies to every situation.

​@@chasermalloy7406 Firstly, I don't provide personal information to randoms on the internet. Now, did I have to read textbooks? Plenty. You are not following a logical path to defend anything you have stated. There's no magical 300 km/h wall. to go from 200km/h to 250km/h you will need roughly 2X the power. to go from 400 to 500 you will also need 2X the power. Of course you would also have to add rolling resistance and gearing losses, but that shouldn't make a big difference. Now, regarding your bs about torque: " It is not about the 700 BHP, it's about the enormous torque an engine of this size automatically produces. As long as you keep feeding it gears it will go faster and faster and its maximum would be way in excess of 200MPH" It IS about the power. The only important metric to reach high speeds is POWER to the wheels. It's irrelevant if the engine is making 100NM or 1.000.000 NM as long as it's making the same power to the wheels. You imagine torque the same way most kids do before they get proper physics education. Like a mystical force that keeps pushing as long as you keep the engine at peak torque. Maybe no ammount of explanation will be enough for you. You don't think in an orderly manner. In which case, I guess you will attempt to put me down in your next comment while also skipping any attempt to make your previous BS seel logical. If that is so, just save it and keep thinking the same way you did up to now. Make sure to be outspoken about it, make a fool of yourself. Yes, I made it personal there. You are a lost case.

🤣🤣 nice one

Not much sense in what you say. Seen the chassis construction ?

Centurion tank isn't it and made like 650 hp not 700. Also a meteor engine not a Merlin engine if I'm not mistaken

congratulations!

This was the pre-woke era when you could trust the BBC and they didn't lie through their teeth about everything.