Child: "Where did it go Grandad? I can't see through the smoke" Grandad: Just follow that black line on the ground and you'll find it easily".

Bet the guy didn't even touch the throttle! probably just let go of the clutch lol

burnout without even revving it lol

Best sound? The youngster laughing at the smoke Proof this fabulous engine will be loved thro' the generations.

"Once this baby hits 88mph, you're going to see some serious shit..."

If someone wants to know what low-end torque is, show them this video.

from looking at other videos of when its engine is on show, there are carburettors on top of an inlet manifold above the engine. which means its not supercharged. Merlins were. i believe this engine was converted to a meteor engine and fitted to a comet tank. some Merlin 63 engines were converted to ease the shortage of meteor engines, in essence the Meteor is the same base engine as the Merlin but uses cast rather than forged pistons and other internals and even Merlin scrap.

It is a Merlin engine originally converted to Meteor specs. by taking off the supercharger and putting on the Meteor manifolds and carbs. Robin Beech replaced the manifold and carbs with four triple downdraft Weber carbs off a Lancaster. In this form he reckons on about 1000 hp. He has however now thrown away the jets as they were too restricting and probably gets more hp now! And of course only 3.5 mpg. Rusty (Building a similar car in SA. I have kept my Meteor 4B engine standard as 650 hp is enough I reckon)

Nice! Torque monster

Back to the Future in a cloud o smoke !!

this gradpa have young heart and big balls

That's nice, some good old fashioned asbestos:)

chitty chitty bang bang

Where you there on the father's day 2012? My video of the Rolls-Royce hill climb must of been shot the same day as yours!

Wtf? All that power and only spun one wheel, love the independent rear suspension

The power went to the left wheel, does the engine turn over anticlockwise?

That's insane, I bet the engine produces so much power he can't actually translate it all to the wheels!

Torque torque good old torque

Why did it only burnout the left wheel?

And it has numberplates😳

Does that car have positraction?

This is a Merlin tank engine built by Rover is it not? In this case it produced 600 hp from 28 litres.

From what I've been able to dig up,after I found a video of the Beast and posted it on my timeline with Merlin specs,and then found out it had like 800 hp and no blower-which would make it a Meteor,not a Merlin-was that both the Beast and the Handyle Special had Merlins out of Hurricanes that were downgraded-one of the other cars also had one from a Hurricane,either the 56 Chevy in Austrailia or the one Rusty in South Africa-and either the one Rusty has or the one Dowd put in the Beast had been pulled from the Hurricane,detuned to a Meteor,and installed in a tank.....as far as I can find,the only car in the world with an actual Merlin is the 56 Chevy in Austrailia .....which I,personally,think is BULLSHIT! If you are going to brag about having a Rolls Royce Merlin in your car,have a Merlin ,not a well,once upon a time, a long time ago,it used to be a Merlin-I think..in it...at 800 hp,even with all of the torque,it's not worth all the hassles involved if it's not a real one,at least in my opinion-sure,it looks and sounds cool,but it is an insult to the great Merlin name if it's a Meteor-I had a 1970 Buick GS Stage 1 that was an under rated 385 HP @510lb/ft torque-the 455 stage 1 was the highest torque V 8 ever put in a production car-the parts were available to up that engine to where it would put 1,000HP ON THE GROUND with single 4barrel,normally aspirated,and no nitrous-which would have put the torque also into those kind of numbers-which means I would be able to smoke those ''Merlins" with a Buick......(basing this on vid of METEOR ROVER on a Dyno-1,550 lb/ft torque) Now that is not just an insult to the Rolls Royce name and the Merlins reputation-it's just wrong..........and even Leno does it-I expected him,at least to be honest about it-hell,his Merlin powered Bentley isn't even a Bentley,let alone Merlin powered-my Buick looked exactly like a GSX-had the rear wing,the hood tach,the 4 speed Rockcrusher with Hurst linkage,the 455 Stage 1 engine-but it didn't say GSX anywhere on it,even though going down the road you wouldn't have been able to tell the difference-WHY?! BECAUSE JUST BECAUSE IT LOOKED LIKE ONE AND SOUNDED LIKE ONE,IT DIDNT MAKE IT ONE!!!! Get a life,people-if you're going to drive a Meteor,call it a Meteor-so what if it used to be a Merlin? It isn't one anymore- you lost the HONOR of that title when you pulled out your little scissors and castrated the poor thing-if you want to call it a Merlin,grow some balls and put the blower back on it-and don't wimp out ,you say it's out of a Hurricane,that sounds like a 66 with the 2 stage,2 speed supercharger-add a good 1000hp and have it sound right-the whine from the blower was an integral part of the Merlin sound.........

Test Hill :-)

1300 lb/ft of torque, it can do burnouts at idle

Since it burned the left rear tire I'd hazard a guess that the engine rotates counter clock wise.

That's not a burnout, it's torque lol

Who needs a clutch when you have rubber tires?

Beautiful machine, but I am thinking that with that open diff and those skinny tires you would probably burn rubber with just 50 hp!

That limited slip differential really plants the power down...

Barely even turning the engine over and it's roasting the tires

Isn't that Michael of the Shoe Maker?

1 Km=50 bucks in gasoline. I'm crying for the owner's wallet.

He’s my grandad

3500hp... i bet that would beat the buggati

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1290hp at 3000 rpm ;)

bunch of soft men

A typical British effort - with no razzmatazz - just plain amateur enthusiasm! But, hold on! Where is the common sense? Where is the health and safety? The driver and passenger without goggles or helmets. And, the next day, dozens of people with respiratory problems queuing up at the doctors' surgeries! Mm! Great car though! Great video, too!