Spotted: John Dodds, one-off Rolls-Royce Merlin

Posted on 08-10-2013 at 14:41 by sir_smokalot – 24 Comments”

“But, grandmother, what a big nose!” – “That is to my 27 litre engine will be better.” You read that right, under the hood of these unique Rolls is a huge V12.

The Phantom must by 6.75 litres, this Merlin has four times as much volume. Its maker, John Dodd, spooned a 27 litre V12 Rolls-Royce engine, nicknamed Merlin, in. This G-label-block lay in an earlier life in a Spitfire.

It is an imposing appearance, this Merlin, with its salmon pink paint, eight headlights, and a format which makes the V70 next to it on a B-segmenter seems. In this item of the ‘old’ Top Gear take a closer look at the ups and downs of the one-off project.

In this Roller-project was engineer Paul Jameson involved. Later, he made a zeswielige blue cabrio-Rolls. The most famous ‘Merlin’ is, however, the Phantom II from 1934, in the possession of Jay Leno. And no, that’s not his Tank Car, which has a 28.4 liter block.

John Dodds creation was in England signaled by verena, check out his unique spot on autojunk!