Never seen him in it on film! Can't get over how closely he fitted the steering wheel! Classic post. Thanks

A great car built by a great man!!

Nice sound. It look like it will fly away !!

Fantastic car, I have a book with this on the cover! Its a fantastic car and so is the story behind it!

good , nice sound , very beautiful engine !

It is not one engine but two. They are 981cc JAP KTOR racing V Twin engines from Brough Superior motorcycles. About 120bhp. Built in 1929.

@ShelsleySpecial There were several versions of Bloody Mary. The one I would like to have seen had four V-twin engines - one per wheel - with a fifth driving the supercharger for the others. If I remember correctly, it wasn't a success: there was too much trouble keeping all the chains tight, intact and in place.

@psk1w1

6 жыл бұрын

It also had bad weight distribution, because the driver was over the rear axle. John Bolster should have realised that having four engines driving a common shaft would not work - his brother once built a race car with four Rudge single cylinder engines driving a common shaft running fore-and-aft. It kept breaking drive chains, and he gave up on the layout

Can you give us any info on what the engine is? Looks very unusual

I have that book too, and John Bolsters 'Specials' and 'Motoring is my Business' You should get them, lots more of the story behind this car. I see you are also into stationary engines, I picked up a rusty Crossley engine last year, it's currently in bits on my garage floor. I might post some picks up on flickr.

@Erictheirritated Only four engines to my knowledge but I could be wrong. I can't post a URL to my flickr page on here as it will throw up an error, but if you go to the 'flickr' web page and do a search for 'John Bolster' all the images uploaded by 'shelseyspecial' are mine. There are a few pictures of Johns four engined special on there

Does it go or do you just push it around?

If you blow a rod...

I must admit this a 'beautiful' if little insane car. There were rally Mini s as i understand ran front and rear engines, with seperate transmissions, but were problomatic because a misfire or other change of engine output came to adversly effect handling....not good when your half way round the corner sideways.

sounds like it's running too lean... :/

It a Mouse Rod...too small to be a Rat.

@psk1w1

6 жыл бұрын

That's 2 litres of V twin race engines. But yes, it's a very small compact race car, and with a remarkably successful racing record. Built by John Bolster, later a successful motoring journalist and technical writer.

stop blocking the camera squids!

Maybe it's a cool car, I have no idea. I am fed up with all these "startup and idle" videos. At least give a nickel tour so as to understand it's qualities. This is almost as boring as Playboy channel, if it still exists.