If this isn't a photo-shop job I'll eat my hat..
But it's on-line with a name and even specifies which engine it has!
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Bentley "Tesonaso" supposedly cutnshut '55 S1 with V12 RR Merlin power ,strongly suspect it's just some one's fantasy...!
Quote from: 72Must on October 27, 2015, 06:45:38 AM
Bentley "Tesonaso" supposedly cutnshut '55 S1 with V12 RR Merlin power ,strongly suspect it's just some one's fantasy...!
Exactly.
It is of course a photo-shop job; surely no-one would actually do that do an S1 would they?!
Original puzzle photo:
I've owned numerous S series Bentleys and Rolls-Royce Clouds. This is a computer mock-up. Note the placement of the rear window compared to the fastback roof line. It's the standard rear window placement. Also note the lack of a fastback roof panel on the back side, should someone claim it's an indented rear window.
Now about installing a Merlin engine; I've ridden in a Merlin equipped trainer fighter [2 passenger - I can't fly one!], and they have something like 2,500 HP. Plus, these engines are way too massive top to bottom to fit under that hood [bonnet]. I was at a Rolls-Royce club meet years ago where a member brought a Merlin attached to a large flatbed trailer. He towed it with a big Chevy Suburban. They used about 12 big truck rear axle shafts, driven into the ground on all 4 sides of the truck & trailer, then chained tight. Even with all that securing, they could only run it at a fast idle, and the axle shafts looked like they would pull out of the earth! And even if you could fit it in there, you would need a radiator 2 times the entire frontal area of this car just to keep it from overheating at idle, not to mention running down the road!
Absolutely agree it's a photo-shop job (as I said in my Reply#3).
About that Merlin engine though: there was a car with a bonnet you could land a jumbo jet on which was powered by a 27-litre V12 Merlin some years ago, built by a guy named John Dodd.
He had to remove the RR grille when Rolls took him to court but he took the car with him to live in Spain. I don't know what happened to it after that but I believe it still exists.
Have a look here:
https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/cars/john-dodd-and-merlin-engined-monstrosity-infuriated-rolls-royce