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The story of The Beast goes back to 1966.

The Beast is a legendary muscle car powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 airplane engine that can produce over 750hp and has a fuel consumption of 2.35 mpg.

Did you ever dream about owning the most ridiculous road-legal car out there? If you did, you just missed it because

John Dodd's custom Beast car is being auctioned. The unique vehicle is powered by a Rolls-Royce aircraft engine and was once the most powerful in the world.

John Dodd built The Beast with a 27-liter Rolls-Royce Meteor engine in 1972. Its headed to auction for its first public sale.

This legendarily eccentric creation, once the worlds most powerful car, shares its Rolls-Royce engine with a Spitfire fighter plane

Insane shooting-brake made regular appearances in British books and magazines in the 1970s and was the subject of a Rolls Royce court case

For sale: an airplane-engined monstrosity based on a Rolls-Royce that was one eccentric Englishmans obsession.

Custom cars are a dime a dozen, but none is as special as John Dodd’s The Beast, one of the most famous custom cars ever built in Britain and a leg...

The engine from a World War II tank, a legal battle with Rolls-Royce and a world record – The Beast has a number of stories to tell.