Totally insane race car....and you would have to be mad to drive it too

Fastrnu,there are some youtube videos of it driving at road course races and hill climbs.I'll see if I can get titles for you to search.I'm not too good with cut and paste.

 

Here you go Fastrnu...

Go to : youtube

search: GN Grand Prix JAP V8

There will be more videos in the right hand toolbar too.

 

Bob, thanks for your effort here on the other threads. You won't make me mad if you start recycleing pics of this outrageous contraption! Whatever it takes to keep this thing alive.

 

GN Grand Prix V8

 

I honestly believe it has stood the test of time,,it still has the look of a bare bones race car,,absolutely beautiful. HRP

 

what an amazing car.

 

What do you mean "stood the test of time" ? It is a fairly recent construction. I spoke with the owner and builder Richard Scaldwell at Prescott in 2008 and he told me when he acquired the engine he wasn't certain whether he would build a bike with it or a car. As much as I like bikes I think he made the best choice and to me it is one of the coolest things on wheels.

 

That's a big v8 for a bike...

 

maybe he was thinking of Glenn Curtiss' monster

 

X2..First thing I thought of..If anyone is near the Curtis Air Museum [central NY] do stop in...Fascinating place, all kinds of old engines and designs..

 

Here is the other J.A.P. Aero engine.There were 2 built to power baloons. 5100cc.I believe the image originates with the gentleman who is called "Gas Baloon".

 

More on the engine...

 

Wow! I didn't realize it was THAT rare an engine. Should have guessed I suppose. I would love to know what kind of internal tweaks Richard had to do to make it into such a screamer. I see the other engine has the period holes ( "porting") on the lower part of the cylinders. I think this was in vogue for only a short time . I have seen Dale Walksler's factory Reading Standard race bike on the stand belching fire from a similar setup, great for paying customers at a board track race.

 

Absolutely love the cyclops headlight!

 

Thanks good friend!

 

July Fourth,Prescott. Jean - Frederic Frot image.

 

Way Kool old racer, Old saying comes to mind. " There were old drivers and bold drivers, BUT very few old-bold drivers" John

 

More of Rick Schofield's V-8 J.A.P. GN at Prescott.Images via the Vintage Sports-Car Club. www.vscc.co.uk

 

Love the old racer, very cool


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The owner's name is RICHARD SCALDWELL

 

I have a few photos of it too. Here's one at speed...

VieEnBleu-2271 by Stefan Marjoram, on Flickr
The 'interior'...

VieEnBleu-2286 by Stefan Marjoram, on Flickr
And I recently went to France to celebrate the Centenary of the French GP - the GN JAP was with us too...

amiens-4905 by Stefan Marjoram, on Flickr

amiens-4962 by Stefan Marjoram, on Flickr

amiens-5023 by Stefan Marjoram, on Flickr

amiens-5167 by Stefan Marjoram, on Flickr

amiens-5356 by Stefan Marjoram, on Flickr

 

I don't know guys. I just took out some 100 year old wall studs while remodeling my parents house. I think it would take a torch to cut one of them. Not that I would build a chassis out of them but I can see where an original one from back in the day would probably be pretty strong.

 

So because this isn't an American car, this thread would be a casualty? Not sure that's the best approach...just my 2 cents.

This is as badass and as traditional as ANY prewar American rod.

 

This sure isnt going to make it on the HAMB after Sept 1st...

 

I don't care what country it comes from or what the frame is made from the profile view of this car is really neat!!!!

Rex

 

Rex, most of us don't care what country it came from. The point is that the HAMB is for American cars only, and when Ryan starts cleaning house in September threads like this will be closed and deleted.

 

Well, they will be closed, though maybe not deleted but saved for posterity....

 

I suspect this is an over-reacton. Ryan clearly indicated that he would make exceptions at his discretion based on coolness factor. This is pretty cool in anyone's book.

 

I agree completely with the coolness factor of this thing...It reminds me a lot of the film they did on Top Gear UK about the Brutus that some crazy German built using an old german WWII fighter plane engine and put it in an open top car like that vs. one some British guy built using a WWII Spitfire engine in an open top car. I cant remember what cars they used as platforms but both were cool as shit...oil spraying everywhere, fire shooting out of the exhaust and a sound like nothing else I have ever heard before...all on skinny tires with shitty brakes bombing (get it? bombing?) around the test track at break-neck speeds. Pure badassedness if you ask me....