A homemade car, which was being worked on when the Beatles were still performing, is up for sale in the UK (18 photos)
As the automotive subculture develops, the emergence of some truly outrageous examples becomes inevitable. A striking example is The Beast. Built in 1972, it's an English homemade car with a fiberglass body and an aircraft engine. 
The idea of such a symbiosis is nothing new and comes from motorsports, when racing cars designed to achieve absolute land speed records were equipped with multi-liter aircraft engines to provide the necessary power. But racing on the surface of salt lakes is one thing, and quite another when a monster is moving in the general traffic. And that's exactly what happened with "The Beast," when the car, with its 27-liter V12 Rolls-Royce Merlin engine from a Spitfire fighter jet, roared to nearly 300 km/h, terrifying everyone on the autobahn.
At the same time, The Beast didn't resemble a well-designed, road-going sports car at all. Rather, it resembled a hypertrophied, over 6-meter-long shooting brake, topped by a Rolls-Royce front end with a Spirit of Ecstasy figurine that defied all laws of aerodynamics. This, incidentally, provoked the legitimate outrage of the British automaker's lawyers.
The car's co-designer and owner, engineer Paul Dodd, eventually moved from England to Spain, after which the residents of Malaga began to suffer from the proximity of "The Beast." Despite its shocking exterior, this car was comfortably built inside, making it suitable for everyday driving. Independent suspension, disc brakes on all four wheels, and a smooth engine made it practical, though demanding of driving skills when maneuvering on tight city streets.
Over the years since its initial construction, "The Beast" has changed hands several times and will be auctioned again at the end of November 2025. The auction house estimates that this multi-liter monster with a fighter jet engine will fetch between £75,000 and £100,000, slightly higher than the price it last sold for in 2023, when it fetched £72,500. 
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