What do you do when you find a 1928 Studebaker body under a tree, and you just happen to have a tank engine lying around, along with some technical know-how of how it may all come together? Well, you may end up with something like Rodzilla over here, which thoroughly deserves its name if only for the horsepower figure alone – a claimed 1,400 ponies on tap!
It is powered by a turbocharged 29-liter (1,791 cubic inches) V12 Continental tank engine, which itself weighs over a ton, and in spite of 1,400 claimed horsepower, we suspect that it’s the torque that really does the job of pulling the medium-duty truck chassis and aforementioned Studebaker body along. The unit is similar to the one that powers Jay Leno’s relatively well-known Blastolene Special.
We’d really like to see this doing the quarter-mile, which it can reportedly deal with in around 11 seconds, but we expect that the braking that follows is almost as spectacular as the timed run itself, since Rodzilla does not look like it wants to stop once it gets going. They apparently had to develop a special braking system to cope with the power/weight combination…
Check it out in the video below!
By Andrei Nedelea
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