OMG! Rolls-Royce Drag Car Is The Textbook Definition Of Crazy

Rolls-Royce isn’t known for making cars that go incredibly fast in a straight line. The British brand has always developed vehicles that put luxury first. Heck, a Rolls-Royce has even been used as a recording studio, which points towards the kind of people and the kind of cars the automaker caters its business model towards. This Rolls, though, is a little different from others that we’ve seen.

Before we get into the absurdity that is this heavily-modified sedan, here’s a little background on the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. The luxury vehicle was launched in 1965 and was the automaker’s first car to use a unibody design. Compared to the Silver Cloud that preceded it, it was boxier and smaller. But, more importantly, it wasn’t as pretty but it sure was one of the more athletic vehicles to wear the Spirit of Ecstasy.

Currently on sale in Norway on Finn (via Road & Track), this monstrosity started of as an unimposing ’74 Silver Shadow and is now a full-blown drag car. The listing claims the vehicle went through a restoration before being transformed into the vehicle that you see.

After the restoration, the sedan was placed onto a tube-frame drag chassis. While the interior was already pretty nice, the cabin now features a custom leather interior with a racing cage that matches the exterior paint scheme. Despite the cage, the sedan still has seating for four.

Now, about the elephant in the room: the massive engine sticking out of the hood. The listing doesn’t provide a lot of information on the engine, besides stating that it’s a 426 cubic inch GM V8 that features a 14-71 supercharger.

The sedan is reminiscent of Vin Diesel’s 1970 Dodge Charger RT from “Fast and Furious.” But the supercharger on this car sticks out even further out of the hood. The listing doesn’t provide a figure on how much power the engine’s making, but we’d bet it’s more then enough to get the car down the strip in a hurry.

We’ve seen our fair share of crazy Rolls-Royces before, including this odd LS7-powered Silver Cloud, but this one definitely takes the cake for being the wackiest Rolls we’ve ever seen.

The asking price? That’ll be 890,000 Norwegian Krone, or approximately $113,000, though with so many options out there, we wonder why would anyone spend more than a hundred grand on this abomination.