Some footage of the awesome 42-litre Packard Bentley ‘Mavis’ on her 2010 debut, breathing fire around the paddock area of Cholmondeley Pageant of Power, UK.
Description added Jan/Feb 2022 - see Technik Museum website for more details (speyer.technik-museum.de/en/mavis)
This unique Packard-Bentley creation nicknamed "Mavis" is the brainchild of the British engineer Chris Williams who built her as a tribute to the pre-Second World War aero-engined specials that once raced around the Brooklands motor circuit. The Bentley eight-litre chassis is powered by a supercharged 42-litre Packard engine 4M-2500 V-12 from a Second World War US Navy torpedo boat developing 1,500 hp! Mavis is 21ft long, weighs 2.7 tons and consumes 15 litres of fuel per minute at full pelt but houses a 200-litre fuel tank. Taking 7 years to build, this incredible monster debuted at the Pageant of Power festival at Cholmondeley, England in 2010 (as this video footage) and continued to feature regularly at motoring events thereafter until recent years. The warm-down routine in the paddock at the end of each run with all 24 exhaust stubs aflame became an attraction in itself, drawing the crowds in to witness the thunderous fire dance spectacle. After serving her owner for several glorious years, this unique machine is now under permanent loan and exhibited alongside another mechanical monster ‘Brutus’ at the Technik Museum Sinsheim, Germany.
7 сен 2011
