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I think these pictures were taken at the 1976 Easter Meet but what is it?


I'm sure the driver felt safe with no harness or belt

Images:Peter Wedlake

That'll be Paul Jameson's Merlin powered machine which later received a body from Fibre Glass Repairs and was registered for the street. It ran high 12s at 120m.p.h. Here's some pics from Hot Car.....

Thanks Nick, that was a quick car for it's size, street legal also, I don't see a boot so no good for shopping

Here’s the Merlin Jameson car performing a demonstration run at the Brighton Speed Trials quarter mile.

Im sure this car was on the telly once running without the body but i just cant remember what it was on

Just found this interesting feature on the EVO magazine site about 'The Beast' which is still owned by John Dodd and comes back to the UK from its new home in Spain on a regular basis for its annual MOT check up.

http://www.evo.co.uk/features/features/ ... beast.html

Also this was found in a recent issue of Practical Performance Car magazine.

Pages from an MMA Connected magazine article written by John Dodd's son Paul of Surrey Muscle fame.

Hot Rod 1964 feature by Dean Moon

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I can remember seeing the Jameson run at Blackbushe (one of the photos from the magazine looks like it was taken there).
The really weird thing was that as the noise (to a teenager at least) sounded just like plane, we automatically kept looking skyward!!

Impressive machine.