Volvo P1800-based gasser is UK’s entry in the Hot Wheels Legends Tour

Hot Wheels has expended the earlier couple of months touring the United States in lookup of the following tailor made car it will increase to its catalog of 1/64-scale diecast types. It truly is not halting there: It also headed to the United Kingdom to increase a bit of intercontinental aptitude to the level of competition, and it picked a Volvo P1800 that has been greatly modified into a gasser as the winner that will transfer on to the semifinal round.

Proprietor Lee Johnstone explained he built his P1800 — which he nicknamed “Ain’t no Saint” — starting with a bare shell that had been stripped and that was far too much long gone to appropriately restore. Volvo’s sixties 4-cylinder engines are famously tunable, but Johnstone looked throughout the pond for an engine appropriate to make his desire car a truth. He chose a 454-cubic-inch V8 sourced from the Chevrolet components bin and supercharged to develop about 600 horsepower.

Ain’t no Saint reportedly runs a ten.01-second quarter mile at 133 mph.

Johnstone routinely races the P1800 with his three daughters. He therefore named his crew Johnstone & Daughters (JD) Racing.

“This is a wonderful illustration of a gasser — a drag racer with road car kind. Usually with dragsters, the chassis is so crucial that the system receives overlooked, but this illustration is incredible with wonderful interest to element,” explained previous Jaguar style director Ian Callum, who was just one of the judges that picked the P1800 as the United Kingdom’s finalist. “It entirely hits the Hot Wheels short.”

Hot Wheels has now released numerous gassers, together with just one dependent on a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air. Time will notify if Johnstone’s P1800 will come to be the following addition to the sequence. Its following prevent is the global semifinal round scheduled for November four, 2021, where by it will compete in opposition to some of the past winners. There are two semifinal rounds using position prior to the grand finale prepared for November 13.