He built a box chassis for the car he planned around it, then got in touch with automatic transmission specialist John Dodd about getting power to the ground. Dodd sorted out a GM TH400 for the ...

It's a car powered by an airplane engine that could fly … so to speak. "The Beast" is a famous custom that was built in the 1970s by Englishman John Dodd from the bones of a project started by ...

If you did, you just missed it because John Dodd's "The Beast" found a new owner at an online auction. And it changed hands for only £72,500, which converts to around $88,000 as of March 2023.

John Dodd's Beast is one of those. Built on a bespoke chassis, this shooting brake might look like something out of Family Vacation, but its hiding an intriguing engine under the hood: a 27-liter ...