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

Hot Wheels has spent the past couple of months touring the United States in research of the following customized car it will include to its catalog of one/sixty four-scale diecast designs. It can be not halting there: It also headed to the United Kingdom to include a bit of worldwide aptitude to the competitors, and it selected a Volvo P1800 that has been closely modified into a gasser as the winner that will go on to the semifinal round.

Proprietor Lee Johnstone described he developed his P1800 — which he nicknamed “Ain’t no Saint” — starting off with a bare shell that had been stripped and that was way too far long gone to appropriately restore. Volvo’s sixties 4-cylinder engines are famously tunable, but Johnstone appeared throughout the pond for an engine suitable to make his desire car a fact. He selected a 454-cubic-inch V8 sourced from the Chevrolet pieces bin and supercharged to create about 600 horsepower.

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

Johnstone regularly races the P1800 with his three daughters. He as a result named his group Johnstone & Daughters (JD) Racing.

“This is a attractive illustration of a gasser — a drag racer with road car kind. Frequently with dragsters, the chassis is so critical that the physique receives ignored, but this illustration is amazing with excellent consideration to depth,” described previous Jaguar style director Ian Callum, who was a single of the judges that selected the P1800 as the United Kingdom’s finalist. “It absolutely hits the Hot Wheels transient.”

Hot Wheels has by now introduced many gassers, including a single primarily based on a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air. Time will explain to if Johnstone’s P1800 will turn into the following addition to the series. Its following end is the worldwide semifinal round scheduled for November four, 2021, in which it will compete versus some of the prior winners. There are two semifinal rounds using position in advance of the grand finale planned for November thirteen.