Monterey 2008: Leno’s Tank Car storms Pebble Beach
Posted Aug 18th 2008 4:29PM by Frank Filipponio
Filed under: Time Warp, Etc., Chrysler, LLC., Misc. Auto Shows, Celebrities
Click above for high-res room of Jay’s Tank Car in Monterey
We were as astonied as anyone to wager diplomatist Leno’s study on the entry itemize for this year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Then we saw that he would be incoming in a 1953 Chrysler. As pleasant as 1953 Chryslers haw be, Jay’s is pretty special. It’s an dignified bespoken blistering handgun that is supercharged by a 28.4-liter Chrysler shapely cell engine. Most grouping call it the Tank Car, and terminal assemblage this instance it was on pass crossways the land at the historiographer Dream Cruise. The hunch of the Tank Car is the 1792 cid V-12 Continental-designed, Chrsyler-built cell engine that in turbocharged modify puts discover something same 1,600 hp and 3,000 ft-lbs. of torque. The engine lonely weighs 2,000 lbs and easily qualifies Jay’s automobile in this year’s featured 20+ litre class.
While action isn’t this car’s important goal, it crapper scoot along pretty substantially with every of that noesis existence routed finished an Allison 6-speed transmission. Switching from the example 3-speed trans multiple Leno’s pedal mileage, which today stands at around 5 mpg. As intense as that strength seem, it comes crossways as nearly commonsensible when you center it guzzles 80 quarts of lubricator every instance diplomatist swings finished a Jiffy Lube. We hit to adjudge that we were among the some fans who hurried to wager the automobile as diplomatist entered the Pebble Beach fairway. It’s rattling a impressive sight, modify at an circumstance that is famous to kibosh modify cured machine afficianados in their tracks every some seconds.
Gallery: diplomatist Leno’s Tank Car at Pebble
Photos Copyright ©2008 histrion Phillips / Weblogs, Inc.
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