Not all officers stay busy writing parking tickets, some actually are such big car enthusiasts they even break boundaries four-wheelers are facing. It's the case with a 42-year old man from South Carolina, who's most popular invention recently became road legal.
He likes to call himself Speedy Cop, but his real name is Jeff Bloch. The police officer from South Carolina is quite famous around car enthusiasts in the US. People know him for always putting crazy ideas in practice and thus creating really odd vehicles. It turns out one of his inventions, the abandoned Cessna airplane he changed into a racecar he drove at last year’s 24 Hours of LeMons, is now street legal.
One of this year’s ridiculous LeMons build ideas was enhancing a 1996 Lincoln Continental with two powerful V8 engines. Along with his friends and auto brainiacs Jeff changed its power from a 4.6-liter V8 rated at 260 horsepower and a front wheel drive automatic transaxle to a 500 horsepower, all-wheel drive monster.
We’re not here to talk about the Lincoln though, but rather of that crazy airplane Bloch changed into an actual racecar. The 42-year old petrol head combined an abandoned Cessna aircraft with a Toyota van to make one heck of a ride.
Speedy Cop and his friends removed the wings from the twin-engined 1956 aircraft that had been abandoned for forty years and united with the van he bought on Craglist and that came with a 177,000 mileage.
As we previously mentioned, the weird vehicle was specially created to be raced at last year’s South Carolina competition, but now Barcroft claims he managed to make it street legal, so you should better stay focused, you might just see it next to you on the highway. There are plenty of other fun projects you can find on the man's website, in case you want to get more info.
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