Legendary Cramer Comet

Anybody heard of this thing before ??? Being offered at auction in Monterey, powered by a V-12 Allison. Kinda looks like a home built copy of the Le Sabre concept car.

 

WOW that thing is hidous...but seeing as its go an allison v-1710, its absolutely beautiful

 

You think the front is bad you should see the hind end of this thing.
See it here. Gotta admire the builders ingenuity tho.

http://www.rodandcustommagazine.com/hotnews/0806rc_1954_cramer_comet_auction/index.html

 

Yeah, thats pretty awful. I'll take the engine, though...

 

If that whole car was sectioned & lowered about a foot it'd be pure ***.

 

Ugly!

 

Pretty sure I dropped one of those off at the john this morning.

 

Looks like something from Outer Limits collides with Twilight Zone. I sure would like to see the engine.

 

heres a link to the smallest allison powered car ive ever seen. just looks like a regular pos euro-tuner , but who can resist a wwII fighter engine, no matter whats wrapped around it......scratch that allison part.. its a meteor tank engine. same engine though, just doesnt have the 2 stage supercharger
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk/projectcardetail.asp?id=4

 

i saw that car on the eastern shore in virgina about 15 years ago. it was very impressive when my friend fred fired it up. it is an amasing piece of machinery. cadillac dave

 

This car was featured in the November 1954 Hot Rod Magazine. Some friends of mine bought it on a whim and brought it to my shop around '91. This thing is a real beast. I can tell you Mr. Cramer was a free thinker with some interesting mechanical and aesthetic concepts but this "thing" was not drive able then. Form follows function and vice versa.
It has a 6" pipe frame that the coolant runs though and back to a CAT Bulldozer radiator mounted in the trunk with 2-24v aircraft fans. The first time we fired this BABY up was a real treat. It would not run on the Holley carb, the size of a Briggs and Stratton engine with a one inch fuel supply line. So we had to use the 24v booster pump to deliver the fuel at about 30psi. Flames 4 feet long were coming out of the 4 inch LAKES pipes on either side of the car. These engines are a "bit loose" until they heat up and the whole thing sounded like you forgot to tighten any of the bolts up. It was, BIG FUN.
I could tell you a lot more but I m saving "The rest of the Story " for the new owner.
Maybe not.