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This monstrous mutant is something to behold. We suppose it was a nice idea. Take a dinged up DBS Vantage V8, strip off the body and replace it with a bulging piece of Bedford steel. Add a hi-spinning turbo to each bank of cylinders, so that the engine produces close to 900 HP.<\/p>\n

There you have it – an ugly-beautiful, howling monster conceived as if on Dr Frankenstein’s slab.<\/p>\n

The car competed in something called, apparently, the Tricentrol Super Saloon Championships in the mid seventies and is now for sale,<\/a> fully road legal.<\/p>\n

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an Aston Bulldog in the clothes of a Vauxhall Magnum?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779,110],"tags":[183,1336,216],"class_list":["post-27966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-blog","tag-motorsport","tag-touring-cars","tag-vauxhall"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCustom Car Love.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Strip down a dinged up Aston Martin DBS Vantage V8 and replace it with a bulging piece of Bedford steel, plus a hi-spinning turbo for close to 900 HP.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/the-john-pope-special\/\" \/>\n<meta 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