Car Spotlight>>a Lloyd For The Strip

The formula for building a good drag car has always been a simple one. Stuff the most powerful engine you can build into the lightest car you can find. This idea was stretched to its limit back in the glory days of the 1960s, and this '56 Lloyd 600 is a stunning time capsule from that era.

This isn't a recreation, but the genuine artifact – originally built and raced around Southern California during the early '60s.

In case you aren't familiar with the Lloyd brand (as I was), these German microcars were built until 1963, with most of them powered by two-cylinder four-stroke engines. This was one of the few that found its way to American shores.

There is no two-cylinder to be found in this Lloyd though. That's a fully built Oldsmobile V8 you are looking at.

The Olds motor helped power the little car to a best quarter mile ET of 11.22 at 122 miles per hour, set at the Colton Drag Strip back in 1963.

The front wheels on this car couldn't be narrower. You can see there isn't much in the way of brakes behind there either.

The rear wheels and tires are slightly more substantial.

Interior view. It's part race car, and part school bus. No doubt this was a scary place to be crossing the traps at over 120mph.

There is no way the German engineers that designed this car ever imagined it looking or driving like this, but that's the beauty of it, and the beauty of Hot Rodding in general.

-Mike Garrett

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2

it looks like Donald Duck's daily driver

3

really?! :s...!

4

What a machine!

5

that thing looks hilarious

6

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :O

7

yes a v8, retard, it tells u in the tread it has a v8 in it,u stupid bastard

8

uhmm yeah you sure that's a V8?

9

LOVE IT!!!

10

What part of "fully built Oldsmobile V8" confused you? V8 with 6 1 barrel carburetors.

11

What a machine! Must be scary to drive with that short wheelbase and a V8 but who cares!?. I absolutely adore it!

12

?! isit v8?

13

V8 with 6 Intakes?

14

looks like a v6 to me... ;-)

15

haha, my grandpa had one of these :D

16

how do they split 6 intakes into 8 cylinders? a mini chamber?



as for the car I love it

17

OMG !!!!! yes its a f*$#%ing V8!



ever heard of a "six pack mopar"?



six carbs on V8 muscle cars were not that common but also not that rare in the day....

18

i'm soooo awfully sorry for not being an encyclopedia in classic v8's... still no reason for becoming aggressive...

19

theres been a small handfull of v8 lloyds built but this one is good old vintage done course you dont come across any lloyds at all very often...shame it wasnt a wagon/kombi

20

Wow, there sure are some d*cks on here... and umm..... not everyone knows about a gat damn "six pack mopar" and I'm still a bit confused about how 6 carbs work on a V8, Who cares really,,,,, rad car.

21

yup...look like V6 to me toooo...=S

22

My dad has been racing a lloyd for the past 25 years. its a little red car just like this one but with a little more POW!!! take a look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PNhByk1dMU

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