So, what the heck is this? Race car? Air plane? ???

This popped up in a FB group I follow. What the hell is it beyond awesome? Those are Sig Erson Camshafts, Valvoline, and Champion stickers on the side which suggest motorsports of some type. Any guesses? 

Close-up of the stickers. 

Land speed racer? My wife said no, I'm not allowed to hang it from the living room ceiling

Definitely not a plane.

Its the first prototype of the delta wing

In reply to Toyman! :

How did I know if I posted that thing online it would make its way here lol. Gonna go back over tomorrow see if I can get more pictures and maybe see if there is a makers tag or anything in it. 
 

and yes it has been forever since I have been here. 

In reply to BlueInGreen - Jon :

I mean I might be able to arrange it 

Is that some sort of racing boat, or at least part of one?   Like a hydroplane?

That's some big, stupid, monster truck type 4x4 thing. I remember seeing it in Car Craft in the early 90's. Look at how ginourmous the rear wheelwells are, the stupid red light on the fender, and the Vertex magneto sticker.

SEADave said:

Is that some sort of racing boat, or at least part of one?   Like a hydroplane?

The upper portion of a hydroplane type racing boat was what I thought of too. The riveted windshield suggests an older one that had an aircraft cockpit as part of the body. Or it was molded from an aircraft.

In reply to L5wolvesf :

I think hydroplane as well. The 4 eyehooks seem to match how hydroplanes are placed in the water. 

EDIT: Agree with using a plane fuselage as a mold as well. Maybe some generation of piper aztec?

The cutout in the rear seems to say jet engine. 

I located this on the internet thanks to Google Image Search I did not know this before.   

It looks like some version of the wheel stand car "Death Ship"

The windows aren't quite right so this may be a second body or a copycat/replica car.  

I think this Bob Perry Guy would fit in around here 

For a cool list of silly cars 

https://wheelstanders.webnode.page/copy-of-1960s/

Definitely not the same Death Ship body above but very similar - every window and cutout is different and the cabin area was even made from a different aircraft model.

It's almost certainly not an actual racing vehicle at this size (considering there was no LeMons back then ), so the theories of it being a wheelstand car or some kind of homemade monster truck make a lot of sense.

David S. Wallens said:

The cutout in the rear seems to say jet engine. 

Yes the cutout screams jet engine. But, did Sig Erson really make jet cams?

Here's a pic from another angle I found:



"Alternate body for the Death Ship" is definitely the strongest theory so far.

If his wife is still around it might be possible to reach her and confirm, email was posted 13 years ago:

https://www.draglist.com/stories/SOD-Apr-2003/SOD-040303.htm

It looks like a prop for a science fiction movie. 

Maybe it started life as a race car and then Roger Corman bought it.

I vote for drag strip vehicle of some sort, followed by monster truck shell as a distant second. I base that on the stickers, typical of older drag cars, less so for monster trucks, and hardly ever for a road-racing thing. The Vertex (magneto) sticker seems to rule out anything jet-powered.

Magneto = nitromethane usually. 

It could be a tractor pulling body, but I like the wheelstander theory!

Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) said:

and then Roger Corman bought it.

A Roger Corman "boat" would have large "pontoons". 

There are a few more pics. All the side windows and rivets are painted onto the body. Majority is fiberglass and there are aluminum panels at the bottom. 
 

Going to say yes it is a Bob Perry car at least that is the best guess so far. My wife did say I can drag it home if we can't find out who dropped it off. 

That is 100% a Bob Perry exhibition wheelstander.   He built a ton of different ones in the '70s and '80s, the most famous being "Hell on Wheels," a wheelstander that looked like a tank.





He  ̶r̶i̶p̶p̶e̶d̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶ jumped on the Star Wars craze with Galaxy II and Death Ship, the former even having an R2 unit in the back.   The one in the OP certainly looks like a version of Death Ship, and has the Sig Erson Cams, STP, and Valvoline sponsor decals that were on Galaxy II back in '79.

Definitely snag the body if no one else claims it, but first make sure it wasn't stolen for the drivetrain and chassis before it was dumped.