It weighs two tons and it'll do the quarter in 9.5 seconds. That takes a lot of power, which means burning a lot of fuel, though the paint-job is more a comment on the price of the build than the fuel bill. Riding on airbags for that tough slammed look, the pillarless '57 runs an 8/71 blower on the 540ci Merlin III big-block and currently burns methanol on track, though it will soon cop a rebuild to make it run sweet on pump fuel.