Ron Harnish, of Scottsdale, Arizona, said back when he sent us photos of a Mustang sedan delivery that the crazy stuff starts to come out of the woodwork just prior to the January auctions, and he proved that statement in a heartbeat when he sent us these photos of Jack Holt’s Screaming Eagle, a completely hand-fabricated, two-seat, mid-engined diesel RV capable of bouncing your bullets back atcha. “I think this is taking two people transportation to the limit,” Ron said.
Yeah, we never heard of it either, so we called up Jack, who hails from Red Deer, Alberta. Jack said a stuntman friend of his called him up about eight years ago and asked him to build something crazy-looking that would drive through barns and other old buildings. His friend ended up flaking out on him when it came to funding, however, but Jack wasn’t about to let an idea like that slip away, so the retired steel manufacturer decided to take on the project himself.
He started with a two-cycle Detroit Diesel V-8 from a tugboat, mated it to an eight-speed hydraulic transmission and mounted it mid-ships on a chassis of his own design, then used a couple Greyhound bus axles and an air suspension capable of slamming the whole works down to three inches of ground clearance or lifting it to 12 inches.
On top of it all, he scratch-built a two-passenger body using T1 steel for the lower half and 10 gauge steel for the upper half. Two canopies open hydraulically, and Jack worked in a 64-inch bunk behind the engine.
According to Jack, the whole thing measures 28 feet long and weighs in at 18,000 pounds, but the diesel’s able to return 10-15 miles per gallon when he has it on the highway at 80-90 mph. Jack said it took him 3,700 hours to finish, which he did in 2006. He also said it’s road-legal, insured and certified in Canada, and he’s put about 30,000 miles on it since wrapping up the build.
And even though he’s in Arizona, he’s not looking to sell it. “I just wanted to get out of the cold weather,” he said. “Down here I’m just showing it off.”
He also wanted us to publish his phone number so anybody who liked could call him, but I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t actually want his cell phone on the Internet for every spammer to see, so if you would like to call him up, leave a comment and I’ll email it to you.
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