In 1923 Ernest Eldridge created a car using the chassis of a 1908 Fiat SB4 Grand Prix car with a 6-cylinder 21.7 litre Fiat A12 aeroplane engine in an attempt to break the World Land Speed record. In 1924 he achieved that record at a speed of 146.0 mph at Arpajon in France.
This photograph of the car was taken at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in 1960:
The car is now in the Fiat museum in Turin, and you can read about it here. (NB: That article says that it's got an 18 litre engine, but the Wikipedia article and other sites I've looked at agree that it's 21.7 litres)
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