Equipment
An offset 270 Offy-powered Watson roadster assembled in 2012 to run at Bonneville. Hilborn fuel injection, 425hp, Joe Hunt magneto, Winters Performance transmission, 3.78 rear gears with drop gear giving 2.53 final ratio, Wilwood rear disc brakes, two fir
Condition
The developers of this beast spent six years working up to setting a world record of 181.147mph at Bonneville in August 2018 using many A.J. Watson parts from the Fifties. There are some whimsical graphics including Halibrand-replica stickers on the wheel discs and a vinyl graphic quick fill fuel connection. It is clean and orderly, if used, and at least the salt has been scrubbed off.
Market commentary
When is a Watson roadster not a Watson roadster? When it's a Watson LSR car. Someone at Barrett-Jackson took up the challenge, or at least appreciated the presentation and the cachet of having "the only Indy Offenhauser in the world still in competition." It's worth what the WestWorld bidders said it is.