The only real hitch with the Hellcat is remembering to keep your foot on the throttle to keep the revs up, so the radial engine out back doesn't bog down. The only other draw-back with the M18 is ...

Which is just one of the reasons this 1943 Buick M18 Hellcat ... the Buick Hellcat probably isn’t even road-legal. Another point to the Buick. Hemmings A powerful radial engine can propel ...

Although the M18's weight of 39,000 ... 975-cubic-inch aircraft radial engine producing 450 hp mated to a three-speed Hydramatic transmission, the Hellcat could reach a top speed of over 60 ...

Manufactured by Buick of General Motors from 1943 to 1944, the M18 Hellcat is one of the most ... R-975-C4 nine-cylinder radial piston engine with 400 HP. That equals to 22.6 horsepower per ...

Mossner served aboard an M18 Hellcat tank destroyer ... Propelled forward by a Continental radial plane engine with upwards of 400 horsepower, Mossner said the tank could reach speeds as high ...