Car As Art

Maxximus G-Force in all her glory

David Bruce McMahan and Marlon Kirby had a dream: to build a monstrous record-breaking car with an engine producing over 1,600 hp. Four years and thousands of man-hours later, it's here: twin turbos on a 7-liter Chevy V8 on a custom built, three-speed, street-legal car, complete with air conditioning, leather interior, navigation system and other amenities. read more...

Maxximus G-Force featured in Playboy

David Bruce McMahan's and Marlon Kirby's Maxximus G-Force Featured in Playboy

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Maxximus G-Force Press Conference

 

 

See the movie starring the Maxximus G-Force, the car's designer, Marlon Kirby, Hope Dworacyk the 2010 Playmate of the Year, and myself.

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Hope Dworaczyk, Marlon Kirby and David Bruce McMahan unveil Maxximus G-Force

 

 

On June 16th, 2010, Hope Dworaczyk, the 2010 Playmate of the Year, Marlon Kirby, the designer of the Maxximus G-Force and the driver on its record-breaking runs, and the car's owner, David Bruce McMahan, unveiled the re-designed car at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills.

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World Records Academy Posts New Maxximus G-Force Records

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Maxximus G-Force Featured on KTLA 5 News This morning

 

KTLA 5 featured the Maxximus G-Force on a segment on what to get Dad for Father's Day. Yup, a $3
Million dollar race car ought to make any Dad happy!  Read the whole story here.

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The Fastest Man Alive and The Playmate of the Year

New All-American DesignOn Wednesday, June 16th, 2010, Marlon and I will be holding a press conference at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills at 11 a.m., to announce new records broken by the Maxximus G-Force. Hope Dworaczyk, the Playmate of the Year, will unveil the refurbished and re-designed car.

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Starting the Engine

Marlon was looking for a backer, and I liked the idea of breaking some world
records.

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Marlon Kirby, from midget car speed demon to designer of the Maxximus G-Force

 

Dave gives his son Marlon Kirby advice before a midget raceMarlon Kirby, the designer behind the Maxximus G-Force, has been a speed demon since infancy.

Even when he was two or three, living in Chicago with his mother and policeman father David Kirby, Marlon used to like The Beach Boy's Little Deuce Coupe.

“He used to bounce around like kids do,” his dad told me. “And I thought even then y'know, the kid's affected by speed, sounds & activity.”

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Alligators and Style

I rebuilt the Studebaker’s engine so I could turn it into a dragster, adding a McCullough supercharger and getting the car to 104 mph in less than a quarter of a mile, impressive at the time. read more...

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