Bruce in Bangkok wrote:

By the way, the US Navy built a few corsairs with an R-4360, 3500 HP
engine in them and discovered the same thing. Very slow throttle
advancement on the take off roll.

Found a video of a fellow down under that put a Merlin V-12
in a '55 Chevy. Well, put a '55 Chevy body on a massive tube
chassis carrying the engine... Some fellow from the Speed
network got to drive it. Clearing respecting the massive
torque and power, he never really put his foot into it, but
still comments he got the impression the engine wanted to
just roll the car over....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIj2GVfua84

Jon