While searching for some better imagery of
yesterday's atrocity, I stumbled across this creation. Yes - more than one person had this idea. And while yesterday's car looked homemade (although I suppose it could have been some sort of development mule for this new generation of butchered Camaros), this one is a kit you can purchase from a company called "Easy Rods".
Easy Rods' slogan pretty much sums up why the cars look the way they do: "Built in hours, not years." They're basically marketing themselves as the lazy man's route to custom cars. This Camaro based "1957 Chevy" is dubbed the Belaro. The swoopy lines of the 1993-2002 Camaro don't adapt nicely to the 50's era design, resulting in a squashed caricature of the classic Chevy. Convertibles look a bit better as most of the roofline is gone - but the sweeping windshield looks like it hit a low lying branch.
Strangely, a lot of the image of this car appear to have stock Camaro hubcaps. The don't exactly look vintage, and at the same time tell everyone that the underlying Camaro is lacking a couple cylinders.
The Belaro is a much more attractive option than Easy Rods' other bodykit, however...
"Easy Rods" other available kit is one I've stumbled across before. However it now seems to be available in infinite varieties, from '49 Ford to '49 Mercurys to '55 Crown Vics. The one thing the all share though is that they're all based off the '89-'97 Thunderbird - a point that is painfully driven home if you look between the wheel wells. The early 50's designs look as attractive on the angular 80's styling of the T-Bird as Micheal Jackson wearing a poodle skirt. Almost makes the Belaro period correct.
While searching for some better imagery of yesterday's atrocity, I stumbled across this creation. Yes - more than one person had this idea. And while yesterday's car looked homemade (although I suppose it could have been some sort of development mule for this new generation of butchered Camaros), this one is a kit you can purchase from a company called "Easy Rods".
Easy Rods' slogan pretty much sums up why the cars look the way they do: "Built in hours, not years." They're basically marketing themselves as the lazy man's route to custom cars. This Camaro based "1957 Chevy" is dubbed the Belaro. The swoopy lines of the 1993-2002 Camaro don't adapt nicely to the 50's era design, resulting in a squashed caricature of the classic Chevy. Convertibles look a bit better as most of the roofline is gone - but the sweeping windshield looks like it hit a low lying branch.
Strangely, a lot of the image of this car appear to have stock Camaro hubcaps. The don't exactly look vintage, and at the same time tell everyone that the underlying Camaro is lacking a couple cylinders.
