Wow - this has it all. Ugly chrome dubs, pearlescent paint, and an airbrushed flaming checkered flag. Unfortunately the front end resembles one of the worms from Tremors choking on an intercooler.
Where in the 70's and 80's he relied on Cadillacs and Buick Rivieras, it seems he now makes do with Crown Victorias, likely because they're the remaining full size RWD car for sale in North America, not including the Lincoln Town Car, in recent years.
How to destroy a Ford classic: graft on the nose of one of the most unloved Fords of the last 20 years.
I thought I had posted this before, but I guess not. I wasn't overwhelmingly impressed by the Mini Cooper Coupe. For one I thought it should have been named the Mini Couper. But overall I thought the roof was overstylized and that otherwise stock looking rear end looked to abrupt and boxy. Below is my interpretation of a better looking version. My goal was to unclutter the roofline and change the tailights to something more unique and less tall to help visually reduce the height of the rear end. Plus I added a bit of extra scalloping between the taillights. Yeah - the taillights look a bit upset, and it has less visibility out the side windows, but you get the idea.
1968 Marco Mantis
1971 Clan Crusader
A friend in Dubai spotted this recently, thinking it was possibly a solar car. I'd seen a pic of something similar recently, sure it was some kind super low volume of electric car.
It's just an Aveo.
This beaut is down the road from my work. I pass it every day, but was finally able to grab a pic. I believe this is the mother of all hood scoops. It's possible that if you go above 120km/h the hood flies off. Also not very visible is the front bumper, but it fits horribly. Not sure what car it's off of, but it looks like an SVT Ford. Probably a Crown Vic LX Sport, but the grille indent seems too small.
Japanese Nissan tuner Impul had tried it's hand at the Juke, and in the process actually made it look worse... A silver ground effects kit clashes with the black along the lower body of the Juke, negating the effect it had of visually reducing the height of the body. Up front to spoiler only exaggerates the odd stock 3 hole air intakes, which look as if they were made for launching torpedoes. The look is topped off with a gigantic rally-type spoiler that a WRX would envy, and - of all things - window visors (which need their own dedicated autofug posting).
Is it just me, or does the 2011 Scion TC look a little too much like an older Hyundai Accent?
Yeah - I may have used that tag line before. But these guys aren't above recycling, so why can't I be? The ironically named Japanese maker of bodykits knowns of DAMD, make the kits you see here. Turn your Infini G35 / Nissan Skyline / Nissan 350Z / Nissan Fairlady into a convincing Aston Martin ripoff from the headlights forward! Possibly a link to James Bond in here, as he's also molested many fair ladies.
Almost too absurd to be real, but it indeed was. It was conceived by the wealthy British engineer Robert Nicholl "Scotty" Matthewson in 1909, most likely because he was living in Swan Park, Calcutta. Matthewson travelled to England and commissioned the Brooke company of Lowestoft, Suffolk to make the car, with wooden body built by Savage of Kings Lynn, maker of fairground rides. The swan's head and body are carved with intricate feather detailing, and cover the radiator and hood.
Not only did it look bizarre, it also some unique (and frightening) mechanical details. Amber eyes glowed eerily in the night. Hot water sprayed from the swan's beak, scalding passersby so the car could navigate the crowded streets of India. The car even an exhaust driven organ so Mr. Matthewson could play chords an d bugle cars, and annoy the general public. Perhaps the most bizarre though was a dump valve the dropped splats of whitewash on the road. Yes - a car that s***s. Just to make it more lifelike. Just like a swan. That spits scalding water. And whose eyes glow in the dark. Not sure what kind of swans they have in India...
An 84 Oldsmobile Toronado made into a Cord knockoff. The Cord Model 810 was one of the most beautiful and advanced cars of it's time. This is not. Although I suppose they both share front wheel drive architecture. This one seems to be more ill-conceived than most neoclassic cars, which is really saying something...
Who would have thought a car with such a dull name would look so, um, not dull. Built on a 1959 Chrysler New Yorker 8-cylinder chassis, it's the nightmare equivalent of an Edsel. Apparently it was a concept, built mainly to showcase the use of aluminum components. The grille and most body panels were aluminum – the silver areas of the body were anodized brushed aluminum.
The 1955 Flajole Foreunner was formed from remarkably unfugly origins. Starting with a svelte Jaguar XK120, Bill Flajole – designer of the Nash Metropolitan – designed and fitted this overwrought and cartoonish body. One of it's more dramatic features was a plexiglass roof that slid into the windowless bubble of a rear end. It's also worth noting that it's white fender "coves" appeared a full year before they did on the 1956 Corvette.
