The Beast

Back when I was young, I remember reading a book at a friend's house that belonged to his father. It contained one of the strangest looking cars I'd ever seen, so much so that it stuck with me for the last 20+ years. I recently came across this car again, and it brought back a flood of fugly memories.

That car is "The Beast", a creation by John Dodd.  Looking like the combination of the Family Truckster, a Rolls-Royce Carmargue and possibly some sort of Shooting Brake version of a late '70s Camaro, this 19 foot monster hid a very large secret - a 27 Litre Rolls-Royce Merlin airplane engine.

It originally sported a Rolls-Royce grille (pictured above in a 3D represenation), but now sports the stylized "JD" seen below after legal threats from Rolls-Royce. 

Regardless of how it looks however, the fact that it even exists and works is impressive.  Follow these links for first hand accounts of driving the monster:

http://www.evo.co.uk/features/features/228789/the_beast.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxMxFE37Sxw

*EDIT* - here's a bonus pic of the original body, which was destroyed in a fire. Carries a similar Rolls-Royce air, but in a body that looks like a stretched Capri.

Fuggerham

What do you get when you combine a Caterham and a mudskipper?  The IFR Aspid.

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Gross Pointe Blanc

Your regular, run-of-the-mill Bugatti Veyron is one of those designs that you either love or hate.  The newly released Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport L'Or Blanc (it takes longer to say it's name than it takes for it to go from 0-60mph) definately sways that opinion to the latter.

Starting with your "base" model Grand Sport, the L'Or Blanc edition, Bugatti worked German porcelain maker Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin to adorn the Veyron with porcelain both inside and outside.  The whole things is wrapped in an elaborate hand painted (but extremely ugly) blue on white colour scheme, reminiscent of porcelain artwork.

All for an eye-watering $2,400,000.