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Sunday, July 31, 2005

Sexy Crown



The car that started it all (well - the one which turned me onto this strange trend). As with most of these cars, this one appears to be home-made. However this one is without the customary fugly paint job. These cars all basically feature standard ill-fitting scoop in air inlets on boxey widebody kits. These are accompanied by hood extensions to make a more menacing front, bizarrely huge front air dams and huge rear spoilers. This one has pinstriped taillights - other feature slanted/croocked ones to match the slanted / croocked headlights (which I think are meant to look menacing but just look broken). Another note - most of these cars seem to be made out of 4 door sedans, and because of the bodykits the rear doors are no longer useful, but still there under the bodywork.

As on some of the others, this one features hood scoops and triangular appendages sticking vertically from the hood. I noticed the Silvia racecar has these, so I think in racing terms there help aerodynamics.

A couple special features about this car is that the hood extentions is much crappier than some of the other cars, and triangular. Also it seems to basically have the same stock paintjob as it's donor car (which is a Toyota Crown I think?) - which is two tone with a plastic trim piece. Interestingly the also seem to have either painted or applied more of the trim piece on the body kit.

I particularly like how the rear spoiler of this car makes it look like a moveable skateboard/halfpipe ramp. Also note the text on the door - "Sexy Crown".

1 comment:

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