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Monday, August 01, 2005

Star Struck


I highly doubt that helps exhaust airflow...

Art Trucks




They're called Art Trucks. Picture all the neon artwork in downtown Toyko compressed, concentrated, and applied to huge Hino semis. And that's pretty much it. It's almost like American art cars, but with slightly more style and organization. And lots of airbrush paintings. And chrome. The "artists" seem to prefer box trucks and dump trucks, however, as it ads a lot of vertical space in which to mount more paintings, chrome and lights.

Excessive Camber Syndrome



This trend seems to be getting bigger and bigger. To me it just makes them look as if their rear axle has broken.

Smooth Criminal Fug


Unlike most Scamota this one appears to have it's velour or velvet on the outside. The official car of the velvet mafia?

Tin Foil Fug



I've heard of aluminum bodywork to aid in weight reduction, but this is the first car I've seen to be constructed of aluminum foil.

This interesting car also has a W shaped, toothlike hood extention up front. I doubt it would comply to the new European pedestrian safety laws.

Tri-Wing Fug


A couple examples of extreme tri-spoilers. The LS has a stacked effect, while the Q45 has a sorta "spoiler-within-a-spoiler" on top of a ducktail type spoiler.

Viscera


I'm not sure what this car is painted to look like, nor do I want to know.

Club Final


Not sure what the core of this car is. The front has TWO sets of headlights, complete with turn signals (the main ones lifted from a Mercedes). The hood features various types of inlet and louvers, while the rear has some kind of extended bumper below Supra taillights.

Team Risky


Don't mess with Team Risky. The extremely flared rear appears to have unexplained notches along the top, a large rear wing and two skewers. A gold chrome grille ads some class.

Fug from Beyond


I'm not sure what this car is made from, but it looks like an alien breed of AMC Pacer.

The interior features a nice mucus lined look, and a steering wheel that looks as if it was made of yellow semi-opaque dildos.