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Thursday August 24th, 2006 @ 7:36 PM
I feel bad picking on this car, because it’s just so ridiculously ugly that I doubt the creator is even aware of what a monstrosity it is… I mean, it looks like it’s a destroyed Fiero that someone has stapled pieces of silver cardboard all over. The only reason I can think of that someone would bid on eBay item #270021535339 is to scavenge the two Fieros for parts. I’m sorry, but I think this may be the ugliest car I’ve ever posted here. In a way, it’s heartbreaking to imagine that this is the result of hundreds of hours of someone pouring their heart into a dream project.
Yeah, it looks promising in the first thumbnail, I know…
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Friday August 11th, 2006 @ 8:14 AM
This is a good example of a one-off project that someone has poured incredible amounts of work into, but sadly produced something with rather homely lines in my opinion. It had hit $10,100 on eBay when I last looked, but was removed so I can’t see if it sold or not (seller was waitinstaten). A real XJ220 is a long, low, and beautiful design. While the designer of this one claims his admittedly “aesthetically unfinished” version is more “aggressive”, I get more of a “fat and weird” vibe. Sorry. I’ll keep the fat and weird in my life to my human self and human friends.
The car is built on a 9-inch stretch Fiero chassis (also widened about two feet) and runs and drives fine. The body was actually designed before the Jaguar XJ220 actually made it to production, so it’s not a replica, nor is it a kit. It’s literally handmade and inspired by the prototypes.
You may recognize (and I think this was a mistake) the roof and windshield from a ‘92 Dodge Intrepid, and the rear hatch from a Datsun 280Z. The whole thing was smoothed with body filler and block sanded with filling primer to bring it to shape. All of this was then waxed and a mold was taken off of it, in which a new body was formed. The flip headlights are from a 90’s Corvette (the “coverless” kind that rotates 180 degrees), and the rear view mirrors are Ferrari Testarossa copies. The scissor doors (with custom glass windows) are push-button with linear actuators, and the dash is a full digital unit from Dakota Digital.
My hat’s definitely off to the effort the builder put into it and the quality car they seem to have created, but I just can’t get into the aesthetics.
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Friday August 11th, 2006 @ 7:59 AM
The eBay seller (item #180015447666, ending on the 13th of August) of this “sportbuggy” in Fortville, IN says that it’s one of two cars produced, with this being the only one still in existence. It looks to me like a VW buggy a la a Vokaro — a simple small body dropped on a shortened VW chassis. In this case the stock engine appears to have been swapped for a Corvair engine. If anyone knows more about the car, please post!
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Sunday August 6th, 2006 @ 10:13 AM
Dr. Dean who runs this Siva Saluki site pointed out this dishevelled kit car from an Australian eBay ad, which appears to be another mystery Saluki (although it was being sold as an “Eagle”, but given by the description “ferari front end spider doors and a lamboguihni rear” I don’t think the seller quite knew what they had). It apparently rides on a VW Type 3 chassis, has a Mazda steering setup and a box frame at the front. Saluki? What do you think? Or is it a Charger variant? (Click “Charger” in my subject index for pictures of them).
Oh, and if you’re wondering, this ened up selling for $750. I wonder if it’ll be another car that sits in this state forever, or if it will be restored. You might not guess it from these photos, but they’re really quite a pretty car when completed.
Oh, and if you know anything about the history of Sivas, their construction, components, etc., Dean asks that you also contact him via his site where he’s trying to build up an archive of information on this rare vehicle.
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Tuesday July 4th, 2006 @ 8:29 PM
I suppose continuing in the contest of who can try and sell the ugliest homemade supercar on eBay, let me present to you “The Heidelberg“, said to be a side project of a now liquidated aerospace company running a Porsche 911/915 driveline on a custom chassis which was auctioning (item #4647720544) for an asking price of $50,000 including “$1.5 million of tooling”. It received zero bids. Can you imagine having spent $1.5 million+ on this? Talk about a white whale.
Problem is, no matter how solid the engineering may or may not be on this vehicle and what it’s capable of (no performance stats were given and it was said to be “95% complete”), to my eye, it’s simply too fugly to be a success (unlike the similarly styled vehicles of Bill Carter). I’m sorry, I always hate saying this about projects that people have obviously put a lot of effort into, but this is really terrible in my opinion and I think the final photo pretty much sums up the design sense of the folks involved.
If I had to play Creskin, I’m going to suggest that their website was heavy on the animated GIFs and MIDI files.
All that said, if you think I’m a jackass and disagree with me, the eBay seller is tournavista, who I’m sure you can contact directly and make an offer if you’d like to. Oh, and thanks to kitcarguy for the tip.
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Thursday May 4th, 2006 @ 11:11 AM
See, this is why people who can’t draw or sculpt shouldn’t make cars. I hate to slag something that someone has obviously put a ton of effort into, but all I can think when I see this is “world’s ugliest 80s Camaro — someone call Guiness!”. If you disagree with me, it’s on eBay as item #4636844659… so far, zero bids with five days to go. It’s basically a sloppy set of flat fiberglass panels put over a 1970 Chevy Chevelle SS chassis. Personally I think they’re insane with a starting bid of $2500.
Jeez, I feel so guilty now having written all that.
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Thursday May 4th, 2006 @ 11:02 AM
It’s already met the reserve, and honestly, I’ll be shocked if it goes much higher. It looks pretty complete though, and if you read the info below (click the “Astra GT” link above), you’ll see that if you buy this kit assuming nothing is broken you might be able to get it running over just one weekend. It’s a very simple car to put together.
Those are the shots from the eBay auction, and it’s Ite, #4636128020. Only two days of bidding left! Like I said, I don’t think the owner knows what a rare piece of US specialty car history he has here, so this thing’s a steal if you understand the basics of, say, using a wrench. No special tools are needed to finish this car!
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