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Monday August 6th, 2007 @ 4:26 PM
I’m not sure if I should feel sorry for the person who won this car on Ebay for about £700… It’s kind of funny in a “I have a the whackiest Pope-mobile on the road” kind of way, but I’m not sure if even I could work up the courage to drive it in public, and I’m a pretty flamboyant fellow… It’s a Hustler conversion (check out this history page for more info), based on a Mini chassis — most of course did not include the crown!
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Tuesday September 12th, 2006 @ 8:13 AM
Brad writes,
“Here are couple a couple of pics of my prototype Skeeto. It is powered by a Toyota 4age 1600 engine. It is all independent suspension and all wheel disc brakes. It has a bunny drive to kick in the four wheel drive. It is a tubular frame with all hand rolled fiberglass body. Up here in Canada we need to get up the mountain fast and this will do it at 180 kph (a bit over 100 mph). This vehicle will be street legal and does gets around 38 miles per gallon. I have had such a good response to this vehicle that I am building five more two wheel drive versions with higher horsepower.”
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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 @ 8:30 AM
I say “crazy Canadian hillbilly” in a purely complementary fashion, being one myself. This wild one-off creation from rural Waterloo, Ontario was recently posted to eBay although it never generated bids (asking price $9,000). To me it looks like a weird hybrid of a Lancia Stratos, a Lamborghini Countach, a Delorean, and something out of Mad Max. Which is pretty much what I expect when I think of exotic cars with 20ga steel bodies built in a barn. I don’t know what it is, but there’s something endearing about this car to me. Officially it’s called the DKX.
The car is build around a 1973 503 big block V8 Cadillac Eldorado engine (mid mounted) riding on 1985 Corvette suspension, with many of the other donor parts also coming from the Vette. The frame is two and a half inch tube with steel floor, roof, and bulkhead inserts, with 20ga satin coat steel welded and bolted to the frame. Steering is from a 92 Chrysler Daytona. The doors are gullwing, electrically activated with a hydro-electric opening device. It has full keyless entry, air conditioning, and so on, but it still needs a few parts before it’s street legal and fully running (some of the lights, the radiator, etc). Here are some construction photos:
Maybe I’m just a sucker for crazy projects (I’m currently building a V8 snowmobile), but I’ve got a real soft spot for this car!
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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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Saturday July 8th, 2006 @ 8:17 PM
Ricky really ought to put his email address on his website about VW toys so I could tell him how cool I think this still in progress conversion is. (More pictures here).
I found his page in a search for Delorean pictures. I used to drive a Delorean as my daily driver but have since upgraded to a Porsche 996, and have been day-dreaming about transplanting the Porsche chassis underneath a Delorean body, but comparing pictures I don’t think it could be made to fit.
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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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