One of the members at VWVortex spied this bizarre looking beast in Montreal recently. No details are known, but it appears to be built on a truck chassis, using body components from a C3 Corvette and other vehicles (including a Mitsubishi Eclipse liftback waiting to be blended in). It has a certain Deathrace 2000 appeal, but it’s not going to be winning any beauty contests…
Fred sent me these shots of an interesting DIY vehicle project he’s completed, a 2/3 scale military Jeep replica built in fiberglass over wood on a 4×4 quad chassis.
In these photos is Konstantin Stassinopoulos’s widebody Nova/Sterling project in what I believe is an earlier stage of the project. More details on the dramatic (to say the least!) car are in the previous entry. Do be sure to check out his website for more of his automotive projects, as well as his other non-car design work.
I quite like the wild widebody conversion Konstantin Stassinopoulos from Koon Design in Germany has done with his Nova/Sterling. He bought the car back in 1993, and first upgraded the engine, swapping the little Beetle engine for a 220HP 2.8L V6 and strengthening the chassis. Later he stretched the body by almost a foot, and built absolutely massive fender flares as well as adding other minor tweaks like a remote-control hatch. The car has been through a number of iterations with a variety of scoops, wings, and effects.
Definitely looks right out of some post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie, especially with the matte-black paint job and excess of vents.
Today I’d like to feature some of the cars of DIY-minded Greek/German auto designer Konstantin Stassinopoulos at Koon Design. One of his first projects is this ultra-widebody Matra Bagheera, which he’s widened to 2.25m (7′ 5″) with a duallies (double 195 tires). He built this car without any automotive experience over a nine month period.
If you’re wondering about the suitably matched outfit, it is also of his own design — Konstantin enjoys design of all sorts.
Well this is an odd project! This Fiberfab Avenger started life as the version that they offered for the Corvair driveline, but one of the recent owners cut all that out and grafted in the front and rear from a Jaguar XJ6 (and cut out the floor), with the intention of running a 500 CI Caddilac V8 up front… Doesn’t seem like a good idea to me, nor did it seem like a good idea to Eugene, who bought the project as you see it now.
His plan was to use the XJ6 components as a fasttrack to setting up an electric vehicle, but he hasn’t had time to work on it and has decided to sell it. It’s essentially a rolling body right now. He’s located in Goldsboro, North Carolina and you can reach him at partsfreak125@yahoo.com. He’s asking $2,000 or “interesting trades”.
Ryan who runs a Ford GT90 fansite sent me a pointer about a Ford GT90 replica project by a guy named Des out of Australia he’s been tracking (check his site for more pictures and hopefully updates in the future).
Because of the GT90’s simple angular design, it’s probably a good choice of a car to clone — and the fact that it’s a rare concept that few people have seen, unlike a car like a Countach were any kid can spot the smallest inaccuracy, will make it much more convincing. Des started with a set of wire-coverd wooden bulkheads over which he’s building up the final form with fiberglass and filler.
Definitely looking forward to seeing where this project goes — thanks to Ryan (and Des) for sharing it online.
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