No kidding!
Somewhere in the Indianapolis area someone (god knows why) has taken a Chevette and put it on one of those huge 4X4 chassis.
There’s a monster minivan (same setup) here in town…
I don’t know what to say about the the ricer-style paint job on the late-model Caprice station wagon…
I love the Beaterz site… should get the digital camera out again - plenty of fodder here!
A couple of years ago I actually met a guy who had put an old Pinto body on a 4x4 frame. With HUGE wheels. Then he painted it camoflauge.
He offered to sell it to me for 500 bucks. I told him no thanks.:rolleyes:
You know those caps you can buy to mount on the back of a pickup truck, that turns it into a mini-camper? Twice I have seen one (same vehicle) welded onto the back and top of a 1980s-era Saab sedan.
Damnedest thing…
[li]a real replica of the Ghostbusters car[/li][li]a real replica of the General Lee[/li][li]a 55 Pontiac station wagon on monster truck suspension and tires[/li][li]a beat up old pick-up truck, painted with flat latex paint, half of it is white and pink stripes the other half is blue with white polka dots, and some black n white cow spots, with giant bull horns mounted to the hood. Its the ugliest vehicle I have ever seen. It pretty much defies complete description.[/li]I saw the Oscar Meyer weinermobile pass through town once.
I saw pictures of the same sort of car, Tranqilis, and I must say that I thought it cool in a hillbilly sort of way. My friends, on seeing it, began a short and ill-fated project to add tracks to an F-body. A hick can dream, can’t he?
Believe it or not, this is almost exactly what the '55-'57 Suburbans look like. Swap the nose and front quarters and you essentially have a 4x4 Nomad.
Dream all ya wanna, but this thing, I’m sure, was uglier than the one you saw. The 'Stang’s frame had been left intact, complete with engine, but a ‘new’ tranny had been put in place. The wheels and axles ahd just been stripped out, and the Mustang’s underframe had been welded straight onto the stripped frame of a 4WD car of some sort, perhaps a Subaru. The transmission output had been redirected to the drivetrain of the second frame. Imagine a stripped mustang sitting on top of a couple of I-beams, sitting on wheels. I mean, Kee-rist! There was a foot and a half of frame sticking down below the 'Stang’s quarter pannels!