Let me start by apologizing for ruining your breakfast, and quite possibly your lunch too. About this time last year I stumbled across a 1980s Chrysler Cordoba that had been treated to the Superbird look, tall wing, nose cone and all, and while there was plenty of vocal dissent, there was also a chance that with the right color and a few tweaks on the original concept, that the Cordoba Daytona could actually work.
There is no way…no way in hell…that whatever this thing is will ever work. I’m not struggling for a way to describe it, I’m just struggling to put what I’m seeing into words that Brian and Chad won’t fire me for using. It looks like someone took a 1967 Plymouth VIP and a Nissan Altima, put them into a giant industrial mixer, threw in half of a parts store’s worth of chrome stick-on crap and switched the power to “kill”. Virgil Exner himself couldn’t out-ugly this thing if he gave it his best effort. Even Stevie Wonder would flinch. If I have to say anything nice about it, then the paint job is nice and restrained, and the car looks to be well-kept.
I’ve caught hell for ripping on people’s projects before, and I’m sure I’ll hear about it again. But if you can rationalize this car’s existence beyond “Because they can”, then leave a comment below explaining so, because right now I’m stumped.
Thanks to the many people who sent this to me. You owe me…eye-bleach is expensive!
Let’s face it, the car isn’t any uglier than it was when it was built by Plymouth.
uh…..what does your seeing eye dog think?
haha, I was thinking that too Brian. You beat me to the comment!
Perhaps the worlds most ugly project ever.
Can you imagine after years of work, untold dollars and time, stepping back and gazing upon this…. creation…. and pondering “was it all worth it…?”
And seeing….this.
“Perhaps the worlds most ugly project ever.”
Anyone who has been to the Woodward Dream Cruise and seen the toy car would disagree. This video was posted in 2011 and he’s been motivated since this interview. He’s out every year, all week, and the last couple years there is no room left to add anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mvbsfXcFkA
That’s way too well done to be blamed on meth, too. That’s just bad taste. Or a weird sense of humor.
It’s your job to be opinionated (and to have us make fun of you for having one of the coolest jobs around), but I don’t think you’ll be catching much flack for this one. Yeesh.
I see that kid-friendly cartoon bee and can only hope that this car is a joke.
Please, all things in the heavens and cosmos, let this be a joke!
The sail panel of the roof and the “unmolested” door panel tells me it’s a ’65-66 Dodge Polara 2dr. I learned to drive in one. That aside, WTF!!!!!
I was thinking Plymouth Sport Fury. Regardless, someone needs to die for doing this…
Luckily I viewed this piece of crap before I had breakfast.
If I blow it up with some C4, would it be considered justifiable homicide?
Yes.
No. It’d be coincided a mercy killing.
My spelling is homicide. 🙂
That is a 1965 or 1966 Polara and the owner should be kicked in the face many times over….What I see now is parts…windows, window parts, wiper cowl, sheep metal patches for my Fury…..some people should not be allowed nearr cars…any cars…ever.
it’s all in the eyes (or hands) of the beholder(owner).The poor sap must love it. He must cry out loud to here what we are saying about his baby.
I was going to say it has one plus, sidepipes. But alas, they are not functional and there are two foot long tail pipe extensions.
This is certainly not the usual butchered together disasters I normally see. Someone did on helluva lot of on that bodywork and paint to look that nice. It looks like it belongs to that cat lady with 8,000 garden gnomes in her neatly manicured yard.
I don’t know what happened to that poor car but I know what just happened to my lunch.
I keep looking at it and looking at it, wondering if the “nasty bits” could be removed and the car brought back to stock.
‘Guess that would depend if the scoops, wing, etc. are attached with double-sided tape.
The taillight areas would be a major task.
The nose looks like it might be bolted on.
After he couldn’t add another doodad to the body he steps back and says “this would look so much better covered in hearing aid beige”
Is it a Hemi????
I think I saw this….this thing at or around Billetproof last week and I thought WTF????? and I’m a pastor!
I’m pretty sure Stevie wonder built it
I have seen about a dozen of these “wing car” conversions. Some are very good (a 1969 lime green Barracuda fastback comes to mind) and some are just funny to look at.
But this one takes the cake as the worst I have ever seen!!
Need to be takin to the nearest monster truck show and get smashed, NOW!!!
Blasphomey !!
But we did save a late 60’s Plymouth w/ slashed tires in Boston 1975.
Friend tried to change them and the lugs spun .
Went in with mounted used wheels and tires,new studs, + lug nuts .
Pulled the old ones, drums , bearings and all . Went around the corner
and a guy at a gas station/repair shop cut the studs w/ a smoke wrench.
Slammed the studs out of the drums, slammed new ones in,
remounted the drums, mounted the other wheels and off he went .
Best part is that the station is still there – Corner of Huntington and
South Huntington – My daughter lived right by there in 2008-20012
while in college – laughed every time I drove
It looks like the bee is wiping his ass with it. Skid marks everywhere he goes.
That looks about as bad as the mustang II with a Mercedes kit that a guy in Greensboro nc was driving back in the early 80s
This was taken at Billetproof at the Don Garlit’s museum in Ocala, Fl. So… because Florida…
It needs to be donked!!!!
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
This will be a sure star for Concour de Lemon in Monterey
Reminds me of Pee Wee’s bike in his big adventure.
Ok, for the fun of it I’ll try to rationalize the existence of this…. Doing this saved this car from being neglected, abandoned, crushed and recycled into a honda or prius.
OW MY EYES, THE PAIN IS TO GREAT MAKE IT GO AWAY