Yes, beyond a shadow of a doubt you would be the cruise night hero. Undisputed and undefeated for as many trips as you wanted to make to your local burger joint, they’d know your name and say it with reverence as you rumbled by in your blown, small block 1948 Fiat Topolino street legal altered. But there is a price to be paid for such lofty status. There’s the fact that this thing is going to drive like a shopping cart, the fact that those zoomies are going to effectively fill the inside of the car with exhaust as you drive, and the fact that unless you are too short to ride Space Mountain at Disneyland you are not gonna fit inside this car. Hell, look at the lead photo! It looks like Kim Jong-Un is exacting punishment on the guy who has folded himself up like a blanket to get in the thing!
The engine is a small block that has a single four barrel on top of what looks to be about a 6-71 blower. That thing is has a wagon wheel pulley on the front of it so the supercharger is making what? 6-8psi on a sunny day? Engine specs are lacking outside of stuff like the car running a “Vertex magnet” and other high performance delights.
Conceptually cars like this are awesome. Little tiny car, whole bunch of motor and make it street legal! It is the true definition of hot rodding. The work here looks to be good and all but the actual experience of operating this car certainly does not seem like it would live up to the visual hype the thing presents, right? It always seems better on paper with these things.
Thanks to Rocco for the tip!
Check out the images below and give them a click to see the CL listing for this thing –
Meow!
Get back in your Prius and go home.
A friend has an Austin P/U with a blown sbc I wanted it before I lost my mind on my MGB, it has the same interior issues as this Fiat, could squeeze in but the contortions to get out were painful and driving position less then optimal. I still look at it in his shop with lust though.
This thing is so wild looking that I could overlook most of its faults. The paint color dates it to the eighties. Definitely needs a more period correct metal flake paint job.
Miami Vice rat rod
If they did Power Tour in it, I’d genuflect !