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While sitting in a hospital in Nashville waiting for Haley to finish an MRI (nothing serious) I was blasting Taproot between my ears and doing some Google searching. Found a concept car I hadn't heard of, the Dodge Decepzione. Essentially, it was an '89 IROC Daytona with AWD and the V8 from a Lamborghini Jalpa. It was an exercise in two ideas: 1) how strong Mopar's AWD system was, and 2) a test of how well Lambo and Mopar ideas could be combined. It had problems, most notably a cut down oil pan that only cleared the deck by 1.5", needing a scrape plate, and an offset 2" hoodscoop to clear four Webers. Nonwithstanding...it was a fully functional test car. And I bet it was a f*cking riot to drive.
All day I've been focused on it. And others cars that had potential that the Big Three didn't have the balls to create. Chevy, for example, put together the Feretta in '89 or so to test FWD V8 feasibility. They recently sold the car at a B-J auction, as a runner.
There's others, too. The Lumina Z34-based El Camino...
...the Ford Maya
Even the AMX series..
What I see are decent looking bodies that are throwaways now, cheap, that have potential. I know K-cars have a RWD swap patterned. I've seen L67 S/C V6 swaps into pretty much every W-body possible, as well as Northstar/Shortstar swaps. Ford...well, with the exception of Walt...
Just more ideas. It's the same argument that Brian made for the Cordoba Superbird last year: it's a car that nobody gives two shits about, so why not try to do something with it cheaply?
I'm still working on sketching up a truck with a D-series frame, J-body Imperial nose and cab, and El Camino-like shapes. I'd love to see an AWD Aurora-powered '91 Cutlass Supreme scaring the living hell out of an STi. I love Northstar swapped Fieros. And seriously...what would it take to get the Fucus (spelling is intentional) ST's EcoBoost system swapped into an '82 EXP?
Run with it, with an open mind. What would you kitbash together to make into something you'd use from the 80's-90's?
All day I've been focused on it. And others cars that had potential that the Big Three didn't have the balls to create. Chevy, for example, put together the Feretta in '89 or so to test FWD V8 feasibility. They recently sold the car at a B-J auction, as a runner.
There's others, too. The Lumina Z34-based El Camino...
...the Ford Maya
Even the AMX series..
What I see are decent looking bodies that are throwaways now, cheap, that have potential. I know K-cars have a RWD swap patterned. I've seen L67 S/C V6 swaps into pretty much every W-body possible, as well as Northstar/Shortstar swaps. Ford...well, with the exception of Walt...
Just more ideas. It's the same argument that Brian made for the Cordoba Superbird last year: it's a car that nobody gives two shits about, so why not try to do something with it cheaply?
I'm still working on sketching up a truck with a D-series frame, J-body Imperial nose and cab, and El Camino-like shapes. I'd love to see an AWD Aurora-powered '91 Cutlass Supreme scaring the living hell out of an STi. I love Northstar swapped Fieros. And seriously...what would it take to get the Fucus (spelling is intentional) ST's EcoBoost system swapped into an '82 EXP?
Run with it, with an open mind. What would you kitbash together to make into something you'd use from the 80's-90's?
American rice . . . giant back tires connected to nothing.
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