After the Mustang photo that we posted yesterday, with the Chevy Rally Wheels on it, I got to thinking about other weird cross brand violations. Of course engines are a big one that get people all worked up, and those are fine to post in here as well even though we asked what the ultimate engine swap sacrilege was a couple months ago, but other things like factory wheels, cowl inductions hoods, emblems and more have been seen by all of us at the swap meet or car show. In fact, it never ceases to amaze me how creative people can be at putting the wrong parts on cars. I know that custom builders have been doing it for a long time, and sometimes it works really well. But what about the ones that don’t work well?
Answer the question: What is the most hanous cross brand violation you have ever seen on a car at a show, swap meet, or race?
Cudas and Challengers are Mopar's Camaros anyway, so I guess a cowl hood is okay. Right? LOL
“Heinous.”
And it’s definitely the Skyline engine in the Camaro a few years ago.
“Hanous” is the Cali spelling . . . .
Saw pics of a flathead Ford in a Camaro once.
Obviously, any “LESS” in any non-GM product . . .
Make that a “LESS” in anything built before the ’90s — especially in vintage BOP muscle that should be sporting built OEM power.
The antediluvian “LESS” even tops the SBC for the ugliest, most apocalyptically boring powerplant in the history of hot rodding.
A guy near me went to tremendous trouble to graft 56 Chevy headlights and taillights onto a 49 Ford. Lambo doors on anything but a Lambo. Anything but an AMC engine in an AMC, although I will give a pass to a Gremlin I saw with a 426 Hemi. Late model foreign car bucket seats in a Tri-5 Chevy. Teardrop hoods on non Fords, and even then they must be era correct. Grump Lump scoops on anything but a First Gen Camaro.
ANY Chevy or GM part in a Mopar.
I agree with you Gary.
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!
VTEC badges on anything other than a Honda. Bad enough on a non-VTEC Honda, totally inexplicable on a Ford Ranger. (Saw that example a few days ago in traffic.)
Saw a BLAZER and bowtie badge on the back of a Mustang once…. not sure if that’s worse or not…
How about a 63 corvette super gas car with a big block ford
A few years back i traded a 1980 Holden Commodore, ‘fitted’ with a 302 Windsor – almost the ugliest conversion i’ve ever seen!. Slightly better was the ’67 Mercedes 250 SE that i’ve just offloaded, also fitted with a Windsor.
I dont like cowl induction hoods on non Chevies,I know the Fox body guys have been calling them thier own for years,and they work,I just cant do it. A friend has a cool 64 Falcon that he’s been shopping around for a cowl hood for it………..NO.
After spending 2 days at Good Guys Ft.Worht,I’ve decided if your going LesS just keep the hood closed,that thing will never look good.
440 MOPAR IN A 55 CHEVY!
It only improved on the car.
In an early seventies issue of PHR, showed a “new” Challenger loaded with a 396 big block. Hey, to each his own!!!
There was that cobra replica with a VW engine….
Type R Pinto or Vega….
I like pissing off purists and chalk mark guys so lets see a 67 camaro with a daytona wing and nose with a cammer a gto hood tach ,lmfao.
Don’t know if this one translates to the US, but in Australia people with any GM car like sticking Chevy bowtie badges on them….I know, you’re probably thinking WTF, that makes sense…maybe in the US it does but here, when you have Holden Commodores with V6’s or even older ones with straight 6’s that are not Chev motors that get bowties, you begin to shake your head….saw an Astra the other day (its an Opel rebadged as a Holden, little 4 cyl thing) but it had not 1, but 3 chev badges on it…. My other pet hate is these stupid transformer badges….OK, stick one on your yellow camaro, thats lame enough, but again you see them on everything over here, including the aforementioned Astra….Jeez, it wasn’t even a good movie!!
I saw a Valiant with a GM V6. Not good. Saw another with a Toyota LexusV8.
Quad cam, and yes, a hemi. That worked.
Any engine that ain’t of the same make as the car. Specially Chubbie engines in anything.
How about the BEST cross breed? How about an old faded construction yellow 52 R120 International that sat at an IH truck dealer I worked at for months with nothing done on it.. one Saturday a bunch of us got bored and strolled over to look at it.. opened the butterfly hood.. and there sat a greasy low compression blue Mopar 340 and 727! The shifter was a piece of steel rod welded to the shift lever on the transmission, and ran through a slot cut into the floor pan.
Half an hour later the service manager was doing burnouts with it in the parking lot since all the cheese was off on Saturday. I’ve wanted one ever since.. deadly sleeper.