To paraphrase Jurassic Park chaotician Ian Malcolm: “Your bodywork guy was so preoccupied with whether or not he could that he didn’t stop to think if he should.” And just like the dinosaurs that ran amok in that film, this is surely one of the most terrifying hybrids since that Pontiac Grand Am thing that surfaced on the internet a few years ago. Ostensibly, what you’re looking at is a 1995 Buick Regal with the back half of a 1975 Plymouth Scamp “sculpted” onto the otherwise-mundane Regal. In reality, once you mash two completely dissimilar things together in this way, it no longer is either of things it started with.
I just made that last bit up so it’s probably mostly untrue; this likely drives pretty much like late Aunt Maurine’s 35,000-mile Buick Regal did before an “old school body man” wrestled land yacht bodywork into place. At the least, the rationale “I had these two things sitting around so I put them together” starts to explain how it happened, though the “why” remains a bit more unclear. Regardless, the seller claims it needs only a starter and fuel pump to begin running, at which point it will remain the boulevard star it was so destined for. For $750, that seems like not the worst idea (LeMons anyone?) of all time.
So what’s the best course of action for this hybrid’s next owner? Back-roads beater? Crapcan racer? Candy-coated paint and 20-inch rims? An ejection seat and 200-foot ramp into the Chesapeake Bay with a half-mile runup? More importantly, what would you call it? Scregal? Plymuick?
Be the envy of all your friends with this modern / classic car….
That first line in the craigslist ad just makes me want to buy it!
“Be the envy of you friends…” If they ride the short bus! (where is the turd imogy)???
GM gremlin with a trunk
A Pluick Scregal.
I think they missed an opportunity to open up the top of the trunk and make it into something El Camino ish. With that short greenhouse and long tail, that might be crazy enough to work.
Betcha he used a closet full of coat hangers to weld er up. And a little Tiger Hair.
Tiger hair or gorilla hair? Either way this thing is a perfect candidate for LeMons. Since it should never again see public road
I would call it the Plymuck, the Lemons race the crap out of it.
Its an automatic trans, trans make, Plymuck Regamp.
Take the RE from Regal, and the TH from Plymouth…….add a C……and you get RETCH….which coincidentally is your first reaction upon seeing it!
Somebody needs to turn this into a TRAR.