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A Double-Ender 12 Cylinder Buick Regal? You Have To See This Thing!


A Double-Ender 12 Cylinder Buick Regal? You Have To See This Thing!

Back when I was in college, I worked at a Chevrolet dealer in Norwood MA in the Parts Department for a few months. During my brief stint running parts there, I saw plenty of strange things both inside the dealer (like an entire pallet of 1986 Caprice AM/FM radios that a previous Parts Manager ordered for no reason) and outside in the parking lot (like a late 1990’s Hyundai that the owner Bondo’ed shut an entire door that got hit in a collision, glass and all). But the strangest thing I saw was a parts running double-ender van made from a Ford Econoline and a Chevy G20 cargo van that another local dealer would roll out every once and a while. Every time that monstrosity showed up, we all went outside to revel in all its weirdness, and I thought to myself how insane it would be to drive something like that around. While that was strange, this Buick Regal for sale on Craigslist is even more absurd, and awesome! Let’s take a closer look at this creation.

 

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I’ve seen plenty of double-ender, push it/pull it mutants over the years, but out of all of them, this one is the most seamlessly mated together pair of car noses that I’ve ever seen. The guy that built this thing owns a body shop and built this freak as a promotional vehicle to advertise for his shop, so the attention to detail is top notch. The single fuel filler feeds a tank that can be switched to provide fuel to the engines independently or all at once.

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Opening the doors reveals an interior that consists of a mirror image of dashboards and blue velour straight out of your grandma’s garage. Again, the attention to detail is fantastic. While it appears that the half on the left was from a blue car, there are no booger welds or hacked together weirdness to be seen.

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The builder even went through the trouble of making a single headliner that merges the two interiors. Just about everything is symmetrical, making it all the more impressive.

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Since this was built as an advertisement, one half looks like it got punched in the face…

 

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…While the other half looks perfect. Note the “Before” and “After” license plates, just in case you couldn’t tell which end was the better half. Ingenious piece of advertising right there!

As far as the rest of the details go, this thing has a 3.8L V6 on one side and a 3.1L V6 on the other. Both sides can run and steer independently of each other, and the car comes with parts to fix the “Before” end of the car so they look truly identical. It also comes with titles for both cars, in case you are insane enough to try and register it (or them?) for street use. Throughout typing this up, I’ve had only one twisted image in my head, and that of course is getting two people to each pick a side and do a double burnout tug of war until either it shoots pistons or the car forcibly tears itself apart into two FWD chunks! That’s normal, right? Of course it is.

Here’s the ad from Craigslist in Omaha, NE:

1991 1992 Twin Buick Regals cut in half and welded back together one is a 3100 engine one is 3800 both run at same time or independently just switch fuel pump only one tank and one pump. Built it for town parade three years ago. I have had my fun, now its someone else’s turn. Both steer, both have brakes, A/C works in one, no A/C pump on other. One side is currently wrecked, I built it that way because of advertising for collision shop. I have parts to fix both sides if that is what you want, and will fix for serious buyer. It has cheap Bomgaars paint on it, well because its really not a show car. If you want to get peoples attention at parades, races, or whatever you want this is the car you need. NOT STREET LEGAL . I do have both tittles. Interior is pieced back together with original parts. Call or text with questions. Will deliver a reasonable distance, if I have cash in my hand. Make me an offer. Trade for 6 x 12 flatbed single axle trailer and cash.

As always, your thoughts on this wonderful vehicle are welcome. Do your thing below in the comments section!

 

 


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8 thoughts on “A Double-Ender 12 Cylinder Buick Regal? You Have To See This Thing!

  1. Chevy Hatin' Mad Geordie

    WTF? – a double- fronted pile of crap is still a pile of crap. prac fo elip a llist si prac fo elip detnorf-elboud a – ?FTW

      1. Chevy Hatin' Mad Geordie

        Nope – it read the last part is the first part backwards. It’s a push me-pull you sentence1

  2. john

    Feddy Fender had it right…”Wasted days and wasted nights…” they should have grafted the ass ends and made a trailer.

  3. Brendan M

    It’s the Hillary Clinton of the car world.
    A two faced piece of crap with no purpose but to entertain people who are too stupid to realize it’s uselessness.

  4. Russell

    I was hoping someone swapped a second supercharged 3800 into the trunk of a GS. That thing is good for parts only.

  5. CTX-SLPR

    I like it, definitely ditch the 3.1 for an L67 and make the “Before” car the brake light section though I’m tempted do it with the tow truck add on lights on the hood and really freak people out. Wonder if he wired all the turn signals together?

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