This looks less like a real-life, California-tagged vehicle and more like a Hot Wheels concept come to life. This is on-par with the Dodge Tomahawk motorcycle in the “no way in hell can you convince me to ride that!” department. It is brutal, it is ballistic, and when sitting still, it is a work of art in metal, which isn’t surprising when you learn that it was built by Blastolene, the company responsible for such one-off creations as the Piss’d Off Pete and the Tank Car. It was commissioned by Tim Cotterill, a man who is known for his beautiful artwork sculptures of frogs, koi and the like. How you transition from frog figurines to a Hemi-powered trike is beyond us, but he did. Looking over the trike you see that plenty of thought was put into everything. The gauge panel is incorporated into the supercharger housing, adding visual mass while blending in. The steering assembly uses a center-hub system and a cam-driven steering gear to ease operation for the rider. The suicide shifter on the side controls a 727 TorqueFlite, so there really isn’t much danger there, and the brakes are Baer pieces so that when the sense of self-preservation kicks in, the machine can be reined in. Though, there might not be any sense of self-preservation if you actually hopped on it in the first place…
Randy Grubb and his crew are absolutely bat**** crazy insane in the very best of ways . Toss in an excess of creativity metal working and fabrication skills and is there anyone else even in their league ? The answer is a resounding … NO !
My absolute favorite project of theirs ?
http://www.randygrubb.com/the-decoliner/
There is no better RV / Tour Bus …. period .
So… they pretty much made a slingshot dragster street legal by turning it into a three wheeler? Awesome.
Right – I’ve just made a warthog out of old shoe leather and wor lasse’s should we say slightly used knickers. I’ve packed me bags and I’m off to the USA and then to Blastolene to have them go even one step further.
What’s that, Hinny – you’ve got nee clean knickers….
Well that’s me air fare gone on plastic surgery to me old fella – I wish I’d never bought her that electric knife sharpener….
I was attempting to translate that, but “plastic surgery to me old fella” just made me cringe. Don’t research “Blastolene” or “Tank Car”, lest every lass in a 50-mile radius be in danger of the Million Dollar Old Chap.
“We can rebuild him. We have the technology.”
Right, Bryan me old mate – it’s written in Geordie which is the dialect of Newcastle upon Tyne in the north east of England.
Wor lass – my wife
Knickers – panties
nee – none
The rest of it is down to a warped, slightly surrealistic sense of humour and sheer joy at being a BangShiter!