15k: Stanced: 1928 Ford Model A with BMW V8
Shove a classic carb’d American V8 into a late model German car and all sorts of purists come out of the woodwork with pitchforks and flame throwing keyboards…but what if you created a bizzarro world opposite version with a modern BMW V8 shoved into a classic American body…will the purists start to gather kindling for the stake? Find this 1928 Ford Model A with BMW M60 V8
for sale Costa Mesa, CA currently bidding for $13,700 with 5 days to go.
There is no denying that this custom creation has a certain street presence. Love it or hate it, you’ve got to admit that the builder had a vision and didn’t let anything (physics, gravity, common sense) get in the way. Typically, a stanced car involves tucking wheels/tires into fenders as close as possible, but this one has no fenders and is just low…ridiculously low.
This Model A has had its original engine tossed aside for a 4.0 liter dual-overhead-cam V8 from a 1995 BMW 740i, which should be good for 282 horsepower and 295 ft-lbs of torque. Power is shifted through a 6-speed manual gearbox from a 2001 BMW M5 and put to the pavement out back via an 8″ Ford rear end. If should be fast if the rear tires ever hook up with the pavement.
After the auction ends, you’ve got to ask youself what you are going to do with this thing. You can’t drive it everyday because it will kill you. If it rains, you get wet..and probably spin sideways, then die. If it snows, you die. Hot day…death. Basically all roads lead to a chopped, shortened and channeled life…but boy those last few minutes would be fantastic. This is as close to driving a street legal shifter kart built by madman as you’ll ever see.
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Cool. Beats Still-Yet-Another-Fiberglass-'32-'39-With-Still-Yet-Another-SBC every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Reminds me of a '30 Model A I saw with a Mercedes V8. Just like that one, this is an engine swap. There was a little skill involved- the parts aren't available from every parts house in the US, no multiple how-tos giving you the same instructions.
Like it…I too am so tired of ANOTHER SBC (LSx as well) used in another swap. So passé….Such a contradiction- a smooth V8 in crude-rough riding chassis….
A great concept. The dirty, patina'd valve cover and manifold look cool, too. How about a rat-rodded out 2002? I would like to see a V-12 with a fabricated Hilborn injection setup and velocity stacks. This mated to a manual transmission with a crazy gear-shift lever of some sort.
I have seen / heard this vehicle in person. The noises coming from the side-exit exhaust can be described as nothing short of pornographic. For my money, it doesn't get any better than an uncorked BMW V8 in a wrapper like this. Purists on both sides of the fence scoff in unison at the sight of this car, but I was enthralled. I probably spent 2 hours and all of the memory in my phone snapping pictures of this beautiful beast. ti;dr: DO WANT.
Looks like something A$$ Monkey smeared poo all over…….
I agree with RyanM! This has appeared at Irvine Cars and Coffee a few times and it's impressive.
Is anybody just a poor old broke gearhead any more? The e-Bay write up? Too slick by half. Everyone is copyrighted, has a logo and has ambience and image. I'm sure it's an impressive build as per the "Irvine" Car and Coffee crowd; hell, I'd like to have the thing myself. But, at my gut level, it feels like a poseur. Who is going to end up buying this? Some guy with an "authentic" surf shop down in Orange County who started his (successful) business on dad's money and who, himself, is steeped in ambience and image. Probably will put a "Harvest" bumper sticker in the rear window next August for some real OC street cred…Sorry, mom, I'm a little loaded.
It was also impressive with the "Bimmerfest" crowd this year. Parked only a few feet away from an El Camino-ized E30 turbodiesel with blotchy paint and a smokestack coming up through the bed. I think this is universally appealing and appalling at the same time (perhaps thats why I'm drawn to it?), though for this price you're probably right – its going to go to someone like you described. Even if they're not how you described, I'll be jealous enough of them that the picture I'll paint in my mind will make them seem undeserving and douchey.
@Euromoto:
Hear Hear……..everything is artifice today.
While this has much to recommend it..just for its ability to both repel and attract…..
Somehow I dont thnk it was built by a couple of guys in the garage drinking iron city beer