This next car is an odd one — it looks like something that would fit right in at Burning Man, but it appears to have be a one off custom built by an interesting fellow named Greg Zanis. Mr Zanis (1960-2020) was the founder of an organization called Crosses for Losses that built thousands of […]
Today’s first feature is a Mercury Monterey Custom that is peak early-’60s full-size Detroit: long, low, slab-sided, chrome-trimmed, and roughly the same length as a municipal pier. The big party trick is the Breezeway rear window, which rolls down vertically into the body. It is one of those wonderfully strange Ford/Mercury ideas that sounds unnecessary […]
I’d recognize a W108 front grille anywhere in the world…but I am equally impressed and gobsmacked to find a W108 grille on the front of a custom MG thing. Moving toward the rear of the car and I don’t see many MG related things, it’s got a small-block Chevy V8, triple wipers, and Lotus Seven […]
This is what happens when a 1973 Camaro and a Corvette rear clip spend too much time alone in a fiberglass shop with a lava lamp and a catalog full of drag-race parts. The seller says it is a Camaro/Corvette hybrid, with the Corvette rear body making it a two-seater, because apparently rear seats were […]
Todays next feature is a vintage Dodge Custom 880, which sat near the top of Dodge’s full-size lineup, below the new-for-1965 Monaco but above the regular Polara. The 1965 redesign moved Dodge away from the wilder Virgil Exner years and into the cleaner, more formal Elwood Engel era: slab sides, crisp roofline, stacked visual mass, […]
My mom used to say, “get your shoes off the couch.” Wait, that’s not it. It was something about “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” No. Mom isn’t that nice. Maybe it was “woof, that’s the kind of face only a mother could love, and now I know why adoption […]
This next car comes as a tip from Dave in Tampa who writes: You’ll never see another one, thankfully. Oh boy. Who wants to tell Dave? Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen a shortened Camaro VW based kit car, or the second time…which was equally jarring. I think these are each different versions […]
What is this? Who built it? Where did those wheels come from? I’ve got so many questions about this next feature and a few answers. The engine and transmission come from one of the Mercedes-Benz and Swatch collab cars known as “Smart” (for Swatch Mercedes ART)…but little else seems to be Smart-sourced. Styling seems to […]
Most of these mid 1970s Cadillac wagon conversions did not get their wagon bits from another Cadillac at all, because Cadillac never offered a factory wagon body shell. The coachbuilders typically started with a Cadillac Fleetwood (often a 75 or long wheelbase car), then grafted in the rear roof, cargo area structure, tailgate, and glass […]
If you’ve ever looked at a C4 Corvette and a Kawasaki Concours and thought “yes, but what if both were melted down and reforged into a reverse-trike Batmobile prototype escaped from a DARPA garage,” then congratulations, your dream has surfaced in Palo Alto. This three-wheeled roller pairs the big-brake front clip and coilovers from a […]