This next car comes as a tip from Hugh who writes: What do you call a T-bucket roadster with a Jaguar XK engine and an automatic transmission? A lotus Seven of course! It’s almost as strange as that desert boat pickup thing. Maybe pickups that aren’t pickups week? I dunno…but this next car sure is […]
The world of GT-40 replicars runs the gambit from atrocity to travesty, but in this next car we might have found a bit of a gem. The FT Bonito was sold as a kit by Fiberfab and sold mostly in Germany and the Netherlands according to various furrin language websites. The FT used a VW […]
It is almost an automotive cliche to turn a Pontiac Fiero into something more exotic and flashy. Ferrari and Lamborghini body swaps seem to be the most common ones. The Fiero’s plastic body panels made the car perfect for this sort of thing. General Motors made a dizzying number of powerful front wheel drive 4-6-8 […]
Way back in 1986 a guy by the name of Chuck Beck partnered with Kevin Hines at Special Edition Inc out of Bremen, IN to build a high quality 356 replica. The rear engined 356 Speedster and mid engined 550 Spyder have been continuously rolling out of a small workshop for owners to finish assembly […]
It’s crossed auction blocks at $38 million, topped dozens of click-baity website listicles for most beautiful car ever made, and was, statistically, on the childhood bedroom walls of 46% of the people reading this (I’m convinced most of you had Volvos or Citroens. Or a Chevy Corsica). Only 36 were made. Today, for less than the […]
Fiero owners’ collective inferiority complex has resulted in some unique creations. None are as famous as Ferrari replicas, of which few are as clean or make as much power from the stock V6 as this one. Find this 1986 Fiero Ferrari 308 Replica with 250 horsepower for $6,000 reserve not met and $8,500 BIN on ebay […]
The Knobbly-Lister race cars were built and campaigned in 1957-58 with similarities to the AC/Shelby Cobra introduced in 1961. The idea was the brainchild of Brian Lister and the cars were very successful in the 1958 season, powered by Jaguar I-6s and Corvette V8s. Fast forward 40 years and Chuck Beck (of Beck 550 Spyder […]