This is the kind of kit car that makes normal kit cars look cowardly: Porsche 550 styled body, Lotus Esprit bones, aircraft cockpit, fold-down doors, electric badges, mid-engine layout, and absolutely no engine. The fold-down doors are a ridiculous and key featurel. Normal doors open out, Lambo doors go up, but these fold downward like […]
This next car has me confused. The photos appears to be a screen grab from a snapchat conversation…which is always the best way to share photos for your project. Particularly if that project started life as a Type 14 Karmann Ghia but someone (in Michigan) cut off the roof and welded in a subframe to […]
This next car comes as a tip from Matt C who writes: “Not for the faint of heart – a late Loony Labor Day truckSo it’s $1000 for a truck that doesn’t run with bodywork pieced together out of scraps. But is it EVER pieced together out of scraps! The main body is an early […]
It is said that the Thomas Howard, the Duke of Norfolk first put in a letter to Thomas Cromwell in 1538 the expression “you can’t have your cake and eat it too.” Shortly afterwards, Cromwell was beheaded by mad King Henry VIII, so I’d like to use this car to emphasize that cake statement and perhaps add the corollary; “You can have your cake and someone can take your cake, eat it, and behead you too.” Because you can have modern reliability or vintage style, but you can’t have both…well…unless you are billionaire who can afford an Icon or Singer or Lynx Eventer, but here we are. We’ve got a $4k budget and car that looks like it came from Leepu and Pitbull’s custom shop. Find this 2000 Dodge Dakota Sport offered for $3995 in Sturtevant, WI via faceforradio marketbarf. Tip from Matt C.
What a way to start a Monday! This next car had my scratching my head for a while. I’m pretty sure there is a bald spot up there now…cause I’m still scratching. Maybe somebody can explain to me how a car like a 2014 Scion iQ ended up being the donor chassis/drivetrain/interior for a ’74 […]
What is red, white, and can pull its own motor? Yeah. a Dodge pickup with a forklift hanging out the back. The fork lift pickup might seem like an odd vehicle, but I’ve seen many running around the street hauling dumpsters from behind apartment complexes to the street for the big trash machine to do […]
The typical vintage T-Bucket replica goes like this; off-the-shelf tube axle front end kit, bucket of fiberglass, Ford 9-inch rear end, TH350 slushbox, Chevy 350 small bloc—whoa…who put that Chebby part in my Ford? Thems’ fightin’ words. The only non Ford power I’ll put in a T-Bucket is something from a long-time Ford partner…like Lincoln, […]
We all love a good surprise because surprise is a fantastic emotion…that’s why surprise parties are more popular than anxiety parties. Imagine my surprise when I’d discovered that somebody made a Kia Sportage into something cool…awesome…and just a bit exciting. ANXIETY…I mean SURPRISE!! Find this 1997 Kia Sportage 4X4 offered for $4000 in Petaluma, CA via […]
Friday the 13th fell on a Thursday this month, so I am going to call its Twisted Thursday, and we are going to dedicate the day to scary stuff. Does it get any scarier than shoving a boat anchor cast iron V6 in the front of an MGB and then outfitting the interior in deer […]
If you read DT’s tag line at the top of the page it says: “The Internet’s best fun cars, cheap daily drivers, vintage classics and custom junk, on the road for less than $20k.” Ignoring grammar and punctuation, it is a pretty powerful statement, but today I want to aim the spotlight on “custom junk.” […]