Crazy

2JZ motors remind me of the LS motor because, like the Chevy V8, people love to shoehorn Toyota's straight six into any engine bay big enough to hold it (and a few that are not). Other imports, domestics, European cars, and even a couple trucks have all been given 2JZ heart transplants over the years.

I'm sure by this point in time most of you are well aware of my automotive A.D.D. This ailment is the source of most of this sites content and lately it has pointed me towards blogs, forums, flickr groups, centred around over the top creations from the 60's and 70's. I find that era of car modification incredibly interesting because back then people were not scared to do anything to anything. Case in point this hot wheels-esque, four motor, four wheel drive, 'Mustang' funny car.

Here's a bit of a head twister; somewhere in America a clever hotrodder decided that the way traditional small block Chevys work was too boring so he flipped everything on it's head putting the exhaust where the intake was and the intake where the exhaust was. This creates a completley unique looking motor that on first glance leaves you wondering how in the hell it all works.

Got tagged in a Crank & Piston post on instragram by Meg over at Cars X Girl with the words "seems like something @stanceiseverythingcom would like" so I checked it out and sure enough she was right. This isn't the first time I have seen or posted a lowered Rover here but it is certainly the first time I've posted a Defender.

Contrary to the number of times I've mentioned it (I think this is at least the third) I wasn't a huge fan of the show Family Matters, in my opinion Urkel was annoying and Carl was much more likeable in Die Hard. Nevertheless it was on TV so I watched it and it served as my first introduction to the BMW Isetta.

Last week Saturday a crazy looking   GX71 Chaser from Team ZLAY popped up in my facebook feed several times and I couldn't help but draw parallels between it and another car I saw earlier in the week on the Amazo Effect earlier that same week. Maybe it's just me who's crazy but while these cars were built for two entirely different scenes and as such are worlds apart I don't think they are actually all that different from each other.

Pretty well topping my list of 'things I didn't expect to see this week ever' would have to be this twin engine Toyota Echo. I'm not currently up to date with what goes in on the Echo world but I have reason to believe that this car doesn't represent the average Echo owner especially when you consider that the car puts down 503hp at 8.5psi.

What's 10 feet 2 inches long, has 480hp, and runs a 12 second quarter mile at 110 miles per hour? This Truck. Why is that something worth talking about? It weighs almost 4000 pounds and has the aerodynamics of a flying shoe box.

It's no secret that in the quest to go as low and wide as possible some people have been known to cross the line between voids warranties and downright dangerous. Not long ago one particularily inept attempt appeared on Jalopnik and more recently people have been up in arms over a particular silver Celica from Japan.

On the silver screen DeLoreans (Doc Brown's anyway) are a mechanical marvel worth turning into a time machine powered by stolen plutonium. In reality by the time they finished jumping through all the hoops required to go from idea to production vehicle they ended up as stainless steel disappointments.

Have to thank Ollie again for bringing awesome cars into my life, this time in the form of a Van called the Supervan. What is the CBS Supervan you might ask? Well on paper the CBS Supervan was a promotional vehicle but that doesn't mean it shares any similarities with other promotional vehicles like say the Oscar Meyer Weiner mobile.

For something that is comprised of a chassis and motor that are worlds apart this Lamborghini v12 powered Ford Model T actually doesn't look all that alien. Photographer Chris Rowe's caption of the vehicle 'Like Powering an Elise with a Viper engine' is pretty accurate as I suspect both swaps would yield the same smokey results if you were to stomp on the gas pedal.