Ford

I've seen and (and normally posted) quite a few crazy builds so I am getting pretty a custom to bizarre combinations of car and motor but this particular one caught me wayyyy off guard. Fabrication aside the owner/builder deserves a round of applause for just getting through the amount of hate that comes along with telling people you are going to dress a 97 Mustang Cobra in 94 Acura clothes.

When the subject of wide bodies comes up in the circles I travel in people rarely ever mention American examples. Probably because euro and JDM widebody builds are much easier to find online, at shows, and on the track, but if you look hard enough American builds are plentiful. Several of them dating back to when fuel efficiency wasn't considered and there was no replacement for displacement.

I'll admit I have been going back and forth about whether or not I should do a post about this person/shop as when I first saw the cars produced therein I initially assumed it was just another bondo workshop. However after clicking through to the shops car domain page I was quite impressed at the work that lay underneath. While the final products are not be something I would drive I am very impressed at the workmanship behind all of these builds.

Last week I tried something a little different for WTF Friday but this week I am going back to a tried and true formula: A wild car with a crazy power plant. Or in this case a wild car with TWO crazy power plants between the frame rails. UK based Fast Car Magazine recently did a feature on this car and since I follow them on twitter it popped up in my feed and immediately blew me away.

Of all the lowered/dropped/slammed/sparking vehicles I have shown people not into 'the scene' the two that provoke the most reaction are vans and duallys. With Vans people just can't wrap their heads around why someone bothered to modify a family hauler and with duallys they scream bloody murder that the truck is now useless. The funny thing is 90% of these people couldn't put a dually to better use themselves so I am not sure what the big deal is, these things look great on the floor.

At the last round of CSCS Danny from Street Concepts was wearing a T-shirt that said "Say No To Recession Models" in addition to making me laugh this shirt made me realize it's been awhile since I have done a 'Classy Car Model' Theme Tuesday. As always pulling together this group took quite sometime because the trend for most car models (specifically import) is still to wear as little clothes as possible so everyone can see your high points and your low points.

Speedhunters has deemed October street cars and sleepers month so with that in mind I present to you today's WTF Friday find, the Cream Dream. What's the Cream Dream you ask? Well in this context (I'm sure google could find a few other definitions) the Cream Dream is a 1979 Mercury Zephyr powered by an LSX motor fitted with twin T-70 turbos resulting in 8.68 quarter mile times.

The rain kind of put a kibosh on some of the plans I had today so I've been re organizing and backing up photos I have taken as well as ones I have found online and figured it would be a good time to do another round of Random Dopeness. Speedline FilmWerks also sent over their latest video in the Wuste 2011 series which is just as good as their last effort which the sent by last week. Be sure to check both out at the end of this post.

I'm not even sure what to say about this car, it's not shiny, it's not pretty, and it's not even all that low but it is straight up crazy which is why I am posting it today. The creation below appears to be a barn find Ford sedan merged with the motor (Cummins turbo Diesel), transmission, wheels, brakes, and suspension of a much larger vehicle. I wish I could provide more information on this four wheeled terror but I've got nothing.

Roadmates is a Toronto/Mississauga club that's has been all about kick ass hot rods and customs since 1956. My friend Keith has had nothing but good things to say about these guys for awhile so when he gave me the heads up on their annual corn roast I decided to roll through. Next year I'll have to show up a little earlier so I can catch a few more of the cars but I managed to see quite a few awesome rods and customs and eat a killer hot dog and great corn in the process.

This 1940 Ford Coupe is another example of just how easy it is to completely change the look of a car by addressing its ride height, the second I saw it on LOWTECH I knew I would be posting it up. Being a classic this car no doubt turned a few heads at stock height but now riding a little lower to the ground I think it has an even larger appeal. It's not low to the point where purists would be upset but it's also not high to the point where it blends in with other non modified classics.

Before I launch into today's Theme Tuesday let me say that I know very, very, little about the British Touring Car Championship series so if some of these are from a different series or something don't be surprised and feel free to let me know*. When it comes to BTCC I feel I'd safe putting money down that a lot of people are fans because the competition is fierce and the cars (for race cars) very closely resemble what you see out on the road.