Dang, nobody likes it. I was just thinking about building something simular out of my 1962 Pontiac Star Chief. Since no one likes the red car, my '62 is now up for sale.
Batmobile??? Shark-mobile? Flounder? there IS a reason its in the ugly customs thread...there are actually many reasons...
...ah ****, boys....just air bag slam it, WWW it, skirts, dual frenched antenna's, lake pipes, chop the top.............no..........wait..........its still lipstick on a pig no matter how ya cut it.
Is it a well hung midget laying on his back with his feet chopped off at the ankles? I dunno, that's what it looks like to me.
I think it's "The Marvel Mystery Oil" promo car from the late 50's. I recall it, or something similarly hideous, scarring the eyes of the unaware.
1958 Plymouth Tornado Concept Car http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2007/07/25/tornado-crossing-the-block-again/
This just in.... It is the seldom seen, atomic powered, "Vacuumetski Physhka" A rare foray into alternative power which the Soviets developed during the cold war. The idea was to simultaneously captivate and destroy their idological foes with sultry looks and lethal radiological emissions. A point often overlooked is that "Vacuumetski Physhka" translates into the English language as ****ing Fish!
Someone has been trying to p*** this off as a genuine concept car? Unbelievable. It tells you what the car hobby has devolved into when there are such crude and unapologetic sleaze-bags hustling clueless chumps for real money with such obvious ********. I'd love to hear this story. Bring on the pitchforks and flaming torches! Only an idiot would fail to verify the authenticity. There are numerous sources of do***ented history on the subject. Chrysler had good archives and some of the original design people are still alive to provide first hand information. There aren't any mystery concept cars that no one ever heard of with zero do***entation waiting to be "found". People have been actively pursuing each and every obscure concept car for years. They know what they are looking for. The cars are either in someone's collection, or were destroyed or lost (The Norseman). If anything is waiting to be found we already know what to look for. That it bears no resemblance to any other Chrysler design or sketch should immediately raise the red flag. Examination of the workmanship ought to give it away. The real concept cars are well done in general. And even when Exner was over the top they were still appealing on many levels. Nothing was mud-fence ugly like this. C'mon. It's a bad joke that turned into a rip-off. Who the hell would be fooled by this? The world must be getting dumber every second. Real questions remain: who originally built it and why?
This is indeed a real car . It was first commissioned by a Japanese animation studio to promote their pending TV series in 1959 . The series was to be called "Sweat Wasp". It doesn't translate well into English but wasps are dangerous and sweating involves hard work , something the Japanese are famous for so it makes sense over there . An actor , Upushtin Mitooki , was hired as model for the character and voiceovers . He would make personal appearances in the car to promote the cartoon . After 3 months the show prospered but while at a personal appearance in Hiroshima , Mitooki-san was bitten by an exceptionally large radioactive wasp . He died within hours . That pretty much killed the whole program and so was born as replacement " Hello Kitty " with whom we are all familiar . The car itself had been built from the fuselages of two Jap zeros that had escaped Mac Arthur's notice . The engine was actually 12 Honda 50cc motors hooked together by a common drive chain . Exhaust was dubbed in to make it sound more powerful . It was eventually sold to Edsel Ford as his daily driver and was fitted with a 312 Y Block and auto trans . It supposedly still resides in his garage next to his favorite Edsel Ranger .
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