i bought the uglyest car/anybody know anything about it?

Form following fucked up, is more like it?

 

What the hell is that in the dash board??? A 9 inch black and white TV and a Mr. Coffee maker????

No getting around it. It is ugly. So ugly infact that I kinda like it.

Let's see... Paint the wheels red, some mexican blankets.... Nope, nevermind.

 

i just threw up in my mouth a little

 

And it probably got a "Golden Hammer" award to boot.

Pretty sure that one is a home built attempt to for the guy who built it to have his own sports car.

If you get into the Popular Mechanics magazines out of the 50's there were often articles on building your own fiberglass bodied sports car out of a production car. 52/54 Fords seemed to donate their chassis to those projects quite often for some reason.

 

Break out the Sawzall - its too tall in the body, that roof must die and the headlamps and grill are a bit off. 40 chev lights may work. It starts to look ok.

 

James, that actually dont look bad... I'm thinking it could use a tall grill-shell. That goofy over-bite looking grill that's in there now just dont do it for me.

 

Yes, the grille definitely still needs help! Just need to be careful that it doesn´t end up looking like some bad Jag XK120 kit car though.

 

Holy crap!!! You know what that little buggy reminds me of???



Add an MG strly grille and some chrome headlight pods, and it might actually make a killer Ceuella DeVille car!!!!!!

 

What, you got one too?

 

Nice restyle, James D.! That actually looks right.

 

What are you going to do with it?

 

the kids on killbillet would love it.

 

Flynstone-
You got that from the L.A. area, right???

No one on here remembers a crazy neighbor building this thing? A crazy Uncle with a fiberglass and Hudson obsession?

Yeah, it's pretty ugly but it sure would be nice to hear a few less smartass opinions and a little history on the thing. I wonder if it was actually ever on the road?

 

I know who the previous owner was.

 

wow !!!! that photo shop looks great,,dont i wish......i bought it about three years ago and hid it,,but i sold the car that was next to it so i was able to click a couple of pics......in the future i would like to gel it or whatever you do to old glass and get it runnin i think with the top off it would look better,,,,almost nice if you look at it long enough it kinda looks like a linclon............thanks for any more input ..

 

There is a reason you have good ventilation when working with resin. Too bad that guy didn't have the windows open!

 

i thinjk i just barfed in my mouth a little bit

 

It is ugly, buy god damn thats cool. I love ugly cars.

 

cruellas car sounded pretty cool! somewhere on here(hamb) there is a chase scene from 101 they used cool sound, oh ya that things still to ugly to get covered in fiberglass dust for, but if it makes you happy dont let me keep you from enjoying it.

 

Don´t wish - get sawing!

 

I would leave it l;ike it is paint it and have something totally different. the only thing that would help a lot is a mercedes grill. the grill sucks. if it is one of the popular science homebuilt projects thats pretty neat. how many of them actually got done? and survived? name it Ugly Betty

 

wow its the ancestor of the blastolene specials car cept its ugly lol

 

Jeez Louise ! Take her with you everywhere.... too ugly to kiss goodbye !

 

If I read your initial entry correctly, you say the license number is "ONEOFF"?? That would be fairly easy to trace. CA has had personalized plates a long time, but seems someone should be able to track that back to the "plastic master" who originally assembled/built/threw together this fine example of American ingenuity. I agree with those that are opining that it was likely a "see pg 23" project from the early 50s Popular Mechanics.

"if you dont' what that is, why are you sticking your finger in it?"

dj

 

I want to know where ugly betty came from

 

Man, now there is an improvement. The roof really helped it out. A little more clean up and the thing would be rather sharp. I would try to change it as little as possible, just some subtle stuff, so it keeps its original character, but it looks more like a professional coach build.

 

Wasn't that one of the cars in the cartoons with Muttley and the crew? Oh wait you're for real about this. Sorry.

But if the chick comes with it your all set!

 

the plate was purchased in 73 by the previous owner who is no longer with us , i purchased it from the estate, no one knew anything ,i was there to buy another car which i did,29 hootie but thats another story, then i saw her and knew that homly bitch had to be mine 500 bucks they clamed it ran but they lied...........

 

500 clams??? Oh hell yea! For 500 I would have been all over that myself! Honestly I wish me and you were closer together... I'd ask you if 'ya wanted to double or even triple your investment!

 

No idea what it is, unfortunately. But I dig it!