July 18, 2007

More weird cars

Filed under: Uncategorized - BigPimple @ 2:33 am
Let me tell you about this website that I once visited. The index page has the line: “Welcome to Carl’s Weird Cars Photo Gallery”. I bet the car collector’s name is Carl.

According to him, he has been obsessed with junked cars, strange custom jobs, and other peculiar stuffs of the automotive world for many years now. From time to time, he managed to get pictures. He said in his writings one of his favorite things to do, is when he see a car abandoned by the side of the road, to drive by it at least once a week and take a picture. He does that and a lot of other interesting automotive stuffs.

The car in the website’s index page is a Hyster – kinda old. It has chain drive to the rear wheels. According to him, the original Hysters were built to drape a stack of lumber and pick it up to be moved around the yard.

Some of the weird cars on his website are as follows (with his thoughts about the car too):
 
 
1. The Short Chev – It’s a really short short var.  But once you look closely at this Chevy, you’ll say it’s actually pretty well executed custom. This car was seen in Springfield, Oregon.
 
 
 
2. The Sail bus – Spotted in a quiet residential neighborhood near the county fairgrounds in Eugene, this Sail bus is claimed to be a-first-of-its-kind.
 
 

3. The Nevada Truck - Seen at the Bolinas 4th of July parade, this International pickup truck was seen at many of the "art car" festivals around the country. The truck is an ongoing work of art that consists mostly of collectables and novelties from Nevada casinos, with many slot machines.

4. The Vanvan - This thing appears to be based on a lengthening of the chassis of the front van. You wouldn’t even see how they handled the driveline.

Oh well, those cars are really weird. This car picture collector is also kinda weird I must say.

Should you want to make weird stuffs, why not mix different brands of car parts and make your personally customized car? Whew! I wonder how it would look like.

Putting a GMC tonneau cover in a Chevy? I don’t think you car will look weird. Better check out the other options first.

July 2, 2007

The Dodge Pokemon Car

Filed under: Uncategorized - BigPimple @ 9:49 am

This is maybe old news for some but since this Dodge Neon Poke Car is still hot for me, I’ll include it here. What you are viewing is true. This is not an elementary grade car concept, this is really true. The autoblog.com calls it pokneon, but personally I call it “poke car”.

The design looks like it was painted by nail polish but its not. If you are a student and all you can afford to buy is a 2003 Dodge Neon. This idea is best for you. What cover this Neon car are 1,500 Pokemon cards. Brilliant idea isn’t it? Yeah, instead of throwing them away, they can be of better use, mind you. These cards were kept for some reasons. And it only took 25 hours for the designer of this car to completely cover the car with pokemon cards.

After decorating the car, the maker decided to sell it for 5 grand. Not bad for a Dodge an SXT car with 94,000 miles, CD, P/L, A/C, P/W, Stick shift etc… and even a certification of inspection is also completed. And for those pokemon followers, the seller is hoping to snitch an additional $2,000 for the cards that was pasted on the car. For all that 1,500 cards on its cover, you can never catch a second hand Dodge neon car out there.

The car seller also says that he is willing to replace every card on the car that will be washed out by the rain. And he promises to add an outer coat on the car if an additional $7,000 is given from any car buyer who wants to get this rare car tune-up.

I am not sure if the pokeneon car was sold. If ever it was sold, well all you have is the memory of it on pictures.

 

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