Tag: Conversion

  • How About a Joat?

    How About a Joat?

    Or is it a Beep?  Either way, it’s a Jeep made into a boat.  Clearly, this project started with too much free time and “hold my beer.”  Interestingly, this redneck is in Massachusetts.  This is no Amphicar competitor, by the way, as it appears that it must be trailered to move on the road.  As…

  • Exxcellent Convertible Maxima with Suicide Doors

    Exxcellent Convertible Maxima with Suicide Doors

    Have you ever looked at a mid-2000s Maxima and wondered what it would look like as a convertible with suicide doors?  Wonder no more. The seller claims this is one of one, but provides no information on what company did the conversion.  Supposedly, this has been reinforced with a hidden, steel tube structure.  Do you…

  • 1929 Auburn Trackless Train Conversion

    1929 Auburn Trackless Train Conversion

    Have we found a Hemmings mystery car?  This seller is offering his friend’s 1929 Auburn-based trackless train, which is very cool in an of itself.   When looking for info, however, we found two Hemmings articles (one here and one here) with images of what is likely the same vehicle and with a call for…

  • Convertible Chevy Dually with 454

    Convertible Chevy Dually with 454

    Structural rigidity?  What’s that? This Chevy dually has had its roof chopped entirely off and its windsheild chopped, as well.  No roll bar was added for support, so this much have ‘interesting handling.  The only good news is it’s body on frame, so, in truth, it’s less of a handling problem than an overall rigidity…

  • Beautifully Executed 1977 Hiccup

    Beautifully Executed 1977 Hiccup

    If you’ve ever wanted a 1977 Honda Civic pickup conversion, this is the one to get! The seller points out that this conversion was done with great attention to detail and that people ask all the time if it is a factory truck.  From the pictures, we understand how many would make that mistake. It’s…

  • Silvia with her Top Off: S15 Varietta Roller

    Silvia with her Top Off: S15 Varietta Roller

    Though the S13 and S14 Nissan Sylvias were popular in the US, where they were known as 240SX, the S15 verision, produced from 1999 to 2002, never made it to the US.  Nissan did offer a soft-top convertible version of the S13 for a couple years, with that car converted at ASC in California.  Few…

  • A Corolla for Restoration?

    A Corolla for Restoration?

    A rusty, rough Corolla is usually just a good candidate for scrap metal and engine donation, but this one is a rare convertible, done by a company called Griffith and likely sold at the Toyota dealer at the time.  Does that mean it’s worth restoring? The good news here is 67K miles, but that can…

  • Surgically Altered, Topless Cougar

    Surgically Altered, Topless Cougar

    The seller of this car claims this is on of 96 factory convertibles, but Mercury/Ford never produced a convertible Cougar or T-Bird on this platform.  In all likelihood, this is a Car Craft conversion, given the year and the location.  Regardless, conversions like this were around back in the day and weren’t cheap.  This made…

  • Scion xB Pickup

    Scion xB Pickup

    Yes indeed, someone chopped a 2006 Scion XB to make a very strange pickup.  Also, according to the seller, it has “airbags suspicion to lift while you drive.”  So, if you drive this, you will suspect you have air suspension, but you won’t be able to confirm that? Basically, this is a Scion xB with…

  • Just another VW Beetle-Based Camper

    Just another VW Beetle-Based Camper

    Once upon a time, we posted a thing of beauty known as the “Little Bugger”.  Here was have a “Super Bugger”, which appears to be a very similar – if not the same – RV kit based on  a classic VW beetle. Maybe the purple paint with flame job makes it super?  The structure looks…