Tag: Homemade
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What’s Better than an AWD, Manual Wagon?
How about one modified to be a pseudo-Subaru Baja? This was once an AMC Eagle wagon; but someone took an angle grinder to it and added too much diamond plate. The end result is a not-so-weatherproof mini trucklet with a carpeted bed. Wasn’t that one of the downfalls of the Lincoln Blackwood? Fittingly bidding sits…
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Custom Flatbed Loader
What do you do when you have an old Chevy 4×4 pickup, a Kubota loader, a Farmall tractor hood and some wood lying around? Make a homemade loader! Did we mention the unidentified bench seat? Regardless, this is a cool, funky Frankenstein that might actually be useful for just the right buyer. Be weird most…
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Plymouth Acclaim Plus Chevrolet Blazer Yields THE ACCLAZER!
What do you get when you cross a Plymouth Acclaim and a Chevy Blazer? Behold, it’s the Acclazer! The seller states that this currently has not title, but that perhaps one can be gotten. I’m not sure public roads really need this, but that’s for the next owner to decide. The 350 supposedly runs well…
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This Town Car Ain’t No Lincoln
What’s an Urba Town Car, you ask? It seems Mechanix Illustrated (yes people abbreviated that way long before Hip Hop) published plans for this car at some point, and is thus to blame. This one of a great many odd, high MPG “build from plan” cars that sprung up in the 70s and 80s, alongside…
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1989 Chevy Van With Ferris Wheel Seating
If you had an extra van and some Ferris wheel seats, you’d do the same. The seller is wise enough not to claim it’s a good idea to ride in the rear seats at highway speeds; so don’t get any idea. What would YOU do with this oddity? Click for eBay ad Lohman, MO, USA…
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Homemade Nissan Pulsar Pickup
Admit it. If you like odd cars, you’ve looked at the Pulsar Sportbak at least once and wondered why it couldn’t have a hatch-off mode, making it into a small truck. Apparently, this seller/builder wondered the same and decided his/her Pulsar should be permenently converted into a truck. The result is suitably odd, potentially mildly…
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Crosley-Based, Homemade 1958 Pickup
Are you tired of driving around looking like everyone else? If so, a homebrew, Crosley-based truck might be just the ticket! This is rumored to have everything necessary to be street legal, and there is an old inspection sticker on one window; so there could be hope. That being said, the single-cylinder lawnmower engine isn’t…
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Homemade Mini Bus!
We like any vehicle ad with the statement “you have the option of sticking your head out the roof while driving.” In this case, the ad relates to a mini bus estimated to be fourteen feet long and about five feet tall. Unless the man standing behind it is seven feet tall, we think the…
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Quickie: E30 Pickup Conversion
Not only did someone convert an E30 3-Series into a pickup, but this seller claims to be selling to work on his or her “other one.” It shouldn’t be surprising that someone who would do this (or buy this) in the first place might have two. Is this really is/was a 325is, it’s sad that…
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Cool Oddity or just Waste of Taxpayer Money?
Supposedly, this “Baha style” (SIC) oddity was the result of SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) grants to the tune of $1.5M (click for link to one grant). We don’t know exactly how that works, but it would seem that some sucker might call this a bargain at $16,500. On the other hand, it’s not clear…