Well looks like Smyth Performance has you covered:
http://www.carscoops.com/2017/02/smyth-performance-wants-to-turn-your.html?m=1
Well looks like Smyth Performance has you covered:
http://www.carscoops.com/2017/02/smyth-performance-wants-to-turn-your.html?m=1
That is horrific.
the rear side window could use some work, but I kinda like it
Need more trucknuts.
That looks like a great future challenge car when it turns up half finished in a field 20 years from now for dirt cheap
I don't think so.
From the same company...
This is great!
That...not so much
Reminds me of a Maloo
But at least that thing can get around a track as ugly as it is!
They should have tried for a better paint match on their photo car. These days you could probably even have fixed that in photo shop.
SEADave wrote: They should have tried for a better paint match on their photo car. These days you could probably even have fixed that in photo shop.
This is exactly what i came here to say. Its their press release car and they cant even get the paint to match?
Plus it looks like a wet fart.
Before i looked at it i thought a charger ute might not be too bad. They missed the mark on this one though.
I'm thinking the paint on the bed of the charger is still primer. This is the work of Mark Smith, One of the founders of Factory Five Racing.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
El Camino?
That car should be called "No Buenos."
ECM will find this decades from now and we'll call it a good score.
gearheadmb wrote:SEADave wrote: They should have tried for a better paint match on their photo car. These days you could probably even have fixed that in photo shop.This is exactly what i came here to say. Its their press release car and they cant even get the paint to match? Plus it looks like a wet fart. Before i looked at it i thought a charger ute might not be too bad. They missed the mark on this one though.
That's not even their finished product. If you go on their Facebook page, you can see the finished product. This was just some article that somebody wrote about it.
Tough crowd, I thought more people here would like it. I actually like it and I don't see anybody else making one so it's hard to criticize the fit and finish when nobody else has even attempted it.
I think maybe a bit of a nose job, and dumping that rear side window all together, it might not be terrible. But for what I imagine it costs, I'd rather have a Maloo.
For that matter, if we could get some Maloo here on the used market, like sub $5k area, I'd drive the crap out of it.
Wonder if it could also be adapted to a 300C and/or Magnum? 
This is the completed prototype:
I don't hate it! It looks way better all one color, and the push bar seals the deal.
Also, this guy is one of the founders of Factory Five Racing. His brother now runs FFR, and he does this. They are both still based out of Wareham, MA, where Tim Suddard is from (and two towns over from where I live).
I don't hate it.
It's bad, but the Jetta is worse. Not really sure why you would do that rather than just buying a Magnum though and ripping out the rear seats.
Even the finished project just looks...rough. I'll pass.
Seems like the magnum might have been a more natural starting point to me.
STM317 wrote: Seems like the magnum might have been a more natural starting point to me.
Agreed. Especially if they went short on the bed and kept all 4 doors like a Subaru Baja.
FCA/Ram needs to bring back the Dakota.
There was a nice one owned by a handyman parked across the street yesterday. Right size.
I love the idea. The Jetta is really nice. The charger looks a bit like they extended the wheelbase, but I bet they didn't.
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