Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

Mr_Asa said:

 

 

I guess it's the anal retentive in me, but it drives me insane when people mix corporate entities in builds like that.  Like putting a BMW face on your Toyota Solara or whatever.

You want to make an Olds Camino?  No problem, even with Vette taillights.

But that's a Mopar face.  Important safety tip:  DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS.

Duke said:

Mr_Asa said:

 

 

 

 

I guess it's the anal retentive in me, but it drives me insane when people mix corporate entities in builds like that.  Like putting a BMW face on your Toyota Solara or whatever.

You want to make an Olds Camino?  No problem, even with Vette taillights.

But that's a Mopar face.  Important safety tip:  DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS.

 

I don't even care if they put the Mopar face with a Mopar tail, on the El Camino, with a Ford 302 under the hood. But stylistically, you're absolutely correct. WTF are you thinking? They could have put an Olds front, Camaro, Firebird, really don't care. But this was crossing the streams to a stupid level.

In reply to Duke :

Its kind of a shame it is so well done, right?

While my parents were cleaning out my old motorcycle shed at their house, they found this. A picture of my ITA 1974 Mazda RX-4 . The picture was taken at Pocono back in 1994! I loved that car.

In reply to Mr_Asa :

My picture of Barf disappeared. Here's another attempt.

In reply to Mr_Asa :

I'm far more concerned about those wheels...

We went to to some pretty big sled races when I was a kid in the 70's and there was no shortage of really crazy equipment, not unlike that

While I'm here

Duke said:

Mr_Asa said:

 

 

I guess it's the anal retentive in me, but it drives me insane when people mix corporate entities in builds like that.  Like putting a BMW face on your Toyota Solara or whatever.

You want to make an Olds Camino?  No problem, even with Vette taillights.

But that's a Mopar face.  Important safety tip:  DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS.

 

It's not the fact that it crossed streams, it's the fact the C5 tail doesn't suit the rest of the, err, thing at all.  Nice idea that could have looked good and been practical if they put some non crappy 'wheels' on there and an in keeping rear with tailgate.

Cropping down to this makes it look good.

berkeley yes, Mitsuoka, berkeley yes.

Its funny that a weird Japanese coachbuiler built a Rav-4 into a more faithful-looking version of a modern Chevy Blazer than GM did.

Duke said:

Weslake headed Ford?

In reply to Mr_Asa :

Ugly wheels

I'd not seen a top like this before.

My first thought was it was an Autokonexion hardtop, but its not quite right. Those Autokonexion pieces were cool, but I heard they cost more money to make fit than the purchase price of the top itself.

It looks like on the blue one, you'd have to open the back of the top, then open the trunk.

Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) said:

Duke said:

Mr_Asa said:

 

 

I guess it's the anal retentive in me, but it drives me insane when people mix corporate entities in builds like that.  Like putting a BMW face on your Toyota Solara or whatever.

You want to make an Olds Camino?  No problem, even with Vette taillights.

But that's a Mopar face.  Important safety tip:  DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS.

 

It's not the fact that it crossed streams, it's the fact the C5 tail doesn't suit the rest of the, err, thing at all.  Nice idea that could have looked good and been practical if they put some non crappy 'wheels' on there and an in keeping rear with tailgate.

Cropping down to this makes it look good.

Agreed!

It's the wheels that kills the whole thing!

R.I.P