buzz lightyear

Just seeing if some saw a weird modification on a car. Back in the 80's in my hometown. I came across a 74 pinto station wagon. They cut the roof off, all the way to the back to the front seats. Put a piece of plywood behind the seats with a window in it. Made a pinto pickup. A real homemade job with a saw. I'll never saw anything like that again. (knock on wood). And yes i lived in a tweeker town.

Rickman48

There was another Pinto with a 351W in it doing street racing in Chicago - glued black **** carpeting to the whole car, [why???] and called it the Wooley Mammoth!
Really cleaned up on the streets!
Saw it on 'PINKS' once, when they weren't showing times - it won!

Allan R

cutlassjoe

I remember that car. I thought it was a Vega wagon though...

Frank3

A friend of mine growing up had a '63 Dart .
He welded the drivers rear door , and passengers front door shut and sheet metaled over the rear windows , and molded them in . Then removed everything but the drivers seat , and put thick foam on the floor , and covered the whole inside , except for the windshield and front door glasses , with thick **** carpeting . was a total beater on the outside . Looked like a smoking clown car when he pulled up and the doors opened and everyone piled out .
We called it half baked .

Then theres this thing running 'round here .

Lady72nRob71

Uh, this one wins, hands down!

I remember where someone took a land yacht and actually made it look like a boat.......

The Pinto pickup musta been a more popular conversion, as I remember seeing a blue one in a parking lot back in the 80's.

oldcutlass

Back in the 70's, we cut 2 VW bugs in half and welded the 2 nose sections, moded 1 side for the transaxle and motor.

Lady72nRob71

Perfect for the driver who just doesn't know which way he/she's going!

There was an episode of CHiPs long ago when someone did that to a Citation, drove it on the freeway and freaked out a bunch of drivers who thought he was going the worng direction...

DreWRoolZ

the weirdest non homemade modification i've seen done to a car was what i thought was a custom mod until i googled it and found out there really are Saleen Ford Focus's in existance! quite the strange sight when I saw it in the parking lot at food lion i had never seen nor heard of them before i thought he got a kit off a mustang and fabricated it to fit his focus lol!

oldcutlass

Theres a guy around here who put a 4.6 liter in a Focus.

Tom442

Does this count as a modification? Old Mazda B2000 pickup with custom hood tie downs.

tom
68 442
70 F85
95 Auora

DreWRoolZ

yeah i was looking at v8conversion.com and saw that the focus could take a v8! also a volvo 200 or 700 series can be modified for a ford 5.0 or chevy 350 and a mazda rx7 can fit a corvette motor!

crzyjef

I have a friend in process of putting a Grand National engine into a late 70's Z Car.. he has rebuilt the suspension and working to get the Engine mounts worked out..

His goal.. a Sub 12 second car that still gets 20+ MPG

Lady72nRob71

No, not a mod but a redneck repair!
ThereIFixedIt has lots of RN repairs and even some mods!
RN repairs can make its own catagory...

Al Graaf

Thought you only delt with Oldsmobiles?

coppercutlass

If that old u haul with all the extended cabs was my bus to school i would have looked forward to going to school alot more lol

Lima-Gaucho

Or just take a look what these freaks are working on

http://parkoffka.ru/item/2011/2/15/o..._26_fotografii

Allan R

Freaks? Those guys have talent. Not everyone has the ability to work with metal and fibreglass. What they did is kind of like the show "Car Warriors" when the Datsun 240Z was redone into "Speed racer". They obviously had a plan for that car and followed through. The design flows well from the front to the back. Maybe not everyone's dream ride, but I think the result looks pretty cool. Would like to see the interior.

It would appear there's a big difference for interpretation of 'redneck'.

MDchanic

Wow. Talk about turning a sow's ear into a silk purse!

I'm impressed.

- Eric

Frank3

I like it !

UnkleScott

Here's a whole bunch of crazy stuff!
http://www.twodorks.com/walmart_carshow.html

Lima-Gaucho

Or another great modification
--enjoy--
http://acidcow.com/cars/369-tired-of...rari-from.html

70olds455

That looks like it took a ton of work to make that car into a ferrari.


Here is modified truck that I saw on craigslist. You can't even tell what kind of truck it use to be.
http://smd.craigslist.org/cto/2946130135.html

raw442

My dad built this in the early 80's after mom wrecked the Jimmy. He used a '70 442 and put in on the '73 GMC Jimmy frame. It has the GMC 350 in it because the Olds didn't have the motor. In the pic it's sitting on 38" tires with several inches of body and suspension lift. He has since lowered it a little, it's on 33's now. He doesn't drive it much now but he still has it.
dads442side.jpg

arodenhiser

Is it a 'vette, camaro or silverado?








Hmmmmmm.

Adam

Willidog

Pretty cool and some funny cars!

arodenhiser

how about........













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Adam

NateReyes1986

I haven't seen anything out of the ordinary in awhile, but I have a friend who went to the Art Car Parade in Houston back in 2011. I really enjoyed going through the photo gallery with him on that one, not sure if you can call them modifications or not, but most look pretty homemade.