Need help with mystery car

Dizzy Gillespie??


I believe it to be mostly VW and alot of glass/metal/bondo fab.
Take a ghia, flip it around and give a couple extra feet for an engine compartment. use 6 vw bug front fenders, french the front headlights and weld two front halves for the rear quarters and fill the headlight holes. nash roof 5000 man hours and 10 gallons of bondo....maybe

 

The body looks to be one piece not a cut up car

 

'Fugly' pretty much sums it up.

 

If you really want answers, you need to get the thing out and take better pictures.

 

Greetings! Looks to have an MGB windshield.

 

Don't know what it is but I think it's pretty freakin cool.

 

Check www.forgottenfiberglass.com. All kinds of weird ass cars on that site.

 

Not so cool outlook.

 

Top and windshield look Sunbeam Alpine Series 1/2 to me and the door hinges are also Alpine trunk hinges...thats my contribution....whats the engine?

 

looks like this (stolen from the syracuse nationals pic thread)

 

It's for sale on E-Bay.
9/05/11
item no.230668503825

Mel

 

i bet it's a figment of my sick imagination.

 

This is just one of the 1000s of cars made by American car enthusiasts during the 40s-60s, the peak years of the "Special" cars assembled from an array of parts of many to make up the dream car of the builder.
Some were featured in car enthusiast magazines but many were featured in the pages of Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, and other like magazines.
Some are really beautiful, some interestingly almost beautiful, some simply cute or quirky, many just plain odd in concept and execution and some downright ugly, out of proportion nightmares.
Personal opinion dictates which category YOU think this car falls into, I think it's an interesting quirky build.

 

can you get some better pics? can hardly get a good look with all that stuff on it a full side pic would be helpful too

 

Wow, now that is different. Looks like they ran out of ugly sticks before they could get done trying to beat that into shape.

 

Sorta Borgward meets Skoda in an unholy coupling

 

I dont know why your eBay listing for the car is in the Replica & Kit Car category...?

 

So, what does the lady have to say about it??? She remember the old man cobbling it together for 2 years or what? Any love from the title or VIN plate???

 

It's on E-Bay as of 9/06/11...Item no.230668503825......

Mel

 

All the money from this sale goes to the widow so she can get out of debt and keep the house and a few of her late husbands things.

 

And you would have put it were

 

I would put it under "other makes". The replica & kit car category has a certain stigma to it. Here is a link to the auction. Good luck.

 

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