Questionable modifications: pictures inside!

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So upon searching "Custom Ford Ranger"

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Dual overhead camshafts. Sixteen valves. A compression ratio of 10.3:1. Multi-point fuel injection. One hundred forty horsepower out of 1,975 cubic centimeters. And the 1999 Hyundai Elantra to this day remains invisible on our roads. Or, at least, most of them do. We’ll make an exception for Harry Bleiwise’s pushmepullyu four-wheel-steer airbagged Elantra, which, though it didn’t crabwalk home with any awards at our most recent cruise night, was nevertheless the most unique car in the show.

Double-enders, as Ray Scroggins termed them in Special Interest Autos in 1977, have been around for decades, and tend to come together to promote businesses, typically with some sort of lame slogan capitalizing on the cars’ curiosity. Harry, of nearby Manchester, Vermont, said he had his Hyundai built more out of whimsy than anything.

“I got the idea years ago when I saw a Chevy with two front ends and thought, ‘My God, that looks fun,’” he said.



So in about 2008 he took his 1999 Hyundai Elantra – a 29,000-mile car with no rust or damage whatsoever – to restorer and fabricator Dave Brooks, also of Manchester, and told Dave his plan. “He lasered this and lasered that, and now the car goes sideways and up and down,” Harry said.

Well, it did take a little more than just shooting the Elantra up with lasers, Dave said. Using another rust-free Elantra that one of Harry’s friends provided, Dave cut off both cars’ back halves and then mated their unibody structures to a cube that Dave fabricated out of 1/8-inch plate steel. “After that, it was just basic welding and bodywork,” Dave said. That is, if you don’t count all the goodies that Dave installed, including airbag suspension on all four corners, an onboard fire suppression system, a 120-volt converter, a smoke screen system, switch-activated four-wheel steering, and a skidplate under the back so Harry can drag the rear end and shoot sparks. Oh, and Dave also added mounts for “landing gear” that would descend from the central cube structure, lift the car’s four wheels off the ground, and spin it around, though Harry hasn’t elected to install that system just yet.



For all those modifications, Harry and Dave left much of the rest of the car alone, including the stock drivetrain (the back half is unpowered). “It runs fine,” Harry said. “Just a little slower now. But we still have a lot of fun with it.” All told, it took three winters for Dave to complete the modifications to Harry’s Elantra.



And as if the pushmepullyu Hyundai weren’t spectacle enough, Harry brought along his brand-new Ferrari 458 Spider and 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air. For future cruise nights, he’s considering bringing down his new Tesla or maybe a 2000 Gillig transit bus. “You gotta enjoy life every day because who knows when the curtain comes,” Harry said.

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I´m not much into old Chevy trucks, but still... I am sad for the one that was brutally murdered to give birth to... That thing whatever it is... :yuck:
I almost cried. I love them. Their owners take care of them too. Like this one I saw yesterday.
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To taxidermy-ify any car should be a crime.
 
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