Many, many moons ago my band practiced next to a garage filled with speed freaks. Three dudes, who shall remain nameless, sat inside all day, every day, chain smoking, blowing lines and building stuff. One day I showed up for practice and my formerly 600 watt bass amp now pumped out 6,000 watts. Sure, it sounded like a lawnmower attacking a raccoon, but that wasn't necessarily bad for my band's sound. They also made a remote control ashtray out of zip-line toys and last I heard they were working on a "force field." Then the DEA showed up and raided the hell out of the garage and there was some sort of stabbing in Florida. But pay no mind. Even if those boys had freebased an entire '56 Harley gas tank full of Modesto's finest, they would have never been able to top this masterpiece.
We're going to let the owner do all the talking here, while we just sit back in admiration:
1979 Fiat X/19Not only an "eye catcher," but apparently a cattle catcher, too. And only $19,000? Gary and Janet would be proud.400 C.I. small block Chevy. Tornado transaxle all metal body engine in rear. 400 + horsepower. Lot of goodies, electric exhaust dumps.
Does idle rough, big camshaft. No power steering or power brakes.
Is streetable, but is an eye catcher sitting still.

Killer dash, dude.
(Tip of the non-ironic trucker cap to Derek for the tip) [eBay Motors]













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Wow. This is the second time I've seen this thing up for sale on eBay - when you see something this gruesome it's not easily forgotten. I guess it never sold the first time or the old owner came down from his killer high and realized what he had bought.
Mach .05 !!!
HEY!!
Wasn't this the car from Hardcastle & McCormack Season 6 (the Straight to BetaMax Episodes)?
I wonder if he painted over the weird scripts on the back? I smell t-shirt....
I don't know what you're talking about, but this breadvan is AWESOME.
Don't front on the Tornado transaxle.
@Steel_ETC: [jalopnik.com]
He seems to have backed off the superlatives ("This is the true meaning of hot rod.") but remains just as delusional on the asking price.
Rear kind of looks like a Chaparral 2J.
FIAT WT/F
I hope he isn't trying to run twist like that through the original FIAT exles - those bearings don't love life.
Gee... from the rear it looks like the early stages of a BMW X6 Mach-up.
oh how i'd love to have this car.. i'd be able to say "screw burl or birds eye maple.. I've got a dash made of the finest multilayered spruce veneers.."
Whereas kids today try to make japanese drift machines out of everything.. these guys back in the day decided to make their own can-am racer..
If the guys selling it were canadian.. i'd offer $50.. which they'd turn down.. then offer $50 AND a case of beer.. which they'd probably accept.
Death Race 2000 stunt double.
Love the rear wheel arch detail.
How did he create that effect? Breadknife?
Look at those rearview mirrors. I think I just threw up a little bit. This thing is bile-inducing. I dont think the coca could make me think this was cool... must be something more like meth.
This is a genuine masterpiece of backyard engineering. Just move the decimal point on the price to the left by one position and you have the true market value of something like this.
awwwwwwwwww hell no!
At least the sartorial elegance and fragile beauty of the X1/9 has been left unabashed.
These new contact lenses are amazing.
Testarossa mirrors... check
Styling by Hot Wheels... check
Delusions of Grandeur.. check
Being stuck with this thing for the rest of his life... pretty much gauranteed
I think it's funny.. Probably goes like stink.. Wonder if it stops? Needs a really mad paint job.. shoo in for the Houston Art Car Parade.
Oh Bangle did it again.
@wishnevsky: Again, we are reminded that there is a fine line between "art" and "crap."
I want to start an angry mob. The Ghia yesterday and now this....I bet they have a website in Russia called Russian America or something and the Americans are the laughing stock. Crush it!
Ugh...makes the baby Jesus cry
in the immortal words of Charlie Sheen; "It looks great... if you're on acid!"
I'd love to see Chip Foose try to "Overhaul" this project.
@eltonito: So whats the harm? Art is in the eye of the beholder. Dude wanted a race car, got some junk and tried to make one. A few thousand hours later, he has this thing.. I dont love it, wouldn't own it, but i'm not going to waste my bandwidth trying to feel superior to dude.
A lot of these put down, so clever comments are "Look at this lower class peon aping his betters, when if he had chosen better parents, he could have a garage full of real race cars."
Skroom. Fiats and SBC's are in no shortage, and i agree that a few grand is a fair price for this, but not my call. If he tried to race it, that would be a problem for the Tech Committee, but not my problem either. eBay is the classically perfect free market, so maybe somebody will bite for a few grand, and dude can by more junk an make a better one..
And i have two uglier things in my driveway right now. WTFGAF.
Go Speed GO... TO HELL!
Ummmm,uhhhh ok, yeah "eye catcher" that's the best way to put it.
Isn't the X/19 a Fiero based kit?
Cassette player seals the deal.
It reminds me of Inspector Clouseau's "Green Hornet"-- which was a modified homemade deaux chevaux--and once it got rolling wings and frills and other bits just started dropping off it.
Although I was intrigued with the "rough idle, big camshaft"--which could also cause the car to rattle itself to death in neutral. Like some prospective buyer would say, you know, I really like what you've done here, but it idles rough--does it need a tune up? Otherwise, it's just perfect.
There's nothing Fiat about this car any longer. It should be called something else. "Horrendous Disaster" works for me.
Holy fucking Millenium Falcon, Batman. That thing just screams .5 past light speed! That's my ride this year to Wookie Life Day.
@readplays: Mushrooms! If you're on mushrooms!
Christ, that gas tank isn't a little scary or anything....
0 bids?Sheesh,what's wrong with people!
The mirrors make it for me. I want two. And a couple clowns to drive them. That's how many we will need for the Shriners' Circus BALL OFF DEATH.
Given it started it's 'life' as an X-19, I hate to say this, but it's not bad.
I'm not saying that I like it, or to be complimentary, but the X-19 was such a complete POS to begin with, and rather hideous to boot, this should have turned out to be covered in polka-dot fur, or something like that.
I do have to wonder how much LSD was consumed during this project. I like the Tornado transaxle...we can only hope a tornado shreds it to bits....
Isn't that thing missing Boomer and Starbuck, or X-wings or something?
Still doesn't look quite as goofy as a TR-7.
CONDORMAN!!!!
Adventures waiting just AAAHHEEAADDD....GO SPEED,,,,,, oh nevermind
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