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Freakshow has our noodle in a bind. There's not much left of the original '64 Chevy C-10, but it definitely says "1964 Chevy Pickup" on the placard. By all rights it should be the absolute baddest truck/car in the show hands down with a blown 354 cubic inch hemi, six Stromberg 97 carbs, the sickest custom headers we've ever seen all running through a four speed Muncie to a 9 inch Ford rear with 4:11 gears. It has a beer keg and an in-cabin tap coming out a skull mounted under a gun rack. And yet here we are torn - the car is pink, with white fur everywhere, and has a pink telephone on the dash. What. The. Hell?
Yes, we know, it doesn't look like any 1964C-10 we've ever seen either, that's because it's sporting a '61 Chrysler nose and a '57 Chrysler tail along with an incredibly schizophrenic paint scheme. But still, we circle back to this brutal dichotomy of total dominating badassity spitting in the face of convention. Sitting amidst this sea of flat black and rusty hot rods is a cotton candy monster waiting to eat your lunch, but it is nigh on invisible due to its fluffy persona. If Clint Eastwood dressed up like a lady and drove this car around, the world would end, of this we are certain.
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Love it. The telephone is the best. I mean rotary dial? That's one long phone cord running out the tail I bet.
needs more flat black.
i like a lot of it... just not the color. why would you create something so badass and then paint it pink? maybe the guy is irony's biggest fan.
So wrong... yet so right. Now I know what it feels like to be a lesbien. Those headers are AWESOME!
I want it.... Irony's a wonderful thing... could use a bubble-top, tho'...
Thats sure a wild thang! The roof says it was a 64 Chevy C-K pickup, not El Camino.
The cool thing about the beer keg in the trunk, its that it is also chopped and sectioned to fit in the chopped and sectioned trunk.
Brilliant!
I actually saw this thing in person while it was under construction in the owner's shop. It's wild as hell. As Mudcar said, it's based on a '64 C-10, not an El Camino. A few Forward Look Mopars lost their lives to build it, but I still love it to death.
These guys build some really wild shit, their shop was full of cool projects. Their shop is in kindof a rough part of town, and they have HUGE dogs that live in the building to keep thieves away.
The Duality of man? An existentialists dream perhaps? I too fail at words. I can only quote Camus and what he might say with our futile search for meaning. "Does the realization of the absurd require suicide? No it requires revolt." And so..... I flail!
a monument to unimaginative excess. clever excess, i can sanction. this stuff just sucks to me.
Cars like this are the case study for why the Puppy Crusher must remain unfinished so the badassedness is not diluted by such wimpy details. Like a pink assault rifle !?!
I saw this ride at SEMA in 2006. Lots of people wondering exactly what it was. Regardless of what it is based on, it's pretty damn cool.
@squablow: danke, will update.
I dunno - it would be a lot cooler if they had used a princess phone.
Gimme this to drive any day over the Fierenzo
@danio3834: Actually, that's what's called a quarter-barrel keg. I believe it holds around 7.5 gallons.
It looks like what Herman Munster would drive if he were a transvestite.
What's not to love? It has beer on tap in the passenger compartment. That's all you need to know.
@danio3834: It's a "pony" keg, or quarter-barrel.
@YankBoffin: Yeah, what he said.
I don't know. While I applaud the creativeness, it does absolutely nothing for me. There's alot of wild shit going on here, but I would not be caught dead driving it, nor would I be able to find any purpose for it, I guess the name suits it well, Freakshow, that is about all it may very will be good for.
The keg almost makes it look as though the thing runs on beer. Or pink champagne, maybe?
too bad the car can only travel as far as the nearest speedbump.
Much like the 1986 Corviper of yesterday I just don't get it.
@graverobber: Or Ed Wood.
That poor car needs to be put out of its misery.
Must rub salt in my next flesh wound - it will feel better than looking at this.
Sweet. I love the absurdity. Clearly the rod for Salvador Dali.
Re: pink...I think we need to go back and read Murilee's Best Comment Ever.
(posted while he was a mere commenter, even)
@acarr260: My dad says he wants to get a pink harley... so it'll piss off everybody.
Damn- what an absolute waste of one of the coolest Mopes ever.
And BTW, the rear is not from a '57 Chrysler, it's '61 Chrysler as well, with '61 Polara taillights, and a '59(?) Imperial rear bumper. The roof does look like it's from a '60s Chevy.
Those headers don't look like they'd flow very well...
Too weird to live, too rare to die.
@Grib: i'm sure we could kill it if we really put our mind to it.
@slantsick: Then the builders don't know what they used to make it with cause that's what they say it is. You better make sure to correct them.
Wow, there is only so much one can say about this truck/car/beer hauler. The grille looks much like the grille from my Dad's 1960 Chrysler Newport, which I actually learned to drive in--pushbutton transmission and all. The fins look like they came from the same car. I love it.
I can see where they were going with it, and... Eh, WTH. I love it.
Just don't let the cop that pulls you over see the tap that's two inches from the driver's shoulder.
This is what to drive when a purple Miata isn't butch enough for the occasion.
No shifter through the roof - fail. Kill it with fire.
Truth in advertising: Freak Show.
@YankBoffin: Ill stick with my original theory. It suits the car much better.
I have a '64 Chevy C30 motorhome and a '65 Chevy C20 flatbed, and I love the fact that they incorporated the dash, steering wheel and the great roofline into this beautiful mutant. This thing is a Quentin Tarantino movie in the flesh(steel)and must not be taken tooo seriously. Unless the goddam thing actually runs and drives (and serves up refreshing Pabst Blue Ribbon draft), then it's possibly the sickest thing yet and I want one now.
When you're this evil you can wear pink, if anybody laughs, you impale them on the headers.
Actually, I'm not sure those are headers, it looks like they just go straight out the side, I think that's the entire exhaust system... I can only imagine the sound.
Interesting truck, but for some reason I get the feeling that this is like some hipster's idea of a hot rod - with what seems to be ironic excess in every detail. Nowt wrong with that, but it's not really my cup of tea.
This thing should be dragged into the street and shot. Of course, after you shot it, it would probably rear up on its haunches and bite your head off, and then bitch at you for getting blood all over its nice, clean asphalt. Seriously, this is what you would have if a classic truck died and was reincarnated as Pre-Menstrual Syndrome.
i saw this one in progress a while back on Forwardlook.net... At the time, the amount of wavy Bondo was enough to give you motion sickness. Seems like a lot of time and money to pour into a car just to paint it pink with an animal-print interior.
@harumph:
Air ride?
oh boy!! i had a '61 chrysler 4-door. loved it!! as far as this thing goes, everyone needs a hobby!! chill the keg and head(?) for the drive-in!! YAHOO!!!
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