How not to modify your new Camaro...

Thought I would combine these two Camaro atrocities in one post.  Above is what happens when you take a car that's already retro too far into the past.  It ends up kind of looking like Burt Reynolds - the face looks kinda the same as it did 45 years ago, but every looks a sleek and just plain not right.

Below is evidence that the "Donk" look is alive and well, now brutalizing new cars and not just 25 year old Chevrolet Impalas and Buick Regals.  It still baffles me how people think this looks good.  Most likely cramming as many inches as they can into the wheel wells to make up for the inches that are lacking in certain parts of the anatomy.

Camborghino

Being in what looks like a nice neighbourhood, I'm trying to decide whether this is just an elaborate joke. Sadly I'm not sure if the damage is reversible.

The Reventon is polarizing enough in it's own right - this is further proof that you should try and make one yourself.

Bumblebeater

I never imagined someone could pull over turning an '80s era Camaro into a replica of the current Camaro. After seeing these pictures, I still don't. Given the bumper treatment up front, I'm guessing this is a Bumblebee replica.

Queasy Rods: The Belaro

While searching for some better imagery of yesterday's atrocity, I stumbled across this creation. Yes - more than one person had this idea. And while yesterday's car looked homemade (although I suppose it could have been some sort of development mule for this new generation of butchered Camaros), this one is a kit you can purchase from a company called "Easy Rods".


Easy Rods' slogan pretty much sums up why the cars look the way they do: "Built in hours, not years." They're basically marketing themselves as the lazy man's route to custom cars. This Camaro based "1957 Chevy" is dubbed the Belaro. The swoopy lines of the 1993-2002 Camaro don't adapt nicely to the 50's era design, resulting in a squashed caricature of the classic Chevy. Convertibles look a bit better as most of the roofline is gone - but the sweeping windshield looks like it hit a low lying branch.



Strangely, a lot of the image of this car appear to have stock Camaro hubcaps. The don't exactly look vintage, and at the same time tell everyone that the underlying Camaro is lacking a couple cylinders.

The Belaro is a much more attractive option than Easy Rods' other bodykit, however...

1957 Camaro

I really wish I had better pictures of this. I recently found this pictures cleaning up my hard drive - they were saved to my computer in 2006 before I disappeared from blogging, and never got posted. If fact, trying to find better pictures led me to a gold mine, the spoils of which I'll be posting in the next few days.

Back to the fug at hand, this beaut seems to be a homemade attempt at turning a Camaro into a '57 Chevy. Because, you know - this concept has worked perfectly so many times before. Also, it appears to be made entirely of clay.

Dodge 1969 Yenkocamaro Yellow Modification For Sale

Dodge 1969 Yenkocamaro Yellow Modification For Sale

VW Camaro Replica

One of the most bizarre replicas I have seen, this VW based kit replicates a truly rare American car – the Camaro. Of course I’m being sacastic. Who bought this new? Who was the target market - hicks with no money to buy a Camaro and too much time on their hands? Who would buy it used? Why on earth would you buy a bad VW based Camaro when you could buy a bad Camaro based Camaro?

Another question is exactly who made it. I’m not posting the ebay listing out of respect to privacy, but the current owner claims, “I am not sure, but I was told that the body may have been made in Muson (Monson)Mass., by a place called KAR (Leroy Sharete maybe).” That means nothing to me however. It’s based on a 68-69 “full size” VW, and the car was last registered in 1978. It has no side or rear windows, and although now bare, the interior was once fitted with shag carpeting.