The Insane & Awesome Car Thread

The Insane & Awesome Car Thread

Fortunately there are some nuts and crazy people out there, and luckily some of them have passion for cars. This is the thread for their creations!

Alfa Romeo 164 Pro Car

Wikipedia

The Alfa Romeo 164 Pro-Car made in 1988 was a 600 hp V10-engined racing car. It was planned to race in a special racing series (as a support event to Formula One Grands Prix). Alfa was the only manufacturer who made a car for this series before it was canceled. Only one chassis with an Alfa Romeo V10 was built by Motor Racing Developments Ltd. the company behind the Brabham Formula One team, which was owned by Alfa Romeo at the time.

A Nissan Sunny with a Ferrari 355 powerplant.

INSANE , axle articulation :



Doesn't this thread kind of tie in with this one : http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=19705 ?

-> Hey, hey, look at this one:





Sample vid:


^ I'll take this car anyday, a good showstopper plus it can kick butt at the same time!

I'd say the car in This link is pretty awesome.

And here are some that sound epic win:

All of the above are amazing. That Mercedes always puts a smile on my face!

Chevy Matiz with 770hp LS7 motor...











Rover SD1, 27-litre V12
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk/projectcardetail.asp?id=4

Dahlbäck Racing Golf RSi

4WD, Audi powered, 2,2 litres, 5 cylinder, 900+ HP and street legal.



Just awesome.. Can't sit still while watching this. Too bad he talks a bit too much though.

v8 lada


kawasaki fiat 500 anyone?

Smart car with Hyabusa Engine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV4HdsDZX6c

The infamous Volvette.

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/T...-740_84833.htm

Turbo rotary + light car = win.

Over 1 minute of boring burnouts? Can we see some street action?! I bet that thing would fly down a strip.

Opel Omega with a 1005bhp Lexus V8



A bit of a sleeper you might say.

Now that Opel is super cool.

Whilst we're on sleepers, everyone's heard of the Supervan 3 F3000 engined Ford Transit van, and the WRC Transit built a few years ago. However, this is my favourite modded Transit of all. I give you this 1990 model, acting as a Goodwood maintenance vehicle:



Looks like nothing special. Three quaters view might help:



Recognise those wheels?



Yep, it's a Transit with XJ220 running gear.







Fastest run in the hands of Justin Law was a 63.14 on Sunday afternoon - less than 3 seconds away from a Porsche 917!

The F40 LM



what an engine sound !

The Lazareth V8 mini




This guy Lazareth also made insane quad bike :

That Mini just screams pure awesome.

Who said that the cars have to have loads of power to be insane and awesome though? I present to you, the monster Ka:


Though some power is nice, right?

520bhp Volkswagen splittie:


522bhp Volkswagen T4:


Porsche engines for the win!

homeforsummer

522bhp Volkswagen T4:


Porsche engines for the win!

I remember this one. Just plain cool!

Captain Jack McClure's Rocket Go-Kart Dragster

Aaron Green

Here is the incredible Rocket Go Kart of Captain Jack McClure. Certainly one of the wildest drag racing vehicles of all time. This pint sized beast toured the United States for three years in the early 1970’s and ran as quick as a 5.95 at 250 miles per hour on its last ever run with McClure at the wheel at Orange County International Raceway in Irvine, California, before he retired it at the end of the 1973 drag racing season. He never did crash it, of course you would only crash it once!!

Absolutely chilling. Sheer British lunacy from the late forties. The BRM V16.

I know that the car pictured in the vids mounts the ill-fated H16, but this is the only clip I have found with an in-cabin soundtake.

Get a pair of good headphones and crank the numbers to eleventy.