Do people even think anymore

[Monty]

If I only had a dollar for every non-Buick I've seen with stick-on fender portholes...$$$$$$$ :)

I'm sure every city has its share of automotive ignoranti. Whoever created those Buick-esque portholes has made a fortune in the Dallas area alone. I've seen them on everything from '80s Lincolns to camo-painted Hummers.

Here are a couple of my funniest memories of I-have-to-stick-something-on-my-car owners I've encountered:

1) A riced-out Solara with Honda VTEC badges on the fenders. Owner had no idea why people were laughing.

2) An '83 T-bird whose owner tried to create Duesenberg-type fender exhaust pipes using flexible metal conduit.

[FASTBACK340]

That vehicle is the culinary equivalent of chocolate chips in Lasagna.......

[Lunajammer]

I dunno, the choices just seem too deliberate, like a theme build or something. Does it look like a play off anything you've seen in pop culture? Transformers? Starship Troopers? Anime? Any story behind it? ???

Edited July 14, 2012 by Lunajammer

[Chief Joseph]

It may look a little goofy, but at least it appears road-worthy and not hazardous... like stretching tire sidewalls over wheels that are too wide.

[martinfan5]

It may look a little goofy, but at least it appears road-worthy and not hazardous... like stretching tire sidewalls over wheels that are too wide.

or camber that makes the car ride on the side wall

[Harold]

or camber that makes the car ride on the side wall

Or a car you need a stepladder to get into...

[Fat Brian]

I found some more pics of an earlier iteration of this car.

And a few more:

http://www.viperalley.com/forum/srt-8-discussions/76826-new-2020-dodge-charger.html

Edited July 14, 2012 by Fat Brian

[Harold]

Supercharging with nitrous. Or is that just an energy drink dispenser on the a-post? It looks like a mobile industrial vacuum. Excuse me whilst I claw my eyes out.

Edited July 14, 2012 by Harold

[Jordan White]

I stand by my statement of more money than brains. That thing is horrid!

[martinfan5]

I stand by my statement of more money than brains. That thing is horrid!

I think thats a given

[Tonioseven]

Come on ! You guys don't like it ? Neither do I. People are free to do whatever they want to their cars and people are free to voice their opinions. I hope it's not a lease.

[martinfan5]

If it is a lease, I would loved to be there when the car gets turned in to see the look on the dealers face, and hear the questions that are asked

[Joe Handley]

If I only had a dollar for every non-Buick I've seen with stick-on fender portholes...$$$$$$$ :)

I'm pretty sure I could easily make a payment or two on my 200 with all the ones around here!

[Joe Handley]

I stand by my statement of more money than brains. That thing is horrid!

Something tells me he wouldn't have anything to worry about during a Zombie Appacolyps........they'd take one look at that abomination and look elseware for brains to eat................

If it is a lease, I would loved to be there when the car gets turned in to see the look on the dealers face, and hear the questions that are asked

I've got the distinct feeling that we may not have to be there to hear that reaction

[FASTBACK340]

Handicap plates no less. There's a (bad...) joke in there somewhere.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Quoting Joe Handley:

"Something tells me he wouldn't have anything to worry about during a Zombie Appacolyps........they'd take one look at that abomination and look elseware for brains to eat................"

So far I think that's the best response.

This is kinda what happens when someone with no clue as to how things actually work, and no interest in finding out, decides to make something similar to something else he's seen. There's a story about some isolated Pacific Islanders many years ago who made an airplane out of rocks and assorted detritus, more-or-less arranged in the shape of an airplane, then wondered why it wouldn't fly.

A little of the same thing going on here, I believe.

Or maybe WE'RE all the ignorant ones, and this is really a secret-secret car being readied for the also secret-secret Subterranean and Underwater Daytona to Yokahama Race.

[Harold]

Handicap plates no less. There's a (bad...) joke in there somewhere.

I didn't realize that really bad taste is a medically recognized handicap.

[Harry P.]

But I bet that spoiler makes the car really fast!

[Joe Handley]

But I bet that spoiler makes the car really fast!

The one on the trunk, or the one on the back window?

[Harry P.]

The one on the trunk, or the one on the back window?

Obviously you know nothing about engineering. Those two work together! I bet they create an extra 50 hp!

Then add the extra power those tube thingies in the fenders add, and this thing can really fly!

[Rob Hall]

If I only had a dollar for every non-Buick I've seen with stick-on fender portholes...$$$$$$$ :)

On this car, they are speedholes... make it go faster.

If it is a lease, I would loved to be there when the car gets turned in to see the look on the dealers face, and hear the questions that are asked

Too old to be a lease, I would think..

[trogdor]

I always wondered what demographic things like this were geared toward

[Joe Handley]

That thing has sucker bait written all over it Rick.

[charlie8575]

Wow! So that's what a 1:1 glue bomb looks like!

Best comment so far, and somewhat along the lines of what I was thinking.

I was also wondering if that handicapped plate might have something to do, but decided that would simply be too cruel (to other handicapped people) to go there.

Charlie Larkin

[warra48]

It's a student exercise at a design studio.

The object of the exercise was to see how many wrong, tacky, ugly, and plain useless things they could stuff onto or into the one vehicle.

At the conclusion they were told to design the complete opposite for real world designs.