MMM: Andy Saunders

I came across the wonderful Flat Out kustom while looking for more details on the Aurora, rebuilt by Andy Saunders a couple years ago. That’s a 126 rather than a 127, right?

Personally I’d prefer the Clubman-based original, Claustrophobia, which I remember from Custom Car magazine when it was originally featured. I think it’s actually on the back of one of the posters that Kel has now inherited. :)

Incantation is still hanging on the wall in the attic of my Mum’s house. Kel didn’t fancy it, which just goes to prove that young ‘uns these days really don’t Get It. I mean, just look it at it. It’s gorgeous.

Andy featured quite a lot in Custom Car, and the competitor I actually favoured at the time, Street Machine. Sadly Street Machine is gone now, and I don’t see Custom Car on the shelves in Cork any more.

MMM: I think it’s kind of cute…

The New York Times calls it ugly, but I guess beauty is relative cos I actually quite like it. Compared to some of the crap that comes out of Detroit, even now, it could even be considered quite sensible and pretty.

Now if you asked me would I drive it…

MMM: Call that a truck…

…this is a truck…

MMM: Mazda Furai

Pardon my French, but that is the shit.

And the rotary engine makes the damn thing sounds like a pod racer in Star Wars. Only better.

MMM: GAZ-51 Rod

It looks like a model but the build photos of this Soviet GAZ-51 truck say different.

MMM: Toyota A-BAT

I don’t think it does look all that much like a Ridgeline. And I don’t understand why they’re comparing it to an El Camino, since it doesn’t even have the same form factor. (The El Camino is a car with a pickup bed and three seats, this is a full size king cab pickup with a bit of a body kit, like one of those awful looking Navaras plodding their way around Ireland. At least this has a bit of style.)

The idea of a hybrid motor in a pickup still makes me laugh, although I suppose if it’s the only way to wean Americans off gas guzzlers, it’s progress. Why they buy all those “trucks” remains beyond me.

MMM: Ford Interceptor

Of course by the time Ford is finished with it it’ll be just another bland Ford nonentity, but for now at least, me likey.

MMM: Wald Mercedes CL

I think this is actually trying too hard to be evil. It’s Blofeld evil rather than Obanno evil.

The linked article* suggests it as a possible candidate for the new KITT, and I agree. Because, you know, KITT was totally gay.

* You knew I linked the images to articles, right?