Need some individuality on the road? Try these:
By Chad Waite | February 21, 2010
Guest post by Martin Sturrock
Let’s face it, whatever car you currently own there’s a good chance you’ll cross another one on your next journey. Most of us want a little individuality but our options are all too often limited by budget and lack of taste. To counter this, we put things like a pointless rear wing on a front wheel drive car and end up looking like a (fill in your own expletive of choice). Once that has failed, we then turn to body kits, however, most just make the standard car look like your Aunt Mabel at Christmas.
Enter the Mazda MX-5, a brilliant car forever tarnished by a hairdresser image, no matter how butch the wheel arches are on today’s edition. Simpson Design has come to the rescue with the Italia and Manta Ray MX-5 custom bodies. Both transform the image of the MX-5 into Italianate beauties and I wouldn’t mind having either of them.
Next up is the Barchetta 3500. Ok, I know I wrote no kidney selling but I may have lied a little about this one. An outstanding replica of the Maserati AG GCS Barchetta, you can either build it yourself if you’re single and your name is Wallace or have them build it for you. Not a bad final resting place either when you’re broadsided by an Escalade.
Everything else I found was Countach “replicas” on Fiero chassis that never look quite right and gaudy pseudo-1930s monsters that are only appropriate if you were an adult film star in the ’70s…
