Filed under: Time Warp, Auction Action, Etc.
eBay Find of the Day: "Fastlane" Future Car
Now here's a Fiero bodykit that's worthwhile. TransFX, a California-based custom car maker responsible for several GM concepts as well as lots and lots of Batman's cars, boats, and planes, built four of these bodies for a Universal Studios project. Designed to be mounted on a stretched Fiero chassis, only a single roadgoing version exists, and the Volo Auto Museum will sell that to you for $65,000. You could spend less than one third that price and pick up this body shell, allowing you to then dream up your own undercarriage. We think it'd be good with a Porsche Boxster plugged in underneath.
What you get for $14,000 is a very cool futuristic bodyshell on casters. The outside might look an awful lot like a car, but climbing underneath tells the whole story. There's nothing to this car, yet. Its just waiting for you to marry your chassis to its bodywork. Then you'll have the task of creating the entire wiring harness, installing all the lights, the interior, and about a quintillion little issues that always crop up with kit cars, which this essentially is. What we want to know is what ever became of the project these props were commissioned for. We also hope that whoever wins the auction at least uses a Fiero GT as a donor. It just wouldn't do to put this car on a 2M4. The Iron Duke is definitely not an engine befitting Batman. Then again, the GT's 2.8 is merely suited to Boy Wonder. Now, a Northstar starts to show promise. Hmm.
Thanks for the tip, Jordan!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
n!ck 10:16AM (12/07/2007)
YES!
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Bill 10:18AM (12/07/2007)
What Engine sound would do that body style justice? I imagine that it would need to sound as much like a vacuum cleaner as possible. Or you could outfit it with a battery and motor so that there is no sound at all.
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DonLaw 10:49AM (12/07/2007)
Carrera GT... for engine noise and performance
Mal Fuller 10:28AM (12/07/2007)
This belongs in the blog on phallic cars.
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tariq 10:58AM (12/07/2007)
u beat me to it.
actually i posted a similar comment before but didnt get the confitrmation email
veneblog 10:34AM (12/07/2007)
Can't be anything but an electric motivator
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S1500 10:49AM (12/07/2007)
I kind of like the design. The rear looks like some sort of Bugatti Veyron 30 years from know. But what's the forward visibility like?
I think it would be fun to mate a car chassis to this & contour the internals to fit with the body.
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Wally 11:10AM (12/07/2007)
looks like a jelly bean. both in shape and color.
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geo.stewart 11:18AM (12/07/2007)
paint it black, add a red light and KITT2 is born...
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geo.stewart 11:18AM (12/07/2007)
paint it black, add a red light and KITT2 is born...
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geo.stewart 11:18AM (12/07/2007)
paint it black, add a red light and KITT2 is born...
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geo.stewart 11:18AM (12/07/2007)
paint it black, add a red light and KITT2 is born...
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geo.stewart 11:18AM (12/07/2007)
paint it black, add a red light and KITT2 is born...
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geo.stewart 11:18AM (12/07/2007)
paint it black, add a red light and KITT2 is born...
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geo.stewart 11:18AM (12/07/2007)
paint it black, add a red light and KITT2 is born...
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geo.stewart 11:18AM (12/07/2007)
paint it black, add a red light and KITT2 is born...
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why not the LS2LS7? 11:18AM (12/07/2007)
It be cheaper to use a Fiero SE V6 (2M6) as the donor car. The GT costs more and only differs in the body panels, which you're gonna take off anyway.
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geo.stewart 11:19AM (12/07/2007)
or was this the precursor to the Wraith. Did Charlie say "I like my girls bubbly, not my cars..."
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Tele 11:33AM (12/07/2007)
The only engine that would provide a close to fitting soundtrack is an F1 engine. Or some sort of turbo that has a lot of whine to it.
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Tater 11:50AM (12/07/2007)
I'd buy it if anyone can help me find an Enzo donor vehicle to mate this with.....
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