Old Cutlass transformed into luxury ride with magical Chanel logo
If I were a marketing consultant, I would call this Detroit masterpiece "Homebrew aftermarket transformative rebranding." BB mod Antinous quips, "I'm holding out for the Dolce & Gabbana Pacer."
1986 custom cutlass supreme!! - $4500 (detroit.craigslist.org via The Frisky, thanks Susannah Breslin)
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I'm holding out for the Dolce & Gabbana Pacer.
Well, there was the Gucci Hornet and the Pierre Cardin Javelin, both Pacer stablemates at AMC. But those were actual factory-built cars. Similar to the later Bill Blass-edition Lincolns. Closest you'll get to a designer-edition Pacer is the Levi's Pacer.
I'm kind of taken by the seller's low-fi attempt at search engine optimization:
After all, someone who's looking for a Lincoln or an El Camino might very well have their head turned by this structurally unsound (owner chopped off the roof!) blingmobile.
Mmm...
Search engine craptimization...
makes me hunger for my first car:
1985 Chevy Celebrity wagon
Hoop Hoop!
You may laugh about the D+G Pacer, but my '76 Pacer Wagon (yellow with fake wood paneling) was a smooth driving snow-eating beast that, at 15 years of age, kept on rolling for several more years despite my profound teenage neglect and abuse. Never put oil in it, much less changed it. The steering column finally jammed and I sold it off. Ugly, but mighty.
Please don't forget the Eddie Bauer edition of the Ford Explorer!
Hahahah!!!
Oh yah, and the Benneton F1 car... But does that count?
Before loosing my 1977 Cutlass in a ‘deal gone wrong’ somewhere out in Mohave, I had the word "hybrid" painted on the back window in that righteous, ornate, El Monte Car Club style. I thought I was pretty cool until I ran into this post. Dang.
I like this old cutless better.
http://www.artcar.blogspot.com/2007/11/global-warming-created-art-car-during.html
The title in my RSS feed led me to hope for something involving curvy pirate swords.
Apparently a cutlass is also a car : (
Don't forget the Oleg Cassini Matador from AMC as well! circa 1974
wow and wow. Now THAT is funny. What a sad piece of metal that car is - or has become. Talk about throwing good money after bad! There was no convertible Cutlass in '86 so as the seller notes "I chopped the roof" which translates to even if there is a ragtop it will leak like a sieve.
"Before loosing my 1977 Cutlass in a ‘deal gone wrong’ somewhere out in Mohave"
Okay, there's got to be a good story there. Spill.
Shouldn't that be "Olds" Cutlass?
"leak like a sieve" that's what you want it to do, I once had a 69 Chevelle convertible that would fill up with water when it rained. Had to drill drain holes in the floor.
I'd be really woried about driving a Cutlass with the top chopped off. Convertables have special reinforced doors and striker plates not to mention reinforced frames where sedans have no frame at all.
A friend replaced a door on her convertible with a seemingly identical door from a hardtop, but the first time she drove over railroad tracks the door buckled.
I'll just leave this Givenchy Lincoln Continental Mark III here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/c0nn0r/sets/72157622279117186/