This custom-made Hummer H1 we found on Ebay must have had a cruel -yet extravagantly rich - owner whose sole purpose in purchasing this Hummer was to outfit it with an inordinate number of LCD TVs. How else can we explain this monstrosity of a creation.
On the outside, it looks like the Hummer was butchered and replaced with separate parts from an array of metal sheets that somehow ended up resembling a vehicle. If the vehicle`s exterior isn’t enough to drive you away from this monstrosity, the interior will most definitely will – unless of course you`re a big fan of ostrich leather dashboards and the aforementioned number of LCD TV`s that has somehow turned the interior of this Hummer into one of those military-issued mobile HQ units.
Now, of course, we`re not exactly demanding you to never entertain the thought of buying this car, but if you ever wish to be taken seriously by all of your peers for the rest of your life, use this one and only time to heed our suggestions.
If you browse through the Ebay page of the seller, you`ll notice that he said that over $185,000 were put into this Hummer to make it look like what it is now. But then you`ll also realize that the `Buy it Now` price only rounds up to $89,000 – almost a 100,000 less than how much he spent for it.
We`ll say it again, this is one bargain you`re better off not pursuing.
Ever gone on one of those joyrides with your bicycle and happen to end up at a town that seems completely desolate of any form of four-wheeled vehicles?
If you have, don’t worry, you haven’t gone back in time. You probably just stumbled into Vauban, Germany – a town that has banned cars on its streets.
The truth is stranger than fiction doesn’t it? Apparently, in the case of this town, it’s not.
For those who don’t know, Vauban is a small and quaint little town in the south-west of Germany, bordering Switzerland and France. While the town is far from being a Stepford suburbia, it still prefers the laid-back life of listening to the melancholy chirping of birds and enjoying the cool autumn breeze without having cars making unnecessary contributions to the town’s pollution index.
It’s ironic to think that a country that gave the world a smorgasbord of supercars can have a town that shuns anything that has four wheels, but the truth is, you can still live in town with a vehicle, provided you pay a lofty sum of €20,000 for a space in one of the garages on the outskirts of the town.
We’ve seen a lot of exhibits done throughout the years of models made from the most random of objects. There’s been a Lego-made Empire State Building, an Eiffel Tower replica made from paperclips and a house of cards that was inevitably became the Taj Mahal.
What we haven’t seen though is someone create an actual replica of something using only Styrofoam. That is, until this week.
Michael Salter, a name many of us ought to become familiar with for his uncanny knack of producing life-sized replicas of objects using only Styrofoam. His latest work of art is a life-sized model of a Formula One car he made exclusively from styro scraps, wall paintings and digital drawings.
It seems easy to think about doing some of these things but when you see the actual product, you realize just how tough, not to mention tedious, a task like this can be.
Check out the photos to see Salter’s work of art, which by all accounts, is a virtual styro-masterpiece.
Mini Nitros is an online game that lets you design your own car, modify its features and then select whichever race track you wish to compete on.
Here’s how it works; first select the car of your choice. Then click and drag from the available points to modify your car’s skills. Finally select the race track of your choice.
While racing, use the arrow keys to move around and press the space bar to use your nitro, because after all, that’s what the game is all about!
Nobody ever said you had to be a genius to be a police officer. But then again, being stupid isn’t part of the job description either.
That’s the prevailing thought on British police officers these days. The bad thing is, it’s not as if they’re being asked to solve global warming or world hunger, but rather, just put the right type of fuel in their patrol cars.
In the past three years, British police officers have confused the type of fuel they put in their cars a total of 4,709 times. If basic mathematics isn’t a problem for you, you’d know that that’s about four patrol cars per day.
The problem with putting the wrong fuel type not only means that the fuel – already expensive, in its own right – has to be drained. In addition to that, the unfortunate engines that have been filled with the wrong fuel are subjected to repairs, further increasing the bills that, incidentally, tax payers have to pay.
If you’re a British taxpayer, that’s not a very comforting fact to face. You pay taxes just so these people have the money to fix their idiocy. While you’re at it, why not just send these cops to school!
The next time you’re driving around North Carolina and you happen to pass by this bloodcurdling monster, fret not, it’s only made of roadblocks.
This unique – and frightening – creation was made by Joseph Carnevale, a North Carolina State University who specializes in creating these behemoth artworks made from those mild-mannered orange construction barrels. His latest – and arguably biggest – creation is this monstrosity he affectionately dubbed the “Barrel Monster”.
The problem is, local authorities failed to see the artistic brilliance in Carnivale’s work, who happens to also go by the handle ‘U Live and You Burn’, and instead of lauding his unusual creativity, they arrested him and slapped him with charges of larceny. To be fair, he did steal those barrels.
We all have a mischievous side hidden away deep in the darkest depths of ourselves, well now is your chance to let a little of it out. Have you ever driven down the highway and seen those large orange electric road signs, they usually come with bad news: bridge closed, accident ahead, road work and even zombies ahead.
That’s right, zombies. Thanks to a post on the sight i-Hack.com, the secret behind the glowing amber lights has been unlocked allowing merry pranksters to meddle with the machine’s messages. Once access has been gained to the interior of the unit, there is a programmable key pad that allows authorized personnel to put up the required text that also means that you too can reprogram it to say whatever you want. Even if the device has been locked, it can be reset by holding a certain sequence of buttons.
So you can have fun, but don’t get caught by the authorities, not sure the department of transportation would be too happy about you messing with their machinery. So follow the link to get the full details and watch out for those zombies.
The only thing cooler than a F-430 Scuderia, is one that can evade police with a quick color change and fly undetected by their radar. Unless perhaps it would be powered by the Italian automaker’s future turbo/hybrid power plant, or possibly the next F-450, but we’ll still have to wait for that one.
So what does it take to get to be number one? For athletes it means a lifetime of disciplined training, for a car company it can mean decades of thorough and consistent work, but in the recently wealthy car crazed tuner scene of the UAE, it’ll run you a little more than $14 Million. Saeed Abdul Ghafour Khouri recently shelled out 52.2 dirham, the equivalent of $14,300,000 at an auction at the 7-Star Emirates Palace Hotel in Dubai. Don’t feel bad about the money; it’s going to charity that helps accident victims.
When Saeed laid down all that dirham he was buying more than just a metal rectangle with a coat of paint on the front, he is buying a place in society. The oil-rich nations of the Persian Gulf are developing a form of car culture that makes Paris Hilton’s car collection look amateur. All these new funds have made the citizens of Abu Dhabi crazy for custom super cars. If you can imagine what it costs to have a set of rims mounted on your lowly Acura Integra, imagine the cost of milling a custom set of alloys and then mounting them on your Black Series. The UAE’s tuning scene has developed in such a way, that only a handful of these super-tuned machines could stand up to any group of big money collector cars from around the rest of the globe. The Middle East has become a place where your super car is nothing, unless its gold plated or modified to a point that would mean bankruptcy for most.
In this new status-seeking environment it is not uncommon to see a automobile wearing a number plate that is many times more expensive than the car itself. So after all, is Saeed that crazy for spending so much for the right to be first? However this can also be seen as a wise investment, because someone will always want to be number 1.
Anybody who’s ever gone through childhood must have, at one point, been transfixed to the Hanna Barbera’s classic cartoons, Wacky Races. The unforgettable ensemble of characters – including Peter Perfect, Dick Dastardley & Mutley, and Penelope Pitstop – have all left us wishing to become race car drivers driving our very own wacky race car.
If you’re going to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, then your wishes are about to come true. Almost, that is.
A full set of 11 real-life Wacky race cars will be displayed at the aforementioned car festival providing fans of the cartoon from all shapes and sizes the opportunity to see their favorite wacky race cars up close and personal.
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