If you're one of those people who needs a vehicle with 1,000+ horsepower but feels a Bugatti Veyron is too gauche (We know you're out there.), tuner MKB's tire-melting P1000 - based on the Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Black Series - may be the car for you.
Mecum's final auction of the year will be taking place this Friday and Saturday in Kansas City at the Kansas City Convention Center. Forty-four Corvettes are on the auction dockett and along with a host of classics and near classics you find at any auction, Mecum has included these two Karl Kustom C6 Corvettes.
Harkening back to the days where dealers collaborated with speed shops to produce branded high performance versions ala Baldwin Motion, the HTR-GS640/SC is the creation of Howard Tanner of Redline Motorsports and Dan Carlton of DeNooyer Performance Chevrolet. Take a Grand Sport Corvette, add an Edelbrock E-Force supercharger and host of other upgrades and you got a 640 horsepower ZR1-fighter for just over $82,000.
Check out this former 2008 Hertz rent-a-car Corvette ZHZ that has been customized to look like the 2012 Corvette Stingray Concept that appears as Sideswipe in Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. The Corvette is listed on eBay and with 3 days left in the auction, 6 bids have run the price up to $35,200 with the reserve not yet met.
Still bummed there won't be a fifth-gen Firebird now that Pontiac is pushing daisies? Classic Design Concepts has a way to soothe your pain, in the form of a soon-to-be movie star called the FireBreather.
Top-notch tuning firm G-Power lets what it claims is the fastest sedan in the world - the 800hp BMW M5-based Hurricane RR - out of its cage. No valet lot is safe.
The Ferrari California is a terrific car...provided you don't mind the occasional snarky cognoscenti asking if you're the third Hilton sister. To avoid that, you might want to send your new folding-hardtop Fezza to Anderson Germany so they can give it their special performance- and street-cred-boosting touches.
Just in case the Porsche Panamera isn't polarizing enough, tuning house Mansory has made Stuttgart's big-badonka-donked sedan faster, louder (aurally and visually) and uncut. Viewer discretion is advised.
Here is a custom 2010 Corvette Grand Sport offered for sale by Colorado Chevy Dealer Purifoy which borrows the limited edition Synergy Green from Camaro and gets all crazy with it. You think that exterior is bold, when you see Jake embroidered on the seats, you’ll be green with envy.
Every once in a while a custom Corvette will come along that knocks your socks off and this is definitely one of those moments. Named the Goodguys Street Machine of the Year, this 1962 Corvette was built by The Roadster Shop for customer Barry Blomquist and showed at the Goodguys PPG Nationals in Columbus, Ohio where it apparently made a huge impression on the judges and crowd alike.
Rod Saboury is used to making cars go fast, but his latest project tops them all. Taking seven years to build, the 1963 Corvette is a show car, street car and race car all rolled into one fiberglass body. And boy does this Corvette roll. During last summer's Super Chevy show at Summit Motor Sports Park in Norwalk, Ohio, the 2,400 horsepower Sting Ray launched from zero to 60 mph in 1 second and crossed the quarter-mile mark in 6.95 seconds at 210.54 mph.
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