Fiero Trike

Here's a truly unique "car" I saw over the Memorial Day weekend.  We were stopped for lunch at the Carousel in Warrenton, VA, and this amazing Pontiac-Fiero-made-trike pulled in.  My wife spotted it first, and I knew it had to be the next Car Bizarre.

According to owner Daniel Tate, it started life as a 1989 Fiero.  The car front end was chopped off, and the chopper bits added on.  It runs the original motor, with a turbocharger as well!  Mr. Tate didn't build this creation, but when the original owner died of cancer, Daniel decided to buy and maintain the trike as a rolling tribute.

Such creations based on air-cooled VWs are fairly common, but I've never seen one done from a Fiero--have you?  I couldn't resist a few more pics, so here you go.

Grinder Squared

Here's a great example of American ingenuity in action:  the Hot Wheels Twin Mill.  It started out as one of those designs dreamed up as a toy, as in the little gravity-powered toy racers a lot of us enjoyed immensely as kids.
Then somebody got the great idea to turn it into an actual car.  A few years, a whole bunch of man-hours, and some tractor-pulling multi-engine technology later, the real car was actually ready to drive into car shows across the country.  Amazing.  And you should see the view through the windshield.


Photo by chevellenut69ss on flickr.
And of course some more info on the Twin Mill:
http://www.streetrodderweb.com/milestones/0307sr_milestone_twin_mill/index.html
http://hotwheels.wikia.com/wiki/Twin_Mill