This is a great shot of Russ, Amy Cider and my ado.In this video from the 2021 Goodguys Nashville Nationals I check out this Mako Shark II Chevrolet Corvette…When I first spotted this car I had no idea what I was looking at.After some research and a few phone calls I was able to get the skinny on this crazy custom….This Mako Shark II Corvette started life as a 1992 Chevrolet Corvette…The body is all custom and covered in a bright red paint…As far as body modifications…There are to many to list…Pretty much every panel been modified…This car took 5 years to build….The interior is partly custom and partly 1992 Vette…It has all been recovered in black leather with red stitching.Turned out nice and fits the rest of the build really nice.360 3D shots of the Hellacopters Pinball.Sounds like a bad night out in Tijuana to me, no? Turns out the car spent some time at a Mexican carnival and finally ended up being used as a trash receptacle in front of an adult book store. This just in… Ed Roth’s Orbitron has been found. The new owner says he hopes to restore it. And, a novel headlamp, created from three primary-colored lenses aimed at a single beam, apparently was too geek when geek wasn't cool. He blamed the Orbitron's lack of appeal on its chromed 1955 Chevy engine, which the kids of the day considered beyond passé. By 1964 it had taken shape as the spaceship-dragster that, the late Roth one said, was a failure at the shows. The picture was from 1963 and the Orbitron, then in progress, looked like nothing more than an mound of barely formed plaster of Paris. Orbitron scared the kneepants off a young Jalopnik when he saw a photo of it in a tattered library book.

The 1964 product of the Roth mind and fiberglass shop recently turned up south of the border, where it had been carnival attraction and trash bin in front of an adult book store. Here are some clips I got of the net with the respected links.įinding a battered Orbitron, one of Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth's most iconic custom cars, in Mexico is like finding JD Salinger slumped over a bottle of Mescal in a Tijuana speakeasy. I know this is old news but I love this car and had to post this.

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